2026 US Nationals Pairs FS "Ghosted (by my triples)"

[SidelineSkater]

Why does Andrea have to look at her notes for these very simple questions??

Cause prevagen is snake oil?

 

[overedge]

ISU: let's make skating more like X Games so the KIDZ will tune in

NBC: Here's ads for memory loss snake oil, osteoporosis, and cellphones for geezers

 

[Sarah]

I’m actually fine with S/N score. It makes sense. I’m less OK with C/H’s free skate score as it felt high compared to others. They were the class of group 1 but I feel like they were generously scored. I think they should have been closer to M/P in the long. C/H had issues with ever jump/throw.

 

[~tapdancer~]

That was difficult to watch, the nerves everyone had was something else. I would send K/O and Mc/P to Olympics if E/M don't get her citizenship. Not Chan/Howe. And then the top 2 (or is it 3) to Worlds. Oh man, I just realized that Parkman isn't eligible either for the Olympics.

So unbelievably, it will like be K/O and C/H for the Olympics.

 

[skategal]

In 2026 is Congress even necessary? Trump might do a classic THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER post on Truth Social

I 100% have been expecting this to happen.

He will just do it and process be damned.

 

[once_upon]

I can't believe USFS allowed this to be scored correctly!!!

EfiMit, KamO, and McPark to Worlds I would think

We only have 2 places

 

[Jayar]

We only have 2 places

US has 3 berths to Worlds.

 

[Amy L]

For someone who doesn’t follow pairs who is eligible to go to the Olympics?

Kam/O'Shea, Chan/Howe, Shin/Nagy have citizenship. Alisa Efimova is trying to get a passport through act of Congress.

 

[peibeck]

Technical score for Audrey and Balasz is low. Even Chelsea and Ryan beat it by almost 4 points.

Judges just remembered Audrey/Balasz only got us two lousy pairs for Milan instead of three.

 

[Karen-W]

Someone’s voodoo dolls worked.

I just want everyone to know that I do not have any voodoo dolls in my possession! Also, after KamO's ridiculous score for that program, I was resigned to ShiNagy making the team with a relatively clean free skate which they delivered.

In 2026 is Congress even necessary? Trump might do a classic THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER post on Truth Social

Trump won't do that for pairs figure skating, sorry. Also, not especially since it would probably mean that a serving member of the military (Howe) loses out on their Olympic dream.

We only have 2 places

For Worlds we have 3 - that's why people are saying to send McBark to Worlds, which I agree with.

 

[ChillSkate]

We only have 2 places

We have 3 at Worlds

 

[Sally1214]

So, probably Kam/O'Shea and Chan/Howe to Olympics. They would be my picks but we shall see. Now, I'm off to watch the last group of pairs at the Cdn. Nats and then back for the US women's free skate which should be SUPER exciting. What a great way to spend a Friday evening.

 

[Matryeshka]

I don't have a problem with S/N's score itself. That might be the only real score in the competition. I have a problem with Chan/Howe's score being too high. They want to send Chan/Howe, fine, send them. Use the discretionary part of the criteria to justify it. But don't overcook them and leave casual viewers confused as to why they scored so much lower at the Olympics. It's not a good long-term plan to build up a fan base.

 

[Karen-W]

FS Results -
Pl. Name Club TSS= TES+ PCS+ CO PR SK Ded.- StN.
1 Alisa Efimova / Misha Mitrofanov SC of Boston/SC of Boston 132.40 66.01 67.39 8.46 8.32 8.46 1.00 #10
2 Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea Thunderbirds FSC/SC of New York 129.99 64.51 66.48 8.43 8.18 8.29 1.00 #8
3 Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe SC of Boston/SC of Boston 127.23 62.88 64.35 8.07 8.07 7.96 0.00 #3
4 Katie McBeath / Daniil Parkman Winterhurst FSC/SC of New York 120.64 62.59 60.05 7.57 7.46 7.46 2.00 #6
5 Audrey Shin / Balazs Nagy SC of New York/SC of New York 117.43 54.49 62.94 7.89 7.79 7.89 0.00 #9
6 Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez SC of New York/SC of New York 113.77 57.40 58.37 7.54 7.07 7.25 2.00 #7
7 Chelsea Liu / Ryan Bedard Glacier Falls FSC/Wagon Wheel FSC 113.22 57.97 56.25 7.11 7.00 6.96 1.00 #4
8 Olivia Flores / Luke Wang Thunderbirds FSC/Los Angeles FSC 112.28 56.47 55.81 7.00 7.04 6.86 0.00 #5
9 Naomi Williams / Lachlan Lewer SC of Boston/Broadmoor SC 97.77 46.55 51.22 6.43 6.50 6.25 0.00 #2
10 Linzy Fitzpatrick / Keyton Bearinger SC of New York/SC of New York 97.37 49.32 48.05 6.11 5.96 5.93 0.00 #1

Judges Protocols - https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/lea...------FNL-000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

