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Wow, that was a dismal skate V&T won with. The highlight for me was the Wendes.. I absolutely love that program!! I'm also impressed with Davidovich and Krasnopolski.. didn't know they were that good.
Voloshozar/Trankov (2 falls, 1 step out, no combo) scored today only 3 points less than Shen/Zhao Olympic free skate for their gold medal !!!!!!!!.
How it comes???????
You remember S/Z FS was marred by a failed lift and also second place.
Are you seriously want to make a comparison between these 2 freeskates as 3 points?
If Shen/Zhao got 139 with the mistake on the lift, what V/T should get with step out in the individuaql jump, fall in the other jump, which avoid them to make the combo and a 2 fotted throw ended up with a fall......
The difference between these are the 2 points deduction for the falls AND 1 SINGLE POINT (including the GOE of the 3 faltered elements )!!!!
Scandalous.
I think the Russian/Soviet program deserved to dominate pairs skating the way they did. Even if maybe one or two results were? I think in general this top three finish made sense too.
I like S/K a lot of all the younger teams, and I think the deserve to move up and yes maybe be considered for the bronze. I don't think the two Canadian teams are better. D/R especially I think he's spectacular but Meghan leaves a lot to be desired for me. I do like Radford a lot. While I think the guy in Ksensia is also weaker than her partner, her lines are for me still much better than Meghan's. M/T for me are okay.
Best addams family ever!!
seeing that fs makes me feel some kind of hope for c.o.p
+3. The ending gave me chills. One of my favorite programs of the year. Although I want S/S to win the Olympics, and think that V/T will probably win because they are the best right now, I really want this team to sneak in and get a medal.
Wow, that was a dismal skate V&T won with. The highlight for me was the Wendes.. I absolutely love that program!! I'm also impressed with Davidovich and Krasnopolski.. didn't know they were that good.
Even though the Olympics will be in Russia, the composition of the Pairs judging panel will change quite a bit - suffice to say, they will be a lot less prone to hand out candy marks than we just saw here, which feels like an inflated national championship. Let's see if S/S can recover on time. As for V/T, maybe the 3rd and 4th rank teams in the world from Canada will be looking to pull off a Shizuka Arakawa style upset if V/T continues to falter like this.
There's no way the Russians don't give the gold to V/T over the Canadians. Two falls and a stepout still scores the same as MT/M's personal best FS, and 6 points higher than D/R's personal best... and that's not even in Russia.
And the 2002 Olympics controversy, while perpetuated by North American media, was also perpetuated by the actual judging scandal, and the fact that B/S had an error in their FS while S/P went clean.
I saw pairs from behind judges and S/K were so awesome because I could see her performing and facial expressions that I cant on tv or from the other side, I was really ecstatic, the program is old and had seen it already last year but they skate so fresh and I love the little details they have, amazing choreo. Audience gave them SO and were cheered as gold champions on medal ceremony.
B/L thought were over the top with their clothes, they looked like Ice Dance of the 90s, but she has learnt to emote more and she does have more personality than him, if this this possible. I like their sp much more.
Also since arena was small and I was watching from second row, watching from judges side is teliing, I saw Trankov's glare to the judges after his first step out and it is really unfortumate they didnt show on tv Also when Tatiana fell he did look frustrated. He is the Diva of the pair. His pants are not so yellow as on tv, I noticed also color differences with Julias red coat that looks more red on video! You miss so many things from tv!