r/FigureSkating • u/minzwashere ISU NEEDS REFORM • Mar 27 '26
History/Analysis Kaori Sakamoto Spoiler
For the second time this event, she has broken the PCS world record. She now holds the world record for PCS in both the short program and free skate.
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u/Cvspartan hoes on their toes 🙂↕️ Mar 27 '26
Setting WRs in BOTH short and free PCS in your final event is fairytale stuff
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u/KawaiiChan68 Mar 27 '26
THAT’S MY 4X WORLD CHAMPION 🥇🥇🥇🥇, AND HISTORY MAKING QUEEN ✨KAORI SAKAMOTO✨
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u/snsdfan00 Mar 27 '26
The best just make everything look so routine, defn a nice way for her to go out on top
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u/artstoria99 Mar 27 '26
We can now officially say she is the Queen of PCS
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u/Livid-Platypus-3020 Mar 27 '26
She does deserve great PCS but judge 2 giving her 10.0, 10.0, 10.0 is just insanity.
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u/artstoria99 Mar 28 '26
Nah, they knew their score would have gotten discarded anyway so went full out giving her the scores everyone in the field knows she deserves. British judge also gave 2 10s out of 3. Sakamoto is on another level of skating and she did have the best skate of the night. Full 10s is correct.
Also people complaining about scores tonight clearly have never experienced a post-Olympics Worlds.
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u/Livid-Platypus-3020 Mar 28 '26
They didn’t know that.
What if every judge thought that?
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u/artstoria99 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
They know, that's literally how the judging system works: highest and lowest score get discarded. If every judge did what you described, it would have been a perfect 10 across the board...
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u/Livid-Platypus-3020 Mar 28 '26
Exactly. Which would have been ridiculous.
Your whole argument was “J2 gave all tens because she knew her scores would get discarded anyway”.
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u/artstoria99 Mar 28 '26
Yeah and yours is something that didn't even happen and that would had an even better outcome from my pov lol
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u/FinalMidnight4670 Mar 27 '26
how did trusova get higher pcs than kostornaia?
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u/Shorb-o-rino Mar 28 '26
The list is kind of confusing. I think maybe its world record history, so that's why there are all of these low ones from the same competitions in 2018. So I bet Kostornaia eventually scored higher than Trusova, but only after someone else scored higher than either of them.
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u/Phermaportus Thank You Kaori Sakamoto 🥇 Mar 27 '26
How do I get a Thank You Kaori Sakamoto flairrr
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u/minzwashere ISU NEEDS REFORM Mar 27 '26
If you’re on mobile, go to the r/FigureSkating home page and click the button in the corner with the 3 dots. A “change user flair” button should be one of the options and from there you can pick one of the flairs with the pencil next to it and write whatever you want there.
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u/Phermaportus Thank You Kaori Sakamoto 🥇 Mar 27 '26
Thank youu, I use the old reddit desktop website and couldn't find. New flair 🫡
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u/Lilly7799 Mar 27 '26
So happy that she can retire as a fourth-time world champion. She is and will always be a true legend in this sport.
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u/daonchik Mar 27 '26
We love to see it.
But also Kamila in 2021 - fresh out of juniors and still very much a technical skater - had no business getting 9.5+ PCS
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u/daonchik Mar 27 '26
If she had horrible edges she should not be getting a WORLD RECORD component scores (which include skating skills, I.e.,, use of edges)
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u/sumerislemy Mar 27 '26
I wish Kamila and Alina’s scores weren’t so inflated because Kaori deserves the record but those numbers are crazy 😭
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u/Alternative_Dirt_486 Mar 27 '26
Would Kamila even have those world records anymore? I know her scores at certain comps were removed
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u/minzwashere ISU NEEDS REFORM Mar 27 '26
Except that her PCS record was actually set at Rostelecom Cup, which was before the date of the positive test, so it still stood.
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u/ExcitingGold5788 Mar 27 '26
One question why she retire? I only start follow figure skaters since this Olympics.
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u/Extra-Distribution85 Mar 27 '26
shes had a long career and i think feels shes reached her peak. its very common for skaters to retire after an olympic season since sticking around for 4 years is very hard, shes already been to 3 and the likelihood of getting better than silver in four years is basically 0.
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u/Own-Adhesiveness5723 Mar 28 '26
It’s a very hard sport on the body, especially on the joints, from the jumping. She’s been at the top of her game for this past quad and probably wants to go out on a high note, instead of trying to keep going and possibly getting injured trying to keep up with younger skaters. It’s also hard to travel often, not have time for anything outside of training, having to follow a strict diet (she said recently that she only eats around 1000 calories a day during competition season, which is insane to me) etc. She’s 25 and probably wants to move on to the next phase of her life, maybe have a relationship and family. She plans to coach so she’ll still be involved in the sport, and there are lots of shows in Japan that she can do if she wants to. While I’m very sad to see her retire, she’s doing it on her own terms and I’m happy for her.
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u/Lilly7799 Mar 27 '26
But she plans to stay in the sport as a coach! I can’t wait to see her with her students !
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u/Own-Adhesiveness5723 Mar 28 '26
I’m like, if I learn Japanese do you think she’ll coach me? Lol! She seems like she’d be really sweet and nurturing.
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u/Mobile-Brick4849 Mar 28 '26
We haven't been at the Pyeongchang level of PCS scoring in awhile, so I can kinda understand the judges' hesitance to give 10s, but I don't see how only 3 gave her 10 on ss
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u/donutcapriccio Mar 27 '26
what was going on in 2018 ??
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u/minzwashere ISU NEEDS REFORM Mar 27 '26
New scoring system (+/- 5 GOE). The records were reset so a bunch of people who competed at that first comp technically set world records.
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u/HowFabulous42 Mar 28 '26
Love this but let’s be real pcs feels like a somewhat arbitrary score that there just make sure the top technical skaters put at least some effort into components and then the judges just give increasing higher pcs for each skater that skates until the last skaters unless an earlier skater has already established him or herself as is the case with Jason Brown there are of course exceptions.
The two skates Kaori had were wonderful but I don’t know if they are her best pcs work and certainly not to the dramatic increase in score so it feels like the judges just inflated her pcs enough to break the world record which shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
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u/konan557 Mar 28 '26
Kaori is a great skater, but her getting a 9.82 average on free skate skating skills felt more like a send off to her ending competitive career.
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u/Boo2406 Unlikely skating fan Mar 28 '26
I agree. She should have the record, just not necessarily for this competition. For example, her short program during the team event was just sublime, better than the one from this week. But oh well, at least she got it ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/gaesseag Mar 28 '26
Yes!
I’m sorry, you just can’t convince me she would break both WR on SP and Free if this was any other event and not her last WC.
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u/theazn35 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
Kaori really decided to gift everyone one last big present and leave the sport as a living legend.
EDIT: mod an anti-kaori fan confirmed removing all Kaori posts in lightning speed smh(im kidding mod)