Final Results -
FPl. Name Club Points SP FS
1 Alisa Efimova / Misha Mitrofanov SC of Boston/SC of Boston 207.71 1 1
2 Ellie Kam / Danny O'Shea Thunderbirds FSC/SC of New York 197.12 3 2
3 Katie McBeath / Daniil Parkman Winterhurst FSC/SC of New York 187.45 5 4
4 Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe SC of Boston/SC of Boston 186.52 8 3
5 Audrey Shin / Balazs Nagy SC of New York/SC of New York 185.10 2 5
6 Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez SC of New York/SC of New York 180.80 4 6
7 Olivia Flores / Luke Wang Thunderbirds FSC/Los Angeles FSC 175.86 6 8
8 Chelsea Liu / Ryan Bedard Glacier Falls FSC/Wagon Wheel FSC 175.56 7 7
9 Naomi Williams / Lachlan Lewer SC of Boston/Broadmoor SC 152.86 9 9
10 Linzy Fitzpatrick / Keyton Bearinger SC of New York/SC of New York 151.93 10 10

 

[SidelineSkater]

Anyone else enjoying the Dua Lipa Olympics commercial?

 

[~tapdancer~]

Someone with more technik is going to have to explain to me why Shin and Nagy scored as low as they did.

I am not a technik but I was watching the levels and they were LOW through the whole program.

 

[Matryeshka]

Who was that ice dancer whose mom wrote Congress and Hillary Clinton, Lauren hyphenated something, to prevent Belbin from getting citizenship? Was Ben implying Kam/O'Shea got Abbott involved in the citizenship issue?

 

[Braulio]

Why does Andrea have to look at her notes for these very simple questions??

just to look pretentious

 

[clairecloutier]

A fascinating nail-biter of an event. Judging very good & correct IMO.

USFS needs to do the right thing & name Chan/Howe to the team, if Alisa doesn’t miraculously get citizenship.

 

[kwanette]

That was difficult to watch, the nerves everyone had was something else. I would send K/O and Mc/P to Olympics if E/M don't get her citizenship. Not Chan/Howe. And then the top 2 (or is it 3) to Worlds. Oh man, I just realized that Parkman isn't eligible either for the Olympics.

So unbelievably, it will like be K/O and C/H for the Olympics.

Parkman is not a citizen

 

[peibeck]

Cause prevagen is snake oil?

So it doesn't work on snakes either????!!!!???

 

[kwanette]

Who was that ice dancer whose mom wrote Congress and Hillary Clinton, Lauren hyphenated something, to prevent Belbin from getting citizenship? Was Ben implying Kam/O'Shea got Abbott involved in the citizenship issue?

Kam and O'Shea? They were talking for Misha. He was born in Texas.

 

[overedge]

Who was that ice dancer whose mom wrote Congress and Hillary Clinton, Lauren hyphenated something, to prevent Belbin from getting citizenship? Was Ben implying Kam/O'Shea got Abbott involved in the citizenship issue?

David Mitchell's mom. He skated with Loren Geller-Rabinowitz https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/US/story?id=1456433

 

[smurfy]

Who was that ice dancer whose mom wrote Congress and Hillary Clinton, Lauren hyphenated something, to prevent Belbin from getting citizenship? Was Ben implying Kam/O'Shea got Abbott involved in the citizenship issue?

Loren Galler-Rabinowitz?

 

[ilovesalchows]

I’m not that sure E/M wouldn’t be 5th in team pairs anyway.

 

[my little pony]

Who was that ice dancer whose mom wrote Congress and Hillary Clinton, Lauren hyphenated something, to prevent Belbin from getting citizenship? Was Ben implying Kam/O'Shea got Abbott involved in the citizenship issue?

geller Rabinowitz - but wasnt it her partner's mom, mrs Mitchell?

 

[Karen-W]

Looking through the protocols - ShiNagy's SBS jumps all got rotation calls; their combo got hammered - ouch. Last lift got called Base level. Just a LOT of negative GOE all around. Their BV was actually higher than ChanHowe!

ChanHowe BV - 52.90+9.98 GOE = 62.88
ShiNagy BV - 54.10+.39 GOE = 54.49

And then ChanHowe also beat them on PCS.

I have no idea what the International Committee is going to do with these results with regard to the Olympic team. They've typically rewarded the more experienced skater/team rather than gone with future potential, so I'm thinking that maybe ChanHowe have the edge, but I also know that ShiNagy have some serious political pull in the USFS, so who knows?

 

[Tinycities]

One of the judges had Chan/howe in first??

https://x.com/skatingscores/status/2009807223229153494

 

[kwanette]

I can't believe USFS allowed this to be scored correctly!!!

EfiMit, KamO, and McPark to Worlds I would think

2 spots

 

[Sarah]

I honestly don’t think it matters who they send. Send F/W. Actually, send P/F! The second US team will finish in the same place so it really doesn’t matter. K/O will do the team event so does it matter? Draw a name from a hat.