#TeamTrainwreck 21: Ride until the fantasy ends!

[kwanfan1818]

I'll stick with Dance: Torvill/Dean, Usova/Zhulin, Klimova/Ponomarenko, Blumberg/Seibert, Rahkamo/Kokko, Delobel/Schoenfelder, Davis/White (at their best), Papadakis/Cizeron, Gilles/Poirier, and I've long had soft spots for Kati Winkler/Rene Lohse -- she had lovely turnout and toe point, and he's -- Hoffmann/Elek, and Rubleva/Shefer.

 

[Vagabond]

Here, off the top of my head, are my lists of favorites in roughly chronological order. There are some active Singles skaters who could easily supplant some of the people on the list, and if I were to do this list again before the start of the next season, I'd probalby make one or two changes anyhow.

If it were all about the actual skating, two other Pairs and one other Ice Dance couple would have been on the list, but things the male partner in each team did off ice have diminished my enjoyment. There's also a male Singles skater I left off for similar reasons.

Men (Top Ten):

John Misha Petkevich
John Curry
Charles Tickner
Alexei Yagudin
Matthew Savoie
Jeffrey Buttle
Jeremy Abbott
Ross Miner
Javier Fernández
Kévin Aymoz

Ladies (Top Ten):

Janet Lynn
Tiffany Chin
Kristi Yamaguchi
Lucinda Ruh
Sarah Meier
Carolina Kostner
Kiira Korpi
Akiko Suzuki
Mirai Nagasu
Satoko Miyahara

Pairs (Top Six):

Protopovs
Babilonia/Gardner
Shen/Zhao
Pang/Tong
Sui/Han
Savchenko/Massot

Ice Dance (Top Six):

Torvill/Dean
Anissina/Peizerat
Davis/White
Shibutanis
Papadakis/Cizeron
Chock/Bates

 

[Immortelle]

I'll stick with Dance: Torvill/Dean, Usova/Zhulin, Klimova/Ponomarenko, Blumberg/Seibert, Rahkamo/Kokko, Delobel/Schoenfelder, Davis/White (at their best), Papadakis/Cizeron, Gilles/Poirier, and I've long had soft spots for Kati Winkler/Rene Lohse -- she had lovely turnout and toe point, and he's -- Hoffmann/Elek, and Rubleva/Shefer.

Were we separated at birth??? ?

 

[Jeschke]

The very best I can do is a top 31.

Dying

So Youn Park

That's a pleasant surprise

Alena Leonova
Anastasia Galustyan
Anastasia Gimazetdinova
Anna Pogorilaya

The list started like that and was already perfect!

Marina Kielmann

((( All other German Crapova Sisters )))

 

[Jeschke]

Men - least favorite discipline! Since I started watching!

Boss All time favorite list!
Men Top 10

1. Ross Miner
2. Ilia Kulik
3. Alexander Abt
4. Patrick Chan
5. Richard Dornbush
6. Dmitri Aliev
7. Denis Ten
8. Ivan Dinev
9. Nobunari Oda
10. Han Yan

Russian trio of Gorshkov, Griazev and Borodulin would follow! (I guess @SmallFairy will love me for that )

There were skaters I rooted so hard for during their times, but now they or their skating feel pretty meh to me: Abbot, Joubert, Lysacek,

No clue where to put Hanyu who can be mesmerizing if on. But so much turn-off for me here. So ?‍

 

[Vagabond]

No clue where to put Hanyu who can be mesmerizing if on. But so much turn-off for me here. So ?‍

Maybe somewhere in your Top Thirty-One?

 

[her grace]

Top 12 Pairs

1) Gordeeva/Grinkov
2) Sui/Han
3) Sale/Pelletier
4) Mishkutenok/Dmitriev
5) Meno/Sand
6) Shishkova/Naumov
7) Shen/Zhao
8) Boikova/Kozlovski
9) Wotzel/Steur
10) Iliushechkina/Maisuradze
11) Stolbova/Klimov
12) Brasseur/Eisler
13) Castile/Okolski

Honorable mention to Vanessa James whose partner's actions got them booted from the list.

I'm very much a fan of pre-COP pair skating. #sorrynotsorry

ETA: oops, had two eights listed. Oh well, top 13 pairs!

 

[Jeschke]

I’ll be back with ladies and pairs tomorrow. Ladies will be soooooooo hard.

Shouldn’t we have our do-hard-lists over the years too? Stay tuned it’ll be up tomorrow too.

...tic...toc...

 

[Vagabond]

Ok pairs top 12, again not in order except the first one

1. Savchenko/Massot/Szolkowy

This is not a pair, it's a threesome.

 

[SmallFairy]

...tic...toc...

Patience, patience!

 

[Jeschke]

Patience, patience!

Not my best quality

 

[SmallFairy]

Of course @Jeschke is eagerly awaiting my Do hard-list, but ladies first!
Sort of chronologic.

Ito
Chen
Bobek
Hubert
Rechnio
Czako
Szewczenko
Butyrskaya
Gusmeroli
Arakawa
Kierkgaard
Stadlmüller
Cohen
Dytrt
Pöykiö
Maniachenko
Korpi
Lepistö
Vähämä
Suzuki
Medvedeva
Sakamoto
Bell
Konstantinova


I know I'll get slammed for skaters missing

Finland 4 vs. Japan 4 It's a tie!
Germany 3 vs. Russia 3 vs. USA 3 It's a triple tie!

