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Link to read their "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) that took place earlier this afternoon: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6x0cuw/we_are_4_time_national_bronze_medal_ice_dancers/
ETA: Also didn't realize Zach is basically Andrew Poje's height. He just looks kinda compact and agile so you don't think about his height at all!Seriously, though, the only room [sic, I think they mean 'rule'] I really want gone is about Free Dance Music. We are required to make a medley of songs, with atleast one change in timing, rhythm, and expression! As if skating to one piece of music for 4 minutes would make it less dance, or more boring!
Also, we need an audible beat! This is tricky, since all music has a timing, but not always an audible consistent beat! It kills us to see people enhancing the instruments of music as timeless as Mozart!
Zach here. For me, the first rules I would want to see changed are about Dance Lifts. I believe that the rules, in an attempt to differentiate us from Pairs Skating, are too closed. We see too many lifts that look similar to one another, and we feel limited by the laundry list of Do's and Don'ts!
Couldn't find their fan page anymore but heres this...
Donohue: 'We're not interested in coming in third'
From the Summit: Donohue wants no less than gold
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2017/09/27/256206072
Zach has issued a clarification of the remarks he made yesterday:
https://twitter.com/ZachTDonohue
Wait, people were offended by his comments? That's crazy to me because he and Madison are competitors. They want to win. Every competitor has that attitude and probably made remarks similar to that before. He and Madison did not trash talk the Shibs or Chock/Bates or say they were robbed in the past or anything, so I don't know what there was to be offended about.
This is why skaters are usually so bland and barely say anything. The minute they show some fire, they get pounced on. It's ridiculous.
Well, he said he won't go up the podium to get bronze or even silver... Now it's something I'd like to see - like Suria'94 moment, ooh, drama.
I don't have a problem with him saying they want to win. Every athlete does. But I thought his comment that he won't go on the podium to accept a bronze medal took things too far. Really, where did they expect to be placed last year after falling in the FD? There were 8 other teams at Nats that I'm sure would have gladly traded places with them.Every competitor has that attitude and probably made remarks similar to that before.
Link to H/D's Reddit AMA on August 30th as compiled by @cgirl8 in their fan thread: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...nohue-fan-thread-2.100642/page-8#post-5122092Couldn't find their fan page anymore
I don't have a problem with him saying they want to win. Every athlete does. But I thought his comment that he won't go on the podium to accept a bronze medal took things too far.
Really, where did they expect to be placed last year after falling in the FD? There were 8 other teams at Nats that I'm sure would have gladly traded places with them.