Shade Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Thanks Alison for the suggestion. That was a beautiful short skating program from Medvedeva - such artistry. She is as beautiful as a film star and as graceful as a ballerina. Just sitting down to watch the rest of the team event on catch up. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Posted February 12, 2018 Author Share Posted February 12, 2018 Wow just seen Zagitova and her Don Q program - terrific. This looks like it will be a great battle! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 I thought Adam Rippon was very nice...I do tend to judge all the routines just on aesthetic grounds, not knowing much about it. But yes the Russian women are amazing and all the Canadians! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Just now, Mary said: I thought Adam Rippon was very nice...I do tend to judge all the routines just on aesthetic grounds, not knowing much about it. But yes the Russian women are amazing and all the Canadians! of course all the Canadians :-) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 My knees start hurting just watching the moguls! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballettaxi Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I know what you mean Alison. I dislocated both kneecaps almost 25 years ago and I cringe whenever I see a mogul!. 'I could have been a contender!!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Owwwwwww ... I did actually come in here to post something about the Olympics, but can't remember what it was now! Glad to see Marcel Hirscher's finally got an Olympic gold though - well deserved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 I love ice skating. It was the very first thing I wanted to be when I was about five or six. I used to watch World of Sport with my dad and some ice skating came on. I was transfixed. I loved the way the ladies glided along with one leg in the air. Didn't know the thing was called an Arabesque back then. I used to try and slide along the kitchen floor on the Lino with my other leg in the air behind me. Then a few years later I saw a bit of Ballet on TV, and I no longer wanted to become an ice skater but a ballet dancer. A few decades later, and my one and only time ever going on ice, while I was in Japan. What do I do? The moment I step on to the ice I try and do an Arabesque. I ended up on my backside, of course. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Posted February 15, 2018 Author Share Posted February 15, 2018 Hope you didn't hurt yourself Lisa. Managed to watch the pairs skating final tonight - enjoyed all the performances. Great win for the Germans. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 I've been watching it too this evening- a gripping and lovely contest, Thank you BBC i player! Interesting that the- really beautiful- German piece was choreographed by Christopher Dean. Shame there was no GB pair for him to assist! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 I'd thought the style seemed familiar ... Lovely piece, and superbly executed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 By the way, has anyone found an actual, up-to-date television schedule somewhere on the BBC website? With all the delays to the skiing, I wanted to set the recorder overnight, but can't because I don't know what channel I should be recording or when! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Nobody celebrating GB's first medal yet? Congrats to Dom Parsons - although it was nailbiting for a few minutes, as he was in 4th place, 2/100ths of a second off the medals. And boy, that is a spectactular medal presentation stage! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Enjoyed very much the men's short pieces...(though could do with a bit less focus on boring old quads) and the commentaries by Robin Cousins and Christopher Dean. What a wealth of experience they have. Not sure how much expertise they have in ballet but they are very good communicators and really understand performance...perhaps one of them should present the live screenings :-) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Somebody the other day said something along the lines of "And now we start off with Swan Lake" - only for the Rose Adagio to start. Oops! By the way, what's so boring about quads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Yes I noticed that..that Mr Cousins...hmm,-but I think he was caught up in the drama of the moment. A singe slip.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulcinella Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 19 hours ago, Mary said: Enjoyed very much the men's short pieces...(though could do with a bit less focus on boring old quads) and the commentaries by Robin Cousins and Christopher Dean. What a wealth of experience they have. Not sure how much expertise they have in ballet but they are very good communicators and really understand performance...perhaps one of them should present the live screenings :-) Robin Cousins choreographed a piece for some of the graduate students at Elmhurst a few years ago. Unfortunately I didn't get to see it it as it was only performed at a gala for which the tickets were too expensive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Very interesting cross-over..I wonder how many of the dancers can skate? (except in Patineurs of course ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Huge congratulations to Lizzy Yarnold and Laura Deas for their successes in the skeleton - Yarnold defending her Olympic title. I felt desperately sorry for the Austrian who ended up finishing 4th, though. And heartbreaking to see Elise Christie crashing and being stretchered off in the short-track skating - but at least there are apparently no bones broken and she should be back for Tuesday's races. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 35 minutes ago, Mary said: Very interesting cross-over..I wonder how many of the dancers can skate? (except in Patineurs of course ) Katherine Healy was a successful young skater before she joined LFB at the age of 16. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Thank you Janet, you have a positively encyclopediac knowledge.... There is quite a lot film of her on ice on youtube- she is delightful. You can see she is a dancer, rather than a sportswoman. One piece choreographed by our favourite, John Curry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCP5sHjpGCQ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Oh that's interesting (and lovely) Mary. It looks as though she went back to skating after she left LFB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 I thought she went to Vienna? Am I imagining it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Have you noticed how, when skaters perform to a vocal track, the artist and song title are named? Yet if it's an opera, all we get is the composer and the opera title. No title of the aria, no artist credited. Seems a bit unfair to me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 On 17/02/2018 at 14:31, alison said: I thought she went to Vienna? Am I imagining it? She may well have done but as the linked clip is from 1997 she presumably went back to skating at some stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Wow just seen the short programme of the Canadian ice dancers absolutely fab!! The problem us there is now an Olympic thread so don't really know where to write this! If should be on other thread Mods can move if want! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Am writing this here as well as on Grace on ice thread! Just seen the short programme of the Canadian ice dance couple ...absolutely terrific ...this is going to be a great competition! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Me too- all such fun isn't it. I am so happy for the British pair, they have done amazingly well so far after all their travails. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 I didn’t realise what rotten luck they have had with their health. Go Penny and Nick! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 She is incredibly brave to return after shattering her kneecap in eight places! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Yes, the X-rays/scans were horrible! Rant: I think there's something inherently wrong about having world records in figure skating, because all the programmes are so individual - different elements, different music, different combinations etc. It's far worse than having a marathon world record (which I believe they now do, somehow). I could understand it in, for instance, diving, where you might be doing a reasonably fixed set dive, but putting together a skating programme is such a personal thing. And if it should turn into some competition just to see which man can do the most quads (and hence score the most points), that would become really boring. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 I wonder what Penny and Nick could have achieved if they hadn’t been plagued by injuries and ill health. However that they are skating at all is down to sheer courage and determination. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 (edited) Have to say it's only the figure skating that I find watchable in the WO. Curling, for goodness sake... I'd prefer a version where they simply keep the main Olympic sports and the associated clothing but just do them on ice - imagine weightlifting on ice, the 100m sprint, dressage (OK, use seals if necessary), icekwondo... Edited February 20, 2018 by Quintus 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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