European's Dance OD

[Tesla]

Woot!

OD Results:
1 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER FRA 62.72 31.63 31.09 8.18 8.00 8.21 8.29 8.25 0.00 #25
2 Oksana DOMNINA / Maxim SHABALIN RUS 61.90 30.86 31.04 8.07 7.93 8.29 8.25 8.32 0.00 #17
3 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS 60.03 31.02 29.01 7.57 7.43 7.68 7.75 7.75 0.00 #23
4 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA 58.79 30.50 28.29 7.43 7.18 7.50 7.61 7.54 0.00 #21
5 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 58.54 31.65 26.89 7.00 6.79 7.14 7.21 7.25 0.00 #22
6 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 56.97 29.67 27.30 7.14 6.89 7.25 7.29 7.36 0.00 #20
7 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 54.07 30.42 23.65 6.11 5.96 6.29 6.32 6.43 0.00 #19
8 Pernelle CARRON / Mathieu JOST FRA 53.52 30.72 22.80 5.86 5.71 6.04 6.18 6.21 0.00 #10
9 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI ISR 53.31 28.87 24.44 6.50 6.25 6.46 6.50 6.46 0.00 #18
10 Kristin FRASER / Igor LUKANIN AZE 52.07 28.71 24.36 6.46 6.29 6.50 6.50 6.36 1.00 #16
11 Katherine COPELY / Deividas STAGNIUNAS LTU 51.29 29.01 22.28 5.79 5.68 5.96 6.00 5.93 0.00 #5
12 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO UKR 50.86 27.34 23.52 6.21 5.93 6.32 6.21 6.29 0.00 #24
13 Ekaterina RUBLEVA / Ivan SHEFER RUS 49.69 28.21 21.48 5.64 5.43 5.71 5.75 5.75 0.00 #3
14 Alla BEKNAZAROVA / Vladimir ZUEV UKR 47.92 26.90 21.02 5.50 5.32 5.64 5.61 5.61 0.00 #15
15 Christina BEIER / William BEIER GER 47.10 27.85 19.25 5.11 4.86 5.14 5.14 5.11 0.00 #11
16 Kamila HAJKOVA / David VINCOUR CZE 45.92 27.80 18.12 4.79 4.50 4.93 4.79 4.86 0.00 #12
17 Barbora SILNA / Dmitri MATSJUK AUT 44.79 26.38 18.41 4.86 4.61 4.96 4.93 4.89 0.00 #2
18 Phillipa TOWLER-GREEN / Phillip POOLE GBR 42.80 26.32 17.48 4.61 4.36 4.68 4.68 4.68 1.00 #13
19 Joanna BUDNER / Jan MOSCICKI POL 42.30 25.27 17.03 4.43 4.21 4.61 4.57 4.61 0.00 #14
20 Krisztina BARTA / Adam TOTH HUN 40.41 24.55 15.86 4.25 3.93 4.32 4.25 4.18 0.00 #8
21 Leonie KRAIL / Oscar PETER SUI 40.13 24.20 15.93 4.14 3.93 4.25 4.29 4.36 0.00 #6
22 Ksenia SHMIRINA / Egor MAISTROV BLR 35.36 20.64 14.72 3.93 3.75 3.86 4.00 3.86 0.00 #9
23 Ina DEMIREVA / Juri KURAKIN BUL 34.60 21.71 12.89 3.43 3.18 3.50 3.54 3.39 0.00 #4
24 Kristina KIUDMAA / Aleksei TROHLEV EST 32.08 20.49 12.59 3.39 3.11 3.32 3.46 3.32 1.00 #7
25 Nadine AHMED / Bruce PORTER AZE 27.74 17.58 10.16 2.79 2.50 2.75 2.79 2.61 0.00 #1

