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Post by xavier on Feb 11, 2010 23:02:05 GMT 1
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Post by Renee V on Feb 17, 2010 19:07:28 GMT 1
Compulsory Dance Start Order www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-figure-skating/schedule-and-results/ice-dance---compulsory-dance_fsx030301fk.html1 Italy CAPPELLINI Anna / LANOTTE Luca 2 Great Britain COOMES Penny / BUCKLAND Nicholas 3 Germany BEIER Christina / BEIER William 4 Russian Federation BOBROVA Ekaterina / SOLOVIEV Dmitri 5 Ukraine ZADOROZHNIUK Anna / VERBILLO Sergei 6 China HUANG Xintong / ZHENG Xun 7 Georgia REED Allison / JAPARIDZE Otar 8 Czech Republic HAJKOVA Kamila / VINCOUR David 9 Hungary HOFFMANN Nora / ZAVOZIN Maxim 10 Japan REED Cathy / REED Chris 11 Estonia SHTORK Irina / RAND Taavi 12 France DELOBEL Isabelle / SCHOENFELDER Olivier 13 Canada CRONE Vanessa / POIRIER Paul 14 United States SAMUELSON Emily / BATES Evan 15 Israel ZARETSKY Alexandra / ZARETSKY Roman 16 France PECHALAT Nathalie / BOURZAT Fabian 17 United States DAVIS Meryl / WHITE Charlie 18 Russian Federation DOMNINA Oksana / SHABALIN Maxim 19 Russian Federation KHOKHLOVA Jana / NOVITSKI Sergei 20 United States BELBIN Tanith / AGOSTO Benjamin 21 Italy FAIELLA Federica / SCALI Massimo 22 Great Britain KERR Sinead / KERR John 23 Canada VIRTUE Tessa / MOIR Scott
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Post by xavier on Feb 18, 2010 15:26:01 GMT 1
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Post by Renee V on Feb 19, 2010 0:29:58 GMT 1
Spectacular lift there...but not very elegant and it makes it too obvious that they are using those belts. with the other rotational lift you hardly noticed it. I like the costumes. very powerful colors
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Post by Renee V on Feb 19, 2010 3:02:05 GMT 1
first pic without the watermark
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Post by Renee V on Feb 19, 2010 18:40:34 GMT 1
Only a couple of hours left before the start of the CD! I hope everyone skates well ;D
Good luck Oksana and Maxim!!
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Post by maximaddict on Feb 19, 2010 20:03:40 GMT 1
Only a couple of hours left before the start of the CD! I hope everyone skates well ;D Good luck Oksana and Maxim!! 4 hours and 49 minutes...to be precise!
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Post by Renee V on Feb 19, 2010 20:12:56 GMT 1
Hope Eurosport's mix of figure skating, skeleton and ice hockey will have the CD as it's biggest component. Prefer watching it on TV over hurting my eyes staring at a computer screen Only 7 couples from countries outside of Europe Very curious to see them. Too bad Mallory/Rand are not here, I love their dances, but I'm sure they'll be in Torino I'm not yet recovered from the excitement of the mens FS I hope my poor heart will last the night...
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Post by xavier on Feb 19, 2010 22:15:04 GMT 1
I'm also nervous, and I also can't believe what happened yesterday at Mens Free, I don't know if channel 22 of Mexico will show live the CD or and hour late, but no problem I can watch it on the Internet ;D
Good Luck Oksana & Max. ;D
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Post by xavier on Feb 19, 2010 22:17:28 GMT 1
From vancouver2010.com
Figure Skating: Controversy looms at ice danceFeb 17, 2010 Vancouver (AFP) - The ice dancers haven't even stepped on the ice and controversy is already raging in Vancouver.
Ice dancing was only included in the Olympic programme in 1976 and has since fought to impose itself as a serious discipline.
Its popularity has assured its future despite judging and other controversies which have overshadowed the event down through the years.
Vancouver will be no exception.
Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin are already in hot water before they even step on the ice at the Pacific Coliseum on Friday for their Aboriginal-themed original dance, deemed disrespectful in Australia.
The pair have insisted this could not be further from the truth, although it remains to be seen whether they stick with their controversial costume of red loin cloths, body paint and eucalyptus leaves.
"This is wrong. Our purpose was the opposite. We want to honour the culture, to show a dance as it was 1,000 years ago in the Southeast Asian region," said Shabalin.
The reigning world champions are favourites to keep the title in Russian hands with teams from Russia or the former Soviet Union having only twice failed to stand on the top of the podium.
But they may not have it all their own way.
North American couples have moved up the pecking order in ice dancing.
US champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White and Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, are strongly positioned for the podium.
The Russians are strong in the compulsory dance which gets underway on Friday, while Davis and White earn highly for their Bollywood original dance, and the Canadians their free dance.
