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USFS and Ice Network are asserting their US broadcast rights to the entire Grand Prix Series by having youtube remove the videos of current season performances and cancelling the accounts of those who had a few current season dances uploaded. Therefore, I will not be posting links to current season performances, unless they were at club competitions like Liberty and LPIDC or at summer national or international competitions like Nebelhorn, Karl Schaefer Memorial or Masters de Patinage.
For teams who did not compete their new programs in any summer or national events, I will post photos of them in the costumes they used, if I can find them.
For those who have forgotten, they will be waltzing in Russia this week to the Viennese Waltz. I have updated the reference file to
remove videos of lovely Viennese waltzes from past experts that are no longer on youtube. I have also added some few replacements.
http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24315
1 Allie HANN-McCURDY / Michael CORENO CAN 1
They are a couple on and off the ice. Allie and Michael did not have a high finish at Skate America, despite having a very promising year last year. . I hope that they will be able to improve on that performance in Russia, but it's also a strong field here, as it was at Skate America. Really, Allie and Michael had no luck in the event assignments at all.
Coach and Choreographer: Viktor Kraatz and Maikki Uotila Kraatz, Megan Wing and Aaron Lowe for their OD last year.
OD 1940's Swing/Foxtrot Lili Marleen by Hans Leip and Norbert Schultze; Over There by Glenn Miller
FD Pankakoski by Risto Laurita
Personal Best Total Score 164.02 Four Continents Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Compulsory Dance 34.39 Budapest Junior Grand Prix 2004
Personal Best Score Original Dance 51.08 ISU JGP Tallinn Cup 2005
Personal Best Score Free Dance 83.76 Four Continents Championships 2008
Recent Competitions:
2008 Skate America 9 9 9 9 (142.95)
2008 World Championships 17 19 18 19 (153.13)
2008 Four Continents Championships 6 6 6 6 (164.02)
2008 Canadian National Championships 2 3 5 3 (173.86)
2007 Skate Canada 7 6 4 4 (152.16)
2007 Nebelhorn Trophy 3 5 3 4 (143.82)
2007 Canadian National Championships 9 7 8 8 (145.26)
2006 Trophée Eric Bompard 10 10 10 10 (132.72)
2006 Skate America 11 11 11 11 (131.07)
2006 Nebelhorn Trophy 7 7 7 7 (133.45)
2006 World Junior Championships 9 7 9 8 (139.55)
2006 Canadian Junior National Championships 1 1 1 1 (151.47)
Photos of their costumes:
CD:
Fairly standard ballroom outfit for the Viennese. He's in black formal dress with a white bowtie, she in a white spangled gown.
www.jamd.com/image/g/83424400
OD:
He's dressed as an army sergeant, she in a short red, dress.
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/08R6gQKcV7ahI/340x.jpg
FD
They appear to be portraying a watery theme. She's in a combination of blues, with one blue glove
His shirt is similar, but he has black pants, which I found a bit jarring.
www.jamd.com/image/g/83440261
Videos
2008 Canadian Nationals Exhibition to Pankakoski by Risto Laurita . They are using the same music for this years FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOxKUenYFR4
2008 Canadian Nationals OD Logdriver's Waltz & Newfoundland Jig (totally charming)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaT_ywlEWgU&feature=related
Look At You Video Montage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OrmsXDTcJo
2007 Free Dance from a Summer competition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oeW24PFGqY
Articles:
IceNetwork Biography
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=39004&mode=P
August Article 2008
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-co...og/2008/08/allie_hannmccurdy_and_michael.html
Article before Worlds 2008
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/story.html?id=7f5332b4-39d4-4024-9c23-e8b54dbca48c&k=63195
Golden Skate Interview with Allie and Michael October 2007:
http://www.goldenskate.com/articles/2007/102207.shtml
A preview article before 2008 Canadians:
http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/story.html?id=1e5bded4-f087-4c35-a823-2c031b51cbfa
A preview article before the 2004 Jr Worlds
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/FigureSkating/2004/10/17/673327.html
Website
http://www.skatetoday.com/alliemichael/
OD Flight Plan
1 MiStNt3
2 STw3
3 Sp4
4 DiSt3
5 RoLi4
6 Li+TRANS
Their best OD element was their Diagonal Step, Level 3, element number 4
1 STw3
2 SlLi4
3 DiSt3
4 CuLi2
5 CuLi4+RoLi4
6 CiSt3
7 RoLi4
8 CoSp4
9 Li+TRANS
Their best FD element was their combination lift (elemnt 5)
2 Zoe BLANC / Pierre-Loup BOUQUET FRA 2
This team appears to specialize in presenting different programs. Sometimes they try a little bit too hard. Their "French rap" free dance is a bit difficult to follow for those of us who do not speak French. In fact, as the gentlemen reciting the words in their song sounds like a local guy reciting poems in a coffeehouse, I was happy to find a youtube of their Master de Patinage FD which has an English translation of what is being said. If you too are curious what this dance is all about, you should check it out.
Coach: Karine Arribert Narce, Martial Jaffredo
Choreographer: Karine Arribert Narce
Training Town: Villard de Lans
OD: Black & Blues by Louis Armstrong
FD: Chercher d'Or by Grand Corp Malade
Best Total Score 134.46 2008 Trophee Bompard
Best Score CD 29.27 JGP Mirecurea Ciuc 2006
Best Score OD 43.86 JGP Mirecurea Ciuc 2006
Best Score FD 66.25 2008 Trophee Bompard
Former Partners: Clavier & Bouquet; Blanc & Cuenca
Competitive Results
2008 TEBC
2008 Masters de Patinage 4 4 4 (128.42)
2008 French National Championships 3 3 3 3 (149.97)
2007 Trophée Eric Bompard 10 10 10 10 (126.10)
2007 Cup of China 8 7 8 8 (132.96)
2007 Masters de Patinage 4 4 4 4 (137.67)
2006 Junior Pavel Roman Memorial 4 6 7 6 (125.49)
2006 Junior Masters de Patinage 2 2 1 1 (146.58)
2006 Harghita Cup [JGP] 3 3 11 6 (123.69)
2006 JGP Courchevel 5 10 12 10 (122.21)
2005 Junior Pavel Roman Memorial 5 5 7 7 (118.39)
2005 Gdansk Cup [JGP] 13 10 12 11 (110.71)
2005 Junior Masters de Patinage 3 (111.47)
2005 JGP Slovakia 11 11 13 13 (95.53)
2004 Junior Pavel Roman Memorial 4 3 3 3
Photos-Alas photos are not yet available
In their paso doble CD, Zoe wore a black dress, with a flapping rag skirt, and pseudo black elbow high gloves. The hands were not covered by the gloves. The back of the dress had a vee all the way down to the small of her back. A matching vee proceeded upward in the skirt to the same spot, where the only opaque item appeared to be a flashy brooch. Thank goodness for illusion fabric, because if this were real, that brooch could well break, causing the whole dress to fall off.
Pierre Loup was dressed in a black and red matador outfit. The black bolero jacket had very odd crenellations along its edge and red epaulets with large sequins and two red stripes down the sleeves over a red vest with four patches of black tassels over his abdomen with a white dickey underneath it.
In their OD, Zoe wore a powderpuff pink layered flapper dress, black elbow high gloves and pearls. Pierre-Loup wore a dark pin stripe vest with a black tie and a pink shirt. All this pink (and black) appears to have been chosen to contrast with "Black and Blues"
In their FD, Pierre-Loup is wearing a white practice suit affair with one sleeve missing. It has what appears to be "Cher chercher" written in large black letters down the leg. He has something that looks like a large squarish Chinese character on the back, and several other unidentifiable pieces of graffiti. Zoe is wearing a white dress with a rag skirt with similar graffiti. Her white tights also have something written on it, but from a distance, it appears to be a huge ladder in her tights, which is perhaps not the effect they intended.
Videos:
Their current OD:
2008 Masters de Patinage OD Black & Blues by Armstrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz8yGVKp9nM
Their current FD:
2008 Master de Patinage FD Chercher d'Or (with English translation of the words)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHURPOyeAUE&feature=related
2008 Stars Sur Glace Exhibition Billie Jean (Skated in overalls with one leg replaced by black tights & Ski masks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deCsEn9UaAk
2007 Stars Sur Glace Exhibition Louise Attaque
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI2oxVdW-UY
2007 TEB OD Shantala (Hindi Folk Dance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5lM86oJbNg&feature=related
Articles:
Ice Network bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38925&mode=P
Ice-dance.com entry
http://www.ice-dance.com/profiles/profile.php?team=zoblpibo
Website:
http://www.blancbouquet.com
Orange Patinage info (there's a lot here, but in French)
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/cygnuskate/biographie/blanc_bouquet.htm
OD Flight Plan
1 Sp4
2 CiSt2
3 STw4
4 MiStNt
5 CuLi2
Their best OD element was their Middle Step Not Touching (element 4)
FD FLight Plan
1 STw4
2 CoSp4
3 RoLi4
4 CiSt2
5 SlLi2
6 DiSt3
7 SeLi4
8 CuLi2
Their best element in the FD was their rotational lift (third element)
3 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI ISR 3
Alexandra and Roman competed at Nebelhorn this summer and finished second behind Samuelson / Bates. They won the Viennese Waltz over S/B however. However, their CoC performance was a minor disaster. Their training has apparently been affected quite a lot by the suit against their rink. That's too bad, because they seemed to really be making good progress last season. I see Tarasova is one of their choreographers. I'm beginning to wonder whether her involvement in the choreo of a skater she is not actively coaching is the true kiss of death.
Coach: Galit Chait
Choreographer: Galit Chait & Tatiana Tarasova (FD)
Former Coach: N. Morozov, E. Platov, I .Zaretski, I. Romanova, I. Yaroshenko
Training Town: Hackensack, NJ (USA)
Born in Minsk, BLR
OD: Summertime by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald & Fosse (Blues & Charleston)
FD: Jesus Christ Superstar (soundtrack) by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Best Total Score 179.21 World Championships 2008
Best Score CD 37.59 Harghita Cup 2004
Best Score OD 58.10 World Championships 2008
Best Score FD 88.60 World Championships 2008
Competitive Results
2008 Cup of China 5 7 7 7 (148.17)
2008 Nebelhorn Trophy 1 3 2 2 (168.59)
2008 World Championships 9 9 10 9 (179.21)
2008 European Championships 7 9 9 8 (171.70)
2007 Cup of China 4 4 4 4 (161.86)
2007 Skate America 7 7 8 7 (157.85)
2008 Israeli National Championships 1 (142.14)
2007 World Championships 13 12 14 14 (156.52)
2007 European Championships 12 11 12 11 (148.05)
2006 Cup of China 4 4 4 4 (158.37)
2006 Skate America 7 7 9 8 (143.95)
2006 Nebelhorn Trophy 3 3 3 3 (156.67)
2006 World Championships 24 22 20 20 (140.14)
2006 Olympic Games 24 23 20 22 (135.80)
2006 European Championships 17 15 15 15 (138.47)
2005 NHK Trophy 9 9 9 9 (142.72)
2005 Cup of China 9 9 9 9 (129.87)
2005 Skate Israel 4 4 4 4
2005 World Junior Championships 3 4 5 4 (165.76)
2005 Junior Grand Prix Final 5 8 8 8 (131.22)
2004 Harghita Cup [JGP] 2 3 2 2 (163.84)
2004 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 1 5 4 3 (154.14)
2004 World Junior Championships 2B 3B 8 10 9
2004 Junior Grand Prix Final 4 5 7 6
2003 Junior Grand Prix - Gdansk 1 1 1 1
2003 Skate Israel 6 5 4 4
2003 Mexico Cup [JGP] 3 3 2 2
2003 World Junior Championships 5B 4B 9 8 8
2002 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 3 3 3 3
2002 Belgrade Sparrow [JGP] 3 3 3 3
2002 World Junior Championships 19 20 17 19 19
2001 Trofeo Rita Trapanese [JGP] 10 9 8 8
2001 JGP The Hague 12 11 12 11
Photos
None that I found
Videos
2008 OD in Practice at Jamfest; Summertime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMj51Ypktys
2008 Europeans OD Shick Shack Shock (Mideastern dance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdLFbj9Yhao
2008 Europeans CD Yankee Polka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-HNmerAIRs&feature=related
2008 Worlds CD Agentine Tango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7OzeczAMb4
2008 Worlds FD Let My People Go, & Sing, Sing, Sing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_-QaMITVy0
2007 Israeli Championships FD Let My People Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdPpCgpXyws
2007 Worlds FD Carmina Burana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksvkXZ4M8XQ&feature=related
Articles
Galit Chait and Zaretskis sue Ice House in Hackensack, NJ for anti-Israeli discrimination
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/exolympic_skater_students_file.html
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10302008/news/regionalnews/skater_suit__rink_hates_ice_raelis_136001.htm
Recent Icenetwork interview-It's hard to keep up with their coach Galit Chait
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080731&content_id=49849&vkey=ice_news
2003 Zaretskis are first Israelis to skate in JGPF
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-88449255.html
Golden Skate article about their previous coaches and training
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2003/102903.shtml
Their ice network bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38898&mode=P
Website
http://www.ice-dance.com/zaretsky/
They had trouble with the synchronized twizzles, level 4, (their 4th element) and received 4 -1's.
