I disagree. I thought they had fun with the fast part. I agree they stuck with Smile for too long so it got boring. It also seems a little unfinished. It wouldn't be surprising with the injuries that they have had that the program isn't what they want it to be yet.
But you make my point, why give them marks for a programs potential, isn't it to be marked for the actual performance? Slap me, I forgot this is ice dance and Russian ice dance no less. With the exception of few elements we've seen this dance before just to different music. I kept on waiting to be impressed, it lacks the flair that a dance like this should have. Meh...
Being injured or not wouldn't affect whether the music is horrible, which imo it is.
The real deal hopefully is the ladies. All these trifles are just that, trifles.
That program is a disaster from start to finish.
and the Come together is dreadfull. Why did they even think that rotationnal lift would work for them???
Yes. I think Kostornaya was underscored. Tuktamysheva should have won. Yes. But with a smaller margin - with 0.5-1.5 points.
Anyone Med was in contact with should be in quarantine right now. WTF.
I haven't looked at the GOEs but it seems Tuk had 9 more technical point from the 3As and Kostornaia's URs on the combos. Kostornaia had 2 more PCS points, Tuk was scored very high for performance, choreography and interpretation. I'm not arguing but how would you have scored them differently?
But has Medvedeva even been in the rink? I thought she stopped training bec of her back?
She hasn't skated in a long time. She's injured.
Wasn't she going to the hospital for treatment on her back? That's probably where she would have come in contact with it
Hospital, PT appointments, etc. She obviously hasn't been at the rink and the skaters / coaches haven't been in contact with her.
OMG. Do you really think that S/K are a threat enough to Gabby & Guillaume to incite a war? People are just commenting on what they see. I personally thought the program was terrible, and the skating sub-par. Not an uber of any dance team at the moment.
Nope. Not doing 3A can result in being beaten by a girl who is clean and does two 3A. That’s life. No more Yuna Kim scoring.
I don't know but they still look like they haven't fully recovered from the loss of training time when Dmitri got ill. A big difference from the test skates
But come on that program is terrible.
Ahhh, ok. I thought I'd read on the boards she'd been skating recently but mainly doing workouts that didn't aggravate the injury (active recovery). If she hasn't been in contact with the coaches/rink in the last week or so that's another story.
Medvedeva lately was not at the rink, but home taking care of her back.
Do you really think that ANY coach can stop Trusova from jumping when and how she wants? I am sure Trusova complained to Pluschenko about Tutberidze/Dudakov trying to control her jumping, and Pluschenko is going to do just the opposite. He also knows that Trusova's father does not like his daughter limited on jumps, and that father has a very loud mouth....They say Trusova hurt herself after the 3A fall in the SP and her team let her go for 4 quads in the free.
