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Skating Moments #6
May. 3rd, 2012 09:02 pmKaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, World Championships 2012 Free Dance, Je Suis Malade
Since the last couple of posts have been on an ice dance theme, I'm keeping going with my favourite free dance of the worlds this year. Yes, more than Scott and Tessa, more than Meryl and Charlie.
Kaitlyn and Andrew are a Canadian team that have been doing better and better over the last couple of seasons and I can't wait to see where they go from here... their coaching team consists of Shae Lynn Bourne, Pasquale Camerlengo and Angelika Krylova, who can be seen at the end of this video with tears rolling down her cheeks. And she wasn't the only one either - in an age where ice dance is being more and more technical, where people are complaining that it's all about the tricks and ladies pretzeling themselves and the dances are all looking the same and where is the creativity.... in an era where all those things are being levelled at ice dance, this program is a thing of beauty. It's technical, sure, but it's got heart and soul and it's just breath-taking... Kaitlyn looks fabulous in her so-simple red dress and Andrew presents her beautifully.
This program brought the French crowd to their feet, and Simon and Chris from Eurosport were convinced, as was I, that they would take home the bronze medal.
Until the French team of Nathalie Pechelat and Fabian Bourzat came out to skate; training partners of Weaver and Poje and with Nathalie skating with a broken nose. They were in third after the short dance; Kaitlyn and Andrew were in fourth, and after the French skated, that is the order in which they remained.
And how did Kaitlyn react to losing a bronze medal?
She ran into kiss and cry before the marks even came up and gave Nathalie Pechelat the biggest hug ever.
Classy.
Since the last couple of posts have been on an ice dance theme, I'm keeping going with my favourite free dance of the worlds this year. Yes, more than Scott and Tessa, more than Meryl and Charlie.
Kaitlyn and Andrew are a Canadian team that have been doing better and better over the last couple of seasons and I can't wait to see where they go from here... their coaching team consists of Shae Lynn Bourne, Pasquale Camerlengo and Angelika Krylova, who can be seen at the end of this video with tears rolling down her cheeks. And she wasn't the only one either - in an age where ice dance is being more and more technical, where people are complaining that it's all about the tricks and ladies pretzeling themselves and the dances are all looking the same and where is the creativity.... in an era where all those things are being levelled at ice dance, this program is a thing of beauty. It's technical, sure, but it's got heart and soul and it's just breath-taking... Kaitlyn looks fabulous in her so-simple red dress and Andrew presents her beautifully.
This program brought the French crowd to their feet, and Simon and Chris from Eurosport were convinced, as was I, that they would take home the bronze medal.
Until the French team of Nathalie Pechelat and Fabian Bourzat came out to skate; training partners of Weaver and Poje and with Nathalie skating with a broken nose. They were in third after the short dance; Kaitlyn and Andrew were in fourth, and after the French skated, that is the order in which they remained.
And how did Kaitlyn react to losing a bronze medal?
She ran into kiss and cry before the marks even came up and gave Nathalie Pechelat the biggest hug ever.
Classy.
