Ice Dancing (page 8)

shamus100

I just heard, LL.

I'm pretty excited and happy at how well we're doing. We're one gold behind the states! Impressive to say the least for such a small population.

restrangled

The Canadian couple who won were absolutely beautiful with their bodies and lined up to perfection. The music, put me to sleep.

The Americans who one the Silver, were major contenders, and in my opinion performed better, and had better music.

r.

shamus100

They did perform better, restrangled on the second skate (which you saw last night). The first night, unfortunately they did not.

The Americans were incredible!!!

The skaters have quite the competition to do now to win. It used to be compulsories and free dance. Now they have to do compulsories, original dance and a free dance. Their totals in each dance are tallied to get a final score.

Spins must be done by both and must be synchronized. Lifts have a time limit and the man cannot lift her over his head (unlike pairs skating which is not dance). Points are gained by the degree of difficulty and the changes of blade edges used. People who spin only in one direction lose points. Spinning in both directions gains points. One couple - I forget who, lost points because they did a spin where they have to hold the blade of a skate behind them while spinning and the man didn't grab the skate.

So it isn't as easy as looking at one dance. The couple that won did not do as well in the compulsories but were 1st after the original dance and then blazed their way to the gold

The nice thing about the Canadian couple is that they skate holding or touching each other almost the whole time. That is hard to do considering the amount of time they spin, change from one position to another and not trip over each other. It was nice in the most recent interview I saw they said they wanted their performance to stand as it is, without the fancy clothes or tricks (although they had a couple that were pretty good)

poopsiecakes

I'm pretty jazzed today (despite some computer issues). Wearing my new Canada sweatshirt has definitely served as a good luck charm to the Canadians!! Woo hoo!

Nice breakdown of the ice dancing requirements, Lady Lee. It's a damn tough sport and a LOT goes into crowning the winner, thankfully. I'm having a hard time adjusting to the new scoring rules, so I'm relying big time on the commentators to educate me on how it works and what's required. I only watch figure skating during the Olympics, personally - hence my difficulties with the new scoring. Yes I said hence...

Once again, I got all choked up when we won another gold. I ask again, What's wrong with me?????

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