2008 WC in Gotheborg

I think the men´s competition will be very interesting tomorrow! The first six are very close ...

Men - Result after SP

1 Jeffrey BUTTLE CAN 82.10 1
2 Johnny WEIR USA 80.79 2
3 Daisuke TAKAHASHI JPN 80.40 3
4 Tomas VERNER CZE 79.87 4
5 Stephane LAMBIEL SUI 79.12 5
6 Brian JOUBERT FRA 77.75 6
7 Patrick CHAN CAN 72.81 7
8 Takahiko KOZUKA JPN 0.91 8
9 Kevin VAN DER PERREN BEL 70.24 9
10 Kristoffer BERNTSSON SWE 69.02 10
11 Stephen CARRIERE USA 68.20 11
12 Sergei DAVYDOV BLR 68.19 12
13 Adrian SCHULTHEISS SWE 66.45 13
14 Jeremy ABBOTT USA 65.61 14
15 Sergei VORONOV RUS 65.26 15
16 Yannick PONSERO FRA 64.46 16
17 Karel ZELENKA ITA 64.05 17
18 Gregor URBAS SLO 61.65 18
19 Igor MACYPURA SVK 61.19 19
20 Yasuharu NANRI JPN 60.89 20
21 Anton KOVALEVSKI UKR 60.74 21
22 Jamal OTHMAN SUI 57.75 22
23 Chengjiang LI CHN 53.99 23
24 Abzal RAKIMGALIEV KAZ 51.58 24

Sergei was obviously restless...in fact he made a mistake.....
Tomorrow great competition!!

Yeah, only men are left! Good luck to everyone!
And especially to Steph!!!
He's the best! IMHO

IF I was a referee, that's the ranking as it should be:
1 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI
2 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA 201.91
3 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 186.94
4 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER FRA 212.94
5 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 190.51


You may not agree with me, but this is just my opinion

Congrats to dance medalists.Whew it was hard and interesting.

Now i can cool off .I guess it was my bad Capricorn side that was writing yesterday .On a happy note i am glad for Isa and Olivier.After all they were the last from their league ,the most expirience but they still had to fight because all those young couples are getting beter and better .It was their chance , their day and i cry with them on the podium .

Happy for Tessa and Scot , and after watching Jana and Sergey ,Federica and Massimo ,Sinead and John ,Ben and Tanith ,Natalie and Fabian i wished to give them all a medal.

Well done everyone.

I was a bit emotional when I wrote my previous post and I was meaning only the ranking from the FD and partially from the OD, because I didn't watch all the couples, for example I missed Isa and Olivier's OD, I suppose it was very good, but I didn't see it . So, from all the performances I saw, I would definetely put Sinead/John and Fede/Massimo in top 3. Nathalie and Fabian also deserve a higher ranking, but... I like them more and more everytime I watch them. As for Isa and Olivier - yes, they are good, but somehow they can't touch me they don't make me hold my breath as Albie and Max, the Kerrs do...

I hope you understand me right

Hugs

Vania wrote:

IF I was a referee, that's the ranking as it should be:
1 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI
2 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA 201.91
3 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 186.94
4 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER FRA 212.94
5 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 190.51


You may not agree with me, but this is just my opinion

Wow... you really aren't a Tessa & Scott fan, Vania!! I thought they were fantastic. But t'is okay.

I actually thought that the judges had the dance podium right yesterday!!! Isabelle and Olivier were phenomenal. I think this mostly because I wasn't judging their dance as a love story. I know it's supposed to be one, but they really do not have that connection. However, I thought the program had a nice energy and they were presenting more to the audience than I'd seen them do in the past. Technically it was suburb as well, everything was just so smooth!!! I thought that their gold was 100% fair. They did 3 clean, nice dances and this was a good competition for them.

Tessa and Scott were... WOW. Do they ever do a romantic program well!!! The entire thing was just amaziiiiiing. Loved the choreography. Loved the music. Loved their chemistry. I've neven been a huge fan of theirs... but c'mon that was fabulous!!!

Heeeee!!! I majorly loved Yana and Sergei. They just have so much energy and fire! Still... if you look at the dance from the technical perspective, they are a bit sloppy at times and their footwork was nowhere near as fast or as polished as the top 2 teams. Obviously, they are going to get better at that. Fantastic tricks, though. Her flexiblity is really wonderful!!!

Tanith and Ben... hohum hohum. I was bored. Please tell me that I was not to only one!!! I don't feel that they have anything new to offer ice dance.

Fede and Massi!!! Totally robbed!! Behind Tanith and Ben??? Are you kidding me? They were amaziiiiiiiing!!!!! I was just so impressed with them. They improved SO much this year! Pffft they should have been 4th.

Ehh...Jeffrey Buttle was great!
But i'm really sad cause of Tomas and Stephan ! But they made so many mistakes... A little bit sorry for Brian...He did almost everything, his programm was fantastic ! So familiar sound of Requiem...
The battles are over !
So only gala is left!

Lana wrote:

Wow... you really aren't a Tessa & Scott fan, Vania!! I thought they were fantastic. But t'is okay.

