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

[Colonel Green]

Who saw THAT coming?

I was expecting it. Cizeron didn't come back to be second, and Chock/Bates ascended to the top more by outlasting everybody ahead of them than anything else.

Gilles & Poirier are going to need another mistake from Fear & Gibson to stay in third after the free, based on how the judging went.

Sad for Lim & Quan.

 

[Orm Irian]

All I care about is that R/A had fun and did well. And, hopefully, that someone posts the video of their RD and it stays up long enough for me to see it, because I'm not signing up for yet another streaming service just to watch the Olys even if it is free.

 

[shuilee]

Will USA judge finally be on the Free Dance panel? USA wasn't chosen in the RD today, and wasn't chosen in TE RD or FD either.

Is there a random draw for FD, or is there a rule that USA judge must be in the Free Dance panel (because she wasn't on the panel for RD)?


Today was the worst possibly judges draw for Chock & Bates. No USA judge, but there was FRA & CAN judges. In hindsight, I should've known C&B would be wuzrobbed.

 

[Peepsquick]

Will USA judge finally be on the Free Dance panel? USA wasn't chosen in the RD today, and wasn't chosen in TE RD or FD either.

Is there a random draw for FD, or is there a rule that USA judge must be in the Free Dance panel (because she wasn't on the panel for RD)?


Today was the worst possibly judges draw for Chock & Bates. No USA judge, but there was FRA & CAN judges. In hindsight, I should've known C&B would be wuzrobbed.

How is it a 'wuzzrobbed' situation? there is not even a point between C/B and FB/C ...

 

[Andrea82]

Will USA judge finally be on the Free Dance panel? USA wasn't chosen in the RD today, and wasn't chosen in TE RD or FD either.

Is there a random draw for FD, or is there a rule that USA judge must be in the Free Dance panel (because she wasn't on the panel for RD)?


Today was the worst possibly judges draw for Chock & Bates. No USA judge, but there was FRA & CAN judges. In hindsight, I should've known C&B would be wuzrobbed.

USA (Janis Engel), Italy (Isabella Micheli), Spain (Marta Olozagarre) and Georgia (Elena Khmyzenko, represented Russia until last year) will be in the Free Dance panel. 45 minutes before the FD they will draw which 5 judges of the RD will join them.

 

[Vagabond]

Chock & Bates usually do better relative to their top competitors in their Free Dances than in their Rhythm (or previously, Short) Dances. I am pleasantly surprised that their score is so close to Fournier-Beaudry & Cizeron's.

 

[Tesla]

I honestly think Chock/Bates would be happy with the silver medal, if that’s what they get. They didn’t have to do both segments of the Team Event.

 

[Ikari]

Gilles & Poirier are going to need another mistake from Fear & Gibson to stay in third after the free, based on how the judging went.

The mistake needs to be quite obvious, the pull for F/G to medal seems to be fairly significant. Sigh. Judges still love F/G, but I feel they need new material. Their party act is getting bit stale by now.
I suppose Italians can forget about medalling, especially as "they got one already, mission accomplished!" They would have needed truly magnificient rhythm dance to place 3rd with comfortable margin, and that was not it.

Seemed to me team competition had taken the best edge off from Chock/Bates. Literally. (sorry about that...) It was bit tight performance. I was not surprised they didn't get over 90 today.

 

[Bigbird]

I think they themselves see silver as their ceiling for the individual event. Why else do both aspects of the Team Comp? It doesn't spell sense for me. They are 33 and 36; Zingas and Kolesnik could easily have substituted for them. IMHO, C/B see FB/C in practice probably every day, so maybe that influenced their choices.

 

[~tapdancer~]

I was expecting it. Cizeron didn't come back to be second, and Chock/Bates ascended to the top more by outlasting everybody ahead of them than anything else.

Gilles & Poirier are going to need another mistake from Fear & Gibson to stay in third after the free, based on how the judging went.

Sad for Lim & Quan.

This. As a ice dance fan for 46 years now, it has always been that for ice dance. Somehow they got anointed along the way after D/W retired and then H/D (who did beat them during their match up years) retired as well. They just kept going and had interesting programs as well so there you go. C/B are great people but they are not the best ice dance team that ever was. You will rack up medals if you stay in it as long as they have. They started to win when they stopped making major errors. Which I suppose is true for any sport.

 

[bwayrose7]

The mistake needs to be quite obvious, the pull for F/G to medal seems to be fairly significant. Sigh. Judges still love F/G, but I feel they need new material. Their party act is getting bit stale by now.

I don’t get the judges’ love for F/G, truly. They’re a ton of fun and I love watching them, but they have never screamed podium material; I’ve been baffled by their rise. Is it really just IAM politicking?

Also, I’m not a G/P or LaLa ride-or-die by any means (especially with that atrocious RD for LaLa this season ) but my jaw DROPPED when I saw the GBR judge’s scores today.

 

[Allskate]

I think they themselves see silver as their ceiling for the individual event.

I think they may have thought that their odds of getting gold were higher in the TE, but I don't think they necessarily saw gold as impossible in the individual dance. After all, regardless of the reason, C&B did win the GP Final. But, I don't doubt that they knew that they were taking a risk by agreeing to do both segments of the TE and be there for the last day of the TE so close to the individual ice dance competition.