20 DUBREUIL Marie-France / LAUZON Patrice CAN 4 37.44
him: black with white thing across the front. Her white with deep illusion V with strategically placed sequins and weird skirt half flowy half not not very latiny at all
samba: SL FW very close slowing but clean slooooooowing. stoppinggggggg. rhumba: nice knee slide posing. eh character. glide lift with her VERY high, i'd deduct. camel/sit ch sit/sit wonky and slow. Samba: no character to speak of. dia FW nice edges lots of ducking under. rotation lift HORRIBLE FALL!!!!! (program ends) He just totally lost hold of her and she's leaned over and cannon stand straight. her knee I think? She HOPS off the ice.and he carries her to the K&C.
It's a VERY dangerous lift with him holding her by ONLY her knee and the main force of her hands grasped around his arm. We'll see this OVER and over. It was a cringer. I feel faintly ill.
27.47 + 28.89 -2 = 54.36 T = 91.80
21 FAIELLA Federica / SCALI Massimo ITA 10 33.20
him: black velvet with BIG yellow inset. her: yellow dress with monokini cut outs with LONG chiffon trailies in the back
cha: dia FW? far apart for together FW SL FW close decent speed BAD unison, slowing. nice character though. Rhumba: flat SE lift her: in almost attractive beill. facing sit spin ch him AWESOME catch foot awesome but slows to a stop. salsa: their footwork is kind awkward and slow from step to step (not across the ice) FALL, he kicks her leg, she goes down, takes him down too. they are having a hard time getting back into it... maybe 5-10 sec disruption. poor split in rotational lift.
21.92 + 24.33 -3 = 43.25 T = 76.45
22 NAVKA Tatiana / KOSTOMAROV Roman RUS 2 38.20
Him: black velvet with DEEEP V. nice. her: my daughters have a bathing suit like this... leopard but in blue and brown. blue bustle but no real skirt nothing much to speak of in front. This should get a BIG costume deduction.
SBS SL FW unison breaks but great speed and nice TW more unison breaks/ fantastic character. posing dancing in place rhumba: fact2face sit ch ugly beill. nice SE lift her in ugly beill, slight inside edge. speed speed speed but uneasy in the dia FW off balance a bit. salsa: he gets into this. weird her in shoot the duck rotational lift.
This was not their best program. With other of the teams before them falling, i wonder if they are a little shaken. They MUST get a costume deduction for that showgirlish non skirt. Shot of Navka crossing herself, praying and kissing something, a religious medal, perhaps
30.39 + 30.68 = 61.07 T = 99.27
23 FUSAR POLI Barbara / MARGAGLIO Maurizio ITA 1 38.78
Him: black with deep v neck NICE chest, her: BARELY there! green skirt in front, pink and longer in back. flowers all over her boobs but no top to speak of. This DEFINITELLY should get a costume deduction!
cha: cutsie opening. SL FW fast fast and nice; okay but his revTW are weak. they have character TO SPARE. Rhumba: nice cantilever lift weird sit nice, posing. salsa: dia FW slowing. good character nice entry to rotational lift. then FALL. she got away from him.
She is hiding her face, trying hard not to cry.
24.33 + 29.40 = -2 51.73 t = 90.51
24 BELBIN Tanith / AGOSTO Benjamin USA 6 37.36
Him: black velvet deep V neck Her: new red dress with illusion midrif and poofy skirt
salsa: dia FW nice speed close clean rhumba: GOOD character first pair that's had it. very smooth. lots of speed. good attack. SE lift with change of position and height. sit/layback ch nice sit/hamil. salsa: posing dancing in place. SL FW close good speed over ice. unison break, TW weaker than N&K. nice rotational lift with change of position. Their energy was incredible and character was excellent through out. best character over all.
I'd have them in first and not just because I'm American. They were fabulous.
30.54 + 29.99 = 60.53 T = 97.89 2nd place.
They should have won this section. they were head and shoulders in PCS better than anyone else. Wrong... but truthfully, not TOTALLY WRONG. They didn't skate while Russian. There is NO WAY they should be TWO points behind N&K though. NO FREAKING WAY. Belbin and Agusto had a lot of difficulty and did it very well and they skated ALL OUT. N&K were tentative. But granted, N&K had neater feet.
(correction: BelAgo were about 0.5 pts behind NavKos in the original dance. That I can WAY deal with. The extra point and a half NavKos are ahead is left over from the CD, which I can also WAY deal with. As y'all can tell, I get really excited about all this.)
Interviewing Navka who saw F-P&M fall and was horrified and obviously upset over it. Kostamarov is, BTW, orange. I am also nominating Kostamarov for the "Most Chest Shown in the OD" award. It's a nice chest, but whoa, boy, either take it ALL off or leave it ALL ON!
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