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Surprise, surprise: Canada won the figure skating team event! I am very happy for the team and especially for Tessa and Scott that they'll go home with a gold medal now no matter what. Because, you know ( Read more... )

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Pairs' LP:

• First things first: I'm over the moon that Aliona and Bruno won!!! :0D
• Back to group one: all U.S. teams skated below their expectations and finished at the bottom in the LP. Moore-Towers and Marinaro, though 4th in the LP, could only climb up to 6th place overall.
• Zabiiako and Enbert were just as WTF and boring in the LP as they were in ( Read more... )

Skate America has a strange event layout for a GP. The dancers and the ladies only start when the other two competitions are already completed. Therefore there won't be the usual SP/LP posts this time, but I'll put the pairs and the men in here.

Pairs' SP:

• Stellato and Bartholomay skated to "Eleanor Rigby." You can give me that music any day. :0)
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Pairs' LP:

• Suto and Boudreau-Audet have such tasteful costumes for both the SP and the LP. That had to be said. :0)
• Seguin and Bilodeau skated beautifully today. <3 They moved up to 4th place because the Knierims (well, Chris Knierim) had a few too many small mistakes in their "Ghost" program.
• Kristina Astakhova doubled one of the jumps, but otherwise ( Read more... )

Excuse me, why does the ISU have to change its designs (both the results page and the screen displays) mid-season? I'm not a fan of change and I can't get used to it.

Pairs' SP:

• Seeing Kihara skate with Suzaki made me wonder how we could egt to this from Takahashi/Tran. They skated to Yuri!!! on Ice, BTW. One day I will probably decide that it ( Read more... )

PairsOne thing in advance: holy fuck ( Read more... )

I think I'll comment on everyone for once because the fields are so small.

PairsPeng and Jin. Still love their program and his facial expressions. Absolutely priceless. They were really, really good and scored slightly more than 70 points ( Read more... )

Pairs.I got so excited when I saw that Ziegler and Kiefer would skate to a Mika medley. Unfortunately nearly everything went wrong in their program. And that didn't bode well for the rest of the competition ( Read more... )