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I didn't actually think T&M were sloppy, well maybe a little bit, but it's understandable since she had a very high fever. In fact they weren't certain if she'd be able to skate at all. Considering that it was a quite incredible skate.
Besides, they were actually the fastest pair.
And was the American commentator actually live at the rink?? P&T weren't extremely fast, but they definetely were not slow. They were much faster than last year in the FP at Euros. A&B were definetely slower.
It's a bit disapointing P&T made 3 mistakes... A lot of people thought that it was unfair that they were ahead of Z&S since the Poles did a clean program. I thought in the end that it was ok because Z&S wouldn't have been able to skate that program even with so many mistakes - it was just so difficult.
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Hi, Monika,
I admit that I tend to be unjustifiably critical of Totmianina/Marinin because I don`t care for them at a personal level, so I`ll reduce my harsh assessment to just saying that their performance was not up to the Euros pairs gold medal performances of the past.
The American commentators were live at the rink. Terry Gannon, whose background is baseball (but has been doing figure skating commenting for about 5 years) was the one who remarked that P/T seemed to be terribly out-of-breath.Dick Button, who has spent a lifetime in figure skating, but is senile now, remarked on P/T`s slowness, in fact he savaged their performance.
Re Z/S vs P/T, it wasn`t clear to me that Alexei two-footed a landing so it possibly could have only been 2 mistakes on P/T`s part. Z/S came into the long program 2 slots behind P/T. You could well be right though in thinking that Z/S deserved the bronze (I`m reading your mind). I`ll yield to you because you were there and also know much more about figure skating than I do.
Best to you and the rest of the group. Bye, bye.
Arthur
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