Great skills!!!

She is in rare company and she did it beautifully!

But of course in Tuppence and Drumpf world - she doesn't count because she ain't 'Merican (white) enough.

Trump can't deport her

I saw the headline on CNN, and went looking for video. All I could find were stills.

Wow! Just. Wow!

and I wished those commentators would STFU!

it doesn't look that hard to do.

In case anyone is wondering, that's actually really hard.

See, ya have to leap in the air, using only one leg, high enough to give you time to spin three times. Oh, by they way, you're spinning so fast it's hard to keep your legs together, which is why you see her feet crossed while doing it. You'll also see her left elbow sticking out. It's hard to keep them together while you do this.

Then of course there's that whole "landing" thing...

A single axel is one and a half rotations, the hardest of all the jumps. Each additional rotation adds 1. So a double axel is 2.5 rotations, a triple is 3.5.

It's also the only jump you skate into going forward instead of backward.

Tara Lipinski once told me it took her a full year to land her first axel, at age 9 or so.

I know this well; my daughter landed her first one at age 8, the first day she tried it, taught by a teen male skater friend on a lark who just believed she could do it and she did. Her coach was so stunned later that she had everyone get off the ice to watch.

Yeah, it's a difficult jump, and most take a very long time to even get the first single axel. Only 3 women have ever landed one in the Olympics, both Japanese before now. Only 2 Americans ever landed one in any competition, and one of those was Tanya Harding of knee-cap whacking fame, who became infamous instead of just landing one at the Olympics and become famous in a more positive light.

Our daughter alas gave up skating a few years later, after making it to junior nationals once at least. But I still love watching the sport, and am awe of how far the skaters have advanced technically in recent years. The men all need quads now to excel, and it's telling that even with landing a triple axel, this talented skater still didn't take first -- that honor went to a very artistic Russian woman who loaded up all her jumps in the end of the program for extra points. Amazing.

Wow.

Wow is right.

It's confusing but has more nuance for rewarding complex program elements, and they now have a technical review panel to make sure jumps are clean or you lose some points.

But wow, what an accomplishment!