2007 World Figure Skating Championships

Well, I wouldn't mind Dubreuil/Lauzon instead of the Russians (yeah, right, no Russians on the podium for two years in a row, that's going to happen) as long as Albenka and Max are on top.

I'm hoping that the judges can agree on a mark for a certain spin this time, preferrably a level four, in both the OD and FD!

I was really pleasantly surprised by Delobel/Schoenfelder's original Tango at the Euros - I hadn't remembered it as being so strong at TEB -, but I still thought that Albenka and Max' was better. Same for the free dance (and the exhibition, too, though that of course wasn't going to be judged. Is it just me or do Isabel and Olivier seem to have seen "In Heaven" before coming up with that ex of theirs?)!

Grace, I guess you haven't seen much of the Euros, but if you have, would you care to tell me if it's just me or if the judging of the ODs was completely off? Much as I like Khoklova&Novitsey, theirs was anything but a tango, and yet they didn't seem to have been downmarked for it. The Austrians Silna/Matsjuk, on the other hand, did a lovely tango but got very poor presentation marks for it... and so on. And again, is it just me or do a lot of couples this year seem to do variations on Albenka and Max' famous low lift from "Adagio"?

nyx wrote:

Well, I wouldn't mind Dubreuil/Lauzon instead of the Russians (yeah, right, no Russians on the podium for two years in a row, that's going to happen) as long as Albenka and Max are on top.

Well, I do hoppe that won't happen - I really think Oksana and Max deserve a place on the podium

Dear fans!

After all the mess in the Europeans, I prefer to keep my mouth shut! No predictions by me!

Bea wrote:

After all the mess in the Europeans, I prefer to keep my mouth shut! No predictions by me![/b]

Neither by me

Grace wrote:

For Worlds, I'm totally hoping for the same people to be on the podium as at Euros-- although obviously in a slightly different order.

Well, I don´t know wether I should post this or not, but I heard some really scary theories about the Worlds in Warsaw, that make me REALLY sad/mad.

Rumours are saying that the Gold is for Canada / USA and the other medal is for Russia. That was the mail reason why Isa and Oliver get the gold at Euros, they are not getting anything at the Worlds, neither do Albena and Maxim...I was completely devastated when I heard that!

I hope it is just a rumour!!!

shoegirl wrote:

Grace wrote:

For Worlds, I'm totally hoping for the same people to be on the podium as at Euros-- although obviously in a slightly different order.

Well, I don´t know wether I should post this or not, but I heard some really scary theories about the Worlds in Warsaw, that make me REALLY sad/mad.

Rumours are saying that the Gold is for Canada / USA and the other medal is for Russia. That was the mail reason why Isa and Oliver get the gold at Euros, they are not getting anything at the Worlds, neither do Albena and Maxim...I was completely devastated when I heard that!

I hope it is just a rumour!!!

Oh noooooooo from whom did you heard that??? Is he/she a reliable source like a judge,coach,skater,journalist??
Haven't you also spoke with the bulgarian judge which said that et the worlds everything will be fine for A&M??

Well, I think, that all 5 pairs are good enough to be on the podium (I know, many of you will disagree ).
The only good things we can rely on are that there'll be a bulgarian judge in Tokio and that the Worlds will be held not in America. And, of course, we can hope that A&M will be flawless.
So, we have nothing left but wait and see.

I hope not shoegirl But i am still worried that Euro fiasko wll happend again.Even one speaker on Eurosport said that Albie and Max are not improving although they were ready for the season on Skate Amerika and all other couples were making mistakes ,changing musik or FDand now when they are ready everybody looked improved and fresh.I think that happend 2005 when Albie and Max were original from the beggining and evryone was sayng that Bach to Africa is perfect until EC and WC when it was old because not to many changes were made.So i think Albena is right to want to make changes maibe the musik for the tango , the costumes \i didn't like Isa and Olivier TEB OD costumes ,but on EC they lookked good\ make that spin more complicated so they can get even level4 and it could be only me but i think Albie should change her hair for the FD\at the end her hair looked a litle bit messy\ and Max's mustashe and biard shoud be shaved.Last year they were only on NHK Trophy and when they came back for OG she looked terific the costumes for the OD were different the hair and made a good impresion and showed improvment.
I am sorry but i loved them so much and it hurts to se them with bronze and if everybody give them advice it may help.

