The Dance Hall 13: When You Dance on the Ice and Your Feet Twizzle Twice, That's Amore

[shan]

Well, I'll just say that I found Lajoie/Lagha's White Crow really beautiful watching it in person today.

I thought it was beautiful watching on Dailymotion!

 

[Andrea82]

So it looks we have the complete Olympic line up

• Holly Harris/Jason Chan * Olympic debut
• Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier * 3rd Olympic participation for her (2018, 2022) and 4th for him (2010 with Crane)
• Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha * 2nd Olympic participation (2022)
• Marie-Jade Lauriault/Romain Le Gac * 2nd Olympic participation (2018)
• Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu * 3rd Olympic participation (2018, 2022)
• Natálie Taschlerová/Filip Taschler * 2nd Olympic participation (2022)
• Kateřina Mrázková/Daniel Mrázek * Olympic debut
• Juulia Turkkila/Matthias Versluis * 2nd Olympic participation (2022)
• Laurence Fournier Beaudry/Guillaume Cizeron * 3rd Olympic participation for him (2018, 2022) and 2nd for her (2022)
• Evgeniia Lopareva/Geoffrey Brissaud * Olympic debut
• Diana Davis/Gleb Smolkin * 2nd Olympic participation (2022)
• Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan * Olympic debut
• Phebe Bekker/James Hernandez * Olympic debut
• Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson * 2nd Olympic participation (2022)
• Charlène Guignard/Marco Fabbri * 4th Olympic participation (2014, 2018, 2022)
• Allison Reed/Saulius Ambrulevičius * Olympic debut for him, 2nd participation for her (2010 with Japardize)
• Hannah Lim/Ye Quan * Olympic debut
• Olivia Smart/Tim Dieck * 2nd participation for her (2022 with Diaz) and him (2022 with Muller)
• Sofía Val/Asaf Kazimov * Olympic debut
• Milla Ruud Reitan/Nikolaj Majorov * Olympic debut in ID. He competed in 2022 Olympics in Single
• Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko * Olympic debut
• Madison Chock/Evan Bates * 4th Olympic participation (2014, 2018, 2022) for her and 5th for him (add 2010 with Samuelson)
• Emilea Zingas/Vadym Kolesnik * Olympic debut

 

[screech]

I hope P/P do what they did last Olympics and wear one outfit for the team event and one for the individual one.

 

[SidelineSkater]

Thanks @Andrea82 for the list! We've been saying it all quad - dance is super stacked! And there's more interesting teams/placements in the second-mid-lower tiers. Slotting into top 10 will be Olympic medal worthy, even extending out to the top 15-18 will have some strong teams.

 

[Andrea82]

Leaving aside couples which never existed year ago, the Olympic debuts seem a mix of

• up and coming couples of the 2022/23 season (Mrázková/Mrázek, Lim/Quan, Bekker/Hernandez). The only ones missing from that Junior season are Bashynska/Beaumont
• up and coming couple from previous years from countries with strong depth and so having to wait longer in the queue (Carreira/Ponomarenko)
• veterans who really represent the "never give up that your turn will eventually come" (Janse van Rensburg/Steffan debuting at 30+ years old).

If I try to remember what I thought during these years.... these are the teams that at some point, I thought they would have made to the Milano Games but who ultimately did not:

• Green/Parsons.
• Mazingue/Gaidajenko had that promising 2022 Worlds. Then life sadly took a dramatic turn for Solene between concussions and the sexual assault.
• Demougeot/Le Mercier...but I did not think Cizeron would come back with another partner.

 

[Taso]

Leaving aside couples which never existed year ago, the Olympic debuts seem a mix of

• up and coming couples of the 2022/23 season (Mrázková/Mrázek, Lim/Quan, Bekker/Hernandez). The only ones missing from that Junior season are Bashynska/Beaumont
• up and coming couple from previous years from countries with strong depth and so having to wait longer in the queue (Carreira/Ponomarenko)
• veterans who really represent the "never give up that your turn will eventually come" (Janse van Rensburg/Steffan debuting at 30+ years old).

If I try to remember what I thought during these years.... these are the teams that at some point, I thought they would have made to the Milano Games but who ultimately did not:

• Green/Parsons.
• Mazingue/Gaidajenko had that promising 2022 Worlds. Then life sadly took a dramatic turn for Solene between concussions and the sexual assault.
• Demougeot/Le Mercier...but I did not think Cizeron would come back with another partner.

Add Reed & Ambrulevicius to your Veterans list, too! A whole lot of not giving up from them!

 

[Belsornia]

So we have seven athletes who are already Olympians representing another country (Lauriault/Le Gac, Davis/Smolkin, Laurence Fournier-Beaudry, Allison Reed, Tim Dieck) and another nine who previously competed internationally at lower levels for another country (Jason Chan, Piper Gilles, Evgeniia Lopareva, Charlene Guignard, Olivia Smart, Asaf Kazimov, Milla Ruud Reitan, Emilea Zingas, Vadym Kolesnik)

 

[aprilediv]

Loving this list! Thank you so much! Ice is truly the discipline of longevity. So many repeat Olympians

 

[Andrea82]

Technical panel for Euros is
Christine Hurth (France), Candice Towler Green (Great Britain), Pia Maria Gustafsson (Finland)
Referee is Michale Cesaro (Italy)

Hurth was the TC ad JGP Adu Dabhi, Swiss Ice Skating Open and NRW Trophy
Towler-Green was TS at Bolero Cup, Lombardia Trophy, Nebelhorn Trophy, NRW Trophy, GP Finland
Gustafsson was TS at JGP Gdansk, Cup of China, Warsaw Cup, Tallin Trophy, Golden Spin

 

[DORISPULASKI]

Has Germany formally announced its Olympic team yet?

 

[Andrea82]

Has Germany formally announced its Olympic team yet?

Formally no. The German Olympic Committee meets on 20th January and then again on 23th January to approve the selections of all sports.
However, JvR/S have met the score requirements asked by German Olympic Committee, it would be a very surprising decision if they vote them down.