Their best element was straight line lift, level 2, which received mostly 1's (their 3rd element)
OD Flight Plan
1 Sp2
2 MiStNt3
3 SlLi2
4 STw4
5 CiSt3
6 Li+TRANS
Their best element was their initial rotational lift.
Their worst element was their second element, which earned several -1's.
Their FD Flight Plan
1 RoLi4
2 STw3
3 CiSt3
4 SlLi3
5 CuLi4
6 CuLi2+RoLi1
7 CoSp1
8 DiSt3
9 Li+TRANS
4 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 4
Capellini and Lanotte were 10th at Worlds. I like their programs better than Faiella and Scali's. It should be an interesting Italian championships this year. Their performance at CoC was very strong, and finishing fourth in a field that stacked was quite an accomplishment. The British Eurosport commentators kept going on about how much they liked C&L throughout the performances of the 2 or 3 teams ahead of them in both the OD and the FD. And C&L got very high levels for their programs and beat K&N in the OD. D&W will need to skate very well to finish ahead of C&L. Heck K&N may have to step it up a notch.
Coach: Roberto Pelizzola, Barbara Riboldi
Choreographer: Ludmila Vlasova, Giovanna Franzoni
Training Towns: Milano and Pinzolo
OD: Bei mir bist du schoen by Sholom Secunda (Swing Kids)
FD: Love Story by Nana Mouskouri
Personal Best Total Score 179.03 World Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Compulsory Dance 35.39 ISU JGP Sofia Cup 2005
Personal Best Score Original Dance 57.05 World Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Free Dance 90.46 World Championships 2008
Former Partnerships: Cappellini & Zanni, Pistorello & LaNotte, Spelta & LaNotte
First Alternates for the 2008 Grand Prix Final
Sixth Qualifiers for the 2006 Junior Grand Prix Final
Competitive Results
2008 Cup of China 4 3 4 4 (173.11)
2008 World Championships 11 10 9 10 (179.03)
2008 European Championships 10 7 7 7 (172.64)
2008 Italian National Championships 2 2 2 2 (179.43)
2007 Trophée Eric Bompard 3 5 4 4 (168.75)
2007 Skate Canada 2 2 3 2 (171.57)
2007 World Championships 12 16 13 13 (158.83)
2007 European Championships 9 8 11 8 (155.28)
2007 Winter Universiade 1 1 1 1 (165.24)
2007 Italian National Championships 2 2 2 2 (173.87)
2006 Cup of Russia 7 8 9 8 (149.53)
2006 Trophée Eric Bompard 6 4 5 5 (159.77)
2006 World Junior Championships 4 3 6 4 (160.72)
2006 Italian Junior National Championships 1 1 1 1 (174.49)
2006 Junior Grand Prix Final 2 3 3 3 (159.49)
2005 Sofia Cup [JGP] 1 2 2 2 (161.57)
2005 JGP Slovakia 1 1 2 2 (166.47)
Photos
OD she in red shirt and silver top, he in black vest with red pocket square and pants with white shirt
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...6136,83596134,83596121,83596076|0&id=83596121
In dance spin
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...596134,83596121,83596076|0&mode=c&id=83596134
FD: I couldn't find any pictures, but they are dancing to Love Story. She is in a grey dress with sleeves with sharp white cuffs. He is in a v neck sweater over a white business shirt collar pulled outside it, also grey,
with blackpants.
Videos
Their current OD:
2008 First National Competition OD Bei mir bist du schoen by Sholom Secunda
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=IAC0ELSIBmU
Their current FD:
2008 First National Competition FD “Love Story”, performed by Nana Moskouri
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=HCk3kuwEIQo
2007/2008 Season OD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXkvOMBpwrs
2007/2008 Season FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukIFagxVdEA
2007 National Championships FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZmN_O3PIo
2007 Worlds OD Tango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpxK2W-7e2U
Articles
2008 interview at the Golden Skate Awards
http://www.artonice.it/?q=it/node/5762
Translation of article about working with Muriel Zazoui
http://annaeluca.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=16
Ice network bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38875&mode=P
Website
http://cappellini-lanotte.ice-dance.com/
Fan forum
http://annaeluca.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?p=42&sid=776646f85c9bb01e75c7afe9b8127107
OD Flight Plan
Anna and Luca had a remarkably even performance. ALmost every judge gave them GOE 1 on almost every element.
They had a slight problem with the Rotational lift level four, where they received three -1's.
1 MiStNt3
2 Sp4
3 DiSt3
4 RoLi4
5 STw3
6 Li+TRANS
In the FD, Anna and Luca's best element was their initial rotational lift which earned 4 2's and the rest 1's.
Again, they were beautifully trained, and all elements were well performed.
FD Flight Plan
1 RoLi4
2 CuLi4+RoLi4
3 STw3
4 CiSt3
5 CoSp4
6 DiSt3
7 SlLi4
8 CuLi3
9 Li+TRANS
5 Katherine COPELY / Deividas STAGNIUNAS LTU 5
This is another team with an American lady as one of the team. And they are now among the cast of thousands coached by Igor Shpilband Inc in Canton, MI. I first saw this team at COR 2007 where they finished 3rd in the FD. I'm hoping they develop well and that Shpilband doesn't sanitize their creativity into some made-for-the-masses generic FD.
Coach and Choreographer: Igor Shpilband and Marina Zoueva; Former Coach: Elena Garanina
Training Towns: Canton, MI, USA and Kaunas, Lithuania
OD Swing Kids soundtrack
FD Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Personal Best Total Score 164.28 World Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Compulsory Dance 29.85 World Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Original Dance 51.66 World Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Free Dance 82.85 Cup of Russia 2007
Former Partnerships: Copely & Connelly, Copely & Wensel, Frey & Stagniunas
Competitive Results
2008 Skate America 6 8 8 8 (156.28)
2008 World Championships 13 14 12 14 (164.28)
2008 European Championships 14 11 12 12 (158.98)
2007 Cup of Russia 6 4 3 5 (161.36)
2007 Golden Spin of Zagreb 5 2 3 3 (151.90)
2007 World Championships 24 20 22 23 (136.63)
2007 European Championships 21 20 18 18 (124.53)
2006 Golden Spin of Zagreb 3 3 3 3 (141.20)
2006 Nebelhorn Trophy 8 6 5 6 (135.71)
Videos
2007 Christmas Ice Flames Exhibition to Spend This Night With Me (good)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UEz48ndFJw
Drobiazko & Vanagas Tour Exhibition to Kalinka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D96WY4JoVZA
2007 Yankee Polka CD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rmEL3kt2hU
2007 / 2008 FD Beethoven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u87bvPpXgM
2007/ 2008 OD Gypsy Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dBh6AydI00&feature=related
Articles:
Ice Network biography
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=39203&mode=P
Website
http://www.ice-dance.com/copely-stagniunas/
Their best OD element was their Mid Line Step Not Touching, Level 3 (Element 4)
They had a significatn problem with their first element, the synchronized twizzle
OD Flight Plan
1 STw2
2 Sp4
3 SlLi4
4 MiStNt3
5 DiSt2
6 Li+TRANS
Their best FD element was the first one, their Curved Lift, Level 4
FD Flight Plan
1 CuLi4
2 STw4
3 CiSt2
4 DiSt3
5 StaLi4
6 SlLi4
7 CoSp4
8 CuLi4+RoLi4
9 Li+TRANS
6 Oksana DOMNINA / Maxim SHABALIN RUS 6
There is no doubt that has been a difficult year for Oksana and Maxim, but it hasn't affected their winning ways. Even with their costumes not finished and no kefir available in the Wilds of Aston, PA, they came to Cup of China and won. I'm sure Maxim's knees will be even stronger and their dances better as his rehab progresses.
Here on their home turf, they should be unbeatable. I do hope she will have found a more attractive outfit for the Viennese though, and some costume at all for Maxim, who appeared to be skating in outfits from Dick's Sporting Goods in both the CD and OD. Apparently, Oksana's dress for the CD was cut down from one in a catalog. I hope their real costumes will be seen here.
Coach: Natalia Linichuk & Gennadi Karponosov
Training Town: Aston, PA
OD: Waltz from Suite No. 2 for Jazz Orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovitch
FD: Spartacus by Aram Khatchaturian
Best Total Score 207.14 European Championships 2008
Best Score CD 40.25 European Championships 2008
Best Score OD 63.20 Cup of Russia 2007
Best Score FD 104.99 European Championships 2008
Former partners: Domnina & Bolotin, Khaliavina & Shabalin
Fourth Qualifiers for the 2008 Grand Prix Final
Third Qualifiers for the 2007 Grand Prix Final
Sixth Qualifiers for the 2006 Grand Prix Final
Competitive History
2008 Cup of China 1 2 1 1 (186.77)
2008 European Championships 2 2 1 1 (207.14)
2008 Grand Prix Final 3 1 1 (165.57)
2007 Cup of Russia 1 1 1 1 (205.24)
2007 Cup of China 1 1 3 2 (188.66)
2007 World Championships 3 4 5 5 (193.44)
2007 European Championships 2 2 1 2 (199.16)
2007 Russian National Championships 1 1 1 1 (207.32)
2007 Grand Prix Final 3 2 3 (156.14)
2006 Cup of Russia 1 3 1 2 (185.34)
2006 Cup of China 1 2 1 1 (188.41)
2006 Karl Schäfer Memorial 1 1 1 1 (173.47)
2006 World Championships 7 6 7 7 (178.39)
2006 Olympic Games 9 9 9 9 (173.76)
2006 European Championships 7 6 6 6 (175.72)
2006 Russian National Championships 2 2 2 2
2006 Grand Prix Final 5 6 5 (142.73)
2005 Cup of Russia 3 3 3 3 (176.69)
2005 Skate America 3 3 3 3 (169.23)
2005 Skate Israel 2 2 2 2
2005 World Championships 8 7 8 8 (190.20)
2005 European Championships 7 7 6 6 (178.91)
2005 Russian National Championships 1 1 1 1
2004 Cup of Russia 3 4 4 4 (187.51)
2004 Cup of China 4 4 4 4 (179.70)
2004 World Championships 6 10 10 10
2004 European Championships 7 7 7 7
2004 Russian National Championships 2 2 2 2 2
2003 Cup of Russia 5 5 7 6
2003 Bofrost Cup on Ice 4 4 4
2003 Skate Canada 7 6 6 6
2003 Finlandia Trophy 2 2 2 2
2003 World Championships 7 15 15 15
2003 World Junior Championships 1B 1B 1 1 1
2003 European Championships 12 13 12 12
2003 Russian National Championships 3 3 2 3 3
2003 Junior Grand Prix Final 1 1 1 1
2002 Belgrade Sparrow [JGP] 1 1 1 1
2002 JGP Courchevel 1 1 1 1
Photos
CD - I could not find a photo of their CD outfit. Apparently, they have had not enough time yet to prepare costumes. Oksana cut down a dress she bought from a catalog. Max appears to
be wearing a version of the Maytag man's uniform while she is in a dress with a black feathered top and a white feathered skirt with some sort of bauble stuck next to her eye and scraps from the dress pinned in her hair.
