Pairs SP - Cup of China 2013

[auser]

Wow Ziggy, I'm impressed with your stamina.

 

[swurvestar]

Wow, I could barely get through S/S cause the camera work was making feel sick. Anyone else or just me?

 

[Ziggy]

Pang/Tong's program was quite sophisticated with detailed and controlled movement throughout.

Savchenko/Szolkowy with mistakes, obviously.

Hand down on the 3toe and she two-footed and stepped out of the th3axel. Program flowed over the ice well and entries into some of the elements were much shorter than you see from other teams but it was quite bland. Meh. :/

 

[sky_fly20]

why are there alot of overhead shots ?
does the camera think this is synchronized swimming ?

 

[Ziggy]

Camera work has been absolutely terrible all day.

 

[dorispulaski]

Because it's Cup of China.

1 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN 70.38 37.39 32.99 8.14 7.93 8.39 8.25 8.54 0.00 #7
2 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 69.07 35.27 33.80 8.54 8.18 8.46 8.54 8.54 0.00 #8
3 Cheng PENG / Hao ZHANG CHN 64.24 35.89 28.35 7.11 6.82 7.29 7.04 7.18 0.00 #3
4 Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM USA 57.99 32.56 27.43 6.93 6.61 6.71 7.00 7.04 2.00 #5
5 Xuehan WANG / Lei WANG CHN 57.16 32.81 25.35 6.36 5.93 6.57 6.46 6.36 1.00 #1
6 Anastasia MARTIUSHEVA / Alexei ROGONOV RUS 53.02 27.91 25.11 6.43 6.07 6.25 6.39 6.25 0.00 #4
7 Daria POPOVA / Bruno MASSOT FRA 51.82 27.60 25.22 6.43 6.04 6.18 6.46 6.43 1.00 #6
8 Felicia ZHANG / Nathan BARTHOLOMAY USA 50.33 27.13 24.20 6.00 5.93 6.11 6.18 6.04 1.00 #2

 

[Sara]

why are there alot of overhead shots ?
does the camera think this is synchronized swimming ?

 

[Tesla]

Pang/Tong's program was quite sophisticated with detailed and controlled movement throughout.

Savchenko/Szolkowy with mistakes, obviously.

Hand down on the 3toe and she two-footed and stepped out of the th3axel. Program flowed over the ice well and entries into some of the elements were much shorter than you see from other teams but it was quite bland. Meh. :/

I know V/T have gotten astonomical scores but I'm glad S/S have some work to do. V/T will have a lot to live up to and a ton of pressure come Olympics, while S/S can just build.

 

[sky_fly20]

Because it's Cup of China.

1 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN 70.38 37.39 32.99 8.14 7.93 8.39 8.25 8.54 0.00 #7
2 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 69.07 35.27 33.80 8.54 8.18 8.46 8.54 8.54 0.00 #8
3 Cheng PENG / Hao ZHANG CHN 64.24 35.89 28.35 7.11 6.82 7.29 7.04 7.18 0.00 #3
4 Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM USA 57.99 32.56 27.43 6.93 6.61 6.71 7.00 7.04 2.00 #5
5 Xuehan WANG / Lei WANG CHN 57.16 32.81 25.35 6.36 5.93 6.57 6.46 6.36 1.00 #1
6 Anastasia MARTIUSHEVA / Alexei ROGONOV RUS 53.02 27.91 25.11 6.43 6.07 6.25 6.39 6.25 0.00 #4
7 Daria POPOVA / Bruno MASSOT FRA 51.82 27.60 25.22 6.43 6.04 6.18 6.46 6.43 1.00 #6
8 Felicia ZHANG / Nathan BARTHOLOMAY USA 50.33 27.13 24.20 6.00 5.93 6.11 6.18 6.04 1.00 #2

to be fair aging P/T were clean

 

[auser]

why are there alot of overhead shots ?
does the camera think this is synchronized swimming ?

Or they have a large, profitable audience of hair stylists(I always feel like I'm looking at the part in the skater's hair in these overhead shots).

 

[apple123]

Because it's Cup of China.

1 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN 70.38 37.39 32.99 8.14 7.93 8.39 8.25 8.54 0.00 #7
2 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 69.07 35.27 33.80 8.54 8.18 8.46 8.54 8.54 0.00 #8
3 Cheng PENG / Hao ZHANG CHN 64.24 35.89 28.35 7.11 6.82 7.29 7.04 7.18 0.00 #3
4 Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM USA 57.99 32.56 27.43 6.93 6.61 6.71 7.00 7.04 2.00 #5
5 Xuehan WANG / Lei WANG CHN 57.16 32.81 25.35 6.36 5.93 6.57 6.46 6.36 1.00 #1
6 Anastasia MARTIUSHEVA / Alexei ROGONOV RUS 53.02 27.91 25.11 6.43 6.07 6.25 6.39 6.25 0.00 #4
7 Daria POPOVA / Bruno MASSOT FRA 51.82 27.60 25.22 6.43 6.04 6.18 6.46 6.43 1.00 #6
8 Felicia ZHANG / Nathan BARTHOLOMAY USA 50.33 27.13 24.20 6.00 5.93 6.11 6.18 6.04 1.00 #2

lol, did you even watch the programs?

 

[Ziggy]

I know V/T have gotten astonomical scores but I'm glad S/S have some work to do. V/T will have a lot to live up to and a ton of pressure come Olympics, while S/S can just build.

The judges haven't completely given up on them yet. They got higher PCS than Pang/Tong even though they've skated really well.

lol, did you even watch the programs?

Doris's comment referred to the camera work which has been terrible at this event, as far as I can remember.

 

[noidont]

Camera work has been absolutely terrible all day.

Oh dear. You people haven't even heard the god awful Chinese commentary yet. Good that Lulu was the guest commentator today, otherwise I would very much like to strangle the woman who does skating commentary with my bare hands.

 

[Ziggy]

Oh dear. You people haven't even heard the god awful Chinese commentary yet. Good that Lulu was the guest commentator today, otherwise I would very much like to strangle the woman who does skating commentary with my bare hands.

What was she saying? The usual commentator, I mean.

 

[FSGMT]

S/S PCoSp a levelB??

 

[noidont]

What was she saying? The usual commentator, I mean.

She reads everyone's ISU bio word by word with such conviction.

 

[apple123]

Doris's comment referred to the camera work which has been terrible at this event, as far as I can remember.

Then you probably don't know dorispulaski well enough, hehe

 

[Ziggy]

she reads everyone's isu bio word by word with such conviction.

 

[A.H.Black]

I think I remember comments about the bad camera work at Cup of China from last year as well. I bet Doris remembers those comments as well. I have a feeling the Chinese broadcasters try to show how creative they can be - thus the coverage suffers.

 

[Macassar88]

Yep - it's the worst camera work I've ever seen, and it always stays like that. I remember once them doing an overhead view for a bielmann spin...