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Sigh. I miss Ziggy.
Re timing: you have to be very careful commenting on timing issues unless you are at the event live. Especially if you are viewing streaming video, the audio and video are very seldom in synch at all.
It is quite shocking that even some television broadcasters do not trouble to synchronize their audio and video signals very well. Internet streamers do not even try, and the interruptions in transmission do not make the situation better. A transmision which is in synch to start may go out of synch when there is a glitch in transmission.
I hope we will have British Eurosport videos fairly soon. They often do a pretty good job with synchronization, particularly when the broadcast is not a live broadcast.
Was that Fabian Boruzat with them in the K&C?
Would you you prefer Judy Blumberg or Maurizio Margaglio, who are employed from time to time by Team Zueva?
In this case, Ponomarenko was the assistant technical specialist the least powerful member of the panel."
Doris, you are one of the most dutifully helpful members of this board. Your insights and input are helpful and always welcome.
However, with all due respect, the statement you make so sharply, is NOT entirely correct.
Judy Blumberg has never been employed by either Zoueva or Shpilband. She has on occassion coached skaters, and in fact the only team currently competing at an elite level (albeit still Juniors) are Chloe Lewis & Logan Bye, who are actually now under the primary coaching of Igor Shpilband.
It would be disappointing to see an incorrect association propagated.
It is correct that Maurizio Margaglio has been a mmber of Zoueva's group. He is currently head of the Finnish Skating program and primarily guides the top Ice Dance teams from Finland. That group seems to have spent several summers training in Canton, and Margaglio has stood at the boards with Zoueva at major events incluing last year's World championshios.
In performing Scheherazade, Davis and White follow in the footsteps of Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert, their fellow five-time U.S. champions who interpreted the music at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, where they placed fourth. Later that season, they won their second of three world bronze medals.
Blumberg, an ISU technical specialist, was on hand at last week's Champs Camp in Colorado Springs, Colo., and also visited Davis and White at their training home in Canton, Mich.
"She was able to come to the rink several weeks ago," Davis said. "We were honored by her positive feedback."
I'm wondering why Madison's very obvious stumble on first set of double twizzles in the footwork was not properly penalized. The stumble should have reduced the Level by one and earned negative GOEs. They got a Level 3 on footwork, but, to be sure, it is highly, highly unlikely they were going to earn Level 4 on that footwork, if error free. I also don't recall any negative GOEs on footwork.
The Shibs attempted to capture a Latin flavor. I detected no such attempt on the part of C/B.
Hadn't thought about Ponomarenko's link to Shpilband. But now that it's been mentioned, it is somewhat unseemly for Ponomarenko's to serve as Asst. Technical Controller because of Shpilband's coaching relationship with Anthony.
AFAIK, the Asst. Controller has virtually as much authority as the Controller.
Judy Blumberg has indeed worked with Davis/White, while she was a ISU technical specialist, as recently as last season.
So yes, Judy Blumberg was employed to help D/W.