CBC Commentary of HD RD:
S: (as program begins) Get ready for some awesome choreography from these two
(as stsq begins) Watch the flow and ice coverage from these two skaters
T: so powerful, and these heavy-hitting beats and sharp, purposeful moves demand you dance along.
S: (during stationary lift) They’re right into a lift, seamlessly
T: Madison and Zach so artfully tell the story of a man and a woman on the ice. No matter the emotional storyline, or style of movement, they’re equals
S: (As MB begins) Totally. For me, the best midnight blues in the competition. Let’s see f they can execute that today
S: I’m loving this!
T: Me too.
T: (twizzles) The precision!
S: Look at ‘em go!
After program:
Brenda asks if they just booked themselves a place in the final flight.
S: Uhhh
T: (simultaneously) Well, if Rhythm Nation was Janet Jackson’s call to strong women everywhere, encouraging ownership of self and this fearless courage, Madison Hubbell has answered it (giggles) indeed
S: No doubt. And, um, I thought this was a fantastic performance, I was blown away by how well they executed. Again, just in that second twizzle, the end, one little blip. If you had to be, I didn’t want to say anything during the performance cuz I didn’t want to ruin the moment, but , no doubt Madi’s thinking about that as she’s coming back to the boards. Other than that, flawless. I thought that might have been very close to the performance of the night.
I’ve, I’ve never seen them have command like that from start to finish. Zach in the end showing a little bit of his personality, his swagger. I thought it was very well done.
T: They found the balance of that recklessness that we love so much about them, but the control, and composure, too.
S: We’ve talked a lot about the Ice Academy in Montreal, but the thing about this program is that they did work with longtime choreographer Sam Chouinard. Anybody who’s a fan of ice dance is a fan of his, but he went out and got one of Janet’s dancers from this tour, brought them into the project, obviously started this whole collaboration, and what came of that is this amazing program that has grown every time they’ve competed it. They didn’t win this event at the US Nationals, um, they were second in the, the rhythm dance and they needed a big performance here at the Olympic Games and I think that might have been it.
Brenda asks what the difference is between the US Nationals performance and the one.
S: Well Nationals they made a lot of, uh, of errors, which is uncharacteristic uh, of them in the technical elements, just because they’re such great turners, there’s like, you’ll see this (replay of twizzles) like, that is completely on in that first twizzle, in the start of the second twizzle’s on too, they look like they get a little close and she’s trying to adjust
T: (coming in at the end of what Scott is saying) Uh, I think she held on, I think she held on really nicely
S: I agree
T: Her shoulders maybe getting a little ahead of herself, and ahead of her hips on the circle on that twizzle
S: This’ll be a great angle for it, but…
T: (simultaneously) good angle here
S: Uhh, yeah, that’s just right on the ending, very similar to Piper’s, isn’t it? A difficult element, obviously, spinning the other way than what’s natural in the second twizzle most of the time, but in, at American Nationals they just lacked a little bit of attack, um, that seems to be the theme of the day, but when you’re dancing, when you’re going for it, that’s what the judges reward, and that had that in spades.
(marks come up)
T: (softly) Yeah
Congrats to our Olympic bronze medalists. 
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