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

Belsornia said:
So which of the four teams who skate before the flood will be the lucky one to make the cut?

(My gut is saying Wang/Liu, even though my mind tells me it should be whichever of the other three skates the best on the day.)
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Judging how W/L were scored at 4CC, along with GP - I don´t think they will make it if the other skates clean and there isn´t some really weird scoring going on. I say this without knowing how the panel look. If it comes down to level, they better not. Didn´t they get a lv. 1 on the pattern step this week? Honestly I would have put my money on them being last, if scoring is fair-ish. Also it´s not going to help that they will skate nr. 1 or 2.

I don´t think the Brits has a much better chance then the Swedes to be honest, since they now will skate in the same warm up group. At Euros they were skating in a higher group and probably got some home scoring bonus. Last year at Worlds they were skating in like group 5 and the Swedes in group 2, so that surely helped them.
I think they might marginally get better PCS, but I think the Swedes might have the higher tech. Look at how the Brits were scored at GP - 66.81 and 62.82, missing on their levels. It´s probably going to be very close, and come down to possible mistakes or levels. They will be skating back to back - if they skate after the Swedes they will look slow, but if the judges have underscored the Swedes it might not matter. If the Swedes skate after the Brits, they will look fast, that might boost their score. The Swedes scoring 68.89 at Euros just one point behind their PB from Skate to Milano and Denis Ten makes me optimistic on their behalf because I halfway expected them to score 2-3 points lower since the scores often drop at Euros compared to Challengers. They are really doing well despite not having the world ranking to back them up. Their chemistry, speed and energy in their RD is hard to ignore. In all honesty, they did get scored pretty decent last year at Worlds compared to skaters in the same warm up group.

V/K just fell behind the Swedes at Euros, but they got lv. 3 on their twizzles there. If they get lv. 4 - they might be ahead of the Swedes if they get the IAM push? But skating nr. 1 og 2 might not help them.

It´s going to be thriller and the scores so close. Honestly it´s impossible to predict. Let the best skate make it to the free!

After watching 4CC, I wouldn´t rule out that someone in group 2 might mess up. H/C and L/Q better not make the same mistakes at Olympics or that might cost them the free. I think L/Q will be fine, i´m a bit more worried about H/C since it seems like they have been out for some time. Also L/LG needing to change their RD program only for Olympics because of music right issues it´s going to be interesting, if it wasn´t for that I wouldn´t have worried about them because they looked very strong this season, but doing a new RD without having gotten feedback from judges and maybe not had much time to prepare makes me think they will score lower.
 
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Val/Kazimov aren't an IAM team - they're with Hurtado & Khaliavin's SK school in Madrid.

Wang/Liu's RD has been a problem for them all season & not scored as well as their FD, where they've been able to either maintain or improve their position. I'll be really surprised if they make the FD in Milano-Cortina.

Even if Les Gacs do score lower than they have been with their Prince RD, I'm hard-pressed to think they're going to score THAT much lower and not make the FD. Of course, we all saw what happened in Boston last year and in Montreal the year before, so it stands to reason there will be at least one higher-ranked team that doesn't make the FD.
 
Karen-W said:
Val/Kazimov aren't an IAM team - they're with Hurtado & Khaliavin's SK school in Madrid.

Wang/Liu's RD has been a problem for them all season & not scored as well as their FD, where they've been able to either maintain or improve their position. I'll be really surprised if they make the FD in Milano-Cortina.

Even if Les Gacs do score lower than they have been with their Prince RD, I'm hard-pressed to think they're going to score THAT much lower and not make the FD. Of course, we all saw what happened in Boston last year and in Montreal the year before, so it stands to reason there will be at least one higher-ranked team that doesn't make the FD.
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Wooops of course - I know they are with Hurtado I assumed she was at IAM... Well then they might not help them, unless Hurtado has some influence (my impression is she might have a little at times, I mean after all V/K made the podium at Skate to Milano)
 
Does anyone know what Lorraine McNamara is doing? Is she still dating Gordon Green (Caroline's brother) I have seen on the internet that her former partner Quinn Carpenter is working at the Wheaton Ice Arena.
 
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skateblessing said:
Wooops of course - I know they are with Hurtado I assumed she was at IAM... Well then they might not help them, unless Hurtado has some influence (my impression is she might have a little at times, I mean after all V/K made the podium at Skate to Milano)
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Hurtado left IAM before it was even IAM, Diaz was the one who stayed. It's like he got Montreal in the "divorce" and she got Spain (with a multi-year sojourn in Russia).
 
Hi! Have been getting into ice dance again after some time, Z/K seem cool from the newer US teams? Was really happy for G/F at Euros after they were dumped so badly in the GP and the FD at least really suits them. They're such brilliant technicians often let down by their programs. F-B/C were very, very good in the FD, I thought. Just clearly a class apart from the rest of the field. Vogue is not on that level, but then none of the teams really shine in that portion IMO because the whole structure/theme is just crap.

Taschlers seem better with Margaglio? Was also struck with Davis/Smolkin really improving from what I remember about them. And Chock/Bates keep gaining momentum as the season progresses as usual. Gilles/Poirier reheating an old program just strikes me as a very, very bad idea. No matter the actual content/performance (which I think is a mixed bag so far tbh), the politics of it just scream that you had no new ideas and are desperately grasping.
 
Dana Sabatini-Speciale already was inside the Olympic figure skating venue yesterday -- not as a competitor, but as an official volunteer:


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Dana Sabatini-Speciale 🇨🇦🇮🇹 on Instagram: "Officially a 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Volunteer for Figure Skating!! 💙💛🖤💚❤️ Let the Games begin!!! #milanocortina2026 #figureskating #ice #milan #olympics"

355 likes, 58 comments - dana_loves_skating on January 29, 2026: "Officially a 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Volunteer for Figure Skating!! 💙💛🖤💚❤️ Let the Games begin!!! #milanocortina2026 #figureskating #ice #milan #olympics".
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ice coverage said:
Dana Sabatini-Speciale already was inside the Olympic figure skating venue yesterday -- not as a competitor, but as an official volunteer:


www.instagram.com

Dana Sabatini-Speciale 🇨🇦🇮🇹 on Instagram: "Officially a 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Volunteer for Figure Skating!! 💙💛🖤💚❤️ Let the Games begin!!! #milanocortina2026 #figureskating #ice #milan #olympics"

355 likes, 58 comments - dana_loves_skating on January 29, 2026: "Officially a 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Volunteer for Figure Skating!! 💙💛🖤💚❤️ Let the Games begin!!! #milanocortina2026 #figureskating #ice #milan #olympics".
www.instagram.com www.instagram.com
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Please tell me those screens? with all the striped colours aren´t supposed to be like this? :X3: It´s giving me a migrane and I assume it must be 10x worse for the audience and skaters..
 
If I had to guess, I think the striped colors look like a test pattern for the now ever-popular LED screens?
Official practices do not start until Jan 31.
Neither competitors not audience were inside the venue yesterday, so none of them would have been getting migraines from it.
 
ice coverage said:
If I had to guess, I think the striped colors look like a test pattern for the now ever-popular LED screens?
Official practices do not start until Jan 31.
Neither competitors not audience were inside the venue yesterday, so none of them would have been getting migraines from it.
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Hope this is the case
 
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