It's puzzling attire, and I suspect it will look vastly different at COR.
OD-They are a couple from perhaps the 1940's in winter. She is wearing a Sonia Henie skating outfit, he a newsboy cap and bright scarf.
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...596131,83596118,83596112|0&mode=c&id=83596131
FD-They are done up in kind of stripy ice dance illusion bondage attire. They're doing Spartacus, of course.
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...6139,83596131,83596118,83596112|0&id=83610928
Videos
2008 FD Masquerade Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZhYmspSX18&feature=related
2008 OD Don Cossack Dance (Guys Get Your Horse)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3VOnM2HGYc
2007 OD Tango by Piazzola
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzvQoR2EAWc&feature=related
2006 Olympics FD Waltz of the Spirits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A71XyFV2Rr4
2005 Worlds OD Slow Fox and Quickstep (British Eurosport)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NELgXUFT3aE&feature=related
2005 Worlds FD The Fifth Element (British Eurosport)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsQsikcO6pI
2003 Worlds OD Polka/Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQflajbqEzU&feature=related
2003 Jr Worlds EX Mungal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Z2y-UgO_Y
2003 Jr Worlds LP Afro-Latin Mix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdN8UoBas0U
Articles
Golden Skate Article on Domnina and Shabalin's move to Linichuk/Karphonosov By Tatiana Flade
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2008/101208.shtml
Icenetwork article about the Aston, PA, complex, Domnina & Shabalin and Belbin and Agosto
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080711&content_id=49311&vkey=ice_news
Russian online preview of Russian skaters chances this year
http://www.kommersant.com/p1046197/r_530/sports_figure_skating/
The whole article in Russian
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1046197
Their highs: They win Europeans
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/sports/skating/2008/01/27/140730/Domnina-and.htm
Their Lows: Maxim has to have more surgery and they cannot attend worlds
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=figureskating&id=3290673
Long article in Russian
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=868055
Winning CoR 2007
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/cor_3.shtml
An account of CoR 2006
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2006/112606_d.shtml
Their icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38777&mode=P
Websites
Official website
http://oksana-maksim.narod.ru/
Fansite
http://www.domnina-shabalin.com/newindex.html
Their best element was their fifth element, the straight line lift. It one 3, 2 one's and the rest 2's.
Their first element, the Mid Line step not touching also scored mostly 2's.
They had a problem with the fourth element, the circular step, scoring three -1's.
This program is quite new, and you should expect their element levels will be higher, and their performance more spectacular, here at CoR.
Their OD Flight Plan from Cup of China
1 MiStNt3
2 Sp2
3 STw4
4 CiSt2
5 SlLi3
Their FD Flight Plan from Cup of China
Their best element with the seventh one, the Straight Line Lift, level 3, which received mostly 2's.
None of their element scores reveals a particular weakness.
1 STw4
2 CiSt3
3 SlLi3+RoLi1
4 CuLi4
5 DiSt3
6 RoLi4
7 SlLi3
8 CoSp4
9 Li+TRANS
7 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS 6
I found their costume choices in both the OD and the FD to be quite peculiar. The last tutu in ice dance that I saw was worn by Natalia Bestemianova (or perhaps by Debi Thomas in her Wanda Beazel routine. It was about the same time)
Their lifts were the best part of the program, but I wonder whether these programs will have major changes coming. They did not seem quite finished somehow to me.
Coach: Alexander Svinin, Irina Zhuk
Choreographer: Irina Zhuk, Alexander Svinin
Former Coach: Larisa Filina
Training Town: Moscow
OD: Blues: Sam's Blues by Sam Taylor; Swing: Puttin' On the Ritz
FD: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninov
Best Total Score 203.26 World Championships 2008
Best Score CD 37.98 World Championships 2008
Best Score OD 65.99 World Championships 2008
Best Score FD 99.66 European Championships 2008
Former Partnerships: Lepetiukha & Novitski
Sixth Qualifiers for the 2008 Grand Prix Final
First Alternates for the 2007 Grand Prix Final
Competitive Results
2008 Cup of China 3 4 3 3 (179.50)
2008 World Championships 3 2 5 3 (203.26)
2008 European Championships 3 3 3 3 (197.06)
2008 Russian National Championships 1 1 1 1 (212.82)
2008 Grand Prix Final 5 5 5 (153.58)
2007 NHK Trophy 3 3 3 3 (186.96)
2007 Trophée Eric Bompard 2 2 1 2 (191.01)
2007 World Championships 6 7 8 8 (178.29)
2007 European Championships 5 4 4 4 (175.76)
2007 Russian National Championships 2 2 2 2 (192.94)
2007 Grand Prix Final 5 5 5 (141.34)
2006 NHK Trophy 2 2 2 2 (180.57)
2006 Cup of China 3 3 3 3 (173.86)
2006 World Championships 11 16 12 12 (162.15)
2006 Olympic Games 14 13 11 12 (164.48)
2006 European Championships 10 10 8 10 (162.65)
2006 Russian National Championships 3 3 3 3
2005 NHK Trophy 3 4 4 4 (158.18)
2005 Trophée Eric Bompard 5 5 7 6 (150.05)
2005 Winter Universiade 1 1 1 1
2004 Cup of Russia 7 7 7 7 (156.15)
2004 Skate Canada 6 6 6 6 (163.14)
2004 Russian National Championships 4 4 4 4 4
2003 NHK Trophy 6 8 6 6
2003 Golden Spin 4 4 3 3
2003 Nebelhorn Trophy 2 4 2 2
2003 Winter Universiade 1 1 1 1 1
2003 Russian National Championships 5 5 5 5 5
2002 Russian National Championships 7 7 7 7 7
Photos
OD- she is dressed as a head of lettuce with two carrot slices stuck in the top. He appears to be Pee Wee Herman or a zootsuiter. Your choice.
Ending pose
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...neric|1&axs=0|83596129,83596126|0&id=83596129
In lift (This would be a super cool lift if not for the nylon net dish scrubber she is wearing.
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...neric|1&axs=0|83596129,83596126|0&id=83596126
Close up of dress top
http://s118.photobucket.com/albums/o81/LIsoundview/th_khoknovod08.jpg
FD
http://s118.photobucket.com/albums/o81/LIsoundview/th_khoknovFD08.jpg
CD
http://s118.photobucket.com/albums/o81/LIsoundview/th_khoknovCD08.jpg
Videos
2008 Ex Stop by Sam Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeBojsFn6d0
Stars of 2014 Night on Bald Mountain Exhibition version of FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9__q3OrqPA&feature=related
2008 Argentine Tango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMLadLQOIKA
2008 FD Night on Bald Mountain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1uw0Dw5ziw
2008 OD Gypsy Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m8O-7-wf1g
2008 Exhibition Johnny Weir dances with Jana Khokhlova
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gdB3T7aWJ8&feature=related
2007 OD Tango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMLadLQOIKA
2004 Skate Canada FD Pirates of the Caribbean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KuJgUy7O6M
Articles
Bestiamanova comments on being compared to Khokhlova
http://www.artonice.it/?q=en/node/4330
Russian online preview of Russian skaters chances this year
http://www.kommersant.com/p1046197/r_530/sports_figure_skating/
Rest of the long article in Russian
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1046197
Golden Skate article from May 2008 by Tatjana Flade about Jana & Sergei
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/052408.shtml
Article about their first Russian championship
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/rn_3.shtml
Their icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38824&mode=P
Website
Current official website. They are in process of getting a new one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9OsDfXq0NE&feature=related
Jana and Sergei had a significant problem with the second element, the synchronized twizzle. They received three -2's, one 0, and the rest -1's. Only one element is level four. As a result, they were in fourth place in this part of the CoC. I expect to see significant improvement here at CoR.
Their best element was the Straight Line Lift, element 3, which earned four 2's.
OD Flight Plan
1 Sp4
2 STw2
3 SlLi2
4 MiStNt3
5 DiSt3
6 Li+TRANS
Their best element in the FD was element 6, their rotational lift, which received two 1's and the rest 2's.
Their fourth element, the combination lift, also earned mostly 2's. Jana and Sergei performed excellently
in the FD, with no weak elements.
FD Flight Plan
1 STw4
2 SlLi4
3 CiSt2
4 SlLi4+RoLi4
5 CoSp3
6 RoLi4
7 DiSt3
8 CuLi4
9 Li+TRANS
8 Anastasia PLATONOVA / Alexander GRACHEV RUS 6
This is a relatively new pairing. As such, their second place finish at Finlandia (behind the Kerrs and ahead of Gorshkova & Butikov) is very, very commendable. This is their first GP appearance.
I thought their FD well-skated, but boring. OTOH, I really enjoyed the OD, other than that the ending moves were a little rough at Finlandia.
They finished 5th at Russian Nationals, behind Rubleva/Shefer and Bobrova /Soloviev, though. I like their OD a lot bettr than either R/S or B/S's.
Coach: Svetlana Alexeeva
Choreographer: Elena Kustarova
Training Town: Moscow
OD: Blues: St. James Infirmary Blues; Swing: Who's Your Daddy?; Woodside Riot
FD: Nocturne by Arno Babadganyan
Former Partnerships: Platonova & Ponomarev, Platonova & Maksimishin, Romanovskaya & Grachev
Competitive Results
2008 NRW Trophy for Ice Dance 1 1 1 1 (166.99)
2008 Finlandia Trophy 3 2 2 2 (164.47)
2008 Russian National Championships 5 5 4 5 (166.58)
Photo from their FD at Finlandia
http://sports.webshots.com/photo/2505272140013969540UFAtRT
Videos
Current FD
2008 Finlandia FD Nocturne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMVHl8fmwDU
Current OD
2008 Finlandia OD Blues; Swing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWSi908o8zs&feature=related
2008 Russian Nationals FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwc3L-c2dn4
2008 Russian Nationals EX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93uNx3ovzYA&feature=related
Articles
Icenetwork article about Finlandia, including their silver medal performances
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081012&content_id=52986&vkey=ice_news
Photos
A group of photos from Finlandia
http://sports.webshots.com/photo/2099835020013969540ZWwHhv
How they stack up. Details from NRW Trophy, their most recent competition
CD (Viennese Waltz) 31.42 TES 16.58 PCS 14.84
OD 50.40 TES 26.10 PCS 24.30
Best element: 4th element, rotational lift, worst, Synchronized twizzle
FD 85.17 TES 43.90 PCS 41.27
Best element: 4th element, combination lift
OD Flight Plan
1 STw3 Synchronized Twizzle
2 MiStNt3 Midline Step Sequence Not Touching
3 Sp4 Spin
4 RoLi4 Rotational Lift
5 CiSt2 Circular Step Sequence
6 Li+TRANS Non scoring Lift
FD Flight Plan
1 STw3 Synchronized Twizzle
2 RoLi4 Rotational Lift
3 SeSt3 Serpentine Step Sequence
4 SlLi4+RoLi4 Combination lift Straight Line plus Rotational Lift
5 CuLi4 Curve Lift
6 MiSt2 Midline Step Sequence
7 CoSp4 Combination Spin
8 SlLi4 Straight Line Lift
9 Li+TRANS Non scoring Lift
9 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO UKR 7
Another ice dance team training in the US. Furthermore, I see both Morozov & Galit Chait are involved with their coaching as well as that of the Zaretskis. I'm not sure what the coaching arrangement will be since all hands appear to be suing each other, and since Z&V are at about the same level as Z&Z. At Worlds, Zaretskis finished ahead. At CoC, Z&V. They have made a significant effort this year to step up the difficult of their levels.