cute_n_gorgeous wrote:

Well, I think, that all 5 pairs are good enough to be on the podium (I know, many of you will disagree ).
The only good things we can rely on are that there'll be a bulgarian judge in Tokio and that the Worlds will be held not in America. And, of course, we can hope that A&M will be flawless.
So, we have nothing left but wait and see.

Yes but if it already decided, what could A&M do to change it?Fly over the ice maybe??If everybody skate clean i do believe that A&M deserve the tittle more then the others....As their only real concurence i see only Del/S

lanadd wrote:

cute_n_gorgeous wrote:

Well, I think, that all 5 pairs are good enough to be on the podium (I know, many of you will disagree ).
The only good things we can rely on are that there'll be a bulgarian judge in Tokio and that the Worlds will be held not in America. And, of course, we can hope that A&M will be flawless.
So, we have nothing left but wait and see.

Yes but if it already decided, what could A&M do to change it?Fly over the ice maybe??If everybody skate clean i do believe that A&M deserve the tittle more then the others....As their only real concurence i see only Del/S

The only thing they can do is to skate perfectly - in this case they don't have ANY concurrence, I believe. Just not to give up!!!

lanadd wrote:

shoegirl wrote:

Grace wrote:

For Worlds, I'm totally hoping for the same people to be on the podium as at Euros-- although obviously in a slightly different order.

Well, I don´t know wether I should post this or not, but I heard some really scary theories about the Worlds in Warsaw, that make me REALLY sad/mad.

Rumours are saying that the Gold is for Canada / USA and the other medal is for Russia. That was the mail reason why Isa and Oliver get the gold at Euros, they are not getting anything at the Worlds, neither do Albena and Maxim...I was completely devastated when I heard that!

I hope it is just a rumour!!!

Oh noooooooo from whom did you heard that??? Is he/she a reliable source like a judge,coach,skater,journalist??
Haven't you also spoke with the bulgarian judge which said that et the worlds everything will be fine for A&M??

Well, I heard it from a competitor, and from some foreign journalists. The Bulgarian judge was very possitive on the other hand, but I´m not so sure that that will be enough

SO seems they are serious sources....my heart is broken again But how could they know,have they spoke with all the judges who are going to be there??And still the judges for the FD are unknown as they will be drawn later??? I belive that Linichuk has have heard also this rumor,and probably she knows best if it is true or not...Have you spoke with her about that??......after the EC my only hope was the WC...noooooooo

lanadd wrote:

SO seems they are serious sources....my heart is broken again But how could they know,have they spoke with all the judges who are going to be there??And still the judges for the FD are unknown as they will be drawn later??? I belive that Linichuk has have heard also this rumor,and probably she knows best if it is true or not...Have you spoke with her about that??......after the EC my only hope was the WC...noooooooo

there'll be no Bulgarian judge at the CD, it'll definitely be at the OD and it will judge the FD - but we can never know if the computer chooses his scores. (that was the explanation of the system in a forum)

cute_n_gorgeous wrote:

lanadd wrote:

SO seems they are serious sources....my heart is broken again But how could they know,have they spoke with all the judges who are going to be there??And still the judges for the FD are unknown as they will be drawn later??? I belive that Linichuk has have heard also this rumor,and probably she knows best if it is true or not...Have you spoke with her about that??......after the EC my only hope was the WC...noooooooo

there'll be no Bulgarian judge at the CD, it'll definitely be at the OD and it will judge the FD - but we can never know if the computer chooses his scores. (that was the explanation of the system in a forum)

I am not speaking about that, i know that there will be a bulg.judge only at the OD for sure,for the FD depends from the draw, but what can she/he do if everything is decided??