I just missed their FD and I don't have any opinion about it

I am verrrry happy that Isabelle and Olivier are the first!!! In my opinion they absolutely deserved it! I didn't like Yana and Sergey's perfomanse very much,I think they were too concentrated and not very emotional as they usually are. And in my opinion Belbin and Agosto's FD was the best yesturday ,they skated with a lot of inspiration and I was sad that they didn't get a medal.
I'm also sad for Brian ,he has done everything he could today,but it's life and the second place is also very good!

swetis wrote:

Ehh...Jeffery Buttle was great!
But i'm really sad cause of Tomas and Stephan ! But they made so many mistakes...

(But I like very much Jeffrey and I am happy that today he was really the best!! )

Vania wrote:

Lana wrote:

Wow... you really aren't a Tessa & Scott fan, Vania!! I thought they were fantastic. But t'is okay.

I just missed their FD and I don't have any opinion about it

Sorry, I didn't realize that. I can post a link later. It's really nice and I think you'd like it.

Lana wrote:

Sorry, I didn't realize that. I can post a link later. It's really nice and I think you'd like it.

Thanks, Lana . The commentators of the Bulgarian Eurosport (Ina Demireva was one of them ) said very good things about Tessa and Scott and said that they're very promising couple, so I presume I'm gonna like their free. I missed it because my uncle came to ask us something - verrry bad moment
I want to find also a video of Sinead and John when they make one of the judges smile (Alla Shehovtsova ???)
I want to say that the Eurosport commentator was very good indeed, very professional, and I prefer to watch figure skating on Eurosport, not on the National TV. The other Bulgarians will understand me

swetis wrote:

Ehh...Jeffrey Buttle was great!
But i'm really sad cause of Tomas and Stephan ! But they made so many mistakes... A little bit sorry for Brian...He did almost everything, his programm was fantastic ! So familiar sound of Requiem...
The battles are over !
So only gala is left!

Wheeee!!! Congrats Jeff! Nice job.
But ufff... poor Tomas. That was an absolute disaster. I admired how he kept fighting though!! It was very admirable.
As for Stéph... That was sad too. Did anyone else think that he looked a bit ill? I got that impression.
I'm not too worried about Brian. He's been sick so much this season!! He'll come back fabulous next year!!!!! This just wasn't his year. Disappointing though definitely... he was who I wanted to win!!!

Vania wrote:

Thanks, Lana . The commentators of the Bulgarian Eurosport (Ina Demireva was one of them ) said very good things about Tessa and Scott and said that they're very promising couple, so I presume I'm gonna like their free. I missed it because my uncle came to ask us something - verrry bad moment
I want to find also a video of Sinead and John when they make one of the judges smile (Alla Shehovtsova ???)
I want to say that the Eurosport commentator was very good indeed, very professional, and I prefer to watch figure skating on Eurosport, not on the National TV. The other Bulgarians will understand me

Ina was doing commentating again?? How cool! So, I posted their FD in the video section. I hope you will like it!! And I cannot believe that Alla Shehovtsova smiled!!! I'll definitely try to find that vid. hehe. Hmm... you've made me curious about your National TV, Vania.

Lana wrote:

Wheeee!!! Congrats Jeff! Nice job.
But ufff... poor Tomas. That was an absolute disaster. I admired how he kept fighting though!! It was very admirable.

Yep, congrats to Jeff Buttle. You know, when I saw him I remembered our "discussion" about the different kind of smiles I'm very glad that he showed us his "Canadian" smile Such a shame we didn't see a Swiss smile Poor Steph... and Tomas... I'm very, very sorry about them.

But somehow I'm very happy for Sergey Voronov, just because his coach is Alexei Urmanov, who used to be my fav skater Sergey was 15th after the short program, but finished on 7th place (or 8th, not sure...)

Lana wrote:

And I cannot believe that Alla Shehovtsova smiled!!! I'll definitely try to find that vid. hehe. Hmm... you've made me curious about your National TV, Vania.

I'm not sure it was her, but one of the judges smiled at Sinead and John in the beginning of their program (or in the end ) It was very sweet and nice moment This is the video in youtube, it's between 5,50 and 6,00 minute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UycHexSeOTs

Vania wrote:

I'm not sure it was her, but one of the judges smiled at Sinead and John in the beginning of their program (or in the end ) It was very sweet and nice moment This is the video in youtube, it's between 5,50 and 6,00 minute

heeee!! That's super cute! I'm not sure if it was Alla either... but it's so unusual to see any of the judges smile!!! Usually, they just sit there looking rather stony faced.

It is so sad when the World hampionship ends - i'll miss fugure skating during the summer , it is a great feeling when there are competitions, but I hope the next season will be more inetresting and that we can see two people that we adore :3<>3: :3<>3:

geri_n wrote:

It is so sad when the World hampionship ends - i'll miss fugure skating during the summer , it is a great feeling when there are competitions, but I hope the next season will be more inetresting and that we can see two people that we adore

And how i hope to see them