The Dance Hall 13: When You Dance on the Ice and Your Feet Twizzle Twice, That's Amore

tony said:
For those interested, groupings & start orders for Olympics as of now.

Zingas & Kolesnik can climb up to the 16-18 start order in the penultimate group if they do skate at 4CC, which would push Smart & Dieck down to 14-15 start order in that group.

Last Group:
19-20: Lopareva & Brissaud, Gilles & Poirier
21-23: Fear & Gibson, Chock & Bates, Guignard & Fabbri

Penultimate Group:
14-15: Zingas & Kolesnik, Lajoie & Lagha
16-18: Reed & Ambrulevicius, Carreira & Ponomarenko, Smart & Dieck

Group 3:
9-10: Lim & Quan, Mrazkova & Mrazek
11-13: Davis & Smolkin, Turkkila & Versluis, Taschlerova & Taschler

Group 2:
5-6: Fournier Beaudry & Cizeron, Bekker & Hernandez
7-8: Lauriault & Le Gac, Janse van Rensburg & Steffan

Group 1:
1-2: Val & Kazimov, Wang & Liu
3-4: Harris & Chan, Reitan & Majorov
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Thank you for this. If Z&K win 4CC, what points total will they end up with?
 
I don't really follow dance so apologies if previously discussed. Who dropped out of ice dance to allow Reitan/Majorov to qualify a spot?
 
PRlady said:
I love O/P’s entertainment value, but after seeing the Swedes’ FD again this past weekend, it was a good trade.
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You win some, you lose some. If somebody else had to get that spot, the Swedes surely would have been my first pick anyway. It's a great romantic style program, although that outrageous Molin Rouge would have also stood out on Olympic ice.

Pirihara could probably still get into Cyprus' Olympic team, if they mail their applications in now 😎
 
Noone asked me, but my 1€ is that Orihara better start the process to get Swedish citizenship by 2030.
1) It's provenly easier and quicker than the Finnish one.
2) Swedish is an easier language to learn than Finnish. (It's the second official language in Finland too, and one must know either Finnish or Swedish for the Finnish citizenship.)
3) Judging from Reitan/Majorov's trajectory, Sweden will be having two spots by 2030. Meanwhile, Turkkila and Versluis might have already retired by then.
4) Look at the points difference in the Europeans final result scores: only two hundredths of a point between Pirihara and Mini-Majorov! Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer, they say.
 
IDC a.k.a. Ritti said:
Noone asked me, but my 1€ is that Orihara better start the process to get Swedish citizenship by 2030.
1) It's provenly easier and quicker than the Finnish one.
2) Swedish is an easier language to learn than Finnish. (It's the second official language in Finland too, and one must know either Finnish or Swedish for the Finnish citizenship.)
3) Judging from Reitan/Majorov's trajectory, Sweden will be having two spots by 2030. Meanwhile, Turkkila and Versluis might have already retired by then.
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About 2), yes very likely if one comes from Indo-European language background (particularly Germanic), but for a Japanese native, Finnish might actually be easier.

Matthew Sperry apparently plans to get Finnish citizenship by 2030, so he better start learning...! I'm quite sure T/V will retire after next season.

How's the Swedish ID scene behind Reitan/Majorov? Do they have another senior ready pair?
 
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There was an interview with Orihara a few years ago in which she said that she had been taking private Finnish lessons, and that she’d been told that Finnish was very hard to learn for a native Japanese speaker. At that point she may have given up trying to learn enough to pass the citizenship test, because the Olympics seemed out of reach. T/V were the only team sent to Worlds until 2024, after T/V cracked top 10 in 2023, and they earned a second spot.
 
Ikari said:
How's the Swedish ID scene behind Reitan/Majorov? Do they have another senior ready pair?
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The Swedish Junior champs are Canada-based Charlotte Chung/Axel MacKenzie: https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00117814.htm
Junior silver medalists Anna MacKenzie/Wesley Lockwood recently split as he is on IPS.

Also on IPS are 2 Italians:
Laura Finelli (6th at Italian Nationals with M. Bucciarelli): https://www.ice-dance.com/site/profile-laura-finelli-massimiliano-bucciarelli/
Pietro Rota (JGPs with Matilde Petracchi this season and Zoe Bianchi last season): https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00124158.htm

I've posted links re. the 3 recent CAN Junior splits (Brière/Lévesque, Cinçon-Debout/Celestino, Proulx/Cinçon-Debout) in the Canadian Ice Dance news thread in GSD.
 
Just what one would expect

Women:

  • Minerva Hase (26, BSV 1892 / Pair skating)
  • Annika Hocke (25, SCC-Berlin / Pair skating)
  • Jennifer Janse Van Rensburg (32, German Ice Skating Union / Ice Dancing)
Men:

  • Robert Kunkel (26, SCC-Berlin / Pair skating)
  • Benjamin Steffan (30, EC Oberstdorf / ice dancing)
  • Nikita Volodin (26, BSV 1892 / pair skating)
 
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