2026 Worlds Pairs SP PBP - Prague Fling

[Matryeshka]

I would love to hear Polovtsian Dances 10x in a row

Most skaters kill a good song with bad programs. Lia and Trennnananannat do the opposite. If I heard this song on its own, I'd turn that playlist off so fast and then throw holy water and say Three Hail Mary J. Bliges, but this program is so gooooood it makes me like it.

 

[Habs]

Great score!!!

 

[Jay42]

Good for Lia & Trennt setting a new SB!

 

[tangerine dream]

Eating branches off of one of our trees. It was a young moose so not very big relatively to how big they can get. Still massive compared to the deer that have been wandering around my neighbourhood all winter.

I live in the city but close to a creek with trails so wildlife coming into the area isn't unusual but moose don't usually come into the residential areas.

As a city person this stuff always amuses me. I was with my partner's family for Christmas in Montana, an entire herd of elk crossed their property, and no one blinked an eye. Even their dog was pretty chill about it.

 

[fsfann]

Love Lia & Trennnnnt! Awesome (and well deserved) score!!

 

[Sally1214]

You're trying to win the top Canadian award today, eh?

Unless I can spot a beaver gnawing on a toonie on my back deck, @Jay42 has "the top Canadian award today" absolutely nailed.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

I say PerMic will finish in the top three for the short.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

You all know LiuBed would be sitting in second place right now.

 

[tangerine dream]

Unless I can spot a beaver gnawing on a toonie on my back deck, @Jay42 has "the top Canadian award today" absolutely nailed.

Maybe leave a little bowl of maple syrup out on the deck and you can attract one?

 

[Sally1214]

Maybe leave a little bowl of maple syrup out on the deck and you can attract one?

Creative thinking .... love it.

 

[Jay42]

How many teams is Fedor Klimov coaching?

 

[Matryeshka]

What about a moratorium on Michael Jackson?

 

[Jay42]

At least the Swiss team had better costumes for a Michael Jackson program. My opinion about people not using his music for programs has not changed in the last two hours though.

 

[ilovesalchows]

I wonder if everyone in this flight spoke English for Minerva's sake while they were waiting to come out.

 

[tangerine dream]

How many teams is Fedor Klimov coaching?

He's trying to corner the Russians skating for random Euro countries market.

 

[Karen-W]

PavSvia - 3tw - excellent; throw 3f - turned out on the landing; SBS 3t - good; lift - nice; BIDS - decent; step seq - fine; SBS spins - unison slightly off throughout.

Meh. Not their best effort. Personally, I might have that behind both NagaMori and ChanHowe, but TES says they'll be ahead of both.

 

[Amy L]

Someone bring a tennis racket to the arena tomorrow and take care of that damn drone.

 

[Citlali]

I just find the "hungarians" boring

We already have a "georgian" team that is much interesting, well Anastasiia is... Luka is just there

 

[Karen-W]

Wow - didn't even crack 70 - a LOT closer to NagaMori and ChanHowe than I expected.

 

[Jay42]

Someone bring a tennis racket to the arena tomorrow and take care of that damn drone.

It's like they wanted to capitalize on how much people enjoyed seeing Jordan Cowan on the ice with the skaters at the Olympics without paying Jordan Cowan.

I would have preferred seeing Jordan Cowan. Not only is the drone annoying, Jordan Cowan's rig is stabilized and the drone is kind of disorienting because it's not a stabilized rig.

 

[Lanie]

Alisa and Misha skating very nervy

 

[Matryeshka]

Well. The Rungarians getting a kiss after they were kinda-maybe robbed of Olympic bronze.

 

[Amy L]

It's like they wanted to capitalize on how much people enjoyed seeing Jordan Cowan on the ice with the skaters at the Olympics without paying Jordan Cowan.

I would have preferred seeing Jordan Cowan. Not only is the drone annoying, Jordan Cowan's rig is stabilized and the drone is kind of disorienting because it's not a stabilized rig.

Yeah, I think whoever made that decision overestimated how much people want to see the skaters blurry, discolored and diagonal.

 

[Colonel Green]

Fingers crossed for the small medal that they couldn't get at the Olympics.

All things proceeding according to plan.

 

[tangerine dream]

Someone bring a tennis racket to the arena tomorrow and take care of that damn drone.

I think one collision between drone and girl up in a lift would be enough to ban it from the arena. Maybe one of the group one pairs would be willing to take one for the team in the free skate.

 

[miffy]

Gutted for Efimova

 

[Karen-W]

EfiMit - 3tw - very nice; SBS 3t - she two-footed & was short on rotation; throw 3lo - hand down; lift - nice enough; BIDS - fine; step seq - fine; SBS spins - not the best unison.

Underwhelming.

Now, I know no one had ChanHowe as the top-ranked US pairs team after the SP, but that's what we're looking at because there's no way that 3t isn't going to get at least a q call.

 

[Jay42]

I think one collision between drone and girl up in a lift would be enough to ban it from the arena. Maybe one of the group one pairs would be willing to take one for the team in the free skate.

I would imagine they're keeping the drone off ice while people are actually performing. The risk of disaster would be too much for the ISU to come back from I think.

 

[Matryeshka]

Someone bring a tennis racket to the arena tomorrow and take care of that damn drone.

The seniors at my school have some kind of assassination game going on with water guns. This is our third year doing it and they've gotten quite good at sneak, sniper-esque attacks across the parking lot. Maybe I could donate one to Prague--they could definitely take one down.

 

[Amy L]

I don't think the citizenship thing was ever that close realistically but Mark sure likes that story.