2018 Olympic Figure Skating Short Dance

[Artistry]

So sad about the dress. How could it unbuckle if someone sowed it at neck right before?

 

[casken]

Off unison on the turns in the sbs sequence, she was awkward on the choctaw, but overall better than the Shibs I guess?

 

[kevinVchicago]

So sad about the dress. How could it unbuckle if someone sowed it at neck right before?

It must have been a nightmare for her. Ooof.

 

[anonymoose_au]

Only a deduction if something touches the ice; IE feather falling from Ilinykh's costume in Sochi or a bead.

I thought so, but I couldn't see in the replay if it just came undone or if a clasp or something accidentally flew off!

Fortunately not!

But wow it's gonna be a pretty crazy FD! On the one hand I love Tessa and Scott's...those lifts and footwork are jaw dropping! Gabbi and Guilluame's FD is really beautiful though.

Who will win...nobody knows!

 

[gravy]

I have a feeling the European judges will go overboard with PCS by FS for P/C and we will have controversy. let's see if I am right. :dev3:

This will be the scandal of these Olympics! Sochi had Sotnikova, Vancouver had Lysacek, etc. I'm all for it.

 

[WeakAnkles]

Well that was...deliberate.

 

[withwings]

How the hell did they win the PCS? HOW? Gabrielled was so not into that performance. BS scoring.....making sure they can still win FD....crap scoring. VM should be higher

mafia

 

[Dr. Jenn]

Nice job by H/D! They should be very pleased with themselves. I don't like this program as much as their FD, but it was well done.

 

[ruffledgrouse]

So sad about the dress. How could it unbuckle if someone sowed it at neck right before?

No, I think that was Yura who said she was going to get sown in after her dress malfunctioned in the team event.

 

[Mista Ekko]

Wow, 3rd will be close

This was really good

 

[Haikush]

I'm serioulsy pissed off. PC winning PCS...BS BS BS

 

[chopinskate]

I hope the 30 minutes after the competition are well used by CAN.

 

[Heleng]

This is the best I've seen Madi and Zach skate the sd, terrific for them!

Loved p/c, they are troopers getting through the costume problem.

 

[schizoanalyst]

Joke of a score. But who didn't see that coming?

The writing has been on the wall for awhile, I think it was sealed after the the Canadian pair took a metal over the Russians, but I'm a bit of a conspiratorialist

 

[Seren]

This is absolute nonsense.

 

[Nika09]

Ohh please, Shibs was waaay better!

 

[chopinskate]

The Shibs have lost it.

 

[Chemistry66]

1) Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN) - 83.67 Q
2) Gabriella Papadakis/Guillame Cizeron (FRA) - 81.93 Q
3) Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue (USA) - 77.75 Q
4) Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA) - 77.73 Q
5) Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) - 75.45 Q
6) Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (CAN) - 74.33 Q
7) Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier (CAN) - 69.60 Q
8) Penny Coomes/Nicholas Buckland (GBR) - 68.36 Q
9) Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri (ITA) - 68.16 Q
10) Sara Hurtado/Kirill Khaliavin (ESP) - 66.93 Q
11) Tiffani Zahorski/Jonathan Guirrero (OAR) - 66.47 Q
12) Natalia Kaliszek/Maksym Spodyriev (POL) - 66.06 Q
13) Kana Muramoto/Chris Reed (JPN) - 63.41 Q
14) Yura Min/Alexander Gamelin (KOR) - 61.22 Q
15) Kavita Lorenz/ Joti Polizoakis (GER) - 59.99 Q
16) Marie-Jade Lauriault/Romain Le Gac (FRA) - 59.97 Q
17) Lucie Mysliveckova/Lukas Csolley (SVK) - 59.75 Q
18) Alisa Agafonova/Alper Ucar (TUR) - 59.42 Q
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19) Alexandra Nazarova/Maxim Nikitin (UKR) - 57.97
20) Shiyue Wang/Xinyu Liu (CHN) - 57.81
21) Cortney Mansourova/Michal Ceska (CZE) - 53.53
22) Adel Tankova/Ronald Zilberg (ISR) - 46.66

 

[nolangoh]

0.02 ahead of Shibsibs!!! They are in for the bronze!

 

[draqq]

Hubbell / Donohue

Wonderful edge quality in their midline step, just a tad out of sync (Level 4). Good steps through the rhumba pattern (Level 4). Wonderful patience through the liquid-like hold changes in the partial step (Level 4). Nice counter-balance curve lift. A little far apart on the twizzles (Level 3).

A bit tight on the twizzles, still don't know why they choose to do these last. Also not sure where they lost the level unless it's in the arms. But wonderful and silent edgework with better flow through the partial step than I've seen from them in the past. I like their rhumba interpretation more than their samba, but very, very good. On par with the Shibs overall.