2025 NHK Trophy Pairs FS PBP - Rough Story

[genevieve]

Wedgie Data

Starting Order
Warm-Up Group 1
1 Daria DANILOVA/Michel TSIBA NED 7 56.74
2 Emily CHAN/Spencer Akira HOWE USA 6 63.82
3 Alisa EFIMOVA/Misha MITROFANOV USA 5 69.21

Warm-Up Group 2
4 Yuna NAGAOKA/Sumitada MORIGUCHI JPN 4 71.52
5 Maria PAVLOVA/Alexei SVIATCHENKO HUN 3 73.04
6 Sara CONTI/Niccolo MACII ITA 2 73.69
7 Wenjing SUI/Cong HAN CHN 1 74.63

WD Camille KOVALEV/Pavel KOVALEV FRA

ISU Stream

 

[skatfan]

What it says

 

[MacMadame]

I was starting to panic

 

[skatingguy]

Biographies

Musical Selections

Planned Program Content

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

I guess we're going rogue!

 

[skatfan]

I’ve messaged @PRlady but she may have gone to bed.

 

[tony]

Here we go

 

[Karen-W]

LOL - I was going to post in Sekret Sources asking why all the Admins disappeared before unlocking the rest of the pbp threads.

 

[Debbie S]

It's unlocked

 

[skatfan]

Official thread now open

 

[skatfan]

A little late opening the thread but we’re good now.

 

[ChillSkate]

Misha needs a different costume

 

[Wyliefan]

Poor Dan/Tsi. Guess the pressure got to them.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

One of Daria's hobbies is apparently "overthinking" and can I so relate.

 

[Karen-W]

I'd say it will take a near perfect skate for a team like DanTsi to earn the 117.15 necessary to achieve the required score from the Dutch OC. And it's not looking very likely based on the first two jumping elements, make that first three...

If it's any consolation, the Dutch OC relented for Lindsay van Zundert 4 years ago when she earned the spot at Stockholm Worlds but didn't manage to earn the required score during the fall and they still sent her to the Olympics. I'm hoping the Dutch OC does the same for DanTsi this year.

 

[susieB129]

D/T not doing much to convince their federation. Or to match anything they're doing to the music.

 

[peibeck]

Watching scary pair lifts may be my stairway to heaven due to heart failure.

 

[MacMadame]

D/T not doing much to convince their federation. Or to match anything they're doing to the music.

The last bit was okay. The front part was a mess!

 

[Braulio]

Unfortunately, I don't think that level of skating is taking them any heaven, not an italian one in February

 

[Wyliefan]

All right, I have to be up early-ish again, so I'd better call it a night. See you all in the morning!

 

[skatingguy]

Daria Danilova/Michel Tsiba
Rank after SP: 7
Coach: D. Savin, F. Klimov, P. Kitashev, K. Schubert
Music: Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin

Triple Twist 3
3S - both step out
Throw 3Lo - two-footed, step out
2A+A+SEQ - Michel hand down on first jump, Daria fell on the 2nd jump
Axel Lasso Lift 4
Choreo Sequence
Throw 3F - two-footed, step out
Reverse Lasso Lift 4
Hand-to-Hip Lift 4
Forward Inside Death Spiral 3
Pair Combo Spin 4

A struggle, and not the skate they need to make the Olympics.

-1.00 = Falls
98.46 = 1st Place
155.20 = 1st Place

 

[peibeck]

Ghost... mute time

 

[ChillSkate]

Bah indeed

 

[ChillSkate]

Jumps are haunted

 

[Jay42]

Did they use this music last season too or has it just become a warhorse?

 

[tony]

Did they use this music last season too or has it just become a warhorse?

2023

 

[Skaterbob]

Did they use this music last season too or has it just become a warhorse?

Wiki says they used it in 2022-2023.

 

[Jay42]

2023

Ah that's when it was, thank you.

 

[skatingguy]

Emily Chan/Spencer Akira Howe
Rank after SP: 6
Coach: Alexei Letov
Music: Ghost The Musical

2S+2A+2A+SEQ - Emily doubled the Salchow, & fell on the 3rd jump
2T - Emily doubled
Triple Twist 4
Throw 3Lo
Reverse Lasso Lift 3 (4 after review)
Throw 3F
Back Outside Death Spiral 2 (3 after review)
Pair Combo Spin 3
Axel Lasso Lift 4
Choreo Sequence
Hand-to-Hip Lift 4

Emily's jumps just no where to be found this weekend.

-1.00 = Falls
123.58 = 1st Place
187.40 = 1st Place

 

[Karen-W]

ChanHowe - SBS 2s+2a+2a - fall on the last one for Emily; SBS 3t - and she doubles... sigh; 3tw - good; throw 3lo - stayed up; first lift - nice; throw 3f - very nice; BODS - good; pairs spin - decent; second lift - nice; choreo seq - hamming it up as always; last lift - very nice.

Well, apart from the usual SBS jump issues, that was solid, especially glad she got landed both throws today.