....Or going the France route through Tiffany, they would probably be the second dance team going to the OlympicsI'm really not trying to be argumentative. I get why they stuck with Russia and what you say about them rising to the top after Russian retirements makes sense. Just throwing out some "what could have been" scenarios given the rich citizenship makeup of these two individuals.
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Yes ! Assuming H/D are 2nd in NHK of course. But B/S FD is nice and we haven't seen C/B's FD at all, I hope for them that it will come up stronger in levels than the SD regardless of what medal they get.
So, if C/B end up with the Silver here, H/D win Silver and C/L win Bronze next week in Japan, W/P win Bronze and C/B win Silver in France and C/L win Silver at Skate America, we could end up with 5 teams (B/S, H/D, W/P, C/B, C/L) having one silver and bronze with only 3 free spots in the GPF behind V/M, P/C and Shibs.
I agree that played a huge part in their decision to skate for Russia. IMO Didier lost Tiff with his own attitude towards her. Still I Can get why Jon feels he's too russian to accept skating for any other country.Russian top skaters also have quite good financial support from the fed and sport's ministry, afaik.
That't why russian ladies, even junior ones, don't usually switch to let's say Belarus or Ukraine
Virtue and Moir are using music from those two bands who most people don't consider to be Latin music. However, the pieces of music being used in all three musical selections DO have a Latin rhythm. If you were to listen to each of those three pieces you would find that V/M are using parts from those songs that do have a Latin rhythm. I know I was shocked when I heard the bands whose music they were planning to use -- I just couldn't think of the Rolling Stones doing something that was the prescribed rhythim ... until I went and listened to the music. Once I heard them I had no doubt about their musical choices for the SD. It's outside the box thinking ... at least for me and I have thoroughly enjoyed watching their SD from both competitions and the practices.
P/C SD is good, but I like V/M SD better (even though both are not really "Latin"). But it is also not like either team don't have the same amount of "Latin-like dance moves, and P/C do have some janky samba whisks/locks/volta/botafogo-type things (but it is ice so of course everything is going to be janky), etc.). But, for me, V/M FD is just inexcusably cheesy. Major downgrade. I also don't see how any of the short dances can have a "latin" rhythm because the patterns are so restrictive. It's not really possible.
This is the difference for me too. My problem with P/C's music isn't that it's not Latin, I just don't like the cuts and think adding the Latin beat on top of the Ed Sheehan songs just sounds weird. YMMV of course. I know some people don't like Ed Sheeran's music and as actually do quite a lot, but how they're using it is just not working for me unfortunately. Gabby especially sells it well.
Exactly. Why am I not surprised that the most rabid Virtue/Moir fans are arguing that the Rolling Stones and The Eagles are authentically Latin?
Neither of the teams are skating to what could be called traditionally Latin music. However, they both meet the required rhythms whatever you think about their choices.
Yep. In the full interview, they said Latin is not their popular theme for ice dance as its transformation to the ice may be actually quite tricky. That this style is suited better to the ballroom, not the ice and it is hard to do it justice while performing on the ice. However, after that statement, with which I agree, I expected something original or less common as well. The choreography and their performance are great and they are getting better. But the music choice is a hard part of that short dance to get used to. It is good to see them enjoying the short dance and doing well, but I am still disappointed in terms of the music choice and 'originality'.
Oh to be a fly on the wall when certain people wake up this morning.
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