Cup of China - Original Dance - LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SailorGalaxia518]

Hi and welcome back to my coverage of Cup of China. Another busy night of coverage. We'll start out with the original dance. Here are the standings after the compulsory dance:

1. Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto (USA)
2. Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon (CAN)
3. Galit Chait and Sergei Sahknovsky (ISR)

The first competitors up are: Jia Qi and Xu Sun (CHN) who are in 11th place with 22.55 points

 

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Jia Qi and Xu Sun (CHN)

Technical Elements = 13.10
Program Componants = 20.60
OD Total = 33.70

Overall Total = 56.25

Up next: Anastasia Grebenkina and Vazgen Azrojan (ARM) who was in 9th place with a total of 26.51 points

 

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Anastasia Grebenkina and Vazgen Azrojan (ARM)

Technical Elements = 18.80
Program Components = 22.38
OD Total = 41.18

Overall Total = 67.78

Currently 1st

Up next: Xiaoyang Yu and Chen Wang (CHN) who is in 10th place with a total of 24.49 points

 

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Xiaoyang Yu and Chen Wang (CHN)

Technical Elements = 15.10
Program Components = 22.80
OD Total = 37.90

Overall Total = 62.39

Currently 2nd

1. Grebenkina/Azrojan (ARM)
2. Yu/Wang (CHN)
3. Qi/Sun (CHN)

Up next: Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon (CAN) who is in 2nd place with a total of 39.37 points

 

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Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon (CAN)

Technical Elements = 22.00
Program Componants = 38.99
OD Total = 60.99

Overall Total = 100.36

Currently 1st

1. Dubreuil/Lauzon (CAN)
2. Grebenkina/Azrojan (ARM)
3. Yu/Wang (CHN)

Up next: Kristen Fraser and Igor Lukanin (AZE) who is in 5th place with a total of 30.34 points

 

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Kristen Fraser and Igor Lukanin (AZE)

Technical Elements = 17.80
Program Componants = 28.34
OD Total = 46.14

Overall Total = 76.48

Currently 2nd

1. Dubreuil/Lauzon (CAN)
2. Fraser/Lukanin (AZE)
3. Grebenkina/Azrojan (ARM)

Up next: Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto (USA) who is in 1st place with a total of 40.07 points

 

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Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto (USA)

Technical Elements = 24.80
Program Compnants = 40.13 WOW!!!!!!
OD Total = 64.93

Overall Total = 105.00

Currently 1st

1. Belbin/Agosto (USA)
2. Dubreuil/Lauzon (CAN)
3. Fraser/Lukanin (AZE)

Up next: Nathalie Pechalat and Fabien Bourzat (FRA) who is in 7th place with a total of 29.52 points

 

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Nathalie Pechalat and Fabien Bourzat (FRA)

Technical Elements = 17.60
Program Componants = 26.74
OD Total = 44.34

Overall Total = 73.86

Currently 4th

1. Belbin/Agosto (USA)
2. Dubreuil/Lauzon (CAN)
3. Fraser/Lukanin (AZE)

Up next: Nora Hoffmann and Attila Elek (HUN) who is in 6th place with a total of 29.84 points

 

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Nora Hoffmann and Attila Elek (HUN)

Technical Elements = 15.10
Program Componants = 28.69
OD Total = 43.78

Overall Total = 73.63

Currently 5th

1. Belbin/Agosto (USA)
2. Dubreuil/Lauzon (CAN)
3. Fraser/Lukanin (AZE)

Up next: Fang Yang and Chongbo Gao (CHN) who is in 8th place with a total of 27.27 points

 

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Fang Yang and Chongbo Gao (CHN)

Technical Elements = 14.50
Program Componants = 25.80
OD Total = 40.30

Overall Total = 67.57

Currently 7th

1. Belbin/Agosto (USA)
2. Dubreuil/Lauzon (CAN)
3. Fraser/Lukanin (AZE)

Up next: Galit Chait and Sergei Sakhnovsky (ISR) who is in 3rd place with at total of 37.77

 

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Galit Chait and Sergei Sakhnovsky (ISR)

Technical Elements = 24.00
Program Componants = 39.07
OD Total = 63.07

Overall Total = 100.84

Currently 2nd

1. Belbin/Agosto (USA)
2. Chait/Sakhnovsky (ISR)
3. Dubreuil/Lauzon (CAN)

The final competitors are: Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin (RUS) who are in 4th place with a total of 32.54 points

 

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Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin (RUS)

Technical Elements = 20.00
Program Componants = 34.38
OD Total = 54.38

Overall Total = 86.92

4th place

1. Belbin/Agosto (USA)
2. Chait/Sakhnovsky (ISR)
3. Dubreuil/Lauzon (CAN)

Good Luck in the free dance!!!!!!!!!!!! Tanith and Ben, You guys rock!!!!!!!!!

 

[SailorGalaxia518]

Here are the OD results List:

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpchn04/SEG008.HTM

Here are the overall results list:

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpchn04/CAT004RS.HTM

 

[Ptichka]

Nice to see some real competition between D&L and C&S. Even last season I thought those teams were at about the same level and that judges were just punishing C&S for the 2002 scandal.

 

[Antilles]

Hmm, I had heard good things about D&Ls OD. Did they makemistakes, or were they overmarked at SC?

 

[SailorGalaxia518]

Yeah, They had a problem with one of their dance lifts and because of that the lift was originally Lv4 but it was downgraded to Lv2

 

[SailorGalaxia518]

Does anybody love the facial expressions of Tanith Belbin. I mean she really has fun out there on the ice. I mean her original dance right at the beginning of it. she seems to really have fun. She is such a darling

 

[GlitterTwist]

I totally agree Sailor!! I love Tanith I've met her twice and she is so sweet, and she really does have so much fun! She makes me wish I could be out there dancing! I especially loved their Elvis program that they used for exhibition a while back.

 

[STL_Blues_fan]

Hmm..I really dislike overly fake face expressions, and I am sorry, that's how they look too me.

 

[Mathman]

I think it's a catch 22 for ice dancers. Like stage performers, they have to grin so broadly that it can be seen in the last row of the balcony. But then you get your TV close-up and it looks like halloween.

I Tanith, though. In person, she is just gorgeous and as sweet as she is pretty. Two years ago at the Winter cheesefest there was a promotion for the local public TV station, where if you pledged a certain amount you got free tickets to the event plus a "meet and greet" where you got to meet the skaters beforehand.

Everyone was hoping to get to meet Michelle or Sasha or Evgeny or Tim or Michael W., but when it came down, the competitors were not able to interupt their preparation to come out. So they tapped Tanith and Ben, I believe at the last minute. They were on the program doing an exhibition at half-time. So the crowd was a little mad and disappointed at first, because there was a long delay, then the announcement was made that we wouldn't get to meet our favorite singles skaters, which it seemed like we were promised.

But then Tanith and Ben were so-o-o-o-o-o charming and gracious, they signed every autograph (several hundred, I believe), posed for every picture -- they were just darlings. (If I had a web site I would put up my picture that I took with them, LOL.)

Mathman