2026 Olys Team Event PBP Day 1 - There Is An I(AM) in Team

[MacMadame]

Oh wow we get Vonn training run during the ice break? How’s that for timing.

I'd prefer that to the commercial for a TED sitcom.

 

[genevieve]

the timing of this is surprisingly good for me in Brazil! Got to see the 2nd group Unfortunately, the sound would not work when putting peacock on my 2nd monitor so I'll be troubleshooting between events.

Kinda Chocked that C/B is in first

 

[Lanie]

Managed to get my VPN working on the plane and watched a bit. Happy for Madi and Evan and enjoyed Lilah and Lewis more here than on Sheffield, they oddly felt less nervy but who knows how it was in the arena

 

[genevieve]

Team Event - Pairs Skating - SP
Wedgie Data

Start Order
1 Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN CHN
2 Camille KOVALEV / Pavel KOVALEV FRA
3 Ioulia CHTCHETININA / Michal WOZNIAK POL
4 Lia PEREIRA / Trennt MICHAUD CAN

5 Anastasia VAIPAN-LAW / Luke DIGBY GBR
6 Ellie KAM / Danny O'SHEA USA
7 Sara CONTI / Niccolo MACII ITA
8 Anastasiia METELKINA / Luka BERULAVA GEO
9 Riku MIURA / Ryuichi KIHARA JPN

 

[ilovesalchows]

USA network has Canada v US curling.

 

[Karen-W]

@Private Citizen - any thoughts from the arena about Fear/Gibson's RD?

 

[victorskid]

"Wedgie" stopped updating scores after Chock & Bates for quite a while.
My Firefox browser didn't like the Olympic site for a "security" issue. I had to open a Chrome window for the live scoring there. Now I'm set for the Pairs.
We are a diverse group in terms of what feed we are watching and with what commentary. I'm on CBC GEM with Brenda, Kurt & Carol for Dance but Sandra Bezic will be sitting in Carol's seat for the Pairs.

 

[taz'smum]

Managed to get my VPN working on the plane and watched a bit. Happy for Madi and Evan and enjoyed Lilah and Lewis more here than on Sheffield, they oddly felt less nervy but who knows how it was in the arena

This puts Lilah and Lewis as medal contenders for sure.
Though the pressure was off them here, they might be more nervous in the individual.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

Tara doing Botox ads airing on Peacock. Get those Allé points girl.

 

[Karen-W]

Danny O'Shea sighting on the backstage camera. Also see Sara Conti, Ellie Kam, VLDigs and Trennt Michaud.

 

[miffy]

This puts Lilah and Lewis as medal contenders for sure.
Though the pressure was off them here, they might be more nervous in the individual.

I’m excited but super nervous for them now! I wasn’t expecting them to do this well. I think they have a small chance but only if they are as clean as they can possibly be.

 

[Sylvia]

@victorskid are you going to post results after each event?

1 CHOCK Madison / BATES Evan USA 91.06 52.77 38.29 9.61 9.68 9.50 0.00 #9 10 United States of America
2 FOURNIER BEAUDRY Laurence / CIZERON Guillaume FRA 89.98 51.74 38.24 9.68 9.57 9.50 0.00 #4 9 France
3 FEAR Lilah / GIBSON Lewis GBR 86.85 50.08 36.77 9.25 9.36 9.04 0.00 #10 8 Great Britain
4 GILLES Piper / POIRIER Paul CAN 85.79 48.74 37.05 9.32 9.32 9.21 0.00 #7 7 Canada
5 GUIGNARD Charlene / FABBRI Marco ITA 83.54 47.39 36.15 9.00 9.14 9.04 0.00 #8 6 Italy
6 DAVIS Diana / SMOLKIN Gleb GEO 78.97 44.81 34.16 8.54 8.64 8.50 0.00 #6 5 Georgia
7 LIM Hannah / QUAN Ye KOR 70.55 39.54 31.01 7.79 7.82 7.71 0.00 #5 4 Republic of Korea
8 YOSHIDA Utana / MORITA Masaya JPN 68.64 38.66 29.98 7.54 7.64 7.36 0.00 #3 3 Japan
9 WANG Shiyue / LIU Xinyu CHN 64.92 35.50 29.42 7.29 7.50 7.32 0.00 #1 2 People's Republic of China
10 DOVHAL Sofiia / KULESZA Wiktor POL 60.23 33.01 27.22 6.79 7.04 6.64 0.00 #2 1 Poland

RD protocols: https://results.isu.org/results/sea...------QUAL0004DC--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

 

[ryanj07]

I hate dance sometimes… C/B get massive PCS but Piper and Paul barely ahead of F/G on components. Dance is my favorite discipline but I feel like I need to just avoid watching for my own sanity these games.