lanadd wrote:

cute_n_gorgeous wrote:

lanadd wrote:

SO seems they are serious sources....my heart is broken again But how could they know,have they spoke with all the judges who are going to be there??And still the judges for the FD are unknown as they will be drawn later??? I belive that Linichuk has have heard also this rumor,and probably she knows best if it is true or not...Have you spoke with her about that??......after the EC my only hope was the WC...noooooooo

there'll be no Bulgarian judge at the CD, it'll definitely be at the OD and it will judge the FD - but we can never know if the computer chooses his scores. (that was the explanation of the system in a forum)

I am not speaking about that, i know that there will be a bulg.judge only at the OD for sure,for the FD depends from the draw, but what can she/he do if everything is decided??

well, these are rumours and I prefer not to believe them Surely, we shouldn't lose hope

Well i ll trust in them and the fairness until the end.....but thats bothers me very much,especially after the Euros you can understand why, and she knows this rumour not from some fan sitting next to her, but from a competitor and journalists, i don't think they are speaking nonsenses without knowing it for sure???

As for me.. I am verrrry, verrry sceptical about Worlds for Albena and Maxim!!! I am sorry!

Serena wrote:

As for me.. I am verrrry, verrry sceptical about Worlds for Albena and Maxim!!! I am sorry!

Well after the OG i was very sceptical too but what happened to the WC? So they shouldn't give up, neither we

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Serena wrote:

As for me.. I am verrrry, verrry sceptical about Worlds for Albena and Maxim!!! I am sorry!

Well after the OG i was very sceptical too but what happened to the WC? So they shouldn't give up, neither we

I see! But last season two of the podium couples stopped skating..
This season , I think it's going to be different. But I think the Canadians and Americans are going to be on the podium, so there will only be one place left for the Europeans medalists ...Which couple??? What is going to be the colour of the medal???

Serena wrote:

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Serena wrote:

As for me.. I am verrrry, verrry sceptical about Worlds for Albena and Maxim!!! I am sorry!

Well after the OG i was very sceptical too but what happened to the WC? So they shouldn't give up, neither we

I see! But last season two of the podium couples stopped skating..
This season , I think it's going to be different. But I think the Canadians and Americans are going to be on the podium, so there will only be one place left for the Europeans medalists ...Which couple??? What is going to be the colour of the medal???

Yes but they beat the Canadians in Canada last year when they had much better FD then this year.....and if i haven't heard this rumour i wouldn't be so sure about D/L being on the podium...i though it would be Den/Sta, Dom/S and very close third between B/A and Del/S, although my dream podium is A&M,Del/S and.... well the others don't impress me much so whoever skates better

Ho albena and maksim first it's obvious !!! but it was obvious in Warsaw too !
they will leave competitions without this title....it's so unfair !!
There is no other skater better than albena and maksim !!
But if judges are like they were in warsaw...I think we can't imagine the podium...may it will be really unbelievable like it was in Warsaw...I hope i'm wrong !!!!

albena and maksim deserve to leave the ice with GOLD because they are Golden skaters !!!

Still haven't come to terms with what happened in Poland!I am still keeping quiet about predictions!

HI guys ,i was watchin ESPN today about EC'07 and during Albie &Max performance the commentator/who by the way is very nice about our couple/ said something that scares me .She said that she doesn't understand why they are being underscored and probably because of the rumor that the russians are in second place and they are being prepeard for the gold in WC and the other commentator was joking "so it has to be another D/S" .About Dom/Sha she said that their edges are not so clean and at moments they looked slopy so i think shoe girl was right but i believe in Albi & max and that they will be brilliant and win the gold .

Well..

My dream podium is First - Albena and Maxim!
Second - Isa Oli
Third-The ones that deserve to be there!




BESOS!

of course I really hope Albena and Max will win gold!!! but guys, probably we should think (or just hope ) that figure skating isn't politics and that judges try to do their best and honest job. There are quite many top-pairs, so actually it depends on their dances to say who deserves a medal. ( and AM have the most brilliant free I've ever seen!!)