Euros 2024 Free Dance: “We Want More Rocky Horror Score”

[tony]

Messy exit out of the one foot turns. Lopareva & Brissaud are definitely losing steam in the 2nd half the program.

Yeah, I wasn’t blown away today. I don’t love the ending patterns of the program either.

 

[Frau Muller]

Loved the top French here! Magnificent!!! This should medal! I wish. True class.

 

[thvu]

Demougeot & Le Mercier are going to keep the TES lead.

Lopareva & Brissaud really need to work on their chemistry. I love this program, but it would be so much better if I could feel anger between them. To me, they're performing separately.

 

[Carolla5501]

Oh my goodness, you mean there’s a pair that Chris does not think was a masterpiece and the best thing he’s ever seen.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Lovely from Lopareva/Brissaud, but there's something missing. I feel like they have excellent skills and Jeffrey is probably the best male partner out there, but this FD just not as intricate as I'd like.

I might have had them first, but not by a huge margin.

(And I'm fully waiting for the "let's thank the lovely organisers for this beautiful event" medal, but if yesterday was any indication, the Lithuanians shouldn't expect to overtake any of the current top 4 at worlds)

 

[rfisher]

What I like best about ice dance is I seldom have particular favorites so just root for the underdogs to have their moment. In this comp, I'm pulling for Allison Reed. The woman has been persistent and I hope today belongs to her.

 

[genevieve]

I love that L/B's FS is both way OTT dramatik and kinda boring at the same time

 

[airgelaal]

It could be a good dance for P/C, but they are not P/C

 

[Sally1214]

Does EVERY program have to be "brilliant," Chris? It was good, I guess, but I don't think I'm going to remember it forever (or even possiby tomorrow). This had better NOT get bronze over Allison and Saulius or we're going to have a riot on our hands!!

 

[PRlady]

I definitely enjoy the No. 2 teams from CZE and FIN more than the No. 1 teams.

I’m torn on the French teams, I like Lopareva and Le Mercier I’ve wondered for the last few years what they would be like skating together. Their partners are growing on me though.

If there’s a lesson from US ice dance this last decade, it’s that having two or more home teams pushing each other is a very good thing.

 

[Rukia]

Lopareva & Brissaud really need to work on their chemistry. I love this program, but it would be so much better if I could feel anger between them. To me, they're performing separately.

This is actually true of a lot of their programs. I always wonder do they talk to each other? Do they know anything about the other person? Idk I'm not convinced they do.

But I still love their skating.

 

[Karen-W]

I thought there would be lots as there was only 1.5 points between 5th and 9th.

I expect the movement to stop now

I don't. There's only 1.6 points between 1st & 2nd.

 

[thvu]

TES moved up barely ahead of DemLeMe.

 

[Aceon6]

She’s not happy. Not with the score, but their skate. I like her even more.

 

[beepbeep]

It could be a good dance for P/C, but they are not P/C

Given C choreographed it…

 

[Colonel Green]

This on-ice flag graphic is really cool, incidentally. I can't recall seeing this before.

 

[Matryeshka]

I hate to agree with Chris, but that was a little flat today. It must be hard to skate knowing barring a miracle and some well-placed falls, it doesn't matter how you skate, fourth is what you'll be.

Glad they're in the lead, but I think D/LM are coming for them, sooner rather than later.

 

[Ananas Astra]

Why the see-through fabric on the back Saulius, why?!

 

[genevieve]

wheee gimme some murky commentary about cell phone addiction!

 

[kosjenka]

My unpopular opinion tonight is that I actually like Lithuanian free dance

 

[Wyliefan]

Just remember, kids, if there weren't a bunch of skating fans staring at their phones right now, you wouldn't have a sport.

 

[miffy]

I don't. There's only 1.6 points between 1st & 2nd.

I know what you’re playing at!

 

[Colonel Green]

The choreographed looking-at-their-iPhones is consistently hilarious, I will admit. There's so many familiar moves in skating, occasionally somebody comes up with something you haven't seen before.

 

[MacMadame]

Now, they don't have the big fed backing so it's a different world where their scores have been recalibrated to something more reasonable.

Then maybe people can settle down about them now.

But also I am not forgetting that. I just thought it was then and hating on a team for what might happen just seems OTT to me.

 

[Karen-W]

Why the see-through fabric on the back Saulius, why?!

Because Montreal. That's why.

 

[thvu]

Literal two-foot sbs skating with just a hand hold.

#allisonreedforbronze

 

[kwanfan1818]

Now, they don't have the big fed backing so it's a different world where their scores have been recalibrated to something more reasonable.

However, they have Eteri as her mother, and the network of former Eastern bloc judges, many of whom are "loans" to other countries. We're not talking about the average Russian or journeyman skater from the US or Canada skating for Azerbaijan on whom no one would waste political capital.

 

[Rukia]

this program is kind of nonsense but it's better than Rocky so

 

[marbri]

Not a FD that allows the home town audience to really go crazy for you. And they clearly want to.

 

[Wyliefan]

I think this crowd would go crazy if they just stood there for four minutes. And nothing wrong with that. They've been such a fantastic crowd, it's great they get a hometown favorite to cheer for.