20 GRUSHINA Yelena GONCHAROV Ruslan UKR
Her white with full frontal illusion with white pasties with fringe hanging from them. Him: white and silver
Lots of arabian moves. upside down lunge lift, nice. lots of 2 foot skating. dance hold FW mostly by side rather than f2f. slow. crotch to crotch to low hydo lift. beillman-sit ch hamill -sit. tw ch tw. weird in and out nup andunder leg thingy. kinda gyno. tw rev tw. beillmann hydro lift. nice dance FW SLOOOOOOWING. nice edges but VERY slow. beillman rotational lift ch direction. He doesn't kiss the ice, but kisses his hand and touched the ice.
51.40 + 47.77 = 99.17 T = 195.85
Boy, Europeans are really stingy with the stuffed animals, aren't they? the sweepers don't seem to have anything to sweep except fringies and feathers.
21 NAVKA Tatyana KOSTOMAROV Roman RUS
herL red shiffon with open back and v waist. him: matador costume in maroon and gold. NICE.
interesting opening. sit-sit sit-camel beillman. tw rev tw. handless cantilever. serp FW nice, difficult. swing around SE lift on nice edge. tw rev tw. Kos a bit wobbly. matador song. NICE dance hold circle FW. did naka trip? head and shoulder over the others. NICE SE lift ch SE lift. double SE he goes down onf a knee getting up. beillman SE lift to rotational.
barring Belbin and Agosto, this really IS a gold medal winning performance. the program is incredibly difficult, they do it well, good speed through out. clean feet. very close holds. There hasn't been anyone today who skated who could touch that. while lots of people did easy stuff, pretty well, NavKos did hard stuff effortlessly. The only thing is that Navka is so fiery that she will never be a matador's cape. Kostamarov tried, but he just can't outshine her, not for a second.
51.73 + 49.64 = 101.37 T = 200.64
This is just going to be tough to beat.
22 DENKOVA Albena STAVIYSKI Maxim BUL
him: black pants black and maroon shirt with cut outs and stones. her, about the same but red skirt.
nice arabian from him. difficult entry into dangerous handless SE lift with her on shoulder to rotational lift very fast and sure. sit-camel ch sit hamill. he nearly falls in their Circle FW but she catches him. unforuntately right in front of the judges. tw rev tw. nice unison in the dancing in place. outside SE lift nice. not a lot of dance holds in their Serp seq. she has a MAJOR wedgie. tw rev tw music swells. split SE lift to around neck one foot lift. NICE cantilever, he leans back. tangled up ending.
I like the Bulgarians, but i think they needed a perfect performance to win a medal and this wasn't it.
51.34 + 46.69 -2 = 96.03 T = 189.53
he's MAD. Likely, they will place 4th
23 BELBIN Tanith AGOSTO Ben USA
her: red flamenco dress. Him: black pants and lace on shoulders and front.
They get a ROUSING WELCOME! American or not, excellence brings out fans.
nice flamenco character. SE lift VEry nice position to rotational one arm very nice/ tw rev tw nice unison. very smooth. hand in hand. very busy serp FW not many dance holds and not difficult ones. great choreo though. sit-layback ch sit hamill. nice speed. high one foot lift to low 1 ffoot lift. SE ch ch ch to hydro. tw rev tw so so unison audience slapping with music/ VERY fast circular steps tanith trips. stays up they slow. easy dance holds. tw. split rotational lift. audience goes WILD!
This is a better DANCE, but I don't feel like it's just as difficult as N&K. Their lifts are better, I think, but they fall short in using difficult dance holds while doing difficult steps.
50.24 + 47.93 = 98.17 T = 196.06
Navka is back stage crying. I think she saw how well they skated and thought that the judges were going to give it to B&A. Then she sees they have won and she smiles.
24 DELOBEL Isabelle SCHOENFELDER Olivier FRA
different costumes from SA. weird red, black and gold costumes I like his. hers, as usual is hideous.
I like this program at least as I saw it at SA. cantilever SE lift. but they kept the face gloves. high SE lift. serp FW he needs someone taller, that's their problem. nice swoopy FW. odd death spiral-ish. glove faces, the Italians like them. pairs sit. one foot handstand lift. tw rev tw slow to a crawl. shoot the duck lean on each other wild. nice circle FW using some difficult holds. SE lift from OD. ch edge SE!.
This is a fantastic program and they did it very very well. Whomever does their choreography deserves props for doing something so interesting and unusual.
51.43 + 48.07 = 99.50 T = 194.28
FOURTH! OHHHHHHH! They were close too, just 1.5 pts behind GruGon. They look very disappointed.
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4 comments:
Does anybody know the name of the song the Ukrainians ice-danced to in final dance?? (They were wearing the white-pasties-white Arabian get-up) ... appreciate your answering........
The Bulgarian couple were superior to all, IMO. I admit I don't understand the rating system that dropped them to 5. My training is in Russian classical ballet. I don't know about the technical scoring, but their artistry was unparalleled, bar none. I have never seen anything so close to great ballet. It was one continuous, controlled flow with varied accents, wonderful arms and head movements in perfect coordination with the whole body. I don't understand this rating system where such artistry goes unrecognized. There was true greatness and perfect symmetry in their interpretation of "Adagio." It was like watching the greats of ballet.
i agrre, i think the bulgarians had the best performance of the night. and unfortunately, i did not care for the americans performance at all. i thought it was kind of boring and the music did nothing for me.
is there any way who could convince NBC to have the two morons who are the ice dancing commentators permanently muzzled?
never have i seen/heard such a continous and constant stream of brainless babble followed demented drivel ...please NBC save us from these cretins
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