 

[Karen-W]

I’m excited but super nervous for them now! I wasn’t expecting them to do this well. I think they have a small chance but only if they are as clean as they can possibly be.

FWIW, I think they have a more crowd-pleasing FD than GilPoir and that will carry them to bronze as long as they don't tighten up the way they did at Euros. Same goes for ChoBat - both programs build to a stronger end that will get the audience on their feet in a way that neither GilPoir nor FBCiz's quieter, more introspective programs do.

 

[tony]

I still think this pairs short program, and maybe even by extension the pairs free is the one that is going to make or break it for both the USA/JPN gold medal race and the ITA/GEO bronze medal race. There are 4 teams in this short program that could probably come away with the 10 points. The order is going to matter tremendously.

 

[allezfred]

Note to everyone that the crowds will not be on the judging panel at this Olympics.

 

[Karen-W]

I still think this pairs short program, and maybe even by extension the pairs free is the one that is going to make or break it for both the USA/JPN gold medal race and the ITA/GEO bronze medal race. There are 4 teams in this short program that could probably come away with the 10 points. The order is going to matter tremendously.

Yup and Sui/Han are in a position to play spoiler for any of those teams' medal hopes. We'll see if Wenjing can stand at the end of the SP today.

 

[tony]

And for those who don't know, South Korea gets 0 points here. Not 1. No entry = 0 points.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

I see for the team event, the judging is mostly based on "my vibes are better than your vibes".

The scores at the top are very close. Chock/Bates SqTw GOE too high, Fournier Beaudry/Cizeron MiSt GOE sus for me.

I think it’ll likely be same story of Chock/Bates coming out on top of the RD in the individual, but this lead is not enough to win cumulatively. Barring major mistakes the French are OGM.

 

[MacMadame]

I’m excited but super nervous for them now! I wasn’t expecting them to do this well. I think they have a small chance but only if they are as clean as they can possibly be.

I think they pretty much have Bronze in the bag as long as they don't have some sort of major mistake.

I think ChoBat win the RD and FBCiz win the FD and who wins depends on how much of a gap there is after the RD.

 

[victorskid]

@Sylvia Since there are three events in this thread, I wasn't planning to add to the overlapping commentary with the "reality" of scores
The important thing at the end of the day will be the team standings.

 

[ilovesalchows]

If I’m Italy I want Canada in the final. I think they can beat them in the FD.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

In the RD? At the GPF.

I was asking about overall, not in the RD.

Winning one segment at the GPF didn't convince me they'd be ahead in the team event.

 

[SkateFanBerlin]

are there protocols?

 

[tony]

If I’m Italy I want Canada in the final. I think they can beat them in the FD.

Again, if France goes to the FD it's going to be Lopareva/Brissaud.

 

[Karen-W]

I would love to see ChtWoz skate this SP clean at least once during the Olympics. When they go clean, it's one of my favorite pairs programs of this Olympic cycle.

 

[tony]

I was asking about overall, not in the RD.

Winning one segment at the GPF didn't convince me they'd be ahead in the team event.

They didn't face off before that this season. Gilles and Poirier were pushing Chock and Bates in the FD at Worlds and comfortably second there.

 

[Karen-W]

are there protocols?

If you go to the Olympics.com website, there should be protocols already available (haven't checked for the RD yet).

Live Results for the Pairs SP -

https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/results/fsk/te/x/team--------------/qual/0003pr--/result

ETA - detailed judges protocols for the TE RD -

https://results.isu.org/results/season2526/owg2026/FSKXTEAM--------------QUAL0004DC--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

 

[Wyliefan]

Morning, all. I was going to try to sleep in a bit after a hectic work week, and catch up later, but I woke up regardless and thought I might as well join in!

 

[victorskid]

are there protocols?

@Sylvia provided a link
You'll find them on https://results.isu.org/results/season2526/owg2026/