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Shaba22

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Nov 22, 2008
Warm-Up Group 1
1 Klara KADLECOVA / Petr BIDAR CZE 14 42.18
2 Brynn CARMAN / AJ REISS USA 13 44.48
3 Anna KHNYCHENKOVA / Mark MAGYAR HUN 15 40.40
4 Juliana GURDZHI / Alexander VOELLER GER 16 39.52

Warm-Up Group 2
5 Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG CHN 12 44.90
6 Anna SILAEVA / Artur MINCHUK RUS 10 46.62
7 Kaleigh HOLE / Adam JOHNSON CAN 9 47.04
8 Margaret PURDY / Michael MARINARO CAN 11 45.24

Warm-Up Group 3
9 Brittany JONES / Kurtis GASKELL CAN 7 48.12
10 Tatiana NOVIK / Mikhail KUZNETSOV RUS 5 49.38
11 Felicia ZHANG / Taylor TOTH USA 6 48.50
12 Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN CHN 8 47.90

Warm-Up Group 4
13 Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN JPN 2 59.54
14 Britney SIMPSON / Nathan MILLER USA 4 52.50
15 Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN CHN 1 60.94
16 Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV RUS 3 54.26
 
FPl. Name Nation Points SP FS
1 Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN CHN
170.71 1 1
2 Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN JPN
157.23 2 2
3 Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV RUS
145.35 3 3
4 Tatiana NOVIK / Mikhail KUZNETSOV RUS
139.63 5 5
5 Britney SIMPSON / Nathan MILLER USA
138.00 4 6
6 Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG CHN
135.86 12 4
7 Brittany JONES / Kurtis GASKELL CAN
133.41 7 7
8 Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN CHN
129.48 8 9
9 Margaret PURDY / Michael MARINARO CAN
129.29 11 8
10 Felicia ZHANG / Taylor TOTH USA
128.01 6 10
11 Kaleigh HOLE / Adam JOHNSON CAN
119.68 9 13
12 Anna SILAEVA / Artur MINCHUK RUS
117.96 10 15
13 Juliana GURDZHI / Alexander VOELLER GER
116.72 16 11
14 Brynn CARMAN / AJ REISS USA
115.90 13 14
15 Klara KADLECOVA / Petr BIDAR CZE
115.07 14 12
16 Anna KHNYCHENKOVA / Mark MAGYAR HUN
96.00 15 16

Here are the future for pairs skating. Team Japan is moving up slowly but surely.
 
FPl. Name Nation Points SP FS
1 Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN CHN
170.71 1 1
2 Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN JPN
157.23 2 2
3 Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV RUS
145.35 3 3
4 Tatiana NOVIK / Mikhail KUZNETSOV RUS
139.63 5 5
5 Britney SIMPSON / Nathan MILLER USA
138.00 4 6
6 Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG CHN
135.86 12 4
7 Brittany JONES / Kurtis GASKELL CAN
133.41 7 7
8 Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN CHN
129.48 8 9
9 Margaret PURDY / Michael MARINARO CAN
129.29 11 8
10 Felicia ZHANG / Taylor TOTH USA
128.01 6 10
11 Kaleigh HOLE / Adam JOHNSON CAN
119.68 9 13
12 Anna SILAEVA / Artur MINCHUK RUS
117.96 10 15
13 Juliana GURDZHI / Alexander VOELLER GER
116.72 16 11
14 Brynn CARMAN / AJ REISS USA
115.90 13 14
15 Klara KADLECOVA / Petr BIDAR CZE
115.07 14 12
16 Anna KHNYCHENKOVA / Mark MAGYAR HUN
96.00 15 16

Here are the future for pairs skating. Team Japan is moving up slowly but surely.

Aw, we've missed the 13 needed. Oh well, back to 2 spots in pairs as usual!
 
Aw, we've missed the 13 needed. Oh well, back to 2 spots in pairs as usual!

You know, if China could got away with sending 3 teams despite not reaching the 13 number last year, next time US and Canada should do the same.


Oh and poor Kuznetstov :cry: . Ends up in 4th place for the third consecutive year, only this time with a different partner!.
 
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. There must be an explanation somewhere because I'm sure at least one of the other competitors at this event noticed that there were 3 Chinese pairs entered and said something. But what the heck could the explanation be?
 
There's no rule anywhere as far as I've searched that says anything contradicting the typical rules. I think the ISU just made a huge screw-up and China gladly used all three spots.
 
And when the entries list came out, not one other country told the ISU that China has an extra team listed? :laugh: It's just weird how nobody picked up on the error.
 
Oh and poor Kuznetstov :cry: . Ends up in 4th place for the third consecutive year, only this time with a different partner!.
It's all about choosing the right partner :unsure:
Allright, not easy in Russia, where there are so many to choose between :laugh:
 
No one probably thought to look. That's the best explanation I can come up with, honestly. I only noticed during the pairs free skate when the team who had been 12th in the short was making a climb upwards, I decided to look at the previous years results to see how the teams fared.
 
Wow, Sui/Han, throw 4S!!!

They will instantly become a world-class pair if Han can grow another 5-10 cm, and they learn to land sbs triples in competitions.

Technically they're very very strong with the exception of lacking of sbs triples. throw 4s+throw 3flip, level II 3twist! Artistrically they're also excellent with the ability to handle difficult choreography. Plus, they're so consistent.
 
Until very recently, I remember seeing in the ISU entrant list only 2 Chinese pairs entered with the rest as substitutes. Why it changed to 3 pairs allowed, I also don't know. There is nothing I could find in the ISU rules that would account for granting the Chinese an extra place, unless it is some obscure regulation or loophole that isn't well publicized.

The ISU should put something out there on why this was allowed. The silence from all the other federations is curious, which leads me to believe that all of them know something that we don't. I'd hate to have to go back to my default position, which is that Chinese (sports federations) will always push the rules and even cheat, if given half the chance and other people let them.
 
OMG!Did Sui and Han throw a 4S? That's HUGE!!!!!
Just like this pair, Sui is SO CUTE! Hope Han can be a little bit bigger and higher in the future, now seems that he's too short ( ISU says that he's only 170cm)
Hope they can hit a 4F next time as they can always give the huge throws!
 
Throw 4F???:cool:
It seems a matter of impossibility...Too hard from the angle of tech.
BUT it can be true now that this cute pair have brought sooooo great a surprise today!!
 
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