2026 Olys Team Event PBP Day 2 - Will It Be YAYmoz? Or GO!GO!lev?

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

I know I'm supposed to have strong feelings about Tutberidze/Glebkin, but I just don't.
Nothing about them bothers me, but also I don't see any particular brilliance. It's just very competent and somehow not very exciting.

 

[MacMadame]

Everyone is talking about Madison's skirt but it's her bolero like top that annoyed me all season. It's like two flaps.

I'm not a big fan of bottom boob. So yeah.

But I feel like she's just being stubborn about the skirt. The impact she wants would totally happen with a shorter skirt or some other design change.

 

[genevieve]

I feel like I'm supposed to hate Davis/Smolkin but I have liked both their programs this season

 

[Wyliefan]

Gleb looked a little rough there.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

To everyone complaining that Malinin should've been sent to the last Olympics "for experience", you know who fully skated to their ability in their first Olympics?

Stephen Gogolev!!

(And Madeline Schizas in 2018.)

Calm down, you'll beat us soon enough.

Also, hasn't practically every women's champion of the post figures era won on their first try, aside from Arakawa?

 

[tony]

Love this program so much, the opening, the nuance of the arms in the twizzles and the up and down movement of it, so unique in that pattern and so much that we’ve really never seen. The speed is there, the extension, the lean into their edges so quickly and smoothly. And that shoot the duck curve lift - just brilliant.

She is so massively improved.

 

[Baby Yoda On Skates]

I like D/S's program.

I don't like his pants.

 

[Braulio]

This program just keeps getting better and better

 

[thvu]

Really nervy so far from the Georgians. The transitions are getting sloppy. He ran into her in the transition out of the one foot turns. He slipped at the end of the step sequence. Lots of great moments in this program, but it was rough around the edges.

 

[skatingguy]

Diana Davis/Gleb Smolkin
Coach: M.F. Dubreuil, R. Haguenauer, P. Lauzon
Music: Sonata for Cell by Myaskovsky, A Taste of Elegance by Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen

Choreographic Hydroblading Movement
One Foot Turns W:2 M:2
Synchronized Twizzles W:4 M:4
Stationary Lift 4 + Rotational Lift 4
Serpentine Step Sequence W:1 M:2
Curve Lift 4
Dance Spin 4
Choreographic Character Step Sequence
Choreographic Sliding Movement

A seamless performance of this program, and continuing the progression, and improvement from this team that we've seen all season.

117.82 = 1st Place

 

[BittyBug]

Lovely performance by Davis and Smolkin.

 

[skatingcheckers]

I really enjoy Gleb's skating. He has such a lovely flow and ease of movement.

 

[rfisher]

Back when Annabelle and Diana both were in juniors, I was sure it would be Annabelle at a future Olympics. Which goes to show, you can never predict.

 

[Private Citizen]

Davis and Smolkin move across the ice better than many of the teams in front of them. I like both of their programs this year and think they’ve massively improved.

 

[Firedancer]

That looked a little rough in places

 

[Karen-W]

That was really lovely from DavSmo. Apart from the minor stumbles in the beginning, once they really settled in, the program moved nicely.

 

[slicekw]

Very nice emotion to that performance.

 

[peibeck]

I see improvements in Diana's skating but she's still a bit rough coming out of some elements here. Gleb is definitely the star here.

 

[Spikefan]

I felt like there was a stumble in the beginning but unsure as the camera only got the upper body.

 

[Rob]

The Smols have a beautiful program, they’ve improved a lot, but they still aren’t quite up to it.

 

[Asli]

This program is exquisite, so nuanced and elegant. However Diana's straight-kneed skating and general soullessness is spoiling it for me.

 

[taz'smum]

I showed off to my parents who are here saying "I know her mum"

Who are your parents?

 

[susieB129]

I had the same problem with Davis/Smolkin that I did with Egadze -- I was transferring my feelings about Eteri. Now that I've gotten over that, I can say D/S are quite lovely and enjoyable.

 

[beckab81]

The stumbles don't seem to have hurt their scores at all. Great program, but they've skated it better at other events.

 

[ilovesalchows]

Who’s the woman in the Georgia box with the Mar a Lago face?

 

[rfisher]

I feel like I'm supposed to hate Davis/Smolkin but I have liked both their programs this season

Why are you supposed to hate them?

 

[LilJen]

Forza Tiny Marco!

 

[thvu]

The stumbles don't seem to have hurt their scores at all. Great program, but they've skated it better at other events.

It should have hurt their PCS for sure, but we all know how that goes.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

I know no one in the world likes them, but G/F are the second best skaters in the world and I really want them to get their flowers.

Plus Marco is one of the more level headed over dancers I know.

 

[skatingcheckers]

This program is exquisite, so nuanced and elegant. However Diana's straight-kneed skating and general soullessness is spoiling it for me.

Her face is so blank.