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- Dec 21, 2011
actually, they are in the lead because they had 2 pts MORE than the italians in Program Components. So, skating skills, choreo, interpretation,...
And tha, and I'm trying to remain polite, is a travesty. The canadians always impressed me with their guts to try the lutz as an individual jump, but their *ahem* interpretation was so... bland. The italians were on fire, had a great chemistry and were fun to watch. Oh well, skating as we know it.
What bothers me about the order despite the close marks is that we need to remember how the judges seem unable to score objectively throughout the competition, even with just 8 pairs, and increase their scores after each skater, so to skate even 1 spot earlier might cost a place in the end result.
You have to keep in mind transitions though, another part of the PCS which D/R do very well. Their basic skating skills are also strong, IMO moreso than the italians. I think this is another time where it'd be better ifthe judges would makr each of the 5 PCS components individually instead of assigning essentially the same score to each one.