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OD 9:15 am Eastern time Friday

herios

Medalist
Joined
Jan 25, 2004
Tanith and Ben made my day....they skate to romanian folklor (OK, it's listed moldavian), but it's from the moldovian side of Romania (my original country):rock:
 

**Carol**

Rinkside
Joined
Jan 20, 2007
I hope it is costume violation, for damaging the eyes of judges and audiences alike.

:yes: thats rigth haha

this are the results
Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO USA 60.33 29.70 30.63 7.95 7.80 8.20 8.10 8.25 0.00 #9
2 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS 56.48 28.70 28.78 7.55 7.35 7.60 7.50 7.80 1.00 #8
3 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA 54.59 27.20 27.39 7.20 6.95 7.20 7.25 7.40 0.00 #7
4 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO UKR 50.22 27.40 22.82 5.85 5.85 6.00 6.10 6.20 0.00 #4
5 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN 48.33 26.60 21.73 5.70 5.45 5.80 5.80 5.85 0.00 #2
6 Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN USA 47.27 26.20 21.07 5.70 5.45 5.50 5.50 5.55 0.00 #3
7 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI ISR 46.95 23.00 23.95 6.40 6.05 6.25 6.40 6.40 0.00 #6
8 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 42.36 22.90 19.46 5.20 4.90 5.15 5.15 5.20 0.00 #1
9 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 41.11 19.30 22.81 5.90 5.75 5.85 6.30 6.20 1.00 #5

Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO USA
98.66 1 1
2 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS
92.78 2 2
3 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA
89.96 3 3
4 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO UKR
79.65 6 4
5 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI ISR
77.83 4 7
6 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN
76.20 8 5
7 Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN USA
76.03 7 6
8 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN
71.51 5 9
9 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN
67.09 9 8

Tanityh and Ben are leading by far
 

MissIzzy

Final Flight
Joined
Dec 26, 2006
And Tanith and Ben have this gold no problem. Two points below Meryl and Charlie in the OD, but I think they were scoring everyone a little low today.
 

herios

Medalist
Joined
Jan 25, 2004
how is the OD? I couldn't see

It was neat. I would need to watch it again, I just got so thrilled, when I saw their costumes and recognized the music, very clean, not quite sure if they were fast and how much difficulty is in it.
 

dorispulaski

Wicked Yankee Girl
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
Country
United-States
Alas I can't comment because icenetwork went into buffering and fibrillation mode for me. If either they or my isp gets better, I'll watch tonight and do some uninformed commentary.

I am so sad that I missed B&A's OD
 

missysays

On the Ice
Joined
Nov 8, 2007
I caught Tanith and Ben's OD. Here are some impressions.

Skated with energy and attack per their usual style. A lot of Tanith and Ben skating straight at the judges side by side with arms up-raised in fine Eastern European folk style. I'm really struck by how Ben seems to absorb the new coaching and has seemed to step up the subtlety but also the technical finesse of his skating- a lot of little interesting steps from him. Tanith didn't impress me as much she seemed to lag a bit behind him ever so slightly- looked a bit tight. Their twizzles looked a bit out of sync on the second one- I think.

I think they won the day because of all of the teams they had the best overall package of technical confidence and polish but the OD itself as an artistic vehicle wasn't anything to write home about. It gets the job done but nothing out of the ordinary.

After the scores came up, Tanith made a comment about not ever wanting to skate 2 programs in one day again and that her legs were shaking during the OD- which would explain why she seemed to lag behind Ben a bit. I'm sure they'll work on everything before their next outing and continue to have respectable showings in this OD.
 

**Carol**

Rinkside
Joined
Jan 20, 2007
I'm very happy for tanith and ben, they have nice lead over the Russians, and if they skated clean and confident is alreday a good thing :p I wish I could see haha

Skate the CD and the OD in one day must be really difficult, maybe this was a problem for some teams.

I can never understand Jane and Serguei costumes :unsure:
 

~tapdancer

On the Ice
Joined
Mar 18, 2008
Overall I thought this OD comp was nothing special. No team really grabbed me and made me not want to take my eyes off of them. B/A were definitely the best here but I don't like this OD much and my first reaction was "they are officially Russians", but that was just a knee-jerk reaction. A lot of the music was pretty awful, imo. Weaver/Poje looked nice in their costumes but they had a rough skate to a Flamenco. I think they've got the goods to beat C/P this season but they've got to skate better than this to do it. C/Z's OD didn't fit them, imo, and while it was skated pretty well, it was obvious that the judges said, "Welcome to Seniors but...here's a low score for you." They'll improve, I'm sure.

F/S and K/N were okay but again, nothing special. Khoklova does nothing but show her flexibility time and again. They have fast become a one-trick pony. Those costumes they wore were something else. It was a shock after seeing F/S who were wearing costumes for a funeral. B/A's costumes were nice but the red boots on Tanith didn't thrill me. I will have to watch this OD again to appreciate it more but on first look, I don't know...it's just, meh.

And I know it's mostly because they are my two favorite teams but D/W and V/M looked way better than pretty much anybody here. I think it's going to be an interesting year in ice dance.
 

L'amour

On the Ice
Joined
Dec 20, 2007
do you guys think thta CCTV will show OD today? there is no links of it :scratch:I really want to see B/A OD
 

**Carol**

Rinkside
Joined
Jan 20, 2007
I just saw B/A and K/N ODs, the links for all the ODs are on fsvids :biggrin:

K/N - the costumes are really disturbing and I'm really not a fan of their skating, its all about Jana crazy flexibility, the program have potential and please change the costumes

B/A - Tanith semes really really tired ate the and of the program. I like the program, i guess they recived level 3 on the footworks, I sure they will work on it and imporve, very nice lifts. The music is a litle bit strange but is a nice program, fun and well... folk dance.
 

Charlotte Elizabeth

On the Ice
Joined
Sep 25, 2009
I just saw B/A and K/N ODs, the links for all the ODs are on fsvids :biggrin:

K/N - the costumes are really disturbing and I'm really not a fan of their skating, its all about Jana crazy flexibility, the program have potential and please change the costumes

B/A - Tanith semes really really tired ate the and of the program. I like the program, i guess they recived level 3 on the footworks, I sure they will work on it and imporve, very nice lifts. The music is a litle bit strange but is a nice program, fun and well... folk dance.
Are there any videos on youtube?
thanks.
 
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