Friday watch party: 2010 Olympics OD

[Aerobicidal]

Agosto looks like a Sacha Baron Cohen character parodying a parody of European ice dancing. Lord honey.

 

[ChelleC]

There are so many different factors that go into making an Olympic moment, and winning gold on home ice especially. Right team, right place, right time.

And Virtue/Moir had everything single one of those in 2010. There's absolutely something I love about seeing skaters skate on home ice, and it's so much more when it's huge event and they bring their A game. I think that's why I actually like watching Virtue/Moir's programs from Vancouver, they created such a moment.

 

[meggonzo]

Did Jill Trenary have that intro flute music in one of her programs?

 

[rfisher]

(((((Agosto))))) Nobody should have been made to suffer looking in the mirror when he got ready to go on the ice in that.

 

[Colonel Green]

Just kidding. Don't send the V/M hit squad after me.

 

[alchemy void]

Break before ladies?

Yes, ladies at the top of the hour. New link and a new thread, probably.

 

[Hanna]

OMG this PBP is just as it was back then. LOVE IT!

Ben's hair

 

[Finnice]

I had totally forgotten that Bel/Ags were there. Maybe for a reason.

 

[ChelleC]

Break before ladies?

Sounds like a good idea to me.

BTW, I'm guessing the ladies are on youtube also. Any links, so I can watch on my TV.

 

[Barbara Manatee]

Tanith and Ben totally lack the self-conciousness gene. They were game for anything. Love them.

 

[alchemy void]

Did Jill Trenary have that intro flute music in one of her programs?

I feel like ALL her programs had a flute introduction.

 

[Aerobicidal]

I hope these costumes are safely in storage because you know that eventually Tim Burton is going to make a gay period drama and HE WILL NEED THEM.

 

[Colonel Green]

Belbin/Agosto's post-Torino career is such a weird footnote.

 

[VGThuy]

Poor B/A, Linichuk was trying to improve their core strength and line and skating skills, but she effed up what made B/A click and a crowd favorite when they started out.

 

[alchemy void]

I loved B/A back in the day, but this was so much flatter and generic than I remember them.

 

[quartz]

her sleeves!!

 

[Hanna]

For top class Belbin/Agosto, we need some of the 2004 - 2006 stuff.

 

[VGThuy]

To think they were the reigning World silver medalists. The judges really set them up into thinking what they were doing with Linichuk was working...

 

[Barbara Manatee]

We have to do the 2006 Torino splatfest!

 

[Aerobicidal]

Did Tanith just flash a gang sign and say "What up in Detroit"?!?!?!?

I hope I'm hallucinating.

 

[barbarafan]

Discussions of V/M's first Olympic programs mostly center on Mahler, but this was my favourite of their programs that year.

I liked the CD......always have loved the CD's......the coverage etc....when you see shots of their skates against other teams just wow.

 

[Colonel Green]

It's kind of fascinating to look at the spacing of the teams here, in terms of what Vancouver represented for ice dance's future. You had Tessa & Scott and Meryl & Charlie at the top, then a whole bunch of teams who were on their way out making up most of the rest of the top ranks, and then a few people (often with different partners) who would carry on for the subsequent few cycles.

 

[alchemy void]

I don't understand how you can even pretend D/S should be ahead of that, purely based on TES.

 

[skipaway]

After ladies, our next watch should be 2006 Torino. We could have a lesson from Babs and Margaglio in level 4 Social Distancing!

 

[ChelleC]

We have to do the 2006 Torino splatfest!

Yesssss!!! I'm not certain I've actually watched it! I didn't have TV for the majority of that Olympics.

 

[Vagabond]

This must have been such a weird competition for Belbin and Agosto. They must have envisioned fighting it out with Virtue and Moir for the Gold Medal, but then Davis and White rushed past them like a bullet train.

 

[mjb52]

I do think there's an interesting discussion to be had about what makes a program cross the line. I personally didn't mind I/K's SL program mentioned above for example although I probably wouldn't watch it again (I in general wouldn't watch a SL program today, good or bad, but that's my own personal thing and I don't mind that they're done at all). I hope the tech committee is ready to talk about this before the folk dances get choreographed.

 

[alchemy void]

After ladies, our next watch should be 2006 Torino. We could have a lesson from Babs and Margaglio in level 4 Social Distancing!

We'll get to it this weekend.

New thread and new link for ladies. Starts in 25 minutes.

 

[Colonel Green]

I don't understand how you can even pretend D/S should be ahead of that, purely based on TES.

RusFed

Though perhaps that exertion strained even them, considering how much Russian ice dance would drop off over the next two cycles.

 

[nimi]

Poor B/A, Linichuk was trying to improve their core strength and line and skating skills, but she effed up what made B/A click and a crowd favorite when they started out.

Anybody know what's up with Linichuk? Still coaching in NA?