2026 Olympics Team Event: Free Dance

[SmileHappy34]

Wow surprised didn't beat Canada's Google only a 87 or 88

 

[IceDancingQueen]

Jackie Wong/Rocker Skating is reporting that if Canada qualifies for the Team Event Final, then Lajoie/Lagha will be substituted in for Gilles/Poirier.

Understandable choice as it is very clear the judges in this team event want Canada nowhere near the medal podium. Team Canada has clearly been the most underscored nation here. The Canadian judges need to learn to be as dirty and messy as the other nation’s judges, specifically Great Britain and China here, and France in other events throughout the season. These nations are cheating to get the results they want and Canada is never going to get the results they desire unless they play the same game. Canada and Italy and any other nation that is willing to form an alliance with them are going to have to stoop down to the level of the IAM judges to rig the results too.

These are predetermined results à la Nagano 1998 ice dance all over again and the nations that are playing too nice need to fight fire with fire.

I’m really surprised by this. Eventhough Canada likely won’t medal, I was hoping Canada would get through so that Piper and Paul could perform their FD with the changes they made since GPF to get some feedback from the judges ahead of the individual event.

Seems like a wasted opportunity and could have built momentum for them, especially as Lilah and Lewis aren’t skating their FD here. I remember when Virtue/Moir performed in the team event in 2018 and Papadakis/Cizeron sat out the team event althogether and that really helped the momentum for Tessa and Scott. Although I guess the team event was further away from the individual events in 2018, but that’s not stopping Chock and Bates, even with Evan’s back issues…

 

[4everchan]

StN. Name Nation Team Warm-Up Group 1 1 YOSHIDA Utana / MORITA Masaya​ JPN Japan 2 DAVIS Diana / SMOLKIN Gleb​ GEO Georgia 3 GUIGNARD Charlene / FABBRI Marco​ ITA Italy 4 LAJOIE Marjorie / LAGHA Zachary​ CAN Canada 5 CHOCK Madison / BATES Evan​ USA United States of America

 

[Ziotic]

I think Canada needs to learn to play 'dirtier' as a Fed in general, not because that's right (to the contrary other Feds should model Canada) but because other Feds will not ever play nice and it's absolutely clear at this point there will not be consequences for that, at least not any time in the near future. I'm pointing out the obvious now but their release of Fournier Beaudry for this season is another example. Almost no other Fed would have released her to skate with Cizeron in an Olympic Year when their own Fed otherwise had a medal contending team.

Canada should be a powerhouse Fed but they just don't seem to want any power.

I don’t begrudge them on this.
Since. Vanessa was released with the same situation to Canada.

It would have been seen as so petty.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Start Order for Each Team

And this time, the Time Schedule PDF has come up on the ISU's Entries / Results page first.

Here is the link:

https://results.isu.org/results/sea...----------FNL-0004DC--_StartListwithTimes.pdf

Hope this helps

CaroLiza_fan

 

[4everchan]

I don’t begrudge them on this.
Since. Vanessa was released with the same situation to Canada.

It would have been seen as so petty.

Vanessa, however, already had Canadian citizenship .

But I think Skate Canada didn't expect them to get such high scores right away

 

[lariko]

Edagze didn't let Davis/Smolkin to be the weak link. I wonder if they actually have another level.

 

[Ziotic]

Vanessa, however, already had Canadian citizenship .

But I think Skate Canada didn't expect them to get such high scores right away

Agreed. But they obviously knew it wouldn’t be a long process for Laurence to get the French passport.

 

[CoyoteChris]

StN. Name Nation Team Warm-Up Group 1 1 YOSHIDA Utana / MORITA Masaya​ JPN Japan 2 DAVIS Diana / SMOLKIN Gleb​ GEO Georgia 3 GUIGNARD Charlene / FABBRI Marco​ ITA Italy 4 LAJOIE Marjorie / LAGHA Zachary​ CAN Canada 5 CHOCK Madison / BATES Evan​ USA United States of America

Thank you.

 

[CoyoteChris]

So the best the US can hope for is 4 points to Japan's 1? Nail biter tomorrow.

 

[Karoltyna]

for Marco's twizzles. Justice to Italians!

 

[4everchan]

Canada sent their IAM team in... Let's see if they get IAM bonus from the judges.

 

[CoyoteChris]

for Marco's twizzles. Justice to Italians!

GO ITALY!

 

[RatedPG]

Canada sent their IAM team in... Let's see if they get IAM bonus from the judges.

I won’t mind this for LaLa
(My fave dance team gets a chance at this. I hope they get high scores here)

 

[Demandred]

So the best the US can hope for is 4 points to Japan's 1? Nail biter tomorrow.

The best possible is 10 for US to 6 for Japan.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

The last of the Short segments only finished less than an hour ago, and already the first Free segment is starting.

Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to watch tonight. But I will catch up tomorrow morning.

Livestream for the Free Dance is now on air.

The BBC don't tell us what they will be showing on each channel, or if it will include the skating. So I will hedge my bets and provide links to both broadcasts.

Here is the link for the BBC2 coverage on the iPlayer:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002r8dw

Here is the link for the BBC Red Button coverage on the iPlayer:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002rby6

Here is the link for "No Advert" coverage on Discovery+ UK:
https://play.discoveryplus.com/sport/olympic/95073b73-5da7-5cab-b5a3-800e60eb9125

Here is the link to the TNT Sports 2 coverage on Discovery+ UK:
https://play.discoveryplus.com/sport/olympic/76ebe295-dcbb-5d09-93e5-0dea04afd340

Here is the link to the TNT Sports Ultra UHD coverage on Discovery+ UK:
https://play.discoveryplus.com/sport/olympic/c20b7816-46e1-513b-8b73-43e3b5d6aa06

All the other information you may need is in the OP of this thread.

ALL THE BEST EVERYBODY!!!

CaroLiza_fan

 

[readernick]

So the best the US can hope for is 4 points to Japan's 1? Nail biter tomorrow.

Technically, it would be the US 10 points and Japan 6. But, it's likely that pairs and ice dance cancel themselves out in the free. So, it will come down to the singles.

 

[sissy7]

Did not know they had training excercises for dancers where the girl becomes the dumbell just saw UtaMasa doing this

 

[sissy7]

Technically, it would be the US 10 points and Japan 6. But, it's likely that pairs and ice dance cancel themselves out in the free. So, it will come down to the singles.

And if the men and womes FS also cancels each other out, then we go into the tiebreakers

 

[CoyoteChris]

Technically, it would be the US 10 points and Japan 6. But, it's likely that pairs and ice dance cancel themselves out in the free. So, it will come down to the singles.

Thanks! I was confused again.