Warm-Up Group 1
1 Melissa GREGORY / Denis PETUKHOV USA 3 31.31
2 Alessia AURELI / Andrea VATURI ITA 9 22.93
3 Elena ROMANOVSKAYA / Alexander GRACHEV RUS 6 26.36
4 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 7 25.47
Warm-Up Group 2
5 Marie-France DUBREUIL / Patrice LAUZON CAN 1 33.24
6 Mylene GIRARD / Bradley YAEGER CAN 8 24.49
7 Chantal LEFEBVRE / Arseni MARKOV CAN 5 27.18
8 Kristin FRASER / Igor LUKANIN AZE 4 28.16
9 Elena GRUSHINA / Ruslan GONCHAROV UKR 2 31.76
Why is it a surprise? D&L are Canadian #1 couple and have been skating together for ages. They also have been a tp 10 at Worlds for a number of seasons. Furthermore, they have been to the GP finals.
I think G&P have a bit of work to do to catch up with D&L.