Well. I am very grateful that Scott and Tessa are mature, experienced and know exactly what they are capable of, that they can CONFIDENTLY EXECUTE the unbelievable difficulty and drama within their programs. V&M actually will DO MORE than just glide around smoothly, powerfully to music. Scott and Tessa will do that, as well as dance in hold, emote, bring strong connection/chemistry, execute intricate, difficult steps, turns, seamless spectacular lifts all while actually telling us a story too - one that will likely keep us all awake too (WINK, WINK)! V&M actually KNOW they can bring it under pressure and when it counts, too - everyone else are newbies trying to podium or prove themselves podium contender's at the Olympic games. Scott and Tessa have already skated well individually to earn Gold, Silver thus 4 performances and another 2X to earn silver in Sochi for the team event, that's a total of 6 performances over the rings at center ice that won them medals, they also have a lot of world medals too -- many good performances under pressure, and IMO they are now skating better than they ever did, so no matter what politics, judging blocks, technical panels wind up doing to the scoring, I believe that Scott and Tessa, will bring their absolute best to the 2018 games - that is the only thing they can control and we will all be replaying and gushing about their 2018 season performances for decades to come. They will go down in history as one of the best, if not the best dance team ever, they are now, and forever true legends in ice dance, that everyone else following them must prove themselves worthy to become...Because of their continued excellence and their return, other teams have had to work much harder and bring out their very best efforts just to try to keep up and aren't we dance fans lucky because instead of 2 or 3 epic teams deemed worthy of the podium this time round there will likely be 12 or more swoon worthy teams to look forward too, and at least 8 of those other teams are capable of joining them on the Olympic podium, despite PCS CANDY handouts, it will be who gets the levels, don't doubt that - everyone including Scott and Tessa are going to have to work for it, hold their nerves and bring their best to the games. It's going to be epic folks, and I predict there will be some very big upsets and unpredictable things happening on the lead up to the games - despite what many fans believe no one is a podium lock - favored probably, but everyone is going to have to bring it if they want to beat the wining record of the highly decorated and internationally celebrated team of Virtue/Moir...At this point in the season the big 3 couples of team Gadbois are looking very, very strong, along with W&P, the Shibs, we will have to wait to see how C&L GP debut goes and how the 2nd events go for the rest of the best as well as any national type upsets to current apple carts ... Up until the games is just mainly impressions concerning potentials and fed clout to move things forward, Olympics OTH are entirely different animal, so anything can happen and usually does - ice is slippery, till a reset happens at worlds and the next cycle begins...
Oh please! V&M's skate to Mahler was on a completely different level to D&W, who "skated full out" with frenetic, open movements, often sloppy technique and on their flats with subpar edges. Scurry back to the D&W page & on the way please educate yourself about ice dance!
