Free Dance - 2023 World University Games

[Wyliefan]

Modern Dance Thunderdome Champs!

I'm being a bad American and cheering for the French!

 

[Karen-W]

I'm being a bad American and cheering for the French!

I'll join you in the corner of the rink, cheering for both French teams.

 

[Karen-W]

Oooooo - Nathan's part of the victory ceremony!!!!

 

[Spikefan]

I'm being a bad American and cheering for the French!

French helped us throughout history (just ignore some of 1700’s) so I see them as our cool, stylish cousins. It’s ok to cheer for a cousin.

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

Nathan gets to hand out the cute little moose stuffie

 

[Karen-W]

Wait... We get the FISU anthem for the flag raising? C'mon... I needed a rousing rendition of La Marseillaise to end the night, especially after slogging through the Canadian Men's FS.

 

[Karen-W]

And, just because I liked it so much a year and a half ago - https://youtu.be/PF4b8cOfj_M?t=8755

 

[BlueRidge]

Couldn't stay up for this, but a big cheer for Marie & Thomas!

 

[Sylvia]

Dupayage/Nabais' 'voidy' FD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_R0EMktj8

Lagouge/'Caffa's FD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgxssZVIN1Q

Ice Dance medal ceremony (featuring Nathan ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKFOTpgMCII

 

[Sylvia]

Free Dance protocols: https://lakeplacid2023-pdf.microplu...XICEDANCE----------FNL-000100--__C77B_1.0.pdf

FD results details (can't copy-and-paste easily): https://lakeplacid2023-pdf.microplu...XICEDANCE----------FNL-000100--__C77A_1.0.pdf

Name Ctry Code Total Score RD FD
GOLD DUPAYAGE Marie / NABAIS Thomas FRA 176.04 2 1
SILVER McNAMARA Lorraine / SPIRIDONOV Anton USA 175.33 1 2
BRONZE LAGOUGE Natacha / CAFFA Arnaud FRA 167.35 3 4
4 DOZZI Leia / PAPETTI Pietro ITA 163.56 6 3
5 HOLUBTSOVA Mariia / BIELOBROV Kyryl UKR 158.85 5 5
6 LING Angela / WEIN Caleb USA 158.52 4 7
7 KONCIUS Raffaella / SHCHEPETOV Alexey USA 154.03 7 6
8 MATTHAEI Charise / LIEBERS Max GER 138.51 12 8
9 NAURYZOVA Gaukhar / DATIEV Boisangur KAZ 137.50 10 9
10 PUCHEROVA Maria Sofia / LYSAK Nikita SVK 136.45 8 10
11 RAMANAUSKAITE Paulina / KIZALA Deividas LTU 132.40 9 12
12 HANCOCK Lucy Joanna / FOURATI Ilias HUN 131.11 11 11
13 AZROIAN Viktoriia / GRUZDEV Artur ARM 116.72 13 13

 

[BlueRidge]

I'm so glad those vids are available. Thank you for posting @Sylvia

Arnaud is on the ice with whoever that other person is.

I do have to say for those who can look away from Arnaud, Natacha is also very engaging. I think they are really good together and I'm so glad to see them have success here!

 

[Sylvia]

More videos:

Dupayage/Nabais' 'voidy' FD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_R0EMktj8

Lagouge/'Caffa's FD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgxssZVIN1Q

Ice Dance medal ceremony (featuring Nathan ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKFOTpgMCII

McNamara/Spirodonov's FD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqrkTL4CZos

Photographer Zoë McCreary took this photo of McNamara/Spiridonov's FD (2nd is of LTU's Ramanauskaite/Kizala, 3rd one is a podium pic of M/S receiving their "Adirondack Mac" mascot stuffie from Nathan Chen ): https://www.instagram.com/p/CndPELMss_1/

Pj Kwong chatted with Marie Dupayage & Thomas Nabais after winning gold: https://www.fisu.tv/videos/talkshow-03-figureskating-16-01-2023

 

[her grace]

Finally got a chance to watch the top 3--thanks for the video links @Sylvia

Dupayage/Nabais
Great knee bend throughout their program, interesting lifts and choreo, good unison and partnering

McNamara/Spiridonov
Good speed throughout, mature and sophisticated presentation, secure lifts

Lagouge/Caffa
A few little stumbles from him, wonderful base to work from--they have good expression and solid technique, just need more time to polish it up and put it all together