Their take on the new rules was particularly interesting!
I loved their Thank God I'm A Country Boy program. So much fun! They match the required elements to the music so well!
It was, wasn't it?
Basically, they feel like the best ever team Torvill / Dean introduced one theme /rythm revolution in ice dance led to boring programs and now the judges want to see variety of rythms, what was actually in place in the 70's. So is this a step forward or 3 steps back?
On another note, I am very much looking forward to the battle in ice dance at the european level, between P/B, F/S and Kerr's plus the young russian teams. It will be very interesting to say the least.
I heard that R/S will not skate at the test skate in Novogorsk (other teams will be there), so probably they retired, but it's not for sureI know they are on grand prix event schedules but R/S spoke so much of retirement is it known they absolitely will be competing?
Or having achieved their 2 GP spot(s), they don't need to test...Their assignments are France & Japan, and therefore not at the whims of the Russian Federation?
It's an odd view, considering that T&D led to the programs of the Duchesnay's, who were far from boring, whatever else one might say about them, and the earlier programs of Usova & Zhulin (also not boring) & Blumberg & Siebert (also not boring), and Rahkamo & Kokko, who were a kick & a half not boring. K&P were pretty much a 3 rhythm team no matter what the rules were, up until they did Lawrence of Arabia and Air, so I'd guess that if you were to say who was boring according to ISU, you'd have to say K&P, D&D and U&Z, because they were the medallists in the years preceding 1992/1993, before the "it must be dancy" rule came out-a rule that to me at the time seemed "back to the '70's".
So I found it an odd opinion.
The battle for the 2nd spot at Canadians, and the 2nd and 3rd spots at US Nationals should also be interesting.