Pairs SP Friday, November 20, 11:50 am Eastern Time

[dorispulaski]

Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON CAN
SP Requiem For a Dream by Clint Mansell

Anabelle LANGLOIS / Cody HAY CAN
SP Fascination

Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN
SP: The Office from "Brazil" (soundtrack) by Michael Kamen;
Jill Brazil/Power Station from "Brazil" (soundtrack) by Michael Kamen; Brazil from "Brazil" (soundtrack) by Michael Kamen

Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER
SP Send in the Clowns performed by Danny Wright

Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS
SP Appassionata by Secret Garden

Ksenia OZEROVA / Alexander ENBERT RUS
SP Don Quixote by Leon Minkus

Caydee DENNEY / Jeremy BARRETT USA
SP Firebird by Igor Stravinski
SP score at NHK 55.20 (Third at NHK)

Caitlin YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN USA
SP Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Four of the teams have not competed on the GP this year. Here's how the other four scored:


72.98 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY (First at TEB)
66.88 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS (Second at TEB)
64.54 Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON (Third place at TEB)
55.20 Caydee DENNEY / Jeremy BARRETT (Third at NHK)

Here are the other teams:
Anabelle LANGLOIS / Cody HAY CAN
Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH
Ksenia OZEROVA / Alexander ENBERT
Caitlin YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN

 

[dorispulaski]

I'm amazed that the order of skate is not yet on the ISU's website. After all, this starts in 6 hours.

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

I'm amazed that the order of skate is not yet on the ISU's website. After all, this starts in 6 hours.

Well, it's noon in Switzerland and this should be up yesterday. Maybe there is a bias against N.Americans?:scratch:

 

[Medusa]

I'm amazed that the order of skate is not yet on the ISU's website. After all, this starts in 6 hours.

Heh? it's only Thursday! Not Friday!

 

[sk8ingphan]

Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN
New pair. No data on the ISU biography.
Have not competed on the Grand Prix this year

In case anybody is interested, here are two recent articles on this new pair:

http://www.waterloochronicle.ca/sports/article/194139

http://news.therecord.com/Sports/article/631051

 

[dorispulaski]

sk8ingphan, Welcome to Golden Skate and thank you for the two articles!

Post long, post often!

That's a lovely picture of Dylan and Kristin in the second article.

 

[dorispulaski]

Order of Skate is now up

Warm-Up Group 1

1 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN

2 Caitlin YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN USA

3 Ksenia OZEROVA / Alexander ENBERT RUS

4 Caydee DENNEY / Jeremy BARRETT USA

Warm-Up Group 2

5 Anabelle LANGLOIS / Cody HAY CAN

6 Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON CAN

7 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS

8 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER

 

[snowflake]

In case anybody is interested, here are two recent articles on this new pair:

http://www.waterloochronicle.ca/sports/article/194139

http://news.therecord.com/Sports/article/631051

I read the articles with interest, thanks How did Moscovitch do earlier with his sister Kyra?

 

[i love to skate]

I read the articles with interest, thanks How did Moscovitch do earlier with his sister Kyra?

They were on the National Team for a couple years.

ETA: It will be interesting to see how S/S do. I wonder how polished their new program can be. Hoping for a better outing this time than at TEB. I think Pairs is going to be a great competition here as well as at the Olympics!

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

The results seem obvious, but one never know, do one.

S&S to make up for the last showing.
M&T to do battle with
D&D and watching out for

Denney and Barrett

 

[dorispulaski]

Langlois & Hay and the new Canadian team may well surprise us!

 

[mycelticblessing]

^ I hope so too. Especially for Langlois and Hay. Their 'Fascination' SP is lovely!

I haven't seen the new pair before, but I really liked seeing him and his sister skate together a couple of years ago.

 

[sk8ingphan]

sk8ingphan, Welcome to Golden Skate and thank you for the two articles!

Post long, post often!

Thanks for the welcome. I watched the pairs practice at Skate Canada today. Dylan looked strong, but Kirsten had a fall and popped a couple of her jumps during the free program practice. Hopefully she can pull it together for the short program tomorrow. All the other pairs looked in top form.

 

[i love to skate]

Thanks for the welcome. I watched the pairs practice at Skate Canada today. Dylan looked strong, but Kirsten had a fall and popped a couple of her jumps during the free program practice. Hopefully she can pull it together for the short program tomorrow. All the other pairs looked in top form.

If you had any observations on D/D I would love to hear them

 

[sk8ingphan]

If you had any observations on D/D I would love to hear them

They only practiced their free program and left out most of their jumps and lifts, so it's hard to say. But even under those conditions the emotional connection in their free program blew the crowd away. Tomorrow should be incredible.

 

[i love to skate]

They only practiced their free program and left out most of their jumps and lifts, so it's hard to say. But even under those conditions the emotional connection in their free program blew the crowd away. Tomorrow should be incredible.

Fantastic! Thanks for the report! I absolutely cannot wait for the competition to start :yes:

 

[Ilona&Philipp]

What about S/S new FP? Did you see them?

 

[sk8ingphan]

Yes, their choreography seems much improved, but it's hard to tell what the complete package will look like without seeing a full run that includes jumps and lifts. At this stage my money is still on D/D to win the FP. I think D/D will come out on top if they can skate two clean programs.

 

[Ilona&Philipp]

Thanks!

 

[i love to skate]

I wish I could watch the short live but I am going to catch it when it is broadcast on CBC this afternoon! I want to see D/D's long so bad that I might even make a trip to Canadians to see it Good luck to all the pairs! Here's hoping for a great competition. :yes: