Louise not either…but his footwork IS scary. I think she called it perilous (or a similar word)
Something I fully agree with her on.
), but apart from the a bit shaky last group it was a pretty good competition!
and I am glad that she had the guts to leave Noolan Seegert - she was just a middle of the pack skater before Volodin as well. It is crazy.
Doesn’t explain Lia and Trent either. lol.
They weren't competing in Japan/Asia? They've gotten better since they had success in China this season at Skate to Milano and 4CCs and last season at Asian Winter Games but they weren't clean at Finlandia, just like they've struggled outside of Japan in previous seasons. It's a clear pattern at this point in time, but they may work through it during the next Olympic cycle.
Hase skated with Nolan Seegert. Blommaerts girlfriend was the reason Annika had to look for a new partnerHe had 6 different partners in Russia and never managed to make the Russian team at nationals. There were various reasons none of his partnerships worked out, but it looked like his career was over. Then he ended up in Germany and Hase (who also had different partners--Blomeret's girlfriend demanded he quit skating with her) happened to be partnerless and there you have it. Right place and right timing for both of them. He preserved and look where he is now.
Canada having the most unexpected figure skating results of any country this Olympics. Hopefully it revives public interest and attendance at events up there.
Yeah, they nominated Mishina/Galliamov.
Pretty much eff you. They nominated Mishina and Galliamov who are publicly Putin fans.
You know they look so happy to be there. They’ve got a GOLD medal- it’s the bonus zone for Danny and Ellie and I hope they just enjoy themselves. I told my partner last night that the thing I really admired about Danny is through how the last few years he has stood beside Ellie You never felt like there was any blame for anything that went wrong. He has firmly believed she could land those throws
Canada having the most unexpected figure skating results of any country this Olympics. Hopefully it revives public interest and attendance at events up there.
Did she not want him skating with a girl? With a person? WTF.
the scoring guidelines, but I'm really surprised this isn't an automatic -5. One judge gave it -2 and others -3.
Russia nominated Mishina/Galliamov and they were denied - probably because they attended the Kremlin reception for Olympic medalists with Putin right in March 2022. I could have sworn he posted some pro-Russia stuff early on in the war, but I'm pretty sure Moskvina had him scrub it really quickly afterward, but that may have also been found (if my memory serves) by the company the ISU hired for the review of the AIN nominees.
Nope - and it doesn't explain both VLDigs and ChtWoz also having Season's Best SPs today; plus SuiHan were much better today than in the TE SP.
She had a hand down on the throw so not clean tonight.
For US pairs, that’s clean
I think she was super-jealous, but the way Efimova later talked about her experience skating for Germany with Blommaert I think he also wasn’t a very useful partner even without crazy girlfriend (not that he treated anybody bad, but it sounded as if Efimova was giving 150% percent and well he didn’t).
His girlfriend has a reputation for being really insecure - pretty sure she was the reason he broke up with Mari Vartmann before Hocke. Wiki says he was partnered with Pavlova between Hocke & Efimova, which I did not recall.
Blommaert had at least 2 partnership breakups that were blamed on his jealous girlfriend. By the time he partnered with Efimova he and that girlfriend had supposedly broke up already. But he dumped her quickly too. Methinks the jealous girlfriend could have been a scapegoat for a flakey Blommaert.
