it's also laughable that people would just blindly believe that at the very last minute this whole thing was pulled. they had to have had at least a few hours notice, and it's not THAT hard to update a dang website/schedule. (it's also hard to believe some posts when it's known that they are one of the street crew types...I'm just saying)
and considering other weird ideas the USFSA has had with the people it supposedly wants to keep in the seats it would not surprise me.
OD results:
FPl. Name Nation Points CD OD FD
1 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 31.72 1
2 Vanessa CRONE / Paul POIRIER CAN 30.51 2
3 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO UKR 29.67 3
4 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN 28.77 4
5 Cathy REED / Chris REED JPN 28.58 5
6 Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK CZE 27.93 6
7 Allie HANN-MCCURDY / Michael CORENO CAN 26.20 7
8 Jane SUMMERSETT / Todd GILLES USA 24.23 8
Bobrova/Soloviev hold second place behind the Kerrs and ahead of Crone/Poirier. I'm glad- I think they usually have beautiful CDs with their long leg lines and clean movement.
Crone/Poirier while fresh and young and very athletic don't have nearly enough polish yet.
Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR
35.04
Kerrs move into first place. Go D/W!!!!!
Perhaps you have a different idea of how quality customer service is supposed to work than the rest of us, but speaking someone who works in customer service and retail, the first rule is to never make promises to the customer you can't keep, even if you are the middle man.
As rightly pointed out by another poster, the fact that the Japanese did this last year should have been ample warning to the IN schedulers to check their facts BEFORE posted a schedule to customers. In addition, they should have made their caveats about schedule changes clearer to give increased warning of this type of situation.
The middle man bears as much responsibility for the quality of service as the supplier, perhaps more given that we are paying them and not the Japanese broadcasters.
It may not be that they lied per se, it could be that they were just too lazy to take steps to notify their subscribers of the change. Either way, it's no excuse for providing a service at such low quality, when they're charging users!
Being successful in business means providing customers with the quality they paid for!
Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA
38.09
Great start for Meryl and Charlie. I only wish we had been able to watch them skate!!
IN had better get their ducks in a row so that this does not happen next year!
Meryl and Charlie scored higher than in Russia: 38.09 to 37.87
AWESOME!!
so if I did the math right pairs should be on in 5 minutes? or did they get chacked at the last minute, too?
The live link is up
yeah it popped up for me right after I posted... good thing too
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