2012 GPF qualifiers: Pairs

[ice coverage]

2012 GPF qualifiers:

PAIRS http://www.isuresults.com/events/gp2012/gpspairs.htm



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[TD="class: GrandPrixListDivider, bgcolor: black, colspan: 17, align: center"]PLACE 1 - 6: QUALIFIED FOR ISU GRAND PRIX OF FIGURE SKATING FINAL[/TD]
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[TD="class: GrandPrixListLeftTd, align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD]Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]RUS[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]15[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]15[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]30[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]402.60[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]262.08[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]132.79[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]140.52[/TD]
[TD="class: GrandPrixListRightTd, align: center"]14[/TD]
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[TD="class: GrandPrixListLeftTd, align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD]Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]RUS[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]13[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]15[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]28[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]383.10[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]251.47[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]126.41[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]131.63[/TD]
[TD="class: GrandPrixListRightTd, align: center"]14[/TD]
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[TD="class: GrandPrixListLeftTd, align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD]Qing PANG / Jian TONG[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]CHN[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]13[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]15[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]28[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]373.98[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]243.45[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]123.20[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]130.53[/TD]
[TD="class: GrandPrixListRightTd, align: center"]13[/TD]
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[TD="class: GrandPrixListLeftTd, align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD]Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]RUS[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]13[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]15[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]28[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]371.52[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]241.04[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]121.21[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]130.48[/TD]
[TD="class: GrandPrixListRightTd, align: center"]13[/TD]
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[TD="class: GrandPrixListLeftTd, align: center"]5[/TD]
[TD]Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]CAN[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]13[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]13[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]26[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]377.20[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]250.43[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]126.00[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]126.77[/TD]
[TD="class: GrandPrixListRightTd, align: center"]14[/TD]
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[TD="class: GrandPrixListLeftTd, align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD]Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]CAN[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]13[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]22[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]352.99[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]228.73[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]115.49[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]124.26[/TD]
[TD="class: GrandPrixListRightTd, align: center"]13[/TD]
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[TD="class: GrandPrixListDivider, bgcolor: black, colspan: 17, align: center"]PLACE 7 - 9: SUBSTITUTE FOR THE ISU GRAND PRIX OF FIGURE SKATING FINAL[/TD]
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[TD="class: GrandPrixListLeftTd, align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD]Caydee DENNEY / John COUGHLIN[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]USA[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]11[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]11[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]22[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]357.43[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]237.66[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]120.19[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]119.77[/TD]
[TD="class: GrandPrixListRightTd, align: center"]14[/TD]
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[TD="class: GrandPrixListLeftTd, align: center"]8[/TD]
[TD]Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]ITA[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]11[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]11[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]22[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]341.52[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]224.43[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]112.24[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]117.09[/TD]
[TD="class: GrandPrixListRightTd, align: center"]14[/TD]
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[TD="class: GrandPrixListLeftTd, align: center"]9[/TD]
[TD]Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]RUS[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]11[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]18[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]339.28[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]228.98[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]115.89[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]110.30[/TD]
[TD="class: GrandPrixListRightTd, align: center"]13[/TD]
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ETA:
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Excerpt below - which includes season's best scores -- is from ISU's event preview (04 December 2012). http://www2.isu.org/vsite/vnavsite/...3,4844-205151-222374-nav-list,00.html?id=1211

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World and Grand Prix Final silver medalists Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov (RUS) headline the Pairs standings and are the only couple to advance with two gold medals to the Final. They scored a seasons best of 207.53 points. Vera Bazarova/Yuri Larionov (RUS/seasons best 192.02), Qing Pang/Jian Tong (CHN/188.82) and Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov (RUS7seasons best 187.99) collected a gold and a silver each on their way to Sochi. Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) qualified with two silver medals and a seasons best of 190.49 points while Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch (CAN) booked their ticket to the Final with a silver medal and a fourth-place finish (seasons best 180.63 points). All couples have competed in the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final before.
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[samson]

It's funny looking at the tie breakers. I guess I understand why they work the way they do, but I wonder if Denney and Coughlin would be in the final had they skated in a field like NHK's? Nice to see a US team in the alternates the year before the olympics. Their scores were consistently higher this grand prix season from the year before.

Seems like V/T's to lose. I feel like the other five could land in any combination. I'm not sure if that makes me more interested or less...

 

[Sk8Boi]

V/T will have very high PCS and will be hard to beat. Russia will go 1-2-4 here, with Pang third if he is well and can do the jumps. The Canadians will have nice content, but will play catch up on PCS.

The team with 195+ should win.

 

[FSGMT]

I just hope that V/T PCS won't be absurde: if they skate clean, I can understand 70 or even 72, but not if they fall, otherwise it will be a joke competition, like CoR... :disapp:

 

[wallylutz]

Duhamel/Radford have the most difficult program with SBS Triple Lutz and Throw 3Lz, which will set them apart. They almost beat Kavaguti/Smirnov in Paris so hopefully they can stay on their feet this time and make it to the podium.

 

[blue_idealist]

It's funny looking at the tie breakers. I guess I understand why they work the way they do, but I wonder if Denney and Coughlin would be in the final had they skated in a field like NHK's? Nice to see a US team in the alternates the year before the olympics. Their scores were consistently higher this grand prix season from the year before.

Seems like V/T's to lose. I feel like the other five could land in any combination. I'm not sure if that makes me more interested or less...

I think D/C would have got 2nd, same as M-T/M, if they had skated at NHK.

 

[ice coverage]

Maxim Trankov ‏@Trankov_jr has been tweeting photos from Sochi, including a close-up of his credential :
https://twitter.com/Trankov_jr/status/275223666097270784

 

[ice coverage]

Amazing athleticism in this photo tweeted by Volosozhar Tatiana ‏@tati_firebird:

Sometimes girls can flight✈ linochka97 @Trankov_jr @maksmiroshkin http://instagr.am/p/Ss79MVj_k0/
9:22 AM - 1 Dec 12
https://twitter.com/tati_firebird/status/274926500090875904​

Plus whoever captured the moment composed a great shot.