Pair Awards Results

Jan 25, 2012 13:31

The Pairs Awards got by far the fewest votes of any of the categories, so I hope a few of you who maybe didn't feel knowledgeable enough to vote might check these results out and find some new favorite skaters and programs!

The winner of Best Pair is...

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dubé/davison is 2000 & late, shen/zhao = pairs otp, jamie sale is on notice, your russian overlords, make yourself a fun poast., kavaguti/smirnov, i don't even know what a pairs skate is, trankov/volosozhar

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figure_skater18 January 25 2012, 23:59:14 UTC
So happy to see G&G got so many votes! I was afraid that there would be too many youngins on here that have never seen any of their programs or anything! (Moonlight Sonata and that one Disney show they did (I think it was Cinderella) are two programs I clearly remember from childhood, and therefore, of course, hold a place in my heart!)

PS, awesome post!! Thanks!

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sasha_davidovna January 26 2012, 00:23:40 UTC
I nominated them all over the place for exactly that reason. :) They were fixtures of my childhood and my favorites forever. Sergei is one of the only celebrity deaths I've ever cried over.

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figure_skater18 January 26 2012, 00:54:25 UTC
I was still too young to realize it when he died, but I read Katia's book probably 100 times between grades 7 and 9. It got me every time!

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eaweek January 26 2012, 03:15:55 UTC
I found out about Grinkov's death in just about the worst way possible. I was taking the subway to work, another commuter was reading the paper, and when he flipped the sports page around, I saw the article. I was so stunned. The whole rest of the day, it felt like someone had kicked me in the stomach. He was just so young--28 years old. It just seemed so monstrously unfair.

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sasha_davidovna January 26 2012, 03:48:25 UTC
Yeah, I found out from the newspaper, too, though not quite so publicly. I remember seeing the headline "Olympic Figure Skater Dies of Heart Attack" or something like that and reading it expecting it to be somebody old from the 50s or 60s or something and then it was Sergei. I ran in to show my mom not quite believing it, like I'd somehow misread it, or maybe the newspaper was playing some sick joke. It was so horrible, especially with Daria so young. I wonder if she can even remember him?

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eaweek January 26 2012, 15:15:23 UTC
God only knows--Daria was what, two or three years old? That was the saddest part. EM Swift did an article on Sergei's death for Sports Illustrated that just broke my heart. Apparently, he was buried with a small photo of Daria.

Elsewhere, I was meanly pleased to see Sale & Pelletier get the "most overrated" vote. I didn't have time to vote in the pairs, but I would've seconded this nomination so hard. I just never "got" what was supposed to be so amazing about them, and the whole "shared gold" thing in SLC was IMO ludicrous. I've seen both S/P and B/S live, and B/S are just brilliant. (S/P are good entertainers, I'll give them that, but if you're judging basic skating skills, it's not even a contest).

Wow, that felt oddly cathartic. ; D

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