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You know she has home ice advantage here
France's own Laetitia Hubert!
Laetitia won this event last year
in the surprise win of the season
beating Tara Lipinski
But I think she was feeling a little bit of pressure
going into the short program
and did not have a great skate
but she's hoping to make that up here and get on to that medal podium
She opens with a triple Lutz
Her foot was not underneath her
when she went to land
She also is looking very cautious
see the doubt in her eyes
and she doubles that planned triple loop
and I don't know what's happening out here today
but the women are really, really struggling
This has been
part and parcel of this whole series this year
She goes for that triple-triple combination and she had it
and she turned out of that triple Salchow
[doubles flip]
[triple flip, modest clapping]
[*** techno beats]
[trip hop drum beats with weird synthetic string noises and moans]
[attempts double Axel; splats]
and that just about says it all
for her to go down on a double Axel
There's a real problem here, I don't know maybe there's something wrong with the ice
Oh my gosh a single Axel there!
The women clearly don't have any feeling in their jumps here today, they're missing easy jumps
Don't know what it is
Laetitia has been in the past an all or nothing skater
Today she gravitated more towards
the darker side
because she had a 4th place finish at Skate Canada and didn't skate particularly well
and here on her home ice
the French champion
can't be too happy with this performance
Especially in light of the fact she did
SO well here last year
by winning the event
triple flip not able to get
enough rotation to land this one
but even that jump was
not rotated fully
we talked earlier this season of both the women to the fact that
well it certainly is a season but now it's not really isn't any more
uncertainty in your ticket right
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