2024 CS Lombardia Trophy Pairs Free Skate

[labgoat]

Sara & Niccolo do love the dramatic pieces

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

10. Sara CONTI / Niccolo MACII
Papa, Can You Hear Me *eye roll*

3Tw2?
3T<< (Niccolo pops open, steps out)
3S+1A (again Niccolo pops open, she singles)
3Li (looked a little hesitant)
3LoTh
5TLi (really cool difficult entry)
3STh (touch two-footed?)
BoDs
5RLi
ChSq1 (knee slide, choreo lift)
PCoSp

SP: 74.61 (1st)
FS: 128.35 (2nd)
TOT: 203.02 (1st)

Welp, not thrilled with the music choice, and it feels very one-note the whole time. The technical elements were better than last year but also not their best. I think I need to see this program more to formulate an opinion on it.

 

[FlossieH]

I think we have our winners. I wish they would do something lively sometime, though. All their programmes seem very similar.

 

[lariko]

Great last group, except the nerve-wrecking fall. I am going to see if the Russians uploaded any free skates yet, then gonna be back for the main bit of awesomeness with men. The SP was so good!

 

[Seven Sisters]

Another boring warhorse but even here, by the end of the season I suspect there won’t be a dry eye in the house—such is the unique gift of this team

 

[Ichatdelune]

Conti/Macii are also going to war, Italy is not known for its civil wars but here we are

To be honest this feels like a more wrought out version of their Cinema Paradiso, not bad per say but definitely pales in comparison. They will win this but it remains to be seen if I'll be more kinder to this program

 

[4everchan]

just saw the scores.... fans will have a blast with Japanese still leading after such low TES... over Hungarians who had ten points on them TES wise.... .... ...

 

[norwegianfairytale]

So if if M/K hadn´t had that lift fall they would have won. Congratz to the Italians though, they seem really happy

 

[lariko]

Another boring warhorse but even here, by the end of the season I suspect there won’t be a dry eye in the house—such is the unique gift of this team

I find the music sleepy and maudline, but I am sure those who come to the arena to weep, will weep. Heh.

 

[elektra blue]

Conti/Macii are also going to war, Italy is not known for its civil wars but here we are

To be honest this feels like a more wrought out version of their Cinema Paradiso, not bad per say but definitely pales in comparison. They will win this but it remains to be seen if I'll be more kinder to this program

weird...a civil war made us into a country and we had a major one from 1943 to 1945

 

[Sabsi]

Congrats to the winners!!!
But there is a lot to do before the GP starts... for everyone.

 

[Carol1]

Another boring warhorse but even here, by the end of the season I suspect there won’t be a dry eye in the house—such is the unique gift of this team

My tear ducts stopped functioning in 1987 but the only emotion the Italian team create for me associated with crying is boredom.

 

[labgoat]

While we wait several RDs are posted in the rewatch

 

[Ichatdelune]

weird...a civil war made us into a country and we had a major one from 1943 to 1945

The former doesn't count since you weren't Italian back then but Genoan/Venetian/Neapolitan/Sardinian/etc., but oh yeah I forgot Benito Mussolini and his civil war

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Well now that the pairs event is over for this Challenger I might tell you about the awful dream I had 3 days ago, something I was reminded of today with the scary lift fall.

In the dream I was watching a stream (don´t know if it was supposed to be Lombardia?) and the female skater was lying on the ice (I think it was part of the choreo). The man was supposed to slide over/by the side of her, probably like a tunnel. In the dream he stumbled and made a mistake, and his whole blade went straight over her body in a straight line, from her toe and up to her head, and slid her open (I did not know how deep but enough that she was cut open and it all went so fast to know the immediate impact). I knew it was crazy serious and shut my laptop down in the very second, because I did not want to witness the trauma coming next, but knew there was going to be a lot of blood involved and crazy scenes and even before they would be able to shut down stream/people coming out on the ice to help. In the dream I did not know how it went but it was the most horrific feeling knowing I had witness something very traumatic.

I think it also was a third skater involved in the accident, p which doesn´t really make sense (was it a warm up maybe?). It also wasn´t a pair that was competing here, but I won´t tell you the names.

 

[lady_bee]

Congrats! Sara & Nicolo.

I am still in shock, for Ryuichi, who looks obviously in pain in K&C.
I know he has been dealing with spondylolysis, so I am really hoping the fall was not serious as it seems.

 

[labgoat]

Congrats! Sara & Nicolo.

I am still in shock, for Ryuichi, who looks obviously in pain in K&C.
I know he has been dealing with spondylolysis, so I am really hoping the fall was not serious as it seems.

I have it in my neck after being in a small car crunched between two big pickup trucks. I was waiting behind one of them on my way to work years ago and got crushed by a drunk going 75 miles per hour

 

[labgoat]

I have it in my neck after being in a small car crunched between two big pickup trucks. I was waiting behind one of them on my way to work years ago and got crushed by a drunk going 75 miles per hour

I eventually recovered, but my ability to do a layback spin was forever damaged as I cannot put my head in that position without it getting stuck and needing medical intervention to put it back in place - hence my vicarious love of watching skating.

 

[elbkup]

I eventually recovered, but my ability to do a layback spin was forever damaged as I cannot put my head in that position without it getting stuck and needing medical intervention to put it back in place - hence my vicarious love of watching skating.

So sorry this happened to you and the residual you are dealing with now.. my friend went thru something similar and years later has repercussions; she was waiting for a light change at a crossroads.. next thing she knew she was lying on the pavement in the road. One can never predict such things. All the best

 

[labgoat]

So sorry this happened to you and the residual you are dealing with now.. my friend went thru something similar and years later has repercussions; she was waiting for a light change at a crossroads.. next thing she knew she was lying on the pavement in the road. One can never predict such things. All the best

I have learned to manage it mostly. I am careful with my movements and can manage it when it flares. The loss of doing a layback though will never be recovered.