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- Nov 12, 2012
Oh no P iper and Gilles and I had such hope for them. Canada just when they show a bit of hope in men this happens. Michael Slipchuk must be panicking.
It is funny how Canadians here are not panicking and causing drama over what happened. Looking into Piper and Paul's competition trajectory it was not totally unexpected to happen and Soucisse/Firus have issues with execution since the beginning of the season. It is rather just sad to see this amount of issues happening at once to both Canadian teams. With new GOE scale and quite a few teams improving technically, it is no longer playing the distance game, having strict differenciation of 'good' and 'bad' teams, execution is really the key and Gilles/Poirier in particular experienced how important focus and control over execution are. Aside of that, it was not that every other team got stellar levels, especially on step sequence and pattern, their slip on the pattern was one thing, but it spooked them going forward impacting other levels too.
Like TontoK said earlier, this is a bit of defining moment for them, this FD, going into it in the position they are. And it is hard to predict at this point what will happen.