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It's almost time for Kaetlyn Osmond's final performance at the 2018 Winter Olympics and she's in podium position.
With the time change from Pyeongchang, South Korea, Osmond will strike her opening pose in Thursday night's Olympic long program skate at 1:10 a.m. Newfoundland time, according to a post on her Facebook page.
She's skating 23rd out of 24 skaters after finishing third in the short program on Tuesday night with a season's-best score of 78.87 points.
Osmond achieved a season's-best score of 78.87 points in the short program on Tuesday night. (Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)
Russian skater Evgenia Medvedeva is in second and her teammate, 15-year-old Alina Zagitova, is in first.
Zagitova earned 82.92 points with her skate on Tuesday, setting a new world record. Medvedeva temporarily held the same record with her own short program, which earned a score of 81.61.
Up late for the big skate
Fans in Marystown are once again ready to stay up late to watch their hometown hero skate on the Olympic ice.
Reagan Strang can't wait to see Kaetlyn Osmond perform. (CBC)
A viewing party is happening at 11 p.m. at the Kaetlyn Osmond Arena, and 12-year-old figure skater Reagan Strang hopes her mother will let her stay up to watch the event.
"I just had a big science unit test today actually and I studied really hard for that so I hope she'll pay me back and I'll be able to watch it," said Strang.
"It's really cool because someone from this community, it's kind of a small town, just to see someone skating at such a big event is really cool."
To celebrate Kaetlyn Osmond's skate in the Olympics the Ice Crystal Skating Club is holding a special event Thursday evening. (Jeremy Eaton/CBC)
Osmond will return to Marystown to skate at the Ice Crystals annual skating event on April 14.
If she wins, it will be her third career Olympic medal.
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While some of us were silently urging Osmond to punch Comrade Bolshoi in the nose, the 22-year-old from Newfoundland regained her poise and did the polite Canadian thing. “I’m very happy that I made the podium and slowly closing the gap between. . . ’’
First gold, by the way, for the “Olympic Athletes from Russia” in Pyeongchang. Just sayin’. Bronze on top of team gold last week for Osmond. Just sayin’. Four medals for the Canadian figure skating squad. Just sayin’.
Yes, a pair of Russian teenagers had triumphed, gold and silver on Friday —though in upside-down order from what nearly everyone had expected. Yes, Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva were damn near untouchable with their ethereal “Don Quixote” and “Anna Karenina”.
In the most blissful moment of her life, a bronze medal in ladies’ figure skating at the Olympics, the jerk had to make it not about what Osmond had won but what she’d lost.
PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA—The reporter, an obnoxious old hand from Soviet days, rendered Kaetlyn Osmond temporarily speechless: “Do you think the Russian women are invincible?”
She was just fine, with a commanding rendition of her “Black Swan” free routine, the only teensy defect an over-rotation on a triple Lutz. Most pristine version of the program Osmond has executed this season, though.
“They’re really strong and they’re really consistent. So. Who knows. They’re just incredible. I can only do what I can do to try to . . . be better, I guess?”
“I’ve been focusing on every small detail, every mental aspect, every physical trait of that program. Being able to come here, finally put up two clean skates, which I haven’t done in a really long time, it really means the world to me.”
It meant a 27th medal for Canada at these Games, surpassing the tally from Vancouver 2010.
Osmond, who hadn’t realized: “I did not know that. Wow.”
They were popping Screech on The Rock, no doubt, and celebrating in Edmonton, which Osmond now calls home. Thrilled for this young woman, from coast-to-coast, after a career interrupted by a stress fracture in her ankle, a torn ankle and a horrifically broken femur; learning to walk again, really, before she could get back up on skates, sidelined for more than a year before retrieving her national title.
She’d finished 13th in Sochi, at her debut Games. Has climbed steadily globally since then, currently the reigning world silver medallist.
But an Olympic medal, when she’d come so close to quitting the sport a few years back, surrounded now by audacious sprites and wraiths: Priceless.
“My goal here was just to improve on that 13th-place finish. When I heard that I came third, I just reminded myself that that’s something I thought that I would never be able to do.”
Seven triples, three sets of combinations, including a triple Salchow-double toe-double loop and a triple flip-triple toe — triple-triples now the Sterling standard for elite women — top Level 4s on spiral and spin and step sequence for a free skate score of 152.15, 231.02 overall.
She’d thought, hoped, that participating in the team event — third for her short program contribution — would help banish the butterflies coming into Friday’s contribution. Had, like the rest of the skating team, retreated to Seoul in between, to double-down on training far from the Olympic maelstrom.
“For my short (on Wednesday) that worked. Today I was absolutely terrified all day. I was nervous. Usually I talk a lot. I didn’t talk very much today.”
Once she’d made it safely through her bugaboo triple loop, however, calm enveloped her. At the boards, coach Ravi Walia could sense it immediately.
“It’s a triple that she learned last, after the last Olympics,” he said. “She broke her leg and she came back and that’s when she got that jump. But for some reason, she’s struggled with it all season in the program. Once she did that, I knew it was going to be good.”
Personal-best good.
“She respects the other girls so much,” added Walia. “So she’s more excited to be skating with them and she doesn’t compare herself to them.”
That would be a tad masochistic, especially with the stupendous Russians. And stupefied might also describe 18-year-old Medvedeva, who hadn’t lost a competition in two years until she broke her foot in November, sitting out the Russian championships last March. Many had believed her simply unbeatable. Yet Zagitova, just 15, had been creeping up all season, edging her compatriot in the Grand Prix final in December and winning the short program competition here. While Medvedeva and Zagitova actually tied in Friday’s free skate segment, the younger girl emerged with gold on the strength of her world-record short, mere minutes after Medvedeva had bettered her own world record. It was that edgy close a thing: 156.65 each in the free, 239.57 to 238.26 overall. And when Medvedeva’s scores flashed on the board, her lovely face crumpled. Because she knew. What was to have been her Olympic moment had gone before it had arrived.
She is the superior skater but Zagitova is a jumping genius. In practice this week, she reeled off a five-triple combination. That’s never been done.
By the time she got to the mixed zone, Medvedeva had her game face back on. “I felt today in my program really like Anna Karenina in the movie.” Which maybe was an omen — in the Tolstoy masterpiece, Anna throws herself under a train. “I put everything out there that I had. I left everything on the ice. I have no regrets.
“Honestly, I skated like in a fog, for the first time. It is because I realize that I am enjoying the process, these four minutes are historical and they only belong to me. The whole world is watching only me for those four minutes. My soul thrives on that feeling.”
Zagitova claimed afterwards she’d been shaking from head to foot, startled by her high score and still not quite believing that she was the Olympic victor. “I think I need some time to understand that I have won the Olympic Games.” Yet she remained slightly self-critical. “I would give me a four with a little plus (out of five) for my performance.’’
Some observers have been harsh with Zagitova — or at least her coaches — for stacking the deck by placing all her jumps in the second half of her programs, where they are rewarded with an automatic 10 per cent value added. Many have called for the rules to be changed to forbid it.
But that’s a debate for another day.
On this day, her greatness can’t be denied.
A day which Kaetlyn Osmond wished could go on and on and on . . .
“When I hit my ending position, I didn’t want it to end. I was just loving every single minute of it.”
