Gold on Gold: Lajoie & Lagha Cheer thread!

[shan]

They did themselves proud today. New experience, and they held it on their own

And got a season's best if I'm not mistaken!

 

[almiranara]

And got a season's best if I'm not mistaken!

yes they did! hopefully they'll do even better in the Individual Event

 

[ginsengtea]

They really held it together so well. You could tell they were a bit nervous, but they pushed through and I think this skate will do wonders for their confidence going into the IE.

Also did anyone manage to catch what their quote/skater’s message on the big screen was this time?

 

[ginsengtea]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020320864865251623

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020261045223182581

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020256152676901162

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[ginsengtea]

As suspected re music changes

Figure skaters face music-rights clearance issues at Olympics

Music-rights issues have become more common since 2014, when the International Skating Union loosened its rules to allow songs with lyrics, which unlike classical music doesn’t often fall in the public domain.

www.tsn.ca

Meanwhile, fellow ice dancers Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha removed “Thunderstruck” and “Are You Ready” by AC/DC from their rhythm dance to avoid a copyright violation.

“It doesn’t matter like how I feel, I just have to adapt,” the blunt and dry-humoured Lagha said. “We have no choice. So, it sucks, that’s it.

“But that’s OK, we’ll manage. There is plenty of music to skate to.”

Lajoie said the change may have been a blessing in disguise.

“It was really repetitive, the ‘Thunderstruck’ song,” she said of the classic rock track. “We really liked it, it was really fun. But when we changed it, we were like, oh OK, there’s other layers that we can use.”

 

[ginsengtea]

Wishing Marjorie and Zachary all the best tomorrow for the RD! I'm still reeling from today's team event final, my god. It was fun catching glimpses of them hyping everyone up!

Some more from yesterday:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020285249826214180

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020506369972134341

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020505786468982957

 

[ginsengtea]

Unfortunate hiccup on the twizzles today, but they did a great job maintaining the performance level all the way through, and the crowd clearly enjoyed it. They’ll skate in the second-to-last group on Wednesday!

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020972079101648952

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021001198866727138

Also a couple of pre-departure media pieces about them were published yesterday, one article about Zach from Radio Canada International and another video feature from TVA:

[Reportage] Le patineur Zachary Lagha à Milan-Cortina | RCI

Le jeune patineur artistique représente le Canada dans les compétitions de danse sur glace aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2026, qui se déroulent en Italie.

ici.radio-canada.ca

https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/02/09/la-plus-grande-victoire-pour-nous-cest-le-moment-quon-cree-un-duo-de-patineurs-artistiques-quebecois-debarque-a-milan-avec-une-plus-grande-maturite

 

[almiranara]

I've noticed their twizzles in the RD have been a bit off this season :') Though I still appreciate them being one of the few ones who still do catchfoot twizzles! Very rare these days, I hope they have a better outing in the free. Glad to see them still in the top 10 despite the error and some.....questionable judging.

 

[ginsengtea]

I've noticed their twizzles in the RD have been a bit off this season :') Though I still appreciate them being one of the few ones who still do catchfoot twizzles! Very rare these days, I hope they have a better outing in the free. Glad to see them still in the top 10 despite the error and some.....questionable judging.

The twizzles looked great in the practices I was able to catch but competition is different from practice (like these were sooo good). FWIW I noticed they changed it so that Marjorie is now the one twizzling(?) closest to the judges instead of Zach, so obviously they're trying to do something about it.

Yeah, the GBR judge was doing a lot there...