Coach: Nikolai Morozov, Galit Chait
Choreographer: Nikolai Morozov
Former Coach: Elena Grushina, A. Tumanovski, G. Starkov, T. Beliaeva
Training Town: Hackensack, NJ
OD: Charleston from Chicago (soundtrack); Foxtrot from Chicago (soundtrack); Charleston from Chicago (soundtrack)
FD: Carmen
Best Total Score 165.11 European Championships 2008
Best Score Compulsory Dance 31.28 European Championships 2008
Best Score Original Dance 50.86 European Championships 2008
Best Score Free Dance 82.97 European Championships 2008
Competitive Results
2008 Cup of China OD 5
2008 World Championships 14 16 21 18 (153.25)
2008 European Championships 9 12 11 11 (165.11)
2007 Cup of Russia 5 5 4 3 (161.64)
2007 Cup of China 7 6 5 6 (150.18)
2007 World Championships 17 15 17 17 (148.13)
2007 European Championships 10 12 9 10 (149.62)
2007 Ukrainian National Championships 2 2
2006 NHK Trophy 6 5 5 6 (149.90)
2006 World Championships 21 21 21 21 (139.72)
2005 NHK Trophy 10 10 10 10 (140.11)
2005 Trophée Eric Bompard 11 9 10 10 (139.77)
2005 Winter Universiade 7 8 6 6
2005 Ukrainian National Championships 3 4 4 4
2004 Trophée Eric Bompard Cachemire 12 10 10 10 (122.56)
2004 Ondrej Nepela Memorial 1 1 1 1
2004 World Junior Championships 4A 4A 7 7 7
2004 Junior Grand Prix Final 6 7 5 5
2003 Czech Skate 2 1 2 1
2003 Skate Slovakia [JGP] 3 2 2 2
2003 World Junior Championships 8A 9A 15 15 15
2002 Trofeo Rita Trapanese [JGP] 7 6 5 6
2002 Skate Slovakia [JGP] 3 2 3 2
2002 World Junior Championships 9 9 8 8 8
2002 Junior Grand Prix Final 8 8 8 8
2001 SBC Cup [JGP] 4 5 5 5
2001 Salchow Trophy [JGP] 3 2 2 2
Videos
2008 OD Ukrainian Folk Dance From Ukrainian Nationals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMNU6zJWYTQ
2007 Cup Of China LP Nostradamus by Maksim Mrvica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlq2h-U2eJw
They were at the 2008 Evening With Champions in Cambridge, MA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U6qhoP_FKE
2006 CD Austrian Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftzlwZ-p92k
Articles
An account of their first Grand Prix medal, Cor 2007 (scroll down)
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/cor_3.shtml
Their icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38893&mode=P
Website
Their best element was their diagonal step sequence, element 5, which received one 0, one -1, and the rest ones.
They had a problem with their synchronized twizzles, receiving mostly -1's, two -2's and two 0's.
Their OD FLight Plan
1 MiStNt3
2 STw4
3 SlLi4
4 Sp3
5 DiSt3
6 Li+TRANS
Their best element was their initial combination lift. Their worst was their synchronized twizzle, which received
three -1's.
Their FD Flight Plan
1 SlLi4+RoLi4
2 CiSt3
3 STw4
4 CoSp4
5 RoLi4
6 SlLi3
7 MiSt3
8 CuLi4
10 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA 8
Note that they got the Professional Skaters of America Dance award for their Kalinka OD at US Nationals last year.
This is a difficult assignment for Meryl and Charlie. I just hope that they aren't left so far behind in the CD that they can't recoup to receive the bronze medal. They had a great paso at SC, but their Austrian waltz at SA last year put them so far behind that they could not recover. The Viennese is a dance where great extension is valued, and that hasn't been their strongest suit. I'm hoping they have spent a lot of time on it. Their OD is one of the really good ones this season, and Marina really produced an engrossing FD for them. It's doing something when a group of fans from a country give you a standing ovation as you win over a a couple from the host country, as happened at Skate Canada.
I hope the Russian crowd will give them a warm welcome, too.
Coach: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva; Former Coach: Seth Chafetz
Choreographer: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Training town: Canton, Michigan
OD: Happy Feet by Jack Yellen and Milton Ager; 20's Piano Original Composition by Joe Laduke
No the music is not the one broadcast by Eurosport which somehow got messed up in transmission.
FD: Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (from Samson et Dalila) by Camille Saint-Saens
Bacchanale (from Samson et Dalila) by Camille Saint-Saens
Best Total Score 199.45 Four Continents Championships 2008
Best Score CD 37.36 Four Continents Championships 2008 (Yankee Polka)
Best Score OD 61.93 Four Continents Championships 2008
Best Score FD 100.16 Four Continents Championships 2008
Third Alternates for the 2008 Grand Prix Final
Fourth Qualifiers for the 2006 Junior Grand Prix Final
Recent Results
2008 Skate Canada 1 1 1 1 (178.89)
2008 World Championships 7 7 6 6 (191.19)
2008 Four Continents Championships 2 2 2 2 (199.45)
2008 U.S. National Championships 2 2 2 2 (206.82)
2007 Trophée Eric Bompard 4 3 3 3 (176.21)
2007 Skate America 5 4 4 4 (168.79)
2007 World Championships 10 8 7 7 (179.14)
2007 Four Continents Championships 3 4 4 4 (179.69)
2007 U.S. National Championships 2 4 3 3 (184.11)
2006 NHK Trophy 4 4 4 4 (159.49)
2006 Skate Canada 8 3 4 4 (162.66)
2006 World Junior Championships 3 4 2 3 (167.20)
2006 U.S. Junior National Championships 1 1 1 1 1 (178.86)
2006 Junior Grand Prix Final 3 2 2 2 (160.85)
2005 Sofia Cup [JGP] 2 1 1 1 (164.65)
2005 Andorra Cup [JGP] 2 2 2 2 (171.21)
2004 Harghita Cup [JGP] 3 2 3 3 (162.20)
2004 JGP Belgrade 3 3 3 3 (164.57)
2004 World Junior Championships 6B 6B 13 12 13
2004 U.S. Junior National Championships 2 2 2 2 2
2004 U.S. Midwestern Junior Sectionals 1 1 1 1 1
2003 Junior Grand Prix - SBC Cup 3 4 4 4
2003 Czech Skate 4 4 4 4
2003 U.S. Junior National Championships 6 7 7 6 7
2003 U.S. Midwestern Junior Sectionals 2 2 2 2 2
2002 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 10 8 7 8
2002 Belgrade Sparrow [JGP] 8 6 6 6
2002 Novice Helmut Seibt Memorial 1 1 1 1
2002 U.S. Novice National Championships 1 1 3 2
2002 U.S. Midwestern Novice Sectionals 1 1/1 1 2
Photos
CD Paso Doble. Meryl attempting to channel Krylova.
http://skateshutterbug.zenfolio.com/p604388354/h2129283e#h1201480e
http://skateshutterbug.zenfolio.com/p604388354/h2129283e#h1130bdce
OD Charleston. Both light and cheerful, as it should be. The hat appears to be a feather and aluminum foil craft project though. Perhaps a party favor?
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...521297,83521295,83521162|0&mode=c&id=83525334
FD Meryl in gorgeous gold dress. Charlie in brown ripped shirt with gold drapery tiebacks in the middle of their combined lift, I think.
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...521297,83521295,83521162|0&mode=c&id=83532712
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...521297,83521295,83521162|0&mode=c&id=83532719
Videos:
2008 later version FD Eleanor Rigby and Eleanor's Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6huiwyqvk
2007 Early version of Eleanor's Dream FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZp3mhRLfWM
2008 CD Yankee Polka (Korean coverage) They like the polka and it shows!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=386QWS6DcUk
2007 CD Rhumba (British Eurosport really liked them)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_2fvQOQIo
2007 OD Tango (British Eurosport coverage again--who really like them here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi02SuSSsPI
2007 4C's CD Golden Waltz (Japanese coverage)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7I86Bq8ycM
2008 4C's Exhibition Beyond the Sea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGgVl7XmR24
2007 Worlds FD Polovetsian Dances
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odrn-svt_do
2006 Jr Worlds FD Sarabande (Prayer in the Night)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBJjrf6Z2Jc
2004 Jr Worlds OD Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYh8guTWOGU
Articles:
2008 magazine article teaser for Skating magazine Nov 2008 issue.
http://www.usfigureskating.org/Magazine.asp?Issue=42140
2008 Skate Canada article from Ice Network. D&W talk about their paso at Skate Canada (scroll down)
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081031&content_id=54702&vkey=ice_news
2008 Ice Network bio with links to a 2 part video interview (right side of page), their
2008 US Nationals CD Yankee Polka (Great job Guys)! OD, and FD. You have to be an icenetwork member to see the videos.
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38007&mode=P
2008 Golden Skate US Championships OD report
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/us_5.shtml
2008 Golden Skate 4 Continents FD report w/ interview
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/4cc_3.shtml
2008 Golden Skate 4 Continents CD report w/interview
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/4cc_1.shtml
2004 Golden Skate article which proclaims "Davis and White in Long Term Partnership" by Barry Mittan (cute photo!)
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2004/071504.shtml
Website:
http://www.ice-dance.com/davis-white/
OD Best element
Element 1; Synchronized twizzle, one 3, four 2's, two 1's and a 0.
Worst element
Element 4; Midline step that Charlie stumbled on. They got three -1's on it.
OD Flight Plan
1 STw4
2 DiSt3
3 Sp4
4 MiStNt3
5 SlLi4
6 Li+TRANS
FD Best elements- Other than some elements that need upgrading, D&W nailed the FD. There were 3 absolutely topnotch elements.
Element 1; combination spin, all 2's
Element 2; combination lift garnered all 2's and 3's
Element 5; synchronized twizzle, all 2's except one 1
Something obviously went wrong with the last lift (level 1, Hello), but curiously except for one judge, the GOE doesn't reflect it.
FD Flight Plan
1 CoSp4
2 CuLi4+RoLi4
3 CiSt3
4 CuLi2
5 STw4
6 SlLi4
7 MiSt3
8 RoLi1
For teams who did not compete their new programs in any summer or national events, I will post photos of them in the costumes they used, if I can find them.
