No duo will ever exceed these two on ice:

 

 

Ice Dancing has always been my favourite discipline in figure skating.   

This is one of my all-time favourite programs, Gwendal Peizerat and Marina Anissina dancing to The Man in the Iron Mask. It still gives me chills. So beautiful. 

 

This is another marvelous performance by the same couple. (Can you tell I really like them?  )

 

Remembering the 1961 United States World Figure Skating Team. On February 15, 1961, a tragic plane crash killed all the members of the U.S. Figure Skating Team. Also, friends, family, judges, officials, and coaches were killed. The skaters were traveling to the World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

As if I didn't already miss Scott Hamilton as a figure skating commentator, we're stuck with Johnny Weir. He makes me miss Scott all that much more!!

21 minutes ago, amybrickwallace said:

As if I didn't already miss Scott Hamilton as a figure skating commentator, we're stuck with Johnny Weir. He makes me miss Scott all that much more!!

 

I've always thought he was overhyped and he underdelivered as a skater. His Russian propaganda also made me wary. I wonder if he is seething inside over all the attention Adam Rippon has received.

 

I saw this mentioned in an article a few days ago. I'd never seen it, but it truly is beautiful.

 

 

Scott Hamilton IS there, and he has been asked about the men in the singles competition on the 34th anniversary of his own win in Sarajevo. I could listen to Scott all day.

Looking forward to watch the Shibsibs tonight 

Proud of the Shibsibs getting the bronze 

My heart sank as Mirai Nagasu fell while trying to make the triple axel in the short program. 😔

An interesting article about what it would take to execute and land a quintuple jump:

https://www.inverse.com/article/41406-the-quintuple-is-the-almost-impossible-future-of-figure-skating

So DIsappointed Nathan Chen has the flu and not appear in the Gala but he was asked and he has left Korea so he won't. Infect others. 😞

Edited February 24, 20187 yr by DAMfan

World Championships were this week.  The year after an Olympics can always make for an interesting competition since it is so soon after the Olympics.

 

Men

1. Nathan Chen (USA) 321.40

2. Shoma Uno (Japan) 273.77

3. Mikhail Kolyada (Russia) 272.32

 

Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu did not compete and Bronze medalist Javier Fernandez has retired from World or Olympic competition.  Uno was the Silver Medalist in 2018.

 

Ladies

1. Katelyn Osmond (Canada) 223.23

2. Wakaba Higuchi (Japan) 210.90

3. Satoko Miyahara (Japan) 210.08

 

Olympic champion Alina Zagitova placed 5th.  Olympic Silver medalist Evgenia  Medvedeva did not compete due to injury.  Osmond was the Bronze medalist in 2018.

 

Pairs

1. Aliona Savchenko & Bruno Massot (Germany) 245.84

2. Evgenia Tarasova & Vladimir Morozov (Russia) 225.53

3. Vanessa James & Morgan Cipres (France) 218.36

 

Savchenko and Massot were the Olympic champions.  Olympic medalists Sui Weinjing and Han Cong did not compete due to injury.  Bronze Medalists Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford retired after the Olympics.

 

Ice Dancing

1. Gabriella Papadakis & Guillaume Cizeron (France) 207.20

2. Madison Hubbell & Zachary Donahue (USA) 196.64

3. Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje (Canada) 192.35

 

Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir did not compete and Bronze Medalists Maia and Alex Shibutani did not compete.  Papadakis and Cizeron wore the silver medalists.

All Nathan Chen had to do was skate onto the ice, stay upright, and do one or two quads to win (he did 6) all the other men fell.

I wanted to see the men's competition but missed it.

18 minutes ago, DAMfan said:

All Nathan Chen had to do was skate onto the ice, stay upright, and do one or two quads to win (he did 6) all the other men fell.

Was it the same competitors from the Olympics? Wish he'd done that at the Olympics.