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.

 

[skategal]

More pre-Olympic CHAOS.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/figure-skating/cizeron-papadakis-feud-accusations-lies-ice-dance-olympics-9.7043586

 

[princeton123]

oh Guillaume is actually evil huh

 

[dancefan17]

Does anyone know who NBC has commentating the ice dance portion of the Olympics? I think having Gabby commentate after the book accusations could be perceived as a conflict of interest.

Update: I reviewed the nbc list of commentators and analysts and she is currently not listed.

 

[thvu]

Does anyone know who NBC has commentating the ice dance portion of the Olympics? I think having Gabby commentate after the book accusations could be perceived as a conflict of interest.

Update: I reviewed the nbc list of commentators and analysts and she is currently not listed.

Even without the conflict of interest, she’s just not a good commentator. I would actually venture to say she’s a very poor commentator.

 

[my little pony]

so I guess she fits right in

 

[skatfan]

Does anyone know who NBC has commentating the ice dance portion of the Olympics? I think having Gabby commentate after the book accusations could be perceived as a conflict of interest.

Update: I reviewed the nbc list of commentators and analysts and she is currently not listed.

That's probably good, given the apparent conflicts. Can I wish hard for Ben Agosto to get the gig?

 

[Bigbird]

Seems like a whole lotta screaming over a whee little book written by a mental headcase. Ghurl, make a whole lotta money and laugh all the way to the bank. Ghurl, go eat a food. He will be a'right.

 

[Bigbird]

Leave de girl alone. Man can so easily and condescendingly write her off as a nutcase in public, a few days ago in the press, and now him want to draw the lawyer card? Man up, Mr. Cizeron, you cannot have it both ways. If you wanted the role of victim, should have kept your mouth shut before throwing her under the bus. Focus on ice dance. Focus. I never wanted Bock to win a title so bad in my life!

 

[chantilly]

Seems to me on what I've read so far is she feels she was shut out and he feels she shut down.

 

[Bigbird]

Seems to me on what I've read so far is she feels she was shut out and he feels she shut down.

Probably because she was shut down and relegated to the role of assistant. He has a Netflix Series, she has a book. He said she said. That's it.

 

[chantilly]

Probably because she was shut down and relegated to the role of assistant.

So only she is speaking the truth?

 

[Bigbird]

So only she is speaking the truth?

They are both speaking their own truth.

 

[SidelineSkater]

To lighten the mood, I saw this on a parody x skating account.

The theme for the Rhythm Dance in the 2026/27 season has been announced as “White Noise - The Feeling of TV Static”. The Pattern Dance Type Step Sequence will be replaced with the Choreo Standing Movement (ChSM), with a base value of 7.50 points.

 

[chantilly]

They are both speaking their own truth.

That was my point.

 

[princeton123]

That's probably good, given the apparent conflicts. Can I wish hard for Ben Agosto to get the gig?

Does Tanith have a team in the Olys? She was excellent

 

[skatfan]

Does Tanith have a team in the Olys? She was excellent

No team but she is coaching (was just at Nationals) and divorcing Charlie-I doubt it.

 

[Bigbird]

That was my point.

But, do we really think he's the main character in the book? I don't think he is. He's running scared about issues bigger than personal grievances, and one thing she can do, is write.

 

[angi]

But, do we really think he's the main character in the book? I don't think he is. He's running scared about issues bigger than personal grievances, and one thing she can do, is write.

I'm hardly his fan, but while I also don't think he is necessarily the main character (or at least the main topic) in the book, the publishers did choose to promote the book using solely stories about him, and they also consciously chose this very specific timing to do so. Regardless of the truth behind those stories (I think, like others, that they each experienced the situation in an individual way that differs), I can understand why he feels so attacked (especially since the story about him trying to stop her from pressing charges against her alleged rapist is very damming for him).

 

[Karen-W]

I'm hardly his fan, but while I also don't think he is necessarily the main character (or at least the main topic) in the book, the publishers did choose to promote the book using solely stories about him, and they also consciously chose this very specific timing to do so. Regardless of the truth behind those stories (I think, like others, that they each experienced the situation in an individual way that differs), I can understand why he feels so attacked (especially since the story about him trying to stop her from pressing charges against her alleged rapist is very damming for him).

The timing has less to do with any of the people included in her memoir and more to do with the fact that it's Euros week in an Olympic year - the public's eyes are on figure skating naturally.