2025 US Nats Pair FS PBP - "Je Suis Malade" but she still keeps talking...

[Vagabond]

Four countries. Four partners. Wild jump landings, but she's going to get a medal. Preserverence FTW

The Allison Reed of Pairs.

 

[MacMadame]

From the website:

• The winners of the gold, silver, bronze and pewter medals in the novice, junior and senior divisions at the U.S. Figure
  Skating Championships; and

 

[~tapdancer~]

Okay my guesses:

Worlds:
Efimova and Mitrofinov
Kam and O'Shea

1st alt: Chan and Howe
2nd alt: McBeath and Parkman

4CC:
Efimova and Mitrofinov
Kam and O'Shea
McBeath and Parkman

1st alt: Chan and Howe

I'm taking the bold guess that the fcukery will be with the worlds 1st alt spot. Just to spice it up.

I agree with most of it but I think Chan/Howe are done...flip 1st and 2nd alt for Worlds.

 

[MacMadame]

I agree with most of it but I think Chan/Howe are done...flip 1st and 2nd alt for Worlds.

That's my prediction.

 

[Lanie]

My heart just broke for Danny and Ellie on that last lift. Ugh. What a mess.

Alisa & Misha were wonderful though I HATE THEIR MUSIC SO MUCH. Seeing their joy after their skate was great though.

I am tired.

 

[Vagabond]

Not to say that there isn't pressure to defend, but K/O do have an 8 point cushion from the SP.

They threw that cushion on the ice!

 

[jlai]

Body of work gives USFSA almost unlimited power. I am confident they will go, but body of work is a vibe, not a formula.

Isn’t the international committee elected? They can be voted out like politicians who don’t represent their constituents

Usfs isn’t accountable to me though. I will leave it to members to say whatever they are happy with the committee

 

[Wyliefan]

Alisa & Misha were wonderful though I HATE THEIR MUSIC SO MUCH.

Their music just makes me laugh. The Je Suis Malade Choir!

 

[Theatregirl1122]

I agree with most of it but I think Chan/Howe are done...flip 1st and 2nd alt for Worlds.

I mean, that's obviously the more straightforward choice? Which is why I explained that I was going out on a limb?

 

[kwanfan1818]

I didn't even look at the scores after that disaster for K/O, but they were only one point behind McBeath/Parkman in the end. I would be very surprised if the selection committee doesn't choose K/O, especially given their GPF appearance.

 

[Amy L]

The Allison Reed of Pairs.

According to Wikipedia Efimova is a polyglot and she's learned the languages of the countries she's represented, which is something I doubt Reed has accomplished. But I'm pretty sure Reed still has a bigger passport collection so far.

 

[kwanfan1818]

Hopefully, Efimova will be able to tie Reed's record.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

According to Wikipedia Efimova is a polyglot and she's learned the languages of the countries she's represented, which is something I doubt Reed has accomplished. But I'm pretty sure Reed still has a bigger passport collection so far.

I would assume she learned Finnish and Russian as a child and then added more on?

 

[BittyBug]

So, the pewter medalists don't get the radix pins?

They do. Emily and Spencer received them. Check #3 in the list - it cites the pewter medal.

 

[Vagabond]

Not that I'd want the other pairs to break up, but imagining Efimova & Parkman pairing up and skating for the US would be hella funny.

Better the U.S. than Azerbaijan, which is what I was thinking.

 

[Karen-W]

FS protocols - https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2025/35539/SEGM019.html

1	10	Alisa Efimova, SC of Boston Misha Mitrofanov, SC of Boston	3	69.03	1	142.87	211.90
2	9	Katie McBeath, Winterhurst FSC Daniil Parkman, SC of New York	4	62.92	2	127.65	190.57
3	12	Ellie Kam, Thunderbirds FSC Danny OShea, SC of New York	1	77.19	5	112.38	189.57
4	11	Emily Chan, SC of Boston Spencer Howe, SC of Boston	2	69.10	4	114.85	183.95
5	8	Audrey Shin, SC of New York Balazs Nagy, SC of New York	5	62.06	3	120.61	182.67
6	6	Naomi Williams, SC of Boston Lachlan Lewer, Broadmoor SC	7	58.90	7	107.18	166.08
7	5	Ellie Korytek, SC of New York Timmy Chapman, SC of New York	8	57.54	6	108.31	165.85
8	4	Nica Digerness, Broadmoor SC Mark Sadusky, St. Moritz ISC	9	57.02	8	102.29	159.31
9	7	Isabelle Martins, Chicago FSC Ryan Bedard, Northern Ice SC	6	61.83	9	96.44	158.27
10	3	Sydney Cooke, Elite Edge SC Matthew Kennedy, Patriot FSC	10	55.43	11	91.88	147.31
11	1	Linzy Fitzpatrick, SC of New York Keyton Bearinger, SC of New York	12	44.25	10	95.53	139.78
12	2	Grace Hanns, Broadmoor SC Danny Neudecker, Seattle SC	11	45.74	12	75.18	120.92

