Skating Moments #12
Jun. 5th, 2012 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helsinkibabyVirtue and Moir, Umbrellas of Cherbourg free dance, Worlds 2008
This was going to be something else but since I've been caught up reading about all the draaaaa-mah going on in Canton at the moment, you get this. In a nutshell, the two coaches who have worked together to bring home 7 of the last 9 world ice dance medals, who coached Virtue and Moir to Olympic gold and David and White to Olympic silver, seem to have had some sort of falling out, we know not what, though there is plenty of speculation and conflicting reports. Rink bosses have said that the skaters didn't want him there, so Shpilband has been fired from the rink, Zoueva is staying and according to her, the top three dance teams will stay there. D/W and the Shibs have confirmed this in a USFSA statement, no word from V/M as yet.
This is going to be a story that runs and runs.
So today's skating moment comes from a simpler time. It's Tessa and Scott's free dance from Worlds 2008. Their second words and they win the silver medal. I can't remember a time that that happened before, especially to a North American team.
This was going to be something else but since I've been caught up reading about all the draaaaa-mah going on in Canton at the moment, you get this. In a nutshell, the two coaches who have worked together to bring home 7 of the last 9 world ice dance medals, who coached Virtue and Moir to Olympic gold and David and White to Olympic silver, seem to have had some sort of falling out, we know not what, though there is plenty of speculation and conflicting reports. Rink bosses have said that the skaters didn't want him there, so Shpilband has been fired from the rink, Zoueva is staying and according to her, the top three dance teams will stay there. D/W and the Shibs have confirmed this in a USFSA statement, no word from V/M as yet.
This is going to be a story that runs and runs.
So today's skating moment comes from a simpler time. It's Tessa and Scott's free dance from Worlds 2008. Their second words and they win the silver medal. I can't remember a time that that happened before, especially to a North American team.
