GPdF 2025 PBP - Pairs FS: “A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Plus (GOE)”

[genevieve]

Starting Order

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Megan WESSENBERG / Denys STREKALIN FRA 8 50.41
2 Aurelie FAULA / Theo BELLE FRA 7 54.09
3 Camille KOVALEV / Pavel KOVALEV FRA 6 59.00
4 Audrey SHIN / Balazs NAGY USA 5 61.79

Warm-Up Group 2
5 Katie McBEATH / Daniil PARKMAN USA 4 63.31
6 Maria PAVLOVA / Alexei SVIATCHENKO HUN 3 70.15
7 Deanna STELLATO-DUDEK / Maxime DESCHAMPS CAN 2 74.26
8 Riku MIURA / Ryuichi KIHARA JPN 1 79.44

ISU Stream on YouTube

 

[victorskid]

Detailed Time Schedule: https://results.isu.org/results/sea...----------FNL-000100--_StartListwithTimes.pdf

Panel of Judges

Referee Ms. Leanna CARON ISU
Technical Controller Ms. Vera TAUCHMANOVA ISU
Technical Specialist Ms. Whitney GAYNOR ISU
Technical Specialist Mr. Sarkis TEWANIAN ISU

Judge No.1 Mr. Albert SAADI MON
Judge No.2 Mr. Attila SOOS HUN
Judge No.3 Ms. Marta OLOZAGARRE ESP
Judge No.4 Mr. Andrew BOSCO CAN
Judge No.5 Mr. Jean Yves KERBOURCH FRA
Judge No.6 Ms. Leah BATES AUS
Judge No.7 Ms. So Young AN KOR
Judge No.8 Mr. Kevin ROSENSTEIN USA
Judge No.9 Ms. Yoko KUNO JPN

Data Operator Mr. Lionel AVOT ISU
Replay Operator Ms. Anne FAGERSTROM ISU

 

[skatingguy]

Music Selections

Biographies

Free Skate - Planned Program Content

 

[Hedwig]

it is exhausting to be a skating fan. I just managed to put a bite between my teeth and here I am again

 

[Karen-W]

The first warm-up group is on the ice.

 

[Baby Yoda On Skates]

This event is the first skating I've watched all season.

Who has the program to watch for here?

 

[TAHbKA]

Kovalev tried to drop Kovalev from a split twist in the warm up

 

[Karen-W]

This event is the first skating I've watched all season.

Who has the program to watch for here?

I can't say definitively "no" because this is PavSvia's season debut, but the rest... Meh.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Is there an interesting story behind an American and a Ukrainian pairing up to skate for France?

 

[Kateri]

This event is the first skating I've watched all season.

Who has the program to watch for here?

Miura/Kihara have two non-Marcotte-poisoned programmes, so that's a plus, but there's nothing truly vintage, here.

 

[tony]

Is there an interesting story behind an American and a Ukrainian pairing up to skate for France?

He already skated for France prior to this.

 

[Private Citizen]

First double sals of the night - do a shot for each one and see if you’re still standing at the end of the comp.

 

[tony]

First double sals of the night - do a shot for each one and see if you’re still standing at the end of the comp.

I fear 8 isn't enough to get me drunk.

 

[Kateri]

First double sals of the night - do a shot for each one and see if you’re still standing at the end of the comp.

"Doubles for doubles", the first drinking game to be specifically banned by the World Health Organisation.

 

[peibeck]

They could have just competed for America with this content.

 

[tony]

Obviously without the jump content yet but for less than a year together I think they still look pretty good. Not wildly mismatched and on timing pretty well together. She fought for the late throw, lifts are decent. Work in progress.

Music doesn't really relate to what they are doing, but it never really does for most pairs.

 

[skatingguy]

Megan Wessenberg/Denys Strekalin
Rank after SP: 8
Coach: S. Berton, R. Brubaker, B. Massot
Music: Lost Without You by Freya Ridings

Double Twist 2 (3 after review) - catch was awkward, and Megan almost went down backwards
2T+1A+1A+SEQ - Denys doubled
2S
Reverse Lasso Lift 4
Throw 2F - pitched forward
Back Outside Death Spiral B
Axel Lasso Lift 4
Throw 3S - forward lean, hung on
Hand-to-Hip Lift 3
Choreo Sequence
Pair Combo Spin 4

Clearly still a developmental team, and a lot of work needed on their skating, and connection.

88.80 = 1st Place
139.21 = 1st Place

 

[Spikefan]

That actually held my attention (or maybe it was just him ).

 

[Karen-W]

Wessenberg/Strekalin - 3tw - she nearly went back on her bum on the landing; SBS 3t+1a+1a - she doubled, just like a good US pairs lady; SBS 2s - those looked deliberate; first lift - nice; throw 2f - 'nuff said; BODS - meh; second lift - solid enough; this song sounds like something Ziegler/Kiefer would have loved; throw 3s - decent enough; last lift - well, the lifts are certainly their strongest elements altogether; choreo seq - even the judges are unimpressed; pairs spin - soooo slow entering it.

Well, if Telemaque/Coulon can't figure out where things are going wrong, Wessenberg/Strekalin may have the inside track on France's lone pairs spot in Nice 2030.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

Theo wearing “Egyptian man” straight off the shelf of Party City.

 

[tony]

Theo wearing “Egyptian man” straight off the shelf of Party City.

It needs to go back to Party City where it belongs

 

[Lizziebeth]

I thought Chris said Barbarian Open, maybe that is where these costumes came from????

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

I thought Chris said Barbarian Open, maybe that is where these costumes came from????

Same!

 

[Aceon6]

It needs to go back to Party City where it belongs

They went bankrupt for a reason.

 

[Wyliefan]

Blinged to high heaven, but I do like that shade of green.

 

[Braulio]

Chock & Bates Lady Snake

 

[Kateri]

I thought Chris said Barbarian Open, maybe that is where these costumes came from????

I thought it was a one-off mispronunciation, but he ALWAYS says it., and I cannot figure out why, it is keeping me up at night.

 

[peibeck]

I see someone took a look at Theo's arms and politely put those tanning lights in the KnC for him.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

The French team must be Madi and Evan superfans - Daft Punk in the SP, snake in the long!

 

[Debbie S]

So yesterday they skated to C/B's Alien music, today they are skating to Snake. C/B tribute season?