USA’s Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue vindicated three years of consecutive medal losses at the Grand Prix Final to win the event in Vancouver with a passionate free dance and season’s best scores.
The Americans powered across the ice in their re-worked “Romeo and Juliet” free dance which featured dramatic lifts, level 4 twizzles, strong level 3 diagonal steps, and the night’s best program component scores. Judges rewarded them with a personal best free dance score of 124.82 and total event score of 205.35. The 2018 U.S. National Champions made extensive changes to the free dance following Skate Canada.
“I think we achieved what we wanted to which was to pull out the performance,” Hubbell said. “We finished not knowing exactly what the score would be because, a little bit like yesterday, we went fully into the character of the program, and being so new, there were plenty of little bobbles and places to lose points. The protocol isn’t completely clean yet, but we were able to really pull up the GOE and pull up the PCS in order to give us a season’s best, so we are very proud.”
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