I will forever claim that B/A's results this entire season were due to politics. From what I've heard, B/A should have been over D/S. Shabalin's knees are shot, have been for sometime, and they're really only a shadow of their former selves. Still, the power or Piseev and the Russian figure skating fed should not be underestimated.
I've finally finished watching all of the ice dancing, so I feel like I'm able to actually comment in an informed manner now. Keep in mind, I'm probably not what anyone would call a casual fan, so I look at the performances differently and look for and notice different things than people who don't follow skating as closely. I have some pretty strong, long-standing preferences on what I like and don't like in ice dancing performances
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Yeah, I don't know that I'd really consider myself a fan at all....I'm just a HUGE fan of the Olympics, so I'll watch anything. I know I don't have a critical eye when it comes to ice dance, so my observations were a lot more based on overall general effect, not technique or anything. I get a lot from the music. :) So often in figure skating, it feels like the music doesn't match the skating/moves. That was one thing I liked about D/W...their skating seemed to match the music. But like I said, that's in my un-critical eye. :)
Not matching the music is a rather common thing in all the disciplines now and a rather recent development. Before they went to this new scoring system, where positions, etc. had to be held for so many seconds to receive full credit for levels, etc., skaters could hold the moves how the music dictated. There's a great Michelle Kwan quote somewhere where she said that she'd listen to what the music told her to do. When you've got a rule book telling you that you have to hold a position for X seconds, what the music says sadly goes out the window.
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I also really enjoyed the Canadians.
Once again, the Russians were just odd.
I'm not quite sure what I think of B/A. I wasn't a huge fan, but I didn't think their skating was bad.
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I will forever claim that B/A's results this entire season were due to politics. From what I've heard, B/A should have been over D/S. Shabalin's knees are shot, have been for sometime, and they're really only a shadow of their former selves. Still, the power or Piseev and the Russian figure skating fed should not be underestimated.
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