Pairs Short Program

[reynycpr]

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN CHN
2 Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Nodari MAISURADZE RUS
3 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN

Warm-Up Group 2
4 Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV RUS
5 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN
6 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER

Good luck to all!

 

[demarinis5]

Anyone having trouble with Univ. Sports live feed? I am.

 

[demarinis5]

I guess no one is interested in the Pairs. lol

Close scores between the first 3 pairs.

 

[sequinsgalore]

Sui/Han (CHN)

2A - very nice! great sync
3LzTw - great height
3FTh - again very high
SlSt
FCCoSp - not sync when during transition
lift
BiDs

Audience go gaga! And they're really cute...

Score: 61.49, new SB

 

[sequinsgalore]

I guess no one is interested in the Pairs. lol

Close scores between the first 3 pairs.

I like pairs too! It's just the russian feed which is 10 minutes behind.

 

[Mirunna]

Me too! I'm here watching the russian feed

 

[sequinsgalore]

Iliushechkina/Maisuradze (RUS)

3T - landed, he held on to landing, she may have UR'ed
3LoTh - very nice height
3LzTh - also nice
BiDs
CCoSp - good sync
SlSt
lift - nice spiral entrance

Another good performance!

Score: 60.06

 

[Mirunna]

The germans changed their costumes

 

[sequinsgalore]

Moore-Towers/Moscovitch (CAN)

3FTw - ok
3T - feed froze, did they land it?
lift
3LoTh - good
BiDs - don't like position (it's the one with the butt sticking out)
SlSt - he falls at the end! Don't know if the judges will mark down with GOE, as the fall was right after the step sequence.
FCCoSp - great sync!

Score: 58.73

 

[sequinsgalore]

The germans changed their costumes

Pang and Tong are too sporting new costumes!

 

[demarinis5]

Robin and Aliona were great as were Pang and Tong. I think they will go into first place tho.

 

[Mirunna]

So who's first???

 

[sequinsgalore]

Bazarova/Larionov (RUS)

3T - he has hand down
3LzTw - great height
3FTh - nice
BiDs
FCCoSp - ok sync
Lift
SlSt

Score: 63.86

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

Pang/Tong continue to be the Fonteyn and Nureyev of the Ice Skating world, but Aliona and Robin are the thrilling team and so much better than that Pink Panther.

The two Russian Teams vastly different from each other (I'm happy to say) are the teams to watch as we approached 2014. They may be under appreciated by the Russian Fed.

There's a lot going for Sui/Han. It's coming along fine.

Moore/Moscovitch need more experience. They just aren't ready yet.

 

[evangeline]

Monster lead for Aliona and Robin! 74.40.

Barring a complete splatfest tomorrow, Aliona and Robin have bagged this competition.

 

[sequinsgalore]

Pang/Tong (CHN)

Does anyone know why they have switched the SP back to the "Pearl Fishers"? They didn't like the other program?

3T - nice
3LzTw - great height
3LoTh - good
FCCoSp - ok sync, except when transtion to sit
lift
SlSt
BiDs

Score: 68.63

 

[sequinsgalore]

Savchenko/Szolkowy (GER)

3FTh - enormous
3LzTw - nice
3T - also nice
lift
BiDs
SlSt
FCCoSp - good sync

Score: 74.40

 

[museksk8r]

YAY Aliona & Robin! :yay: When they are at their best, they are easily the top pairs team in the world! It's so sad that they had so many errors last season and allowed some other teams to pass them by. I'm so happy to see them back on track right now!

 

[mousepotato]

But OTOH, it's not like they have any competition (except from P/T.) Both GP assignments were really light on the competition for them and it is in China as well. As soon as the other teams get healthy and the other teams can compete. Aliona and Robin will have better competition.

I hate Aliona's new costume!

 

[pangtongfan]

But OTOH, it's not like they have any competition (except from P/T.) Both GP assignments were really light on the competition for them and it is in China as well. As soon as the other teams get healthy and the other teams can compete. Aliona and Robin will have better competition.

I hate Aliona's new costume!

I am not sure whom exactly you are referring to but Pang & Tong are the Germans toughest competition of any current teams even if all were there, and they skated well and were easily beaten by the Germans. I am not sure whom you are imagining would give them more competition. Dube & Davison? Please. Volosozhar & Trankov? In their first year out they will be happy just to make the deep Russian team. Zhang & Zhang? They will be lucky if they come back even as the #2 Chinese team any longer.

The only other possibilities are Kavaguti & Smirnov. However they have not shown the consistency to win a major title yet, and even skating their best they would not beat the Germans skating cleanly.