Why all these Chinese teams go for quads when they are never succesful?
S/K has the program that makes you feel very intelligent after watching it.LoL Their program is very avant garde and have this modernist feel. She's very cold but very intense at the same time. The atmosphere is very strange
Stolbova/Klimov's win here reminded me of Totmianina/Marinin winning in Turin.
They definitely deserved to win. They were by far the cleanest. They had the difficulty. I could appreciate the athleticism and quality of their elements. But the programs were just kinda meh for me, and there was such a coldness and methodical nature to their free program and their skating in general.
I am, however, thrilled that this isn't a cake walk for D/R anymore as many seemed to think. Rivalries are good for the sport, and make it way more interesting. I'm also glad that Stolbova/Klimov seem to be genuinely happy again (haha, and Fedor lives another day, lol...).
It really does! And it takes a lot to make me feel intelligent, hahaS/K has the program that makes you feel very intelligent after watching it.LoL Their program is very avant garde and have this modernist feel. She's very cold but very intense at the same time. The atmosphere is very strange
At least there is still one judge is clear that their poor quality of twist deserves none GOE and only 8.75 for their TR... No problem for the winning, but such a ridiculous score...
I think the 0 was a bit harsh for the twist... although there's nothing remarkable about it, and that's about as good as they can do it. I'd have given it a +1. Definitely not the +2's they were showered with though. Although they also gave +2s to that rather tight 3-jump combination.
But yes, the TR mark shouldn't have been higher than 9... certainly not higher than Kav/Smirnov or Duhamel/Radford. One of my issues with Stolbova and Klimov's programs is that they don't really have any memorable highlights.
Thank you for the explanation of the man chasing his shadow - it makes more sense now. But it's still bleak. I don't get intensity from it, although other people seem to frequently use that word when describing it. Then again, multiple people also describe it as cold. So maybe it's that fine line which makes the program polarizing. Although this performance of this program is leagues above what they've done with it so far this season, and not just from a technical standpoint.... they looked like they were trying to compete and win, not just go out there and skate because it's their job.
I don't think anyone is hating on S/K or thinking they don't deserve the win.
You, however, loooove hating on D/R. Although you seem to think Hometown Glory is a catchy tune of the day, and that their lack of fancy transitions is an asset to their skating, so to that I say... "whatevs".
S/K at their best get 229 (whereas D/R at their best still got 221), so the real question isn't whether or not D/R can potentially match that, but if S/K can continue to replicate this level of cleanliness (or have another Skate America-esque disaster).
Huh, Huh... I think you had a typo. Corrected for you.
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Stolbova/Klimov obviously deserved to win and deserved a huge score, too, but their programs do nothing for me, sorry. It was clean, it was interesting, it was admirable, but it didn't even come close to excite/entertain/thrill/make me fond of it