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Thanks to all for providing the links. I throughly enjoyed watching!
I have to wonder if Yu-na is waiting for that announcement to decide if she will keep skating. If Korea does not win the bod for 2018, i can't see her continue skating.
Yuna is now off to Togo, Africa for her presentation before the ANOCA assembly. She will then fly to Europe to attend the wedding of Prince Albert II of Monaco, then go to Dubai and finally Durban, South Africa for the final IOC vote/selection.
Let's hope the IOC selects PyeongChang for the 2018 winter games. That would go a long way towards supporting the massive increase in figure skating fans and aspiring athletes, and maintaining the public interest and funding/sponsorship of all things figure skating in Korea.
In other news, Yuna's TV show Kiss&Cry is improving in the ratings.
A question for those of you who are more knowledgeable about pairs/ice dancing than I am (which means just about everyone ):Again, the same time of the week returned with another episode of Yuna's skating show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eYDtHQS81c
Thanks for the reply, Doris. I take it then, that it's possible, just not often done because in the vast majority of cases the man is physically larger than most female pairs skaters, and the woman skater doesn't have the strength of the male pairs skater, both of which create difficulties.In ice dance, Anissina & Peizerat, Faiella and Scali, and the Kerrs, and I think the Hubbells did lifts where the woman lifts the man. These days, you only see this sort of lift as one of the choreographic, non-counting lifts, because even those girls who can lift their partner can't do a Level 4 type lift.
I don't remember any pairs where the girl lifted the guy, but if any teams might have done it, I would suspect Selezneva & Makarova or Tai & Randy (their pull Arabians showed off Tai's power)
or Dawn & Troy Goldstein might have been able to do it. It's a long time since pair teams where the partners were close in size have existed at the elite level or even Sr Nationals level in the US.
Just to push the concept a little, though, what do you think would happen if the woman in the pair was significantly larger and stronger (e.g. an athlete type like Laila Ali, paired with a man who might be jockey size, say 100-110 pounds)? How do you think a routine in which the lifts were done by the woman, with the man on the other hand acting as the focal point of presentation, if you know what I mean, be perceived by judges? Would there be any difference in the way they are judged vs. a pairing that utilized the traditional roles (assuming that meeting the criteria for level 4 lifts is technically possible for such a pair)?
One issue that occurs to me, for instance: would such a pair be more constrained in finding the right music and interpretive concept, as a lot of music (particularly "romantic" music), particularly when they tell a story, is conventionally interpreted as representing a certain type of male-female relationship (eg most ballets such as a Sleeping Beauty, or most operas such as a Madame Butterfly, etc.). Which then begs the question: even if they could find the right music and concept, does this type of role division so go against the cultural grain that it would create issues with both judging (underscoring) and audience reception?
yuna and katarina witt at Togo, Africa for Winter Oympics presentation
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt315/ttyy0403/r7bup.jpg