If only there weren’t those pesky jumps

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Alissa Czisny fell on both her triple salchow and her double axel, pretty much dooming the graceful college student to a poor placement by the time the women’s short program ends at 5:30 this afternoon. Czisny, the U.S. national champion, was extraordinarily graceful on her flying camel spin and had the crowd oohing during her spiral sequence that seemed filled with emotions she was feeling after having fallen hard on two jumps. The nervous practices Czisny had this week turned out to be indicative of the way she skated Friday. Her score of 53.28 was more than two points lower than her season’s high of 55.62.

-- Diane Pucin