Overall:
1 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER FRA 103.97 1 1
2 Oksana DOMNINA / Maxim SHABALIN RUS 102.15 2 2
3 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS 97.40 3 3
4 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA 95.66 4 4
5 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 92.09 6 5
6 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 91.55 5 6
7 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI ISR 86.43 7 9
8 Kristin FRASER / Igor LUKANIN AZE 85.09 8 10

 

[MissIzzy]

I love that Sinead and John got the highest technical mark. The judges must have been floored when he actually got the twizzles right! During them, in fact, Chris Howarth was going, "Come on, John, you can do it!" And he did it. Though the way the scores are, he's going to have to do it again tomorrow. I, for one, will be cheering him on.
In other news, Mr. Speedy is in town and was in the building. The camera went to him a couple of times, and when Nicky Slater went a-ranting about the failure of the presentation mark to do what it's supposed do, Chris warned him that he might want to keep his head down, which Nicky boldly refused to do. What nefarious purpose Mr. Speedy has, what events he has caused so far, and what this will do when gold will likely come down to who skates clean in the FD but the bronze seems to be a bit gifted(both Russian teams messed up their twizzles, in fact) remains to be seen.

 

[kikakiks]

I saw the OD and the results seemed pretty fair. I was actually shocked by the Kerr's Tech mark...I think they deserved a point below, but well, I guess it's fine like this.
I'm starting to like Kokhlova Novitski, however I agree they messed up a bit...though their presence on the ice improved dramatically. Pechalat Bourzat: nothing special. Impressed by Faiella Scali energy.

 

[Engwaciriel]

I watched the OD on french eurosport and I admit I'm not an expert in ice dancing, but the french commentators completely trashed Dom/Sha.. I hope I understood the french wrong but i understood it as he just thought she was a pretty face that should go for modelling instead because she had nothing to do in figure skating...? Ok, they're not my favourite couple, but surely she must do somethihg right if they're currently the second best team in europe...

Anyone else who use to watch french eurosport? Are the commentator (the man in particular) always so negative? I love the british eurosport coz usually they always have so much positive to say about the skaters (even the not so good ones) and that makes so much nicer television.

 

[Ptichka]

Very glad to see the Kerrs doing so well!

 

[rosee]

It's Philippe Pélissier. And yeah, he's always like that. He's pretty much known for it. With french skaters too

He didn't totally mean that Oksana should model and stop skating. He's just...frustrated that Oksana is sort of turning into a barbie girl: "smile and be pretty". I kind of agree that they are overmarked and really pushed. I mean if any other team messed twizzles like Max did they'd get level 1. During the fotwork she was litterally pushing him...they were slowwww today but when you look at their marks :scratch:
I should add that Pellisier's a big Khoklova fan and he was arguing that being tall doesn't mean everything

 

[_Ladybug_]

I'm no expert when it comes to ice dance, I don't understand a thing about it. But I usually like watching because it's fun, I love the music and it all looks so pretty most of the time. It's like lay down and relax and have fun, I have no favourites to root for, let me just enjoy the show.

I hadn't watch any dance competition this season until today but I have to say I hadn't enjoyed one ice dance competition so much like I did today since a very long time. It was beautiful because of the diversity of music, costumes and the whole mood. I pretty much enjoyed it. Last year I loved the Tango but no matter when they did, it was just the same mood, the same kind of music. Today I much appreciated the diversity.

 

[Tinymavy15]

i have to say that I am really surprised that the French have kept up thier good skating and are still ahead of the Russians. Very surprisng for me. Looks like this is finally thier year.

 

[1795]

YAY relief....
i was dying of curiousity in class!
allez isa et oli

i need to see the ODs before criticizing and what not

but woo hoo 1st

hope the judges dont overscore the russians tomorrow....dom/sha that is.....

 

[1795]

once more the french were on a level on thier own
incomparable to the russians

i like the music of the russians though...
but this time the music outplayed their skating

isa and oli.....very into the characters, their skating quality never better, secure, smooth, and without tension

good luck on the free!