World Team Trophy is coming !

So this will end the season for Miki !

http://www.isufs.org/events/fsevent00011015
http://www.figurewtt.jp/

I hope she skates superb again, hopefully with a ratified quad this time.
Open your new horizon, Miki !!

Pictures:
http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/photo/20090401-027291-1-L.jpg
http://www2.daily.co.jp/newsflash/2009/04/01/Images/01790186.jpg
http://www2.daily.co.jp/newsflash/2009/04/01/Images/01790187.jpg
http://www2.daily.co.jp/newsflash/2009/04/01/Images/01790188.jpg
http://www2.daily.co.jp/newsflash/2009/04/01/Images/01790189.jpg
http://www.sanspo.com/sports/images/090401/spm0904011915003-p1.jpg
http://www.sanspo.com/sports/images/090401/spm0904011915003-p2.jpg
http://www.sanspo.com/sports/images/090401/spm0904011915003-p3.jpg
http://www.sanspo.com/sports/images/090401/spm0904011915003-p4.jpg
http://www.sanspo.com/sports/images/090401/spm0904011915003-p5.jpg
http://www.sanspo.com/sports/images/090401/spm0904011915003-p6.jpg
http://contents.oricon.co.jp/upimg/news/20090401/64754_200904010637467001238571738c.jpg
http://ca.c.yimg.jp/news/20090401202856/img.news.yahoo.co.jp/images/20090401/jijp/20090401-00000043-jijp-spo-view-000.jpg
http://ca.c.yimg.jp/news/20090401200912/img.news.yahoo.co.jp/images/20090401/maip/20090401-00000017-maip-spo-view-000.jpg

News clip (mostly Mao): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYAlqBJERWI

Lots of fluffs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quu1j4lC5iE&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6xLLD0AY78&feature=channel

Miki says that she doesn't like it when Morozov really skates better footworks right in front of her.
(But that's not a bad coach...)

The four are so intimate!

An impressive story about Yuko kawaguchi oops Kavaguti.

Scores after ladies SP:
1 Mao ASADA JPN 75.84 44.40 31.44 7.85 7.45 8.10 7.85 8.05 0.00 #12
2 Joannie ROCHETTE CAN 62.08 33.60 28.48 7.25 6.95 7.05 7.15 7.20 0.00 #11
3 Miki ANDO JPN 62.08 32.80 29.28 7.50 7.10 7.35 7.25 7.40 0.00 #10
4 Caroline ZHANG USA 58.88 33.00 25.88 6.50 6.20 6.55 6.65 6.45 0.00 #9
5 Rachael FLATT USA 58.40 32.00 26.40 6.65 6.20 6.70 6.70 6.75 0.00 #8
6 Alena LEONOVA RUS 54.72 30.00 24.72 6.45 5.75 6.25 6.15 6.30 0.00 #7
7 Cynthia PHANEUF CAN 54.30 31.50 23.80 6.00 5.55 6.10 6.05 6.05 1.00 #6
8 Binshu XU CHN 50.30 29.70 20.60 5.45 4.95 5.10 5.20 5.05 0.00 #4
9 Candice DIDIER FRA 48.38 27.74 20.64 5.35 4.85 5.30 5.05 5.25 0.00 #3
10 Yan LIU CHN 44.36 25.12 19.24 5.05 4.45 4.80 4.95 4.80 0.00 #2
11 Katarina GERBOLDT RUS 42.42 22.50 20.92 5.45 4.95 5.30 5.20 5.25 1.00 #5
12 Gwendoline DIDIER FRA 38.10 21.38 17.72 4.60 4.10 4.45 4.55 4.45 1.00 #1

Team standings: http://www.isuresults.com/results/wtt2009/PATRS.HTM
Japan in 2nd place! Not bad

You can watch official videos over here:

http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/figure/pc/movie/index.html

So we all know the WTT results...
Too bad Miki fell on her 4S but we should give her credit for her courage.
She did land one in her 6 minutes warm-up, just before getting off the ice.

Miki's comments after SP:
http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/winter/skate/figure/text/200904160018-spnavi.html

and after LP:
http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/winter/skate/figure/text/200904180012-spnavi.html

I was in the arena watching her last free skate of the season.
She seemed to have really hurt her shoulder.
She previously hurt it when she fell on 3T in the 6 min warm-up, and according to her words half-dislocated it but which she pushed back in herself.
And a bad fall on 4S in her LP.

In the K&C after her LP she kept holding her shoulder with her left hand, probably cooling it with an ice bag, her face looking down while Joannie and mostly so while Mao were performing.

But she left us positive comments in self-evaluating her skate in WTT, and did an elegant and hearty Gala performance next day. This exhibition number "I Believe" is from her 06-07 season and was dedicated to her friend Ayaka, the singer of this song, to congratulate her upcoming wedding.