Domnina and Shabalin will be looking to set themselves up with their Tango Romantica compulsory dance as they did at Europeans last month when they came back from Shabalin's knee injury to win a second title.
Davis and White are in form this season, winning the Cup of Russia and the NHK Trophy in Japan, followed by the Grand Prix final.
Virtue and Moir are trying to become just the second Canadians to stand on the Olympic podium after Tracy Wilson and Robert McCall finished third at the 1988 Calgary Games.
Olympic silver medallists Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto are also in the running, and believe a North American podium sweep is possible.
"We definitely have the talent. It's going to be such a strong ice dance event," said Olympic silver medallist Agosto.
France's former world champions Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder are an unknown factor as they make their comeback from injury last season and a pregnancy this season.
Italy's Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali and Russia's Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski are also targetting the podium.
In the past, other factors have impacted on the final result in ice dancing as seen at the Salt Lake City Games when a voting scandal concerning judges in ice dance and pairs resulted in a change in the marking system.
And outside factors having an impact remains a threat, says White.
"The possibility of that happening is very real," he said. "There's a lot of human subjectivity. That is something you can't control, you can only control what you do on the ice."
The compulsory dance takes place on Friday with the original dance on Sunday and the free dance final on Monday.
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© AFP, 2009-2010
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Post by Renee V on Feb 20, 2010 2:43:10 GMT 1
Dance has finally started Seen too many Tango Romanticas this year...tempted to watch with the sound of but difficult to judge the dances then first ice resurfacing now...10 couples to go before Oksana and Maxim come on the ice
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Post by Renee V on Feb 20, 2010 3:53:49 GMT 1
not long now...ice resurfacing and Pechalat/Bourzat & Davis/White first low scores so far! surprised about 37.99 for Delobel and Schoenfelder. we'll see what the rest gets.
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Post by Renee V on Feb 20, 2010 4:23:15 GMT 1
LOL they brought the aboriginal blankets to the K&C 43.76 good score!! thought they were a bit slow in some parts of the dance tonight
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Post by Renee V on Feb 20, 2010 4:28:17 GMT 1
Total Score 43.76 Executed Elements 21.92 Factored Program Components 21.84 Deductions 0.00
Executed Elements Base Value:GOE Seq 1 Steps 1-16 2.90 1.40 4.30 Seq 1 Steps 17-32 1.60 0.70 2.30 Seq 1 Steps 33-49 2.40 0.90 3.30 Seq 2 Steps 1-16 3.20 1.40 4.60 Seq 2 Steps 17-32 2.30 0.90 3.20 Seq 2 Steps 33-49 3.10 1.12 4.22
Totals Executed Elements 15.50 Score 21.92
Program Components Unfactored Score:Factor Interpretation 9.00 0.50 Performance/Execution 8.80 0.50 Skating Skills 8.75 0.75 Timing 8.50 0.75
Factored Program Components 21.84
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Post by Renee V on Feb 20, 2010 5:12:20 GMT 1
1 18 Russian Federation DOMNINA Oksana / SHABALIN Maxim 43.76 2 23 Canada VIRTUE Tessa / MOIR Scott 42.74 3 17 United States DAVIS Meryl / WHITE Charlie 41.47 4 20 United States BELBIN Tanith / AGOSTO Benjamin 40.83 5 21 Italy FAIELLA Federica / SCALI Massimo 39.88 6 12 France DELOBEL Isabelle / SCHOENFELDER Olivier 37.99 7 19 Russian Federation KHOKHLOVA Jana / NOVITSKI Sergei 37.18 8 22 Great Britain KERR Sinead / KERR John 37.02 9 16 France PECHALAT Nathalie / BOURZAT Fabian 36.13 10 15 Israel ZARETSKY Alexandra / ZARETSKY Roman 34.38 11 5 Ukraine ZADOROZHNIUK Anna / VERBILLO Sergei 33.87 12 1 Italy CAPPELLINI Anna / LANOTTE Luca 33.13 13 9 Hungary HOFFMANN Nora / ZAVOZIN Maxim 31.90 14 14 United States SAMUELSON Emily / BATES Evan 31.37 15 13 Canada CRONE Vanessa / POIRIER Paul 31.14 16 3 Germany BEIER Christina / BEIER William 30.31 17 4 Russian Federation BOBROVA Ekaterina / SOLOVIEV Dmitri 29.86 18 10 Japan REED Cathy / REED Chris 29.49 19 6 China HUANG Xintong / ZHENG Xun 29.22 20 7 Georgia REED Allison / JAPARIDZE Otar 26.65 21 2 Great Britain COOMES Penny / BUCKLAND Nicholas 25.68 22 8 Czech Republic HAJKOVA Kamila / VINCOUR David 23.19 23 11 Estonia SHTORK Irina / RAND Taavi 21.73
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