For those who have forgotten, they will be waltzing in Russia this week to the Viennese Waltz. I have updated the reference file to
remove videos of lovely Viennese waltzes from past experts that are no longer on youtube. I have also added some few replacements.
http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24315
1 Allie HANN-McCURDY / Michael CORENO CAN 1
They are a couple on and off the ice. Allie and Michael did not have a high finish at Skate America, despite having a very promising year last year. . I hope that they will be able to improve on that performance in Russia, but it's also a strong field here, as it was at Skate America. Really, Allie and Michael had no luck in the event assignments at all.
Coach and Choreographer: Viktor Kraatz and Maikki Uotila Kraatz, Megan Wing and Aaron Lowe for their OD last year.
OD 1940's Swing/Foxtrot Lili Marleen by Hans Leip and Norbert Schultze; Over There by Glenn Miller
FD Pankakoski by Risto Laurita
Personal Best Total Score 164.02 Four Continents Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Compulsory Dance 34.39 Budapest Junior Grand Prix 2004
Personal Best Score Original Dance 51.08 ISU JGP Tallinn Cup 2005
Personal Best Score Free Dance 83.76 Four Continents Championships 2008
Recent Competitions:
2008 Skate America 9 9 9 9 (142.95)
2008 World Championships 17 19 18 19 (153.13)
2008 Four Continents Championships 6 6 6 6 (164.02)
2008 Canadian National Championships 2 3 5 3 (173.86)
2007 Skate Canada 7 6 4 4 (152.16)
2007 Nebelhorn Trophy 3 5 3 4 (143.82)
2007 Canadian National Championships 9 7 8 8 (145.26)
2006 Trophée Eric Bompard 10 10 10 10 (132.72)
2006 Skate America 11 11 11 11 (131.07)
2006 Nebelhorn Trophy 7 7 7 7 (133.45)
2006 World Junior Championships 9 7 9 8 (139.55)
2006 Canadian Junior National Championships 1 1 1 1 (151.47)
Photos of their costumes:
CD:
Fairly standard ballroom outfit for the Viennese. He's in black formal dress with a white bowtie, she in a white spangled gown.
www.jamd.com/image/g/83424400
OD:
He's dressed as an army sergeant, she in a short red, dress.
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/08R6gQKcV7ahI/340x.jpg
FD
They appear to be portraying a watery theme. She's in a combination of blues, with one blue glove
His shirt is similar, but he has black pants, which I found a bit jarring.
www.jamd.com/image/g/83440261
Videos
2008 Canadian Nationals Exhibition to Pankakoski by Risto Laurita . They are using the same music for this years FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOxKUenYFR4
2008 Canadian Nationals OD Logdriver's Waltz & Newfoundland Jig (totally charming)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaT_ywlEWgU&feature=related
Look At You Video Montage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OrmsXDTcJo
2007 Free Dance from a Summer competition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oeW24PFGqY
Articles:
IceNetwork Biography
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=39004&mode=P
August Article 2008
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-co...og/2008/08/allie_hannmccurdy_and_michael.html
Article before Worlds 2008
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/story.html?id=7f5332b4-39d4-4024-9c23-e8b54dbca48c&k=63195
Golden Skate Interview with Allie and Michael October 2007:
http://www.goldenskate.com/articles/2007/102207.shtml
A preview article before 2008 Canadians:
http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/story.html?id=1e5bded4-f087-4c35-a823-2c031b51cbfa
A preview article before the 2004 Jr Worlds
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/FigureSkating/2004/10/17/673327.html
Website
http://www.skatetoday.com/alliemichael/
OD Flight Plan
1 MiStNt3
2 STw3
3 Sp4
4 DiSt3
5 RoLi4
6 Li+TRANS
Their best OD element was their Diagonal Step, Level 3, element number 4
1 STw3
2 SlLi4
3 DiSt3
4 CuLi2
5 CuLi4+RoLi4
6 CiSt3
7 RoLi4
8 CoSp4
9 Li+TRANS
Their best FD element was their combination lift (elemnt 5)
2 Zoe BLANC / Pierre-Loup BOUQUET FRA 2
This team appears to specialize in presenting different programs. Sometimes they try a little bit too hard. Their "French rap" free dance is a bit difficult to follow for those of us who do not speak French. In fact, as the gentlemen reciting the words in their song sounds like a local guy reciting poems in a coffeehouse, I was happy to find a youtube of their Master de Patinage FD which has an English translation of what is being said. If you too are curious what this dance is all about, you should check it out.
Coach: Karine Arribert Narce, Martial Jaffredo
Choreographer: Karine Arribert Narce
Training Town: Villard de Lans
OD: Black & Blues by Louis Armstrong
FD: Chercher d'Or by Grand Corp Malade
Best Total Score 134.46 2008 Trophee Bompard
Best Score CD 29.27 JGP Mirecurea Ciuc 2006
Best Score OD 43.86 JGP Mirecurea Ciuc 2006
Best Score FD 66.25 2008 Trophee Bompard
Former Partners: Clavier & Bouquet; Blanc & Cuenca
Competitive Results
2008 TEBC
2008 Masters de Patinage 4 4 4 (128.42)
2008 French National Championships 3 3 3 3 (149.97)
2007 Trophée Eric Bompard 10 10 10 10 (126.10)
2007 Cup of China 8 7 8 8 (132.96)
2007 Masters de Patinage 4 4 4 4 (137.67)
2006 Junior Pavel Roman Memorial 4 6 7 6 (125.49)
2006 Junior Masters de Patinage 2 2 1 1 (146.58)
2006 Harghita Cup [JGP] 3 3 11 6 (123.69)
2006 JGP Courchevel 5 10 12 10 (122.21)
2005 Junior Pavel Roman Memorial 5 5 7 7 (118.39)
2005 Gdansk Cup [JGP] 13 10 12 11 (110.71)
2005 Junior Masters de Patinage 3 (111.47)
2005 JGP Slovakia 11 11 13 13 (95.53)
2004 Junior Pavel Roman Memorial 4 3 3 3
Photos-Alas photos are not yet available
In their paso doble CD, Zoe wore a black dress, with a flapping rag skirt, and pseudo black elbow high gloves. The hands were not covered by the gloves. The back of the dress had a vee all the way down to the small of her back. A matching vee proceeded upward in the skirt to the same spot, where the only opaque item appeared to be a flashy brooch. Thank goodness for illusion fabric, because if this were real, that brooch could well break, causing the whole dress to fall off.
Pierre Loup was dressed in a black and red matador outfit. The black bolero jacket had very odd crenellations along its edge and red epaulets with large sequins and two red stripes down the sleeves over a red vest with four patches of black tassels over his abdomen with a white dickey underneath it.
In their OD, Zoe wore a powderpuff pink layered flapper dress, black elbow high gloves and pearls. Pierre-Loup wore a dark pin stripe vest with a black tie and a pink shirt. All this pink (and black) appears to have been chosen to contrast with "Black and Blues"
In their FD, Pierre-Loup is wearing a white practice suit affair with one sleeve missing. It has what appears to be "Cher chercher" written in large black letters down the leg. He has something that looks like a large squarish Chinese character on the back, and several other unidentifiable pieces of graffiti. Zoe is wearing a white dress with a rag skirt with similar graffiti. Her white tights also have something written on it, but from a distance, it appears to be a huge ladder in her tights, which is perhaps not the effect they intended.
Videos:
Their current OD:
2008 Masters de Patinage OD Black & Blues by Armstrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz8yGVKp9nM
Their current FD:
2008 Master de Patinage FD Chercher d'Or (with English translation of the words)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHURPOyeAUE&feature=related
2008 Stars Sur Glace Exhibition Billie Jean (Skated in overalls with one leg replaced by black tights & Ski masks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deCsEn9UaAk
2007 Stars Sur Glace Exhibition Louise Attaque
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI2oxVdW-UY
2007 TEB OD Shantala (Hindi Folk Dance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5lM86oJbNg&feature=related
Articles:
Ice Network bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38925&mode=P
Ice-dance.com entry
http://www.ice-dance.com/profiles/profile.php?team=zoblpibo
Website:
http://www.blancbouquet.com
Orange Patinage info (there's a lot here, but in French)
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/cygnuskate/biographie/blanc_bouquet.htm
OD Flight Plan
1 Sp4
2 CiSt2
3 STw4
4 MiStNt
5 CuLi2
Their best OD element was their Middle Step Not Touching (element 4)
FD FLight Plan
1 STw4
2 CoSp4
3 RoLi4
4 CiSt2
5 SlLi2
6 DiSt3
7 SeLi4
8 CuLi2
Their best element in the FD was their rotational lift (third element)
3 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI ISR 3
Alexandra and Roman competed at Nebelhorn this summer and finished second behind Samuelson / Bates. They won the Viennese Waltz over S/B however. However, their CoC performance was a minor disaster. Their training has apparently been affected quite a lot by the suit against their rink. That's too bad, because they seemed to really be making good progress last season. I see Tarasova is one of their choreographers. I'm beginning to wonder whether her involvement in the choreo of a skater she is not actively coaching is the true kiss of death.
Coach: Galit Chait
Choreographer: Galit Chait & Tatiana Tarasova (FD)
Former Coach: N. Morozov, E. Platov, I .Zaretski, I. Romanova, I. Yaroshenko
Training Town: Hackensack, NJ (USA)
Born in Minsk, BLR
OD: Summertime by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald & Fosse (Blues & Charleston)
FD: Jesus Christ Superstar (soundtrack) by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Best Total Score 179.21 World Championships 2008
Best Score CD 37.59 Harghita Cup 2004
Best Score OD 58.10 World Championships 2008
Best Score FD 88.60 World Championships 2008
Competitive Results
2008 Cup of China 5 7 7 7 (148.17)
2008 Nebelhorn Trophy 1 3 2 2 (168.59)
2008 World Championships 9 9 10 9 (179.21)
2008 European Championships 7 9 9 8 (171.70)
2007 Cup of China 4 4 4 4 (161.86)
2007 Skate America 7 7 8 7 (157.85)
2008 Israeli National Championships 1 (142.14)
2007 World Championships 13 12 14 14 (156.52)
2007 European Championships 12 11 12 11 (148.05)
2006 Cup of China 4 4 4 4 (158.37)
2006 Skate America 7 7 9 8 (143.95)
2006 Nebelhorn Trophy 3 3 3 3 (156.67)
2006 World Championships 24 22 20 20 (140.14)
2006 Olympic Games 24 23 20 22 (135.80)
2006 European Championships 17 15 15 15 (138.47)
2005 NHK Trophy 9 9 9 9 (142.72)
2005 Cup of China 9 9 9 9 (129.87)
2005 Skate Israel 4 4 4 4
2005 World Junior Championships 3 4 5 4 (165.76)
2005 Junior Grand Prix Final 5 8 8 8 (131.22)
2004 Harghita Cup [JGP] 2 3 2 2 (163.84)
2004 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 1 5 4 3 (154.14)
2004 World Junior Championships 2B 3B 8 10 9
2004 Junior Grand Prix Final 4 5 7 6
2003 Junior Grand Prix - Gdansk 1 1 1 1
2003 Skate Israel 6 5 4 4
2003 Mexico Cup [JGP] 3 3 2 2
2003 World Junior Championships 5B 4B 9 8 8
2002 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 3 3 3 3
2002 Belgrade Sparrow [JGP] 3 3 3 3
2002 World Junior Championships 19 20 17 19 19
2001 Trofeo Rita Trapanese [JGP] 10 9 8 8
2001 JGP The Hague 12 11 12 11
Photos
None that I found
Videos
2008 OD in Practice at Jamfest; Summertime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMj51Ypktys
2008 Europeans OD Shick Shack Shock (Mideastern dance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdLFbj9Yhao
2008 Europeans CD Yankee Polka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-HNmerAIRs&feature=related
2008 Worlds CD Agentine Tango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7OzeczAMb4
2008 Worlds FD Let My People Go, & Sing, Sing, Sing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_-QaMITVy0
2007 Israeli Championships FD Let My People Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdPpCgpXyws
2007 Worlds FD Carmina Burana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksvkXZ4M8XQ&feature=related
Articles
Galit Chait and Zaretskis sue Ice House in Hackensack, NJ for anti-Israeli discrimination
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/exolympic_skater_students_file.html
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10302008/news/regionalnews/skater_suit__rink_hates_ice_raelis_136001.htm
Recent Icenetwork interview-It's hard to keep up with their coach Galit Chait
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080731&content_id=49849&vkey=ice_news
2003 Zaretskis are first Israelis to skate in JGPF
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-88449255.html
Golden Skate article about their previous coaches and training
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2003/102903.shtml
Their ice network bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38898&mode=P
Website
http://www.ice-dance.com/zaretsky/
They had trouble with the synchronized twizzles, level 4, (their 4th element) and received 4 -1's.
