Hmm, by rights the Shibs should be ahead of C/L, who were all kinds of loose thread sloppy. But with this tech panel, I think they'll go ahead.
ETA: Bingo. Not fair, but there it is.
Okay, I just rewatched the SD -- Luca did one extra turn than Anna in their first set of twizzles.
How the heck can this be considered synchronized twizzles if he does one more rotation? :shocked:
As usual, the shadiest scoring is in Ice Dance.
I really like C/B and they definitely deserved 2nd, but I can't help but laugh at the judge who gave them 9.75s in all of the PCS categories!
There is no politics in ice dance and there are no conspiracies.
I'm still a tad annoyed that B/A didn't win bronze instead of them in 2010.
B/A and Del/Scho should have both finished higher than Dom/Shab. Dom/Shab's OD and FD were trainwrecks. His knees were so bad at the time they had to use a prop to execute some of their "choreography" in the FD. I still don't understand how they got away with it.
Okay, I just rewatched the SD -- Luca did one extra turn than Anna in their first set of twizzles.
How the heck can this be considered synchronized twizzles if he does one more rotation? :shocked:
There is no politics in ice dance and there are no conspiracies.
Even C/L and H/D got higher GOE on twizzles?
Some judging that is... :sarcasm:
FWIW -- Cizeron/Papadakis was 5th after the SD and rose to 3rd with their strong FD last year.
There's a difference. Last year, Ilinykh/Zhignanshin just weren't ready for prime time in the FD them being a new team and all, AND the judges, as they've shown time and time again, don't mind dumping the Shibs for hot new team. The Shibs can't dump themselves to get a medal so . . .
Even after COP was implemented, the judges are very forgiving for teams where the woman does all the work as long as she does a lot of it. So many examples.
And yet I am forever hearing people say the male partner of an ice dance team is much better than the female partner. Guillaume, Jean-Luc, Evan, Luca, Michael Parsons, and the list goes on. There are a few exceptions like Elena being the stronger partner in I/Z and Alex in P/I, but I feel like it's always the guy I'm hearing about.
This beauty needs to be quoted endlessly. :
It's Anna and Luca's placement that really bothers me. They are simply not skating at the level of C/B, W/P, S/S, or for that matter, H/D as far as edge quality, smoothness, etc. They have shallow edges, stiff posture, and only one note/mode that they perform successfully: happy, cheerful, playful (at times manic). Their win at Worlds outraged me, and their placement here does as well. And I find them adorable, charming, and fun to watch, not to mention gorgeous. However, they are not first-rate ice dancers. End of Story!