2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games | Jan 27 - Feb 1

[peese]

OK, time to put on your shoulder pads and curl your hair, it's RD time!

Done!!

 

[Ichatdelune]

I'm here, and the commentary team unfortunately remains the same

 

[peese]

I'm here, and the commentary team unfortunately remains the same

Maybe Miss Bindl had a talking to....we'll see!

 

[saine]

Maybe Miss Bindl had a talking to....we'll see!

They did talk about the age restrictions for the men affecting who could compete in ice dance/pairs, so maybe?

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just opened the Time Schedule for the Ladies. My kid Stefania Yakovleva (CYP) has withdrawn.



CaroLiza_fan

 

[Ichatdelune]

"At least two twizzles for each partner, but three is even better"

Oh god Petra Bindl knows about ice dance even less than I do

 

[anonymoose_au]

Haha I used to think the lyric was I guess it rains down in Africa, which in retrospect is a very duh thought.

Although...do these kids have a terrible version or are the acoustics in this arena just terrible?

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Oh, imagine that. The Czech Republic is represented by a set of siblings.

It's not often that you get a partnership where the girl is older, though.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Maybe Miss Bindl had a talking to....we'll see!

Well, if somebody did have a word in her ear, they evidently didn't tell her to talk less. She never shut up through the whole programme.

I love those two songs, but I barely heard them!

Graham, on the other hand, never spoke at all. But, being an Alpine Skier, that may be because he doesn't know all the ins and outs of the sport and didn't want to embarrass himself.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[anonymoose_au]

Oh, imagine that. The Czech Republic is represented by a set of siblings.

It's not often that you get a partnership where the girl is older, though.

CaroLiza_fan

Yeah I was just thinking that!

And indeed, there's two such couples here, the boy from Italy looks about five

 

[saine]

Gans/Boutsan looked like they were having fun, I liked that.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

I can't believe that I never knew that Tom Jones' version of "Burning Down The House" was a cover until there now. And now that I have heard the original version by Talking Heads, I can understand why I had never heard it before. It was not great!

The costumes were, though. And, most importantly, so was the skating.

New leaders by a whisker under 20 points.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

What a way to make your international debut! At the Youth Olympics, and with a performance like that!

The Chinese were really good!!!

They go into 2nd.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[anonymoose_au]

Reverse lift FTW!!

These Italians are really entertaining!

 

[saine]

That was a cool sliding/lift move by Bianchi/Rota!

 

[lileychristie]

These baby Italians impressed me!! Love that reverse lift, who says it always have to be the man lifting the woman right!

 

[ladyjane]

Yay! Had some problems rising, but here I am. I hope not to have missed too many...

 

[lileychristie]

I'm a bit confused with the running order - there's no ice resurfacing between the three groups? Will the ice still be ok for the last group then?

 

[ladyjane]

Well, I'll watch the first 4 on play back. Bed was just too nice and warm

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Although I have seen Zoe and Pietro a few times this season, because they normally compete at Advanced Novice level, this is the first time I have seen this programme.

And I absolutely loved it!!!!

They really do deserve the description "baby Italians", because they look so young (because they are!)

They go into 3rd position.

By the way, there is another exciting Italian partnership coming through. Carolina CANTU / Xiaole Samuele PODOFILLINI, who are competing at Intermediate Novice level. And although Carolina is even younger than Zoe, she could easily pass as a lot older. I couldn't believe it when I found out she was only 12.

CaroLiza_fan