Their best element was straight line lift, level 2, which received mostly 1's (their 3rd element)
OD Flight Plan
1 Sp2
2 MiStNt3
3 SlLi2
4 STw4
5 CiSt3
6 Li+TRANS
Their best element was their initial rotational lift.
Their worst element was their second element, which earned several -1's.
Their FD Flight Plan
1 RoLi4
2 STw3
3 CiSt3
4 SlLi3
5 CuLi4
6 CuLi2+RoLi1
7 CoSp1
8 DiSt3
9 Li+TRANS
4 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 4
Capellini and Lanotte were 10th at Worlds. I like their programs better than Faiella and Scali's. It should be an interesting Italian championships this year. Their performance at CoC was very strong, and finishing fourth in a field that stacked was quite an accomplishment. The British Eurosport commentators kept going on about how much they liked C&L throughout the performances of the 2 or 3 teams ahead of them in both the OD and the FD. And C&L got very high levels for their programs and beat K&N in the OD. D&W will need to skate very well to finish ahead of C&L. Heck K&N may have to step it up a notch.
Coach: Roberto Pelizzola, Barbara Riboldi
Choreographer: Ludmila Vlasova, Giovanna Franzoni
Training Towns: Milano and Pinzolo
OD: Bei mir bist du schoen by Sholom Secunda (Swing Kids)
FD: Love Story by Nana Mouskouri
Personal Best Total Score 179.03 World Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Compulsory Dance 35.39 ISU JGP Sofia Cup 2005
Personal Best Score Original Dance 57.05 World Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Free Dance 90.46 World Championships 2008
Former Partnerships: Cappellini & Zanni, Pistorello & LaNotte, Spelta & LaNotte
First Alternates for the 2008 Grand Prix Final
Sixth Qualifiers for the 2006 Junior Grand Prix Final
Competitive Results
2008 Cup of China 4 3 4 4 (173.11)
2008 World Championships 11 10 9 10 (179.03)
2008 European Championships 10 7 7 7 (172.64)
2008 Italian National Championships 2 2 2 2 (179.43)
2007 Trophée Eric Bompard 3 5 4 4 (168.75)
2007 Skate Canada 2 2 3 2 (171.57)
2007 World Championships 12 16 13 13 (158.83)
2007 European Championships 9 8 11 8 (155.28)
2007 Winter Universiade 1 1 1 1 (165.24)
2007 Italian National Championships 2 2 2 2 (173.87)
2006 Cup of Russia 7 8 9 8 (149.53)
2006 Trophée Eric Bompard 6 4 5 5 (159.77)
2006 World Junior Championships 4 3 6 4 (160.72)
2006 Italian Junior National Championships 1 1 1 1 (174.49)
2006 Junior Grand Prix Final 2 3 3 3 (159.49)
2005 Sofia Cup [JGP] 1 2 2 2 (161.57)
2005 JGP Slovakia 1 1 2 2 (166.47)
Photos
OD she in red shirt and silver top, he in black vest with red pocket square and pants with white shirt
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...6136,83596134,83596121,83596076|0&id=83596121
In dance spin
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...596134,83596121,83596076|0&mode=c&id=83596134
FD: I couldn't find any pictures, but they are dancing to Love Story. She is in a grey dress with sleeves with sharp white cuffs. He is in a v neck sweater over a white business shirt collar pulled outside it, also grey,
with blackpants.
Videos
Their current OD:
2008 First National Competition OD Bei mir bist du schoen by Sholom Secunda
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=IAC0ELSIBmU
Their current FD:
2008 First National Competition FD “Love Story”, performed by Nana Moskouri
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=HCk3kuwEIQo
2007/2008 Season OD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXkvOMBpwrs
2007/2008 Season FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukIFagxVdEA
2007 National Championships FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZmN_O3PIo
2007 Worlds OD Tango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpxK2W-7e2U
Articles
2008 interview at the Golden Skate Awards
http://www.artonice.it/?q=it/node/5762
Translation of article about working with Muriel Zazoui
http://annaeluca.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=16
Ice network bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38875&mode=P
Website
http://cappellini-lanotte.ice-dance.com/
Fan forum
http://annaeluca.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?p=42&sid=776646f85c9bb01e75c7afe9b8127107
OD Flight Plan
Anna and Luca had a remarkably even performance. ALmost every judge gave them GOE 1 on almost every element.
They had a slight problem with the Rotational lift level four, where they received three -1's.
1 MiStNt3
2 Sp4
3 DiSt3
4 RoLi4
5 STw3
6 Li+TRANS
In the FD, Anna and Luca's best element was their initial rotational lift which earned 4 2's and the rest 1's.
Again, they were beautifully trained, and all elements were well performed.
FD Flight Plan
1 RoLi4
2 CuLi4+RoLi4
3 STw3
4 CiSt3
5 CoSp4
6 DiSt3
7 SlLi4
8 CuLi3
9 Li+TRANS
5 Katherine COPELY / Deividas STAGNIUNAS LTU 5
This is another team with an American lady as one of the team. And they are now among the cast of thousands coached by Igor Shpilband Inc in Canton, MI. I first saw this team at COR 2007 where they finished 3rd in the FD. I'm hoping they develop well and that Shpilband doesn't sanitize their creativity into some made-for-the-masses generic FD.
Coach and Choreographer: Igor Shpilband and Marina Zoueva; Former Coach: Elena Garanina
Training Towns: Canton, MI, USA and Kaunas, Lithuania
OD Swing Kids soundtrack
FD Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Personal Best Total Score 164.28 World Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Compulsory Dance 29.85 World Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Original Dance 51.66 World Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Free Dance 82.85 Cup of Russia 2007
Former Partnerships: Copely & Connelly, Copely & Wensel, Frey & Stagniunas
Competitive Results
2008 Skate America 6 8 8 8 (156.28)
2008 World Championships 13 14 12 14 (164.28)
2008 European Championships 14 11 12 12 (158.98)
2007 Cup of Russia 6 4 3 5 (161.36)
2007 Golden Spin of Zagreb 5 2 3 3 (151.90)
2007 World Championships 24 20 22 23 (136.63)
2007 European Championships 21 20 18 18 (124.53)
2006 Golden Spin of Zagreb 3 3 3 3 (141.20)
2006 Nebelhorn Trophy 8 6 5 6 (135.71)
Videos
2007 Christmas Ice Flames Exhibition to Spend This Night With Me (good)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UEz48ndFJw
Drobiazko & Vanagas Tour Exhibition to Kalinka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D96WY4JoVZA
2007 Yankee Polka CD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rmEL3kt2hU
2007 / 2008 FD Beethoven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u87bvPpXgM
2007/ 2008 OD Gypsy Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dBh6AydI00&feature=related
Articles:
Ice Network biography
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=39203&mode=P
Website
http://www.ice-dance.com/copely-stagniunas/
Their best OD element was their Mid Line Step Not Touching, Level 3 (Element 4)
They had a significatn problem with their first element, the synchronized twizzle
OD Flight Plan
1 STw2
2 Sp4
3 SlLi4
4 MiStNt3
5 DiSt2
6 Li+TRANS
Their best FD element was the first one, their Curved Lift, Level 4
FD Flight Plan
1 CuLi4
2 STw4
3 CiSt2
4 DiSt3
5 StaLi4
6 SlLi4
7 CoSp4
8 CuLi4+RoLi4
9 Li+TRANS
6 Oksana DOMNINA / Maxim SHABALIN RUS 6
There is no doubt that has been a difficult year for Oksana and Maxim, but it hasn't affected their winning ways. Even with their costumes not finished and no kefir available in the Wilds of Aston, PA, they came to Cup of China and won. I'm sure Maxim's knees will be even stronger and their dances better as his rehab progresses.
Here on their home turf, they should be unbeatable. I do hope she will have found a more attractive outfit for the Viennese though, and some costume at all for Maxim, who appeared to be skating in outfits from Dick's Sporting Goods in both the CD and OD. Apparently, Oksana's dress for the CD was cut down from one in a catalog. I hope their real costumes will be seen here.
Coach: Natalia Linichuk & Gennadi Karponosov
Training Town: Aston, PA
OD: Waltz from Suite No. 2 for Jazz Orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovitch
FD: Spartacus by Aram Khatchaturian
Best Total Score 207.14 European Championships 2008
Best Score CD 40.25 European Championships 2008
Best Score OD 63.20 Cup of Russia 2007
Best Score FD 104.99 European Championships 2008
Former partners: Domnina & Bolotin, Khaliavina & Shabalin
Fourth Qualifiers for the 2008 Grand Prix Final
Third Qualifiers for the 2007 Grand Prix Final
Sixth Qualifiers for the 2006 Grand Prix Final
Competitive History
2008 Cup of China 1 2 1 1 (186.77)
2008 European Championships 2 2 1 1 (207.14)
2008 Grand Prix Final 3 1 1 (165.57)
2007 Cup of Russia 1 1 1 1 (205.24)
2007 Cup of China 1 1 3 2 (188.66)
2007 World Championships 3 4 5 5 (193.44)
2007 European Championships 2 2 1 2 (199.16)
2007 Russian National Championships 1 1 1 1 (207.32)
2007 Grand Prix Final 3 2 3 (156.14)
2006 Cup of Russia 1 3 1 2 (185.34)
2006 Cup of China 1 2 1 1 (188.41)
2006 Karl Schäfer Memorial 1 1 1 1 (173.47)
2006 World Championships 7 6 7 7 (178.39)
2006 Olympic Games 9 9 9 9 (173.76)
2006 European Championships 7 6 6 6 (175.72)
2006 Russian National Championships 2 2 2 2
2006 Grand Prix Final 5 6 5 (142.73)
2005 Cup of Russia 3 3 3 3 (176.69)
2005 Skate America 3 3 3 3 (169.23)
2005 Skate Israel 2 2 2 2
2005 World Championships 8 7 8 8 (190.20)
2005 European Championships 7 7 6 6 (178.91)
2005 Russian National Championships 1 1 1 1
2004 Cup of Russia 3 4 4 4 (187.51)
2004 Cup of China 4 4 4 4 (179.70)
2004 World Championships 6 10 10 10
2004 European Championships 7 7 7 7
2004 Russian National Championships 2 2 2 2 2
2003 Cup of Russia 5 5 7 6
2003 Bofrost Cup on Ice 4 4 4
2003 Skate Canada 7 6 6 6
2003 Finlandia Trophy 2 2 2 2
2003 World Championships 7 15 15 15
2003 World Junior Championships 1B 1B 1 1 1
2003 European Championships 12 13 12 12
2003 Russian National Championships 3 3 2 3 3
2003 Junior Grand Prix Final 1 1 1 1
2002 Belgrade Sparrow [JGP] 1 1 1 1
2002 JGP Courchevel 1 1 1 1
Photos
CD - I could not find a photo of their CD outfit. Apparently, they have had not enough time yet to prepare costumes. Oksana cut down a dress she bought from a catalog. Max appears to
be wearing a version of the Maytag man's uniform while she is in a dress with a black feathered top and a white feathered skirt with some sort of bauble stuck next to her eye and scraps from the dress pinned in her hair.
