ISU GP Skate Canada -- Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV - LP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Wn__sgaOg
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Volosozhar/Trankov: 3Tw, 3S he so, 3T2T, BoDs, CCoSp, 3LoTh, 5ALi, 5TLi, 3STh 2ft, 3Li, PSp. Entries to the lifts were so difficult.
Live play-by-play coverage: Skate Canada pairs' free skate:
http://www.examiner.com/figure-skating- ... free-skate
Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov RUS - triple twist (very smooth), side-by-side triple salchow (Trankov falls out, looked like he had it and caught his heel), side-by-side triple toe-double toe (nice), throw triple loop (great ride out), throw triple salchow (foot down) TES 65.19, PCS 65.77, FS TOTAL 130.96, FINAL TOTAL 201.38
Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford CAN - a little Coldplay - triple twist (almost lost it on the set down, but nice), side-by-side triple lutz-double toe-double toe (off in unison but !!!), side-by-side double salchow, great unison on the side-by-side spins, throw triple loop (a bit slow), bailed out of a lift, throw triple flip (foot down) - TES 55.73, PCS 56.74, FS TOTAL 112.47, FINAL TOTAL 174.84
Narumi Takahashi/Mervin Tran JPN - triple twist (beautifully light), side-by-side triple salchow, side-by-side triple toe-double toe (Takahashi double-single, Tran turns out of triple), throw triple salchow (fall out, hand down, tentative and leaning in the air), throw triple toe (foot down) - they are really such an elegant pair, you just wish they had their technical elements together a bit more - TES 51.91, PCS 56.90, FS TOTAL 108.81, FINAL TOTAL 169.41
Wenjing Sui/Cong Han CHN - something Flamenco-ish - quad twist (nice!), triple toe-double toe-double toe (all kinds of underrotation from Sui there), throw triple salchow, throw triple flip (huge), side-by-side double axel, great one-arm entrance into the second to last lift - a much more mature skate than the short program for sure - TES 66.01, PCS 55.58, FS TOTAL 121.59, FINAL TOTAL 180.82
Lubov Iliushechkina/Nodari Maisuradze RUS - side-by-side triple salchow (Iliushechkina hand down), triple twist (a bit on the heel on the set down), side-by-side triple toe-double toe sequence, throw triple lutz (two-foot), throw triple loop (two-foot) - it's a pretty and fun program, but doesn't really build much anywhere - TES 53.65, PCS 53.38, FS TOTAL 107.03, FINAL TOTAL 165.17
Jessica Dube/Sebastien Wolfe CAN - back spirals into double twist, side-by-side triple flip (Dube falls, Wolfe doubles), side-by-side double axel-double axel sequence (nice), a bit off unison on the side-by-side spins, throw triple loop (very smooth), throw triple lutz (big! just hangs on), last lift looks labored, had to bail out of spread eagle adagio position - TES 54.85, PCS 51.37, FALL -1.00 FS TOTAL 105.21, FINAL TOTAL 158.44
Paige Lawrence/Rudi Swiegers CAN - triple twist (just a bit low but decent), side-by-side triple salchows (slight foot down for Lawrence), side-by-side double axel-double axel sequence (Lawrence singles first, Swieger two-foots, possibly underrotates second), nice hydroblade into BO death spiral, throw triple loop (overrotates and stepout), throw triple lutz (two-foot) - TES 54.55, PCS 49.30, FS TOTAL 103.85, FINAL TOTAL 153.96
Xiaoyu Yu/Yang Jin CHN - Requiem for a Dream - triple twist (floaty), side-by-side double axel-double axel sequences (Yu fights through), side-by-side triple toe (much better than the short), throw triple loop (huge), throw triple salchow (nice) - much better effort than the short, still pretty bland if not for the big tricks - TES 64.13, PCS 44.95, FS TOTAL 109.08, FINAL TOTAL 158.36
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V/T definately the winners, but I just don't get that overmarking? They were sluggish and leg dead during the last section. Way overscored!
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@blazingblades I don't think they were that overmarked, in the low 8s for PCS across the board. The two errors were minor-ish
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Trankov fakes a kiss to Morozov (Volosozhar's ex-partner current bf (right?)), crowd laughs, oh those Russians
Right!
Volosozhar and Trankov keep rolling with win at Skate Canada:
http://www.examiner.com/figure-skating- ... ate-canada
Now, the men will play!
"Off topic": 
... commentator of my local Eurosport channel (during Men SP reprise), paraphrased my mail to her with information about Chan's scores, and Lori Nichol's "brainwashing" of the ISU judges on her seminars, and everything!!! 
What a pity, but still well done Javi!
