Pairs SP 7:45 Eastern Time Friday

[dorispulaski]

Warm Up Group One

1 Xue SHEN / Hongbo ZHAO CHN
Music: Who Wants to Live Forever by Brian May
2 Vanessa JAMES / Yannick BONHEUR FRA
Music: Tango by Gotan Project
3 Amanda EVORA / Mark LADWIG USA
Music: Portugese Love Theme from Love Actually (soundtrack) by Craig Armstrong
4 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU CHN
Music: Amazonic performed by Maksim Mrvica

Warm-Up Group 2

5 Meagan DUHAMEL / Craig BUNTIN CAN
Music: Hotel California by Eagles
6 Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Nodari MAISURADZE RUS
Music: Yesterday by The Beatles
7 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Stanislav MOROZOV UKR
Music: Dreams Illusion mixed by DJI
8 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG
Music: Fosse (musical soundtrack)

[beep_beep]

starts in 20 min.
I'm already feeling the jitters like at the FD at worlds....

Go Shen and Zhao!

[demarinis5]

Looking forward to the pairs competition (hope I can stay awake) and the return of S/Z. Thank goodness they skate first so if I do fall asleep I will be happy.

[visaliakid]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah to be awake and watching competitive figure skating live from half way around the globe. It's what I live for! Go S/Z!

[beep_beep]

Confessions from an addicted fan: I crammed all of my classes and work from Monda to Thursday so I could watch the GP live.

[Buttercup]

Ooooh, A Shen/Zhao montage with a Chinese version of My Heart will go On... They deserve a better song!

Good luck to all the pairs!

[demarinis5]

I bet the crowd will liven up for the pairs competition especially with S/Z and
Z/Z.

[mishieru07]

Go Shen/Zhao!!

15 mins left to go!

[dorispulaski]

Xue SHEN / Hongbo ZHAO CHN
Music: Who Wants to Live Forever by Brian May (Queen Symphony)

3toe-high and excellent. sky high 3tw. pull through to throw 3loop
spins good at first, off on 2nd foot
pullthrough to star lift with spin out
reversing pair spin
there's a deliberate pose by Shen that Zhao pulls her out of in F/w
Death spiral with a different footcatch somehow (arm across leg)
72.28

Vanessa JAMES / Yannick BONHEUR FRA 47.28 season best
Music: Tango by Gotan Project

She has a red dress with one red arm. He has red shirt black pants.
3s he underrotates and twizzles out
2tw
3sth
sbs spins off on 2nd (attitude spin in there, which I like)
flip up into a star lift
the usual back leg death spiral
lackadaisacal f/w
back entry pair spin


3 Amanda EVORA / Mark LADWIG USA
Music: Portugese Love Theme from Love Actually (soundtrack) by Craig Armstrong
4 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU CHN
Music: Amazonic performed by Maksim Mrvica

[demarinis5]

I enjoyed D/B SP. To bad about their jumps. I also love their music Hotel California. Good job.

[gold12345]

I/M.... Her purple outfit is distracting me. Everything was clean.. Her 3T looked underrotated, not a great catch on the 3twist.

62 is probably too high, but they are scoring high in general. D/B got a 55 with a pretty rough skate.

[dorispulaski]

1 Xue SHEN / Hongbo ZHAO CHN
72.28 1
2 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Stanislav MOROZOV UKR
62.98 2
3 Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Nodari MAISURADZE RUS
62.54 3
4 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN
61.92 4
5 Meagan DUHAMEL / Craig BUNTIN CAN
55.08 5
6 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU CHN
50.32 6
7 Amanda EVORA / Mark LADWIG USA
48.02 7
8 Vanessa JAMES / Yannick BONHEUR FRA
47.28 8