ISU GP Skate Canada -- Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV - LP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Wn__sgaOg
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Volosozhar/Trankov: 3Tw, 3S he so, 3T2T, BoDs, CCoSp, 3LoTh, 5ALi, 5TLi, 3STh 2ft, 3Li, PSp. Entries to the lifts were so difficult.
Live play-by-play coverage: Skate Canada pairs' free skate:
http://www.examiner.com/figure-skating- ... free-skate
Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov RUS - triple twist (very smooth), side-by-side triple salchow (Trankov falls out, looked like he had it and caught his heel), side-by-side triple toe-double toe (nice), throw triple loop (great ride out), throw triple salchow (foot down) TES 65.19, PCS 65.77, FS TOTAL 130.96, FINAL TOTAL 201.38
Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford CAN - a little Coldplay - triple twist (almost lost it on the set down, but nice), side-by-side triple lutz-double toe-double toe (off in unison but !!!), side-by-side double salchow, great unison on the side-by-side spins, throw triple loop (a bit slow), bailed out of a lift, throw triple flip (foot down) - TES 55.73, PCS 56.74, FS TOTAL 112.47, FINAL TOTAL 174.84
Narumi Takahashi/Mervin Tran JPN - triple twist (beautifully light), side-by-side triple salchow, side-by-side triple toe-double toe (Takahashi double-single, Tran turns out of triple), throw triple salchow (fall out, hand down, tentative and leaning in the air), throw triple toe (foot down) - they are really such an elegant pair, you just wish they had their technical elements together a bit more - TES 51.91, PCS 56.90, FS TOTAL 108.81, FINAL TOTAL 169.41
Wenjing Sui/Cong Han CHN - something Flamenco-ish - quad twist (nice!), triple toe-double toe-double toe (all kinds of underrotation from Sui there), throw triple salchow, throw triple flip (huge), side-by-side double axel, great one-arm entrance into the second to last lift - a much more mature skate than the short program for sure - TES 66.01, PCS 55.58, FS TOTAL 121.59, FINAL TOTAL 180.82
Lubov Iliushechkina/Nodari Maisuradze RUS - side-by-side triple salchow (Iliushechkina hand down), triple twist (a bit on the heel on the set down), side-by-side triple toe-double toe sequence, throw triple lutz (two-foot), throw triple loop (two-foot) - it's a pretty and fun program, but doesn't really build much anywhere - TES 53.65, PCS 53.38, FS TOTAL 107.03, FINAL TOTAL 165.17
Jessica Dube/Sebastien Wolfe CAN - back spirals into double twist, side-by-side triple flip (Dube falls, Wolfe doubles), side-by-side double axel-double axel sequence (nice), a bit off unison on the side-by-side spins, throw triple loop (very smooth), throw triple lutz (big! just hangs on), last lift looks labored, had to bail out of spread eagle adagio position - TES 54.85, PCS 51.37, FALL -1.00 FS TOTAL 105.21, FINAL TOTAL 158.44
Paige Lawrence/Rudi Swiegers CAN - triple twist (just a bit low but decent), side-by-side triple salchows (slight foot down for Lawrence), side-by-side double axel-double axel sequence (Lawrence singles first, Swieger two-foots, possibly underrotates second), nice hydroblade into BO death spiral, throw triple loop (overrotates and stepout), throw triple lutz (two-foot) - TES 54.55, PCS 49.30, FS TOTAL 103.85, FINAL TOTAL 153.96
Xiaoyu Yu/Yang Jin CHN - Requiem for a Dream - triple twist (floaty), side-by-side double axel-double axel sequences (Yu fights through), side-by-side triple toe (much better than the short), throw triple loop (huge), throw triple salchow (nice) - much better effort than the short, still pretty bland if not for the big tricks - TES 64.13, PCS 44.95, FS TOTAL 109.08, FINAL TOTAL 158.36
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V/T definately the winners, but I just don't get that overmarking? They were sluggish and leg dead during the last section. Way overscored!
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@blazingblades I don't think they were that overmarked, in the low 8s for PCS across the board. The two errors were minor-ish
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Trankov fakes a kiss to Morozov (Volosozhar's ex-partner current bf (right?)), crowd laughs, oh those Russians
Right!
Volosozhar and Trankov keep rolling with win at Skate Canada:
http://www.examiner.com/figure-skating- ... ate-canada