 

[SmallFairy]

I'm doing my pairs list without cheating, (of course I was cheating plenty coming men and ladies)

Gordeeva/Grinkov
Mishkutenok/Dmitrev
Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze
Filoneko/Marchenko
Lefrancois/Blanchard
Ina/Zimmerman
Berankova/Dlabola
Shen/Zhao
Panfilova/Rylov
Sui/Han
Volosozhar, with any partner, even Kharchenko, they were so cute
Boikova/Kozlovski

I do love Empress, but I can't decide on one era. I have favourite programs with all her three different partners.

 

[SmallFairy]

Men - least favorite discipline! Since I started watching!

Boss All time favorite list!
Men Top 10

1. Ross Miner
2. Ilia Kulik
3. Alexander Abt
4. Patrick Chan
5. Richard Dornbush
6. Dmitri Aliev
7. Denis Ten
8. Ivan Dinev
9. Nobunari Oda
10. Han Yan

Russian trio of Gorshkov, Griazev and Borodulin would follow! (I guess @SmallFairy will love me for that )

There were skaters I rooted so hard for during their times, but now they or their skating feel pretty meh to me: Abbot, Joubert, Lysacek,

No clue where to put Hanyu who can be mesmerizing if on. But so much turn-off for me here. So ?‍

We are quite synched!

 

[Hanna]

Vähämä

for a Vähämaa mention! She'd make my list too!

Volosozhar, with any partner, even Kharchenko, they were so cute

I loved Volo with Kharchenko back in the day! I remember being a big fan during Malmö Euros 2003! They were babies then!

 

[Jeschke]

Of course @Jeschke is eagerly awaiting my Do hard-list, but ladies first!

I am frightened and excited the same time!

 

[SmallFairy]

Ok, so I promised my Do hard-list, though it won't include any surprises
Boss, are you ready?
(No ranking, except for no.1 ) Unfortunately, not all of these are holding up today.....

1.Daisuke - keeps getting hotter, a rare feat

More Do-hards:
Grinkov
Zhulin (1992...)
Dmitrev (1994...)
Ponomarenko
Tchernyshev
Ovsiannikov (1999...)
Zagorodnjuk
Abt
Dinev
Davydov
Tamura
Smalun
Shubin
Borodulin
Peizerrat
Bourzat
Scali
Amodio
Smirnov
Eremenko

I so wanted to include Zimmerman, but then...?

 

[SmallFairy]

Now Boss, you're next!

 

[SmallFairy]

for a Vähämaa mention! She'd make my list too!

What could have been! She was amazing! ?

I loved Volo with Kharchenko back in the day! I remember being a big fan during Malmö Euros 2003! They were babies then!

Me too! Tania had dark hair and they did a Romeo & Juliet FS. I became a fan instantly. Babies indeed!

 

[RoseRed]

I'm currently finishing up a bunch of stuff because it's the last day of classes so all assignments are due, but I will join in when I have time (both favs and maybe do-hards).

 

[Jeschke]

but ladies first!

24 ladies, 4 JPN, and no Ando! Pah!

Of course @Jeschke is eagerly awaiting my Do hard-list, but ladies first!
Dytrt

It's official, Dytrt is no ?? queen!

Of course @Jeschke is eagerly awaiting my Do hard-list, but ladies first!
Stadlmüller

Awesome

 

[Jeschke]

I'm currently finishing up a bunch of stuff because it's the last day of classes so all assignments are due, but I will join in when I have time (both favs and maybe do-hards).

Looking forward to your lists!
Well we all know who wins the DH's for you

 

[Jeschke]

In honour of @SmallFairy 's Ladies list:
2x 'O Mio Babbino Caro' SP (one incl. MESS)

Euros 2008 Jenni Vahamaa SP

from teledeporte

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DYTRT SP Rostelecom Cup 2009

www.youtube.com

 

[Jeschke]

We are quite synched!

Miner is your #1?
I am a bit surprised here, I expected so many ancient names à la Vlascenko & Co. Call me a bit disappointed.

They were babies then!

So were you ?

 

[her grace]

Top 12 Men in random order

1) Boitano
2) Takahashi
3) Abbott
4) Machida
5) Brown
6) Aliev
7) Yagudin
8) Abt
9) Savoie
10) Hanyu . . . but the recycling has really gotten old
11) Weir
12) Uno

 

[rfisher]

@SmallFairy included EuroKwan! in her list.

 

[SmallFairy]

@SmallFairy included EuroKwan! in her list.

Pöykiö? She’s legend!
#2005EurosWuzrobbed!

 

[rfisher]

Pöykiö? She’s legend!
#2005EurosWuzrobbed!

The era of the gorgeous Finns, not that the current ones aren't gorgeous, but Poykio, the LovelyLaura and Korpi were ethereal.

 

[SmallFairy]

The era of the gorgeous Finns, not that the current ones aren't gorgeous, but Poykio, the LovelyLaura and Korpi were ethereal.

????????

 

[SmallFairy]

@Jeschke More on ancient men tomorrow?