I thought the ice-dance event at the 2001 Worlds was judged very questionably. Although they were a little cautious at times, Anissina & Peizerat should've beaten Fusar-Poli & Margaglio by a mile. The Italians just didn't have the content that was necessary to be world champions while the French team had an amazingly difficult FD. I also thought Drobiazko & Vanagas should've medalled by I guess bringing back the same program from the year before will win you no favours with the judges.
Although they were an unknown team at the time, I strongly disagreed with Denkova & Staviyski's 10th place finish in 2001. I'm a huge fan of their Xotica FD from that year (I think it's an avant-garde masterpiece and it's one of my favourite programs to watch) and I thought they should've finished ahead of many teams. In fact, I may be crazy enough to say that they deserved a medal but I guess they were just didn't have enough of a reputation to get one at that time.
Although Usova & Zhulin were very passionate and dramatic, they just didn't do it for me technically and I actually thought that a young Grishuk & Platov should've finished ahead of them at the 1992 Olympics, especially in the compulsory and OD portions of the competition. G&P also had a very interesting FD that year that was quite difficult. On the other hand, U&Z did a FD to Vivaldi's Four Seasons that year and it was beautiful but easier than the other couples from the Unified Team. In fact, my final results would've been: 1) K&P 2) G&P 3) U&Z 4) D&D 5) whoever. I know many will strongly disagree with me and that's fine but to my eye, I thought G&P had the edge over U&Z.
Although they were an unknown team at the time, I strongly disagreed with Denkova & Staviyski's 10th place finish in 2001. I'm a huge fan of their Xotica FD from that year (I think it's an avant-garde masterpiece and it's one of my favourite programs to watch) and I thought they should've finished ahead of many teams. In fact, I may be crazy enough to say that they deserved a medal but I guess they were just didn't have enough of a reputation to get one at that time.
Although Usova & Zhulin were very passionate and dramatic, they just didn't do it for me technically and I actually thought that a young Grishuk & Platov should've finished ahead of them at the 1992 Olympics, especially in the compulsory and OD portions of the competition. G&P also had a very interesting FD that year that was quite difficult. On the other hand, U&Z did a FD to Vivaldi's Four Seasons that year and it was beautiful but easier than the other couples from the Unified Team. In fact, my final results would've been: 1) K&P 2) G&P 3) U&Z 4) D&D 5) whoever. I know many will strongly disagree with me and that's fine but to my eye, I thought G&P had the edge over U&Z.