I attended the skating events on Saturday and Sunday at Skate America
and I must post my reflections on their skating. Their long program
on Saturday was clearly the class of the event, and I was surprised
with their excellent technique they did not gather higher GOEs. The
program was different from their previous free programs and they
connected so well with the audience. And they skated probably their
best competition since 2002 Worlds! It was excellent, they clearly
should have won and they even had the audience support in the
decision (which is sometimes hard for a Russian team in a US
audience). They clearly put more effort into designing their tango
exhibition than most of the other skaters, and I thought it was very
well done. I wish they had won so they could have done a portion of
their "Princess of the Circus" long program again!