2026 Worlds Pairs FS PBP - Loathe Story

[Sally1214]

Japan may not have many pairs teams on the senior international circuit; but, what they lack in quantity they sure make up for in quality.

 

[Vagabond]

Nakaoka and Moriguchi are perfectly capable of skating well outside of Asia. There, I said it!

 

[marbri]

All I hope for now is for P/M to stay in the top ten

 

[Karen-W]

I did not have Japanese dominance on my Future of Pairs Bingo Card

Is it dominance when they only have two pairs teams at both the senior & junior levels?

 

[PRlady]

Now that they will be Japanese #1 their scores will go up. Good for Japan making a pairs program out of nothing. Now to do the same for dance…

 

[Amy L]

SUI gets 2 pairs spots

How difficult will it be for Pazienza/Knorr to get minimums? They usually place near the bottom in international competitions.

 

[Karen-W]

So, Germany, Georgia & Hungary are all in a position to each earn 3 pairs spots next season and between the 3 countries, they have 4 pairs teams at the senior level...

 

[allezfred]

I have little confidence they'll get one now that they're with Savin/Klimov.

Says the person whose favourite team just skated to “Ghost: The Musical”

 

[Sylvia]

SUI gets 2 pairs spots

Good for the new Junior team of Laura GAUCH / Linus MAGER if they could be ready next season?

 

[skatfan]

I think I never saw an aborted death spiral

The Canadians #2 did at the Olympics as I recall.

 

[Amy L]

Now that they will be Japanese #1 their scores will go up. Good for Japan making a pairs program out of nothing. Now to do the same for dance…

Back a dump truck full of cash up to Cathy Reed's house and give her free reign to make changes. Couldn't hurt!

 

[Karen-W]

How difficult will it be for Pazienza/Knorr to get minimums? They usually place near the bottom in international competitions.

Impossible since they've split & she's looking for a new partner. Their other team that competed Jrs this season (and went to Jr Worlds) have a SB of 118.58 - so the likelihood of SUI using the 2nd spot is about 1%.

 

[Amy L]

So, Germany, Georgia & Hungary are all in a position to earn 3 pairs spots next season and between the 3 countries, they have 4 pairs teams at the senior level...

Sikharulidze is cracking down on country switching so HUN and GEO are unlikely to recruit new pairs.

 

[Karen-W]

Good for the new Junior team of Laura GAUCH / Linus MAGER if they could be ready next season?

Doubtful. They scored 118.58 at Jr Worlds a few weeks ago.

 

[Sylvia]

How difficult will it be for Pazienza/Knorr to get minimums? They usually place near the bottom in international competitions.

Difficult since they’ve split.

Laura GAUCH / Linus MAGER just debuted for SUI at Junior Worlds and are ISU Senior age-eligible. Don’t yet know if they can get the CTES minimums…

 

[Sally1214]

Is it dominance when they only have two pairs teams at both the senior & junior levels?

What's that saying about the size of the dog in the fight? For Japanese pairs teams, we could amend it to something like: "It's not the amount of teams in the fight but the amount of fight in the teams."

 

[Karen-W]

Sikharulidze is cracking down on country switching so HUN and GEO are unlikely to recruit new pairs.

Yeah, and Russian media keeps thinking the ban will be lifted sooner rather than later. I'm sort of expecting it to last through next season - the ISU won't lift their ban until the IOC says they can allow seniors back; heck the ISU hasn't even moved on/made a decision to allow juniors back despite the IOC allowing IFs to do so back in December.

 

[marbri]

We need more Meatloaf.....

 

[Jay42]

I am really glad I won't have to hear this music from the Rungarians after today

 

[Sally1214]

We need more Meatloaf.....

I'd be A-OK wth that.

 

[MacMadame]

 

[genevieve]

Is it dominance when they only have two pairs teams at both the senior & junior levels?

perhaps this will inspire more Japanese skaters to go into pairs. I did say future

Every time I see this P/S program I have to look up the music because the vocalist is so distinctive and familiar and it's always - nope, I don't know her [insert Mariah Carey meme].

 

[Colonel Green]

That was laboured, even if it was far from a disaster.

 

[Karen-W]

PavSvia - 3tw - beautiful; SBS 3t+2a+2a - fabulous; throw 3f - pitched forward on landing; SBS 3s - hand down & turned out; first lift - good; second lift - alright; BODS - I don't actually hate the blade grab on this one; throw 3lo - gorgeous; last lift - nice; choreo seq - decent; combo spin - alright.

Hmmmmmmm... This is going to be really interesting to see if they can get enough of a PCS boost to stay ahead of NagaMori.

 

[Sylvia]

Does anyone know anything about Dimitri Savin’s skating background? I couldn’t find anything. He does great work

He and Klimov are becoming the I.AM for pairs. Will they have 2 pairs on the podium?

ETA: JPN or HUN & Hase/Volodin, I hope!

 

[marbri]

I'd be A-OK wth that.

Imagine an extended FS to Paradise by the Dashboard Lights !

 

[Karen-W]

He and Klimov are becoming the I.AM for pairs. Will they have 2 pairs on the podium??

I don't think so. PerMich had a 6 point advantage over NagaMori and PavSvia from the SP.

 

[Elisheba]

Amber Glenn has many good qualities but introducing this song to figure skating is not among them.

 

[Colonel Green]

Fingers crossed for Lia & Trennt.

 

[PRlady]

That was very pretty in an understated way.