What happened to Meissner, Liang and Zhang at U.S. Champ?

Question

Can someone tell me what really happened to them and are they out of medal contention?

Answer 1

Well, has Liang even made it to the podium at US Nats? Maybe it's time for her to consider switching to Pairs because her single skating career has never really gone anywhere and she's a veteran.

I haven't seen anyone's routines yet (I'll have to wait for the event to be shown on Latin American ESPN); but I've heard Zhang's routine got downgraded because of underrotated jumps.

Meissner in my opinion still lacks the spins and steps to make her programs unbeatable when the jumps fail. The fact that the top three places were all done by women who did clean triple-triples (all of them starting with the Lutz) didn't help.

Meissner will still go to worlds no matter what because Nagasu, Zhang and Flatt aren't age eligible yet.

Answer 2

Well, I'm watching the Ladies' short program right now on TV and I'm not sure why Zhang was punished so severely when the rest of the ladies above her (shown on their slow motion) that each of them had underrotated jumps even Nagasu.  She should not have gotten 70+points score at all.  I think they're more critical of Zhang because she's been practically crown that leading US ladies skater over Meisner.  Unlike Kimmie and Caroline, the rest of them don't have that star quality yet that the other two has so they're more critical about Kimmie and Caroline's mistakes than the others.

Answer 3

well meissner fell on her triple flip and zhang two footed and underoated a planned 3-3 and her triple lutz got downgraded.

didn't see anything about liang.

but anything can happen really, they're still contenders. for all we know the top 3 right now can make numourous mistakes and the others can have flawless programs