Finlandia Trophy with entries

[glam]

pani just posted this today at FSU on the Virtue / Moir thread . If you look to the left of the article, and click where it says " live broadcasts from the internet", This site at least will have something on Sunday. I checked the time , and it appears to start shortly after the Ladies free ( last event ) ..so maybe it'll be a compilation.. medalists from all 3 events ? ..hope, hope..

Normally the Finnish TV shows the ladies competition plus if there are interesting competitors in other disciplines. So I am sure that they will show Virtue&Moir and the Shibutani's because they are the most famous competitors (especially now that all the big Finnish names have withdrawn). They will also upload the broadcast on Yle's webtv, but I am not sure if it's geoblocked (http://yle.fi/ohjelmat/1228281). Anyways, there will be definitely videos, don't worry!

[colleen o'neill]

Oh Goody ! Thanks , glam! They appear to start at the same time. maybe the same content..

[glam]

I checked the list of live events and Finlandia Trophy will be broadcasted live on Sunday and it is not going to be geoblocked!!!
Here is the link for the live stream: http://areena.yle.fi/live

[CARA]

Fantastic! Thanks glam.

[colleen o'neill]

Once again pilfering from FSU...lavenderblue posted this link with pictures from today's practice featuring V/m , C/B and the Shibs...

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...0292537&type=1

I think that's an allowed link..V/M looking great.. I must say I'm extremely excited to see the Shibs as well , and curious about C/B.

[Bartek]

Does anyone know why Fumie has withdrawn?

[herios]

Men SP results:


1 Takahito MURA
JPN 67.78 36.28 31.50 6.65 5.80 6.40 6.30 6.35 0.00 #17
2 Paolo BACCHINI
ITA 65.75 35.70 30.05 6.00 5.65 6.10 6.10 6.20 0.00 #18
3 Alexander MAJOROV
SWE 64.27 33.62 30.65 5.95 5.85 6.30 6.20 6.35 0.00 #13
4 Ivan TRETIAKOV
RUS 63.00 35.00 28.00 5.85 5.40 5.55 5.60 5.60 0.00 #3
5 Douglas RAZZANO
USA 63.00 31.60 32.40 6.60 6.10 6.65 6.40 6.65 1.00 #11
6 Paul Bonifacio PARKINSON
ITA 62.42 32.22 30.20 5.95 5.80 6.25 6.00 6.20 0.00 #8
7 Zhan BUSH
RUS 60.10 31.00 30.10 6.20 5.45 6.10 6.10 6.25 1.00 #9
8 Maciej CIEPLUCHA
POL 59.80 30.50 29.30 5.70 5.50 6.00 5.85 6.25 0.00 #7
9 Artem BORODULIN
RUS 58.76 27.26 31.50 6.15 5.90 6.55 6.40 6.50 0.00 #5
10 Adrian SCHULTHEISS
SWE 56.95 28.30 29.65 6.20 5.70 5.80 6.05 5.90 1.00 #15
11 Abzal RAKIMGALIEV
KAZ 55.38 28.58 26.80 5.40 4.80 5.55 5.50 5.55 0.00 #12
12 Akio SASAKI
JPN 52.97 23.82 30.15 6.05 5.60 6.00 6.10 6.40 1.00 #16
13 Julian LAGUS
FIN 48.57 24.22 24.35 4.75 4.45 4.90 5.05 5.20 0.00 #10
14 Valtter VIRTANEN
FIN 47.39 24.94 23.45 5.00 4.40 4.65 4.70 4.70 1.00 #1
15 Bela PAPP
FIN 46.00 22.00 24.00 5.00 4.55 4.85 4.80 4.80 0.00 #4
16 Ari-Pekka NURMENKARI
FIN 45.14 21.24 23.90 5.00 4.45 4.80 4.75 4.90 0.00 #14
17 Matthias VERSLUIS
FIN 42.45 20.20 22.25 4.65 4.25 4.50 4.35 4.50 0.00 #6
18 Vitali LUCHANOK
BLR 38.50 18.30 21.20 4.40 4.15 4.10 4.35 4.20 1.00 #2


Good to see Borodulin competing again.

[colleen o'neill]

67.74..seems like a nice fat score for the first competition for V/M..

Shibs ( 58.45 ) and C/B (53.91).. nice!

can't wait to see these !

[gmyers]

I thought in the TES S/S would be so much closer to V/M! Maybe even beat them but still lose in the PCS. But obviously V/M are still going strong and even though are the best in the world til 2014 because of their Olympic win want the world title back.

[cjsk8fan]

Looks like V/M were slightly overmarked.

[Ravensque]

V&M's score is now 68.74........there was a change in the Tech score.......

[glam]

I just came home from the competition.
I was rooting for Adrian Schultheiss and it was sad to see that he had a good warm-up but when the competition started he lost his jumps. When he fell his last jump and couldn't do the combo he seemed very frustrated and angry and sort of threw his hand in the air. I also saw him after the competition and he looked pissed.
Virtue&Moir were also hanging out in the audience and people were taking pictures with them. They truly shined with their new SP! Tessa had a blue skirt with sequins. I took pics but they are so blurry, there is no point uploading them...

[SkateFiguring]

Looks like V/M were slightly overmarked.

You shouldn't have spoken!

Poor Adrian. Unless and unlil he gets his head in a good place, he is not going to have any good result. Mind management is paramount to his success. I wonder if his circumstances and mood have improved.

[herios]

Looks like V/M were slightly overmarked.

Have you actually seen the competition?

I was expecting nothing short of a spectacular score, mainly because they have skated to almost this entire program (minus the required step sequence for the rhumba), all summer long in shows and it got better and smoother all along.
It is already a very polished dance (seen it in Yu Na's show).

[colleen o'neill]

When I saw the first score , I thought , nice and healthy... V/M are capable of achieving more than that , but it made a good start to the season.

I'm very high on S/S but don't really think they're of V/M's calibre .. yet ... and was not surprised to see the difference there. ( not having seen their dance, I'm still not surprised ,after the change in marks )

I might have expected C/B to be a bit farther behind S/S , considering the length of their partnership.. but then , we haven't seen the dances , and I expect Madi to be something of a little hot tamale in the SD...