It's puzzling attire, and I suspect it will look vastly different at COR.
OD-They are a couple from perhaps the 1940's in winter. She is wearing a Sonia Henie skating outfit, he a newsboy cap and bright scarf.
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...596131,83596118,83596112|0&mode=c&id=83596131
FD-They are done up in kind of stripy ice dance illusion bondage attire. They're doing Spartacus, of course.
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...6139,83596131,83596118,83596112|0&id=83610928
Videos
2008 FD Masquerade Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZhYmspSX18&feature=related
2008 OD Don Cossack Dance (Guys Get Your Horse)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3VOnM2HGYc
2007 OD Tango by Piazzola
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzvQoR2EAWc&feature=related
2006 Olympics FD Waltz of the Spirits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A71XyFV2Rr4
2005 Worlds OD Slow Fox and Quickstep (British Eurosport)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NELgXUFT3aE&feature=related
2005 Worlds FD The Fifth Element (British Eurosport)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsQsikcO6pI
2003 Worlds OD Polka/Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQflajbqEzU&feature=related
2003 Jr Worlds EX Mungal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Z2y-UgO_Y
2003 Jr Worlds LP Afro-Latin Mix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdN8UoBas0U
Articles
Golden Skate Article on Domnina and Shabalin's move to Linichuk/Karphonosov By Tatiana Flade
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2008/101208.shtml
Icenetwork article about the Aston, PA, complex, Domnina & Shabalin and Belbin and Agosto
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080711&content_id=49311&vkey=ice_news
Russian online preview of Russian skaters chances this year
http://www.kommersant.com/p1046197/r_530/sports_figure_skating/
The whole article in Russian
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1046197
Their highs: They win Europeans
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/sports/skating/2008/01/27/140730/Domnina-and.htm
Their Lows: Maxim has to have more surgery and they cannot attend worlds
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=figureskating&id=3290673
Long article in Russian
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=868055
Winning CoR 2007
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/cor_3.shtml
An account of CoR 2006
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2006/112606_d.shtml
Their icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38777&mode=P
Websites
Official website
http://oksana-maksim.narod.ru/
Fansite
http://www.domnina-shabalin.com/newindex.html
Their best element was their fifth element, the straight line lift. It one 3, 2 one's and the rest 2's.
Their first element, the Mid Line step not touching also scored mostly 2's.
They had a problem with the fourth element, the circular step, scoring three -1's.
This program is quite new, and you should expect their element levels will be higher, and their performance more spectacular, here at CoR.
Their OD Flight Plan from Cup of China
1 MiStNt3
2 Sp2
3 STw4
4 CiSt2
5 SlLi3
Their FD Flight Plan from Cup of China
Their best element with the seventh one, the Straight Line Lift, level 3, which received mostly 2's.
None of their element scores reveals a particular weakness.
1 STw4
2 CiSt3
3 SlLi3+RoLi1
4 CuLi4
5 DiSt3
6 RoLi4
7 SlLi3
8 CoSp4
9 Li+TRANS
7 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS 6
I found their costume choices in both the OD and the FD to be quite peculiar. The last tutu in ice dance that I saw was worn by Natalia Bestemianova (or perhaps by Debi Thomas in her Wanda Beazel routine. It was about the same time)
Their lifts were the best part of the program, but I wonder whether these programs will have major changes coming. They did not seem quite finished somehow to me.
Coach: Alexander Svinin, Irina Zhuk
Choreographer: Irina Zhuk, Alexander Svinin
Former Coach: Larisa Filina
Training Town: Moscow
OD: Blues: Sam's Blues by Sam Taylor; Swing: Puttin' On the Ritz
FD: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninov
Best Total Score 203.26 World Championships 2008
Best Score CD 37.98 World Championships 2008
Best Score OD 65.99 World Championships 2008
Best Score FD 99.66 European Championships 2008
Former Partnerships: Lepetiukha & Novitski
Sixth Qualifiers for the 2008 Grand Prix Final
First Alternates for the 2007 Grand Prix Final
Competitive Results
2008 Cup of China 3 4 3 3 (179.50)
2008 World Championships 3 2 5 3 (203.26)
2008 European Championships 3 3 3 3 (197.06)
2008 Russian National Championships 1 1 1 1 (212.82)
2008 Grand Prix Final 5 5 5 (153.58)
2007 NHK Trophy 3 3 3 3 (186.96)
2007 Trophée Eric Bompard 2 2 1 2 (191.01)
2007 World Championships 6 7 8 8 (178.29)
2007 European Championships 5 4 4 4 (175.76)
2007 Russian National Championships 2 2 2 2 (192.94)
2007 Grand Prix Final 5 5 5 (141.34)
2006 NHK Trophy 2 2 2 2 (180.57)
2006 Cup of China 3 3 3 3 (173.86)
2006 World Championships 11 16 12 12 (162.15)
2006 Olympic Games 14 13 11 12 (164.48)
2006 European Championships 10 10 8 10 (162.65)
2006 Russian National Championships 3 3 3 3
2005 NHK Trophy 3 4 4 4 (158.18)
2005 Trophée Eric Bompard 5 5 7 6 (150.05)
2005 Winter Universiade 1 1 1 1
2004 Cup of Russia 7 7 7 7 (156.15)
2004 Skate Canada 6 6 6 6 (163.14)
2004 Russian National Championships 4 4 4 4 4
2003 NHK Trophy 6 8 6 6
2003 Golden Spin 4 4 3 3
2003 Nebelhorn Trophy 2 4 2 2
2003 Winter Universiade 1 1 1 1 1
2003 Russian National Championships 5 5 5 5 5
2002 Russian National Championships 7 7 7 7 7
Photos
OD- she is dressed as a head of lettuce with two carrot slices stuck in the top. He appears to be Pee Wee Herman or a zootsuiter. Your choice.
Ending pose
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...neric|1&axs=0|83596129,83596126|0&id=83596129
In lift (This would be a super cool lift if not for the nylon net dish scrubber she is wearing.
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...neric|1&axs=0|83596129,83596126|0&id=83596126
Close up of dress top
http://s118.photobucket.com/albums/o81/LIsoundview/th_khoknovod08.jpg
FD
http://s118.photobucket.com/albums/o81/LIsoundview/th_khoknovFD08.jpg
CD
http://s118.photobucket.com/albums/o81/LIsoundview/th_khoknovCD08.jpg
Videos
2008 Ex Stop by Sam Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeBojsFn6d0
Stars of 2014 Night on Bald Mountain Exhibition version of FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9__q3OrqPA&feature=related
2008 Argentine Tango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMLadLQOIKA
2008 FD Night on Bald Mountain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1uw0Dw5ziw
2008 OD Gypsy Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m8O-7-wf1g
2008 Exhibition Johnny Weir dances with Jana Khokhlova
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gdB3T7aWJ8&feature=related
2007 OD Tango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMLadLQOIKA
2004 Skate Canada FD Pirates of the Caribbean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KuJgUy7O6M
Articles
Bestiamanova comments on being compared to Khokhlova
http://www.artonice.it/?q=en/node/4330
Russian online preview of Russian skaters chances this year
http://www.kommersant.com/p1046197/r_530/sports_figure_skating/
Rest of the long article in Russian
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1046197
Golden Skate article from May 2008 by Tatjana Flade about Jana & Sergei
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/052408.shtml
Article about their first Russian championship
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/rn_3.shtml
Their icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38824&mode=P
Website
Current official website. They are in process of getting a new one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9OsDfXq0NE&feature=related
Jana and Sergei had a significant problem with the second element, the synchronized twizzle. They received three -2's, one 0, and the rest -1's. Only one element is level four. As a result, they were in fourth place in this part of the CoC. I expect to see significant improvement here at CoR.
Their best element was the Straight Line Lift, element 3, which earned four 2's.
OD Flight Plan
1 Sp4
2 STw2
3 SlLi2
4 MiStNt3
5 DiSt3
6 Li+TRANS
Their best element in the FD was element 6, their rotational lift, which received two 1's and the rest 2's.
Their fourth element, the combination lift, also earned mostly 2's. Jana and Sergei performed excellently
in the FD, with no weak elements.
FD Flight Plan
1 STw4
2 SlLi4
3 CiSt2
4 SlLi4+RoLi4
5 CoSp3
6 RoLi4
7 DiSt3
8 CuLi4
9 Li+TRANS
8 Anastasia PLATONOVA / Alexander GRACHEV RUS 6
This is a relatively new pairing. As such, their second place finish at Finlandia (behind the Kerrs and ahead of Gorshkova & Butikov) is very, very commendable. This is their first GP appearance.
I thought their FD well-skated, but boring. OTOH, I really enjoyed the OD, other than that the ending moves were a little rough at Finlandia.
They finished 5th at Russian Nationals, behind Rubleva/Shefer and Bobrova /Soloviev, though. I like their OD a lot bettr than either R/S or B/S's.
Coach: Svetlana Alexeeva
Choreographer: Elena Kustarova
Training Town: Moscow
OD: Blues: St. James Infirmary Blues; Swing: Who's Your Daddy?; Woodside Riot
FD: Nocturne by Arno Babadganyan
Former Partnerships: Platonova & Ponomarev, Platonova & Maksimishin, Romanovskaya & Grachev
Competitive Results
2008 NRW Trophy for Ice Dance 1 1 1 1 (166.99)
2008 Finlandia Trophy 3 2 2 2 (164.47)
2008 Russian National Championships 5 5 4 5 (166.58)
Photo from their FD at Finlandia
http://sports.webshots.com/photo/2505272140013969540UFAtRT
Videos
Current FD
2008 Finlandia FD Nocturne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMVHl8fmwDU
Current OD
2008 Finlandia OD Blues; Swing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWSi908o8zs&feature=related
2008 Russian Nationals FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwc3L-c2dn4
2008 Russian Nationals EX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93uNx3ovzYA&feature=related
Articles
Icenetwork article about Finlandia, including their silver medal performances
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081012&content_id=52986&vkey=ice_news
Photos
A group of photos from Finlandia
http://sports.webshots.com/photo/2099835020013969540ZWwHhv
How they stack up. Details from NRW Trophy, their most recent competition
CD (Viennese Waltz) 31.42 TES 16.58 PCS 14.84
OD 50.40 TES 26.10 PCS 24.30
Best element: 4th element, rotational lift, worst, Synchronized twizzle
FD 85.17 TES 43.90 PCS 41.27
Best element: 4th element, combination lift
OD Flight Plan
1 STw3 Synchronized Twizzle
2 MiStNt3 Midline Step Sequence Not Touching
3 Sp4 Spin
4 RoLi4 Rotational Lift
5 CiSt2 Circular Step Sequence
6 Li+TRANS Non scoring Lift
FD Flight Plan
1 STw3 Synchronized Twizzle
2 RoLi4 Rotational Lift
3 SeSt3 Serpentine Step Sequence
4 SlLi4+RoLi4 Combination lift Straight Line plus Rotational Lift
5 CuLi4 Curve Lift
6 MiSt2 Midline Step Sequence
7 CoSp4 Combination Spin
8 SlLi4 Straight Line Lift
9 Li+TRANS Non scoring Lift
9 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO UKR 7
Another ice dance team training in the US. Furthermore, I see both Morozov & Galit Chait are involved with their coaching as well as that of the Zaretskis. I'm not sure what the coaching arrangement will be since all hands appear to be suing each other, and since Z&V are at about the same level as Z&Z. At Worlds, Zaretskis finished ahead. At CoC, Z&V. They have made a significant effort this year to step up the difficult of their levels.
