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2012 Cup of Russia Pairs FS

sequinsgalore

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Caydee DENNEY / John COUGHLIN (USA)

Music: Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber (the 2nd POTO of the day, garhh...)

3FTw
3LoTh - hand down
3T
2A+2A+SEQ - her technique is weird
FCCoSp - unison ok
Li
3LzTh
ChSq
Li
FiDs
Li - audience is not clapping, but then again, it's an ugly lift
PCoSp
 

bigsisjiejie

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D/C, fairly clean program no major mistakes, nicely done. At least this is US pair that can land SBS jumps. That last lift is fugly though, and needs a rethink.
 

Buttercup

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D/C, fairly clean program no major mistakes, nicely done. At least this is US pair that can land SBS jumps. That last lift is fugly though, and needs a rethink.
Is there anything about their skating and programs that is not fugly?

The last lift does take the cake, though.
 

Mrs. P

Uno, Dos, twizzle!
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Is there anything about their skating and programs that is not fugly?

The last lift does take the cake, though.

They do hit the elements and it shows in their strong TES. The fugly is reflected in the poor PCS scores. I'm hoping they'll focus more on that along with more transitions in between elements. They can actually score higher in TES by doing so.
 

sequinsgalore

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Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV (RUS)

Music: Spartacus by Aram Khatchaturian

3T
2A+2A+SEQ - she has hand down on 1st, generally shaky from both
3FTw - high
3FTh - twofooted
BiDs
FCCoSp - unison ok
ChSq
Li
3LoTh
Li - botches position change!
Li
PCoSp
 

bigsisjiejie

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Is there anything about their skating and programs that is not fugly?

The last lift does take the cake, though.

I appreciate their power and attack. Given their natural skating abilities, styles, and limitations, refinement may or may not be a forever elusive goal, we'll see. I have to remind myself that they really haven't been together all that long, less than 2 years.
 

bigsisjiejie

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125 seems quite high for B/L, considering they had a number of goofies in this program and it was far from brilliant. ETA: yep, looks like a little home cooking on the PCS. I don't find them to be 8's level skaters.
 

Mrs. P

Uno, Dos, twizzle!
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Just to note that D/C actually scored better in PCS (58.91) here than they did at Skate America (57.50)....just some food for thought.
 

bigsisjiejie

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Glad to see that Trankov is without that Hitler mustache he was sporting in the SP. I presume it was a paste-on, which makes it easy to omit in the future.
 

sequinsgalore

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Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV (RUS)

Music: Violin Muse by Ikuko Kawai, based on Partita for Violin No. 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach and Chaconne by Tomaso Vitali

3FTw - very high!
3S+2T - he's very forward on 3S, adds only +1T. She also stumbles/twofoots the +2T
FiDs
FCCoSp - unison good
3LoTh - very high, she falls
3T - he falls
Li
Li
3STh - twofooted
Li - a bit shaky
PCoSp

Not their best, a couple of big mistakes.
 
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FSGMT

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What a disaster for V/T: not even one clean jump!! This DOESN'T DESERVE a high score... They should be behind both B/L and D/N in the FS! Shall they give them 65 in the PCS? It would be a scandal...
 

sequinsgalore

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Volosozhar/Trankov
62.74+72.05-2.00 = 132.79 (SB), total 207.53 (SB) and GOLD

Way too high score...
 
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