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The age restrictions meant very few pairs were even eligible. I can see why that discipline was removed.

Karhunen seems like a real clutch skater, and her programs are thoughtful and interesting. :)

Yay for Karhunen! :cheer2:

Did B/K make public statements about the judging? It’s so long ago that I don’t remember. I know commentators and journalists said a lot of stuff. Were B/K and/or their coaches driving that or was it outrage on their behalf?

What I don’t understand is why they’re torpedoing their Olympic chances when they only lost by a tiny margin. The whining makes it sound like they’re giving up instead of working hard, making necessary changes, and giving it their all at the Olympics. They still had a chance—maybe not anymore...

Two falls in 3 competitions for FB/C—think the newness of the partnership is creating hurdles for them that the established teams don’t have to worry about. I rewatched their FD (when I was more awake) and they need to do something about their choreo elements which seemed unexciting and...

Has anyone said this lately? Depends on the day and the performance.

The state of senior ice dance is dire. Watching the JGPF and GPF back-to-back, you really get the sense that the judging of the Seniors has been manipulated into allowing weak technique to be rewarded and teams to stay forever. I am going to use teams as examples, but note that I am blaming...

Agreed. If USFS wanted him to be in consideration, they would have sent him to a Challenger or Senior B to get the CTES minimums. That they did not shows that he's not in the Olympic mix. Comparing to the Malinin 2022 situation, Malinin was more dominant at the junior level and USFS did send...

I’ve rewatched. I’d call Gilles level 2 and Kolesnik level 3. If I’m applying the aggressively nitpicky standard the callers used where none of the benefit of the doubt goes to the skater, I can make an argument for Kolesnik to get a base call as well. ETA: if Gilles’s twizzles were really as...

Because those other countries didn’t start wars in the Olympic truce period. According to the IOC, you’re not allowed to use the Olympics’s bump up of increased nationalism and goodwill to generate support for starting a war.

Agree that it's not R/A's fault when the judges/callers make the scoring decisions. Hard disagree here. R/A do not skate well in all senses and aspects. They have very good presentation and confidence, but their skating skills are weak(er) in comparison to the best teams and their program...

I don’t think La/La were really dropped at Worlds. They were beaten by C/P and Smart/Dieck, whose FDs were more fully realized concepts. I mean, I could argue about S/D—they might be best at dancing in the air (lifts) rather than on the ice, but the lifts combined with choreo elements got them...

Check out the Junior GP Finalists’s RDs and you can see how the Junior version with two patterns functions as a technical program. The teams that made the final have superior technique because the requirements demand it. These are still entertaining programs, but they’re not all fluff and vibes.

Zingas’ father is from Cypress.