Coach: Nikolai Morozov, Galit Chait
Choreographer: Nikolai Morozov
Former Coach: Elena Grushina, A. Tumanovski, G. Starkov, T. Beliaeva
Training Town: Hackensack, NJ
OD: Charleston from Chicago (soundtrack); Foxtrot from Chicago (soundtrack); Charleston from Chicago (soundtrack)
FD: Carmen
Best Total Score 165.11 European Championships 2008
Best Score Compulsory Dance 31.28 European Championships 2008
Best Score Original Dance 50.86 European Championships 2008
Best Score Free Dance 82.97 European Championships 2008
Competitive Results
2008 Cup of China OD 5
2008 World Championships 14 16 21 18 (153.25)
2008 European Championships 9 12 11 11 (165.11)
2007 Cup of Russia 5 5 4 3 (161.64)
2007 Cup of China 7 6 5 6 (150.18)
2007 World Championships 17 15 17 17 (148.13)
2007 European Championships 10 12 9 10 (149.62)
2007 Ukrainian National Championships 2 2
2006 NHK Trophy 6 5 5 6 (149.90)
2006 World Championships 21 21 21 21 (139.72)
2005 NHK Trophy 10 10 10 10 (140.11)
2005 Trophée Eric Bompard 11 9 10 10 (139.77)
2005 Winter Universiade 7 8 6 6
2005 Ukrainian National Championships 3 4 4 4
2004 Trophée Eric Bompard Cachemire 12 10 10 10 (122.56)
2004 Ondrej Nepela Memorial 1 1 1 1
2004 World Junior Championships 4A 4A 7 7 7
2004 Junior Grand Prix Final 6 7 5 5
2003 Czech Skate 2 1 2 1
2003 Skate Slovakia [JGP] 3 2 2 2
2003 World Junior Championships 8A 9A 15 15 15
2002 Trofeo Rita Trapanese [JGP] 7 6 5 6
2002 Skate Slovakia [JGP] 3 2 3 2
2002 World Junior Championships 9 9 8 8 8
2002 Junior Grand Prix Final 8 8 8 8
2001 SBC Cup [JGP] 4 5 5 5
2001 Salchow Trophy [JGP] 3 2 2 2
Videos
2008 OD Ukrainian Folk Dance From Ukrainian Nationals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMNU6zJWYTQ
2007 Cup Of China LP Nostradamus by Maksim Mrvica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlq2h-U2eJw
They were at the 2008 Evening With Champions in Cambridge, MA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U6qhoP_FKE
2006 CD Austrian Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftzlwZ-p92k
Articles
An account of their first Grand Prix medal, Cor 2007 (scroll down)
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/cor_3.shtml
Their icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38893&mode=P
Website
Their best element was their diagonal step sequence, element 5, which received one 0, one -1, and the rest ones.
They had a problem with their synchronized twizzles, receiving mostly -1's, two -2's and two 0's.
Their OD FLight Plan
1 MiStNt3
2 STw4
3 SlLi4
4 Sp3
5 DiSt3
6 Li+TRANS
Their best element was their initial combination lift. Their worst was their synchronized twizzle, which received
three -1's.
Their FD Flight Plan
1 SlLi4+RoLi4
2 CiSt3
3 STw4
4 CoSp4
5 RoLi4
6 SlLi3
7 MiSt3
8 CuLi4
10 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA 8
Note that they got the Professional Skaters of America Dance award for their Kalinka OD at US Nationals last year.
This is a difficult assignment for Meryl and Charlie. I just hope that they aren't left so far behind in the CD that they can't recoup to receive the bronze medal. They had a great paso at SC, but their Austrian waltz at SA last year put them so far behind that they could not recover. The Viennese is a dance where great extension is valued, and that hasn't been their strongest suit. I'm hoping they have spent a lot of time on it. Their OD is one of the really good ones this season, and Marina really produced an engrossing FD for them. It's doing something when a group of fans from a country give you a standing ovation as you win over a a couple from the host country, as happened at Skate Canada.
I hope the Russian crowd will give them a warm welcome, too.
Coach: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva; Former Coach: Seth Chafetz
Choreographer: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Training town: Canton, Michigan
OD: Happy Feet by Jack Yellen and Milton Ager; 20's Piano Original Composition by Joe Laduke
No the music is not the one broadcast by Eurosport which somehow got messed up in transmission.
FD: Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (from Samson et Dalila) by Camille Saint-Saens
Bacchanale (from Samson et Dalila) by Camille Saint-Saens
Best Total Score 199.45 Four Continents Championships 2008
Best Score CD 37.36 Four Continents Championships 2008 (Yankee Polka)
Best Score OD 61.93 Four Continents Championships 2008
Best Score FD 100.16 Four Continents Championships 2008
Third Alternates for the 2008 Grand Prix Final
Fourth Qualifiers for the 2006 Junior Grand Prix Final
Recent Results
2008 Skate Canada 1 1 1 1 (178.89)
2008 World Championships 7 7 6 6 (191.19)
2008 Four Continents Championships 2 2 2 2 (199.45)
2008 U.S. National Championships 2 2 2 2 (206.82)
2007 Trophée Eric Bompard 4 3 3 3 (176.21)
2007 Skate America 5 4 4 4 (168.79)
2007 World Championships 10 8 7 7 (179.14)
2007 Four Continents Championships 3 4 4 4 (179.69)
2007 U.S. National Championships 2 4 3 3 (184.11)
2006 NHK Trophy 4 4 4 4 (159.49)
2006 Skate Canada 8 3 4 4 (162.66)
2006 World Junior Championships 3 4 2 3 (167.20)
2006 U.S. Junior National Championships 1 1 1 1 1 (178.86)
2006 Junior Grand Prix Final 3 2 2 2 (160.85)
2005 Sofia Cup [JGP] 2 1 1 1 (164.65)
2005 Andorra Cup [JGP] 2 2 2 2 (171.21)
2004 Harghita Cup [JGP] 3 2 3 3 (162.20)
2004 JGP Belgrade 3 3 3 3 (164.57)
2004 World Junior Championships 6B 6B 13 12 13
2004 U.S. Junior National Championships 2 2 2 2 2
2004 U.S. Midwestern Junior Sectionals 1 1 1 1 1
2003 Junior Grand Prix - SBC Cup 3 4 4 4
2003 Czech Skate 4 4 4 4
2003 U.S. Junior National Championships 6 7 7 6 7
2003 U.S. Midwestern Junior Sectionals 2 2 2 2 2
2002 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 10 8 7 8
2002 Belgrade Sparrow [JGP] 8 6 6 6
2002 Novice Helmut Seibt Memorial 1 1 1 1
2002 U.S. Novice National Championships 1 1 3 2
2002 U.S. Midwestern Novice Sectionals 1 1/1 1 2
Photos
CD Paso Doble. Meryl attempting to channel Krylova.
http://skateshutterbug.zenfolio.com/p604388354/h2129283e#h1201480e
http://skateshutterbug.zenfolio.com/p604388354/h2129283e#h1130bdce
OD Charleston. Both light and cheerful, as it should be. The hat appears to be a feather and aluminum foil craft project though. Perhaps a party favor?
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...521297,83521295,83521162|0&mode=c&id=83525334
FD Meryl in gorgeous gold dress. Charlie in brown ripped shirt with gold drapery tiebacks in the middle of their combined lift, I think.
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...521297,83521295,83521162|0&mode=c&id=83532712
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/D...521297,83521295,83521162|0&mode=c&id=83532719
Videos:
2008 later version FD Eleanor Rigby and Eleanor's Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6huiwyqvk
2007 Early version of Eleanor's Dream FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZp3mhRLfWM
2008 CD Yankee Polka (Korean coverage) They like the polka and it shows!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=386QWS6DcUk
2007 CD Rhumba (British Eurosport really liked them)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_2fvQOQIo
2007 OD Tango (British Eurosport coverage again--who really like them here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi02SuSSsPI
2007 4C's CD Golden Waltz (Japanese coverage)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7I86Bq8ycM
2008 4C's Exhibition Beyond the Sea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGgVl7XmR24
2007 Worlds FD Polovetsian Dances
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odrn-svt_do
2006 Jr Worlds FD Sarabande (Prayer in the Night)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBJjrf6Z2Jc
2004 Jr Worlds OD Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYh8guTWOGU
Articles:
2008 magazine article teaser for Skating magazine Nov 2008 issue.
http://www.usfigureskating.org/Magazine.asp?Issue=42140
2008 Skate Canada article from Ice Network. D&W talk about their paso at Skate Canada (scroll down)
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081031&content_id=54702&vkey=ice_news
2008 Ice Network bio with links to a 2 part video interview (right side of page), their
2008 US Nationals CD Yankee Polka (Great job Guys)! OD, and FD. You have to be an icenetwork member to see the videos.
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38007&mode=P
2008 Golden Skate US Championships OD report
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/us_5.shtml
2008 Golden Skate 4 Continents FD report w/ interview
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/4cc_3.shtml
2008 Golden Skate 4 Continents CD report w/interview
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2007/4cc_1.shtml
2004 Golden Skate article which proclaims "Davis and White in Long Term Partnership" by Barry Mittan (cute photo!)
http://goldenskate.com/articles/2004/071504.shtml
Website:
http://www.ice-dance.com/davis-white/
OD Best element
Element 1; Synchronized twizzle, one 3, four 2's, two 1's and a 0.
Worst element
Element 4; Midline step that Charlie stumbled on. They got three -1's on it.
OD Flight Plan
1 STw4
2 DiSt3
3 Sp4
4 MiStNt3
5 SlLi4
6 Li+TRANS
FD Best elements- Other than some elements that need upgrading, D&W nailed the FD. There were 3 absolutely topnotch elements.
Element 1; combination spin, all 2's
Element 2; combination lift garnered all 2's and 3's
Element 5; synchronized twizzle, all 2's except one 1
Something obviously went wrong with the last lift (level 1, Hello), but curiously except for one judge, the GOE doesn't reflect it.
FD Flight Plan
1 CoSp4
2 CuLi4+RoLi4
3 CiSt3
4 CuLi2
5 STw4
6 SlLi4
7 MiSt3
8 RoLi1
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At your comment on Khoklova's costume! I totally thought of "Wanda Beazle" when I saw it!
. Go Meryl and Charlie!
hwell: I don't think the judges will boost them up on purpose. They might be from former SSRs, but that hardly means that they will want to unfairly place a Russian team higher. I never felt that K/N were a team that the judges helped very much anyway. I like both teams, but I have a feeling that they will be pretty close in the CD, but D/W will definitely beat K/N in the OD, unless the latter has seriously revamped theirs. Not sure about the FD though, both have pretty strong FDs. Lets just wait and see.
