2022 Winter Olympics: Pairs Free Skate

[GGFan]

So Moskvina will be the disappointed one after this.

I love M\G and was rooting for them, but compared to the top 2 it did feel very laboured overall.

Love her but to be honest this wasn't her best work this year. She should have made changes to both of the programs midseason.

 

[slider11]

I think Boikova and Kozovski picked the wrong music this year. Malaguena needs fire and ice and they just didn't capture that. Their James Bond from last year captured their sassy style much better. I think there is still a bright future for them.

 

[whatif]

Well I think the chinese combo in the free should receive negative GOE (Sui masked her step-out perfectly, but it was there). I also think their spin in the SP went completley asynchronous and should receive negative GOE. But what the hell. I'm glad it came to nice and thrilling finish after the last two weeks. Now we have some time to recover before the worlds.

S/H had always have horrible spins and Sui's landings also did not warrant that kind of GOE.
But again, this is just nitpicking.

 

[Seven Sisters]

Oh do tell!

I meant to say, “no other reason.” Typed too fast, sorry!

 

[LadyB]

They broke up?

They did...I think?

Sometime between the infamous trainings camp in Italy 2017 and Euros 2018...

 

[CrazyKittenLady]

i can't believe Olympics are over already but you are all invited to Saransk for cup of Russia and my birthday love you all!

Oh god Saransk. It's good that you got so much hand-holding practice here @elektra blue, I count on you to get me through it!

 

[bartlebooth]

Looking at the protocols, Sui/Han made up for their mistake on the 3S not just with the quad twist but with the Forward Inside death spiral which is 0.9 points harder than the Forward Outside death spiral that T/M did. Wow, it was THAT close.

Actually, Franca Bianconi on Italian broadcast pointed that out. When they were doing the spiral, she said "they are stacking up points with this". That and the twist were essential.

 

[GGFan]

When it's this close I don't think the fix was in. I think the judges put in their marks for S/H and T/M and that's how it turned out.

 

[SNAKSuyun]

I definitely think that could have gone either way and was won on home advantage / sentimentality in the end. ISU prob aware though about the popularity of the respective teams and how much each fed politicked for each team... definitely think had T/M been a touch more consistent over the past few years (or if this had been held outside of China), T/M would have had this. Anyway though. Congrats to all the medalists and glad to see the sportsmanship!!!

 

[reneerose]

One other thing for me before I go back to bed. Yay USA K/F and C-G/L 6th and 8th placements! Alexa and Brandon were on fire!

 

[Corwin]

It was an unforgettable event. And we survived! See you in Milan!!

P.S Nerve cells are completely killed!

 

[CrazyKittenLady]

Sometime between the infamous trainings camp in Italy 2017 and Euros 2018...

Now I want to know more about the infamous training camp....

 

[labgoat]

See you for the Gala!

 

[NAOTMAA]

Did S/H seriously beat T/M in skating skills?

 

[LadyB]

Now I want to know more about the infamous training camp....

Can't say it on GS, the post would be deleted (as it happened before). If you're really interested, feel free to DM me.

 

[labgoat]

I'm so old I can remember Rodnina & Zaitsev using the last music for M/G.

I was right here it is for all you too young to have seen and those old enough to remember

 

[readernick]

Did S/H seriously beat T/M in skating skills?

Really? That's the one category where I would put T/M ahead. But, the other question did T/M really beat S/ H in interpretation? Judges are weird.

 

[GGFan]

Did S/H seriously beat T/M in skating skills?

It's a wash because T/M beat S/H on interpretation which shouldn't have happened either. The judges tried their best here and it was just that close.

 

[Mista Ekko]

Did S/H seriously beat T/M in skating skills?

Yes, by 0.17

 

[coldblueeyes]

So Moskvina will be the disappointed one after this.

I love M\G and was rooting for them, but compared to the top 2 it did feel very laboured overall.

I don’t think she will. She said months before the Olympics that beating S/H in China would be very difficult. I think she knows she has two pairs for the future in her hands. And maybe their time is not now but forward. (Did you see what I did there?)