 

[Karen-W]

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[once_upon]

And people kept insisting that the "tie" was a conspiracy against Johnny.

As I tried to say that, if they wanted to cook the books, it really would have been a lot easier to have Evan win outright rather than tie. A tie would be very hard to achieve intentionally.

Oh yeah, I was there. It was an epic discussion going through the hallway back to the Hilton Garden Inn

 

[Amy L]

I would assume she learned Finnish and Russian as a child and then added more on?

Probably! I suspect she speaks Russian and Finnish natively and the rest came through school and travel. AFAIK German and English are widely taught in Finland. Her accent in English isn't entirely Russian so I assume she began learning it in Finland.

 

[Sally1214]

And unfortunately both of her daughters look like their fathers.

And that's a bad thing??? Both such handsome men.

 

[Wyliefan]

Daria looked just like her dad when she was little, but when she got older, she started to look like a cross between both parents.

 

[Simone411]

I don't know what happened with Ellie and Danny. I have to get out of my wheelchair a couple of times a day and was watching in my recliner. The first time Ellie fell, I thought "Okay. They'll brush that aside and keep going." I thought that because they're usually spot on with almost everything. On that last lift with Danny falling out of it, I felt like they were trying too hard.

Sometimes that can happen. I believe they were so determined that they were trying to be too precise and that left them tense instead of relaxing and "go with the flow" as I say.

I'm so happy for Alisa & Misha, and Katie & Daniil. Congrats to all of them!

 

[tangerine dream]

And that's a bad thing??? Both such handsome men.

No, it's definitely not a bad thing, they are both beautiful. We were joking that since people keep saying that Efimova looks like Gordeeva that she could use Gordeeva's US passport to go to the Olympics but she probably couldn't pass for 53. What I was trying to imply (and did a poor job of) was that Gordeeva has two daughters who are in the same age range as Efimova, but unfortunately they look nothing like Katia/Efimova and very much like their dads.

TLDR: nothing to see here, I made a dumb joke

 

[Finnice]

I would assume she learned Finnish and Russian as a child and then added more on?

She also speaks some mandatory Swedish, German and English.

 

[TOADS]

@TOADS needs to make sure none are missing.

Just checked….all are accounted for.

 

[miffy]

I’m so happy for Efimova!

I have a couple of questions:

What happened/how bad was the fall on the lift for poor K/O?

How are S/B looking as a pair now?

ETA: I found the answer to the second one in pbp but still curious about K/O - I think you were all too traumatised to describe it (((((hugs-all)))))

 

[TAHbKA]

According to Wikipedia Efimova is a polyglot and she's learned the languages of the countries she's represented, which is something I doubt Reed has accomplished. But I'm pretty sure Reed still has a bigger passport collection so far.

Reed never had the Israeli passport/citizenship. So no, Efimova beats her.

 

[peibeck]

I’m so happy for Efimova!

I have a couple of questions:

What happened/how bad was the fall on the lift for poor K/O?

He came down on his rear end and she came down on top of him. Didn't appear any heads hit the ice, thank goodness. They got up quickly, and half heartedly did their ending pose.

All things considered, of the frightening lifts last night, it wasn't in my top three. Just surprising as their lifts are not usually where things go awry for them. But their timing seemed off for a good bit of program due to the other errors and I wondered if they rushed the entry to try and complete the element before the music ended?

 

[Wyliefan]

I was just looking at it again, trying to figure out what went wrong. It looked like Ellie somehow hit Danny's shoulder on the way down and the impact knocked him off his feet, and as @peibeck said, he wound up sitting on the ice with her on top of him.

 

[Lanie]

They looked off the whole program, nerves maybe. It looked too like maybe he hit a rut in the ice? I was on the other side of the rink though and couldn't 100% see it.