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I had just made recordings to send to Ted for this week's JGP...
I had just made recordings to send to Ted for this week's JGP...
I thought skaters changed programs in every competition.
I thought skaters changed programs in every competition.
To tell the truth, I still don't know how to pronounce Salchow. The "w' is pronounced as an English "v," right? So the last syllable is "kov." (Ulrich Salchow was Swedish (though actually born in Denmark, IIRC)).
I don't know how to pronounce the first syllable. But I am pretty sure that the following is dead wrong (in both syllables, plus the ch sound).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CoiQr6Pl-k
I didn't understand Ice Dance and Pairs were different disciplines and was frustrated the Ice Dancers didn't throw their partners a few meters into the air and still got gold medals.
This should be fun.
I watched figure skating as a child with my parents and I used to thin that:
- toeloop is called "tulip"
- triple salchow is the hardest jump out there
- that the second mark in 6.0 system depended on how pretty your dress was
- that Oksana Baiul was Russian and that Surya's last name is BonaRy
- that separate medals were given for gala.
- that every skater had to go pro after skating for certain amount of time and they had to skate as pro for sometime and could not simply retire.
- That most skaters from different countries trained together somewhere.
I may add more later. I am certain i had lots of mistaken ideas.
Lol, that sounds Chinese to me.
Mary is almost right except for how she pronounce sal.
Sal is pronounced as in Swedish sallad. But americans usually pronounce the Swedish a as in English salad. And to nitpick the l is too ’thick’ .
Actually I think no one in Sweden cares You are doing fine with your lessons Mary!
The last syllable is as you thought; kov.
Not me, but a friend(when younger) thought the skaters in dance and pairs were all married couples. He used to call them wifes and husbands.
I thought all jumps were called axels...don’t ask me how I thought of something so stupid
The first competition I watched was the 2010 Olympics and I literally thought “Wow! Yuna Kim landed 11 axels!”