Grand Prix de France 2023 Pairs FP - “Back Outside Death in my Soul”

[tony]

Colombians in the audience?

 

[Private Citizen]

a dream combo for them. Actually there was 2A-1A-1A

It was 2A+1A+2A.

Plazas and Fernandez were falling over the warmup. She is Colombian born, hence the flags.

 

[Karen-W]

Colombians in the audience?

Supporting Valentina?

 

[honey]

I’d so much rather see the warmup than this parade of audience members.

 

[tony]

Supporting Valentina?

Probably the case

 

[Sally1214]

I'm not sure it was a GOOD thing for Mark to say that "the fun and games has come to an end for audience" just as the competition resumes!

 

[JoannaLouise]

Really nice twist, but then matching his'n'hers mistakes on the sbs 3t.

 

[Rukia]

lol my standards for them are so low that I'm like "oh that wasn't that terrible on the jumps and throws"

 

[Wyliefan]

"I see that you're bleeding" is a really terrible lyric for a pairs program.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Plazas/Hernandez are the most unsettling pair even compared to the French.
Their throws and lifts technique is just horrible.
And I wish he had a neck.

 

[tony]

This program is a bunch of nothing. The first half is just backing track music that doesn't require them to even listen to it.

Still on the side of them needing to make a big change if they ever want to go anywhere.

 

[Hanna]

That final lift

 

[