Compulsory Dance (merged threads)

[MissIzzy]

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG
CHN
2 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE
CAN
3 Sun Hye YU / Ramil SARKULOV
UZB
4 Ina DEMIREVA / Juri KURAKIN
BUL
Warm-Up Group 2
5 Kristin FRASER / Igor LUKANIN
AZE
6 Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO
USA
7 Cathy REED / Chris REED
JPN
8 Ksenia SHMIRINA / Egor MAISTROV
BLR
Warm-Up Group 3
9 Barbora SILNA / Dmitri MATSJUK
AUT
10 Leonie KRAIL / Oscar PETER
SUI
11 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT
FRA
12 Katherine COPELY / Deividas STAGNIUNAS
LTU
Warm-Up Group 4
13 Sinead KERR / John KERR
GBR
14 Joanna BUDNER / Jan MOSCICKI
POL
15 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV
RUS
16 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI
ISR
Warm-Up Group 5
17 Kamila HAJKOVA / David VINCOUR
CZE
18 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI
ITA
19 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE
ITA
20 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER
FRA
21 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO
UKR
Warm-Up Group 6
22 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE
USA
23 Ekaterina RUBLEVA / Ivan SHEFER
RUS
24 Allie HANN-MCCURDY / Michael CORENO
CAN
25 Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander GAZSI
GER
26 Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN
AUS
Warm-Up Group 7
27 Kristina KIUDMAA / Aleksei TROHLEV
EST
28 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI
RUS
29 Krisztina BARTA / Adam TOTH
HUN
30 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR
CAN
31 Kimberly NAVARRO / Brent BOMMENTRE
USA

Will Delobel and Scheonfelder skating late and Belbin and Agosto skating early result in an insurmountable lead for the former? Will both of the second two couples in the first two groups make the OD? Will Brent Bommentre's bag miraculously show up before he and Kimberly Navarro have to skate?
Unfortunately, I'll be missing most of it...

 

[lmarie086]

Do you know what time it starts?

 

[Tonichelle]

Eastern Times:
18.03.2008....8am....Ice Dancing..Compulsory Dance

 

[lmarie086]

Thank you Tonichelle! I'll have to find a way to keep up with the results from school...

 

[Fredegunda]

Cd

I am currently watching the compulsory dance...I can't really offer any play-by-play since my technical knowledge is not good, but here are some general observations and comments.

First group has finished and we have started the second. From group 1, Weaver and Poje are currently in the lead; I never heard of the other 3 couples (Chinese, Bulgarian, and Uzbek, all of them at their first worlds if I understand the Norwegian commentator correctly).

I haven't watched compulsories in competition since Nagano 1998, and I am really fascinated by the different styles/personalities that each couple bring to the same dance.

 

[LisaS]

Tanith Belbin just fell, I am shocked!!!

 

[kikakiks]

I am Shocked!!!
But fortunately the score is not too low....
35.02

 

[SailorGalaxia518]

Tanith and Ben make a mistake

in 1st with 35.02

 

[SailorGalaxia518]

Tanith Belbin just fell, I am shocked!!!

I cannot believe that they fell. They will most likely at least be in 3rd with Delobel and Schoenfelder from France and Virtue and Moir from Canada still to come.

This could do it in for them all ready. I hope this doesn't cost them the Gold Medal

 

[lilybear]

Tanith Belbin just fell, I am shocked!!!

I can‘t believe my eyes！
Where and why did she fall?

 

[jcoates]

She fell in the middle of the second pattern. When I rewatched it, I saw that she fell while completing a turn (3 turn?) and while they were making a change in hand holds and did NOT trip over Ben's skates. She looks like she simply lost an edge. Ben could not catch her because they were seperated. She recovered quickly though.

 

[Sackie]

Don't think this will cost them too much! Look at the PCS mark it was boosted up to make up for the fall. They will probably still be in 2nd place overall. I always thought a fall should effect the the PCS marks too but not in this case.

 

[wushuang122]

Don't think this will cost them too much! Look at the PCS mark it was boosted up to make up for the fall. They will probably still be in 2nd place overall. I always thought a fall should effect the the PCS marks too but not in this case.

but ou can look at the performance score. it is absolutely impacted! it is just 7.4

 

[SailorGalaxia518]

I really hope this doesn't put them out of the running for the Gold Medal

Belbin and Agosto are the U.S. best chances for a gold medal

 

[lilybear]

She fell in the middle of the second pattern. When I rewatched it, I saw that she fell while completing a turn (3 turn?) and while they were making a change in hand holds and did NOT trip over Ben's skates. She looks like she simply lost an edge. Ben could not catch her because they were seperated. She recovered quickly though.

Thanks！
This fault make me so faint.

 

[PAskate]

Tanith and Ben make a mistake

in 1st with 35.02

Report on skatefans is that Tanith had a fall on their second pattern. The break was also more than a second before they were able to resume the pattern.

 

[SailorGalaxia518]

Pechalat and Bourzat (FRA) in 2nd place just barely behind Belbin and Agosto by just 0.20

 

[Fredegunda]

The Norwegian commentator said that B/A were really lucky that she did not fall on a twizzle, the implication being that the technical score would not be (strongly) affected. I agree with jcoates, it looked like she just lost an edge.

Some people note that B/A are not strong compulsory dancers, so they are accustomed to making up ground in the OD and FD. I wonder how wide the point spread will be between them and the leaders after the CD - feasible enough to make up in the next 2 phases of the competition and win the whole thing?

Everyone seems to be scoring their season's best here - is this normal?

 

[SailorGalaxia518]

Standings after Group 3:

1 Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO USA 35.02 16.88 19.14 7.79 7.54 7.46 7.82 1.00 #6
2 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 34.82 18.06 16.76 6.75 6.64 6.68 6.75 0.00 #11
3 Kristin FRASER / Igor LUKANIN AZE 31.86 16.34 15.52 6.39 6.04 6.14 6.25 0.00 #5
4 Katherine COPELY / Deividas STAGNIUNAS LTU 29.85 16.09 13.76 5.61 5.36 5.43 5.61 0.00 #12
5 Cathy REED / Chris REED JPN 28.16 15.48 12.68 5.11 4.96 5.11 5.14 0.00 #7
6 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 27.74 15.00 12.74 5.21 4.93 5.04 5.21 0.00 #2
7 Barbora SILNA / Dmitri MATSJUK AUT 24.85 13.56 11.29 4.64 4.36 4.46 4.61 0.00 #9
8 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 23.90 13.37 10.53 4.39 4.00 4.25 4.21 0.00 #1
9 Leonie KRAIL / Oscar PETER SUI 22.38 13.07 9.31 3.89 3.46 3.75 3.82 0.00 #10
10 Sun Hye YU / Ramil SARKULOV UZB 21.85 12.49 9.36 3.82 3.61 3.79 3.75 0.00 #3
11 Ksenia SHMIRINA / Egor MAISTROV BLR 18.87 10.74 8.13 3.50 3.07 3.14 3.25 0.00 #8
12 Ina DEMIREVA / Juri KURAKIN BUL 17.75 9.93 7.82 3.29 3.00 3.11 3.07 0.00 #4

 

[Sackie]

but ou can look at the performance score. it is absolutely impacted! it is just 7.4

It may be lower than the other PCS marks but it is still higher then it has been this season. And that's with a fall! In fact they scored just a bit lower then they did at Cup of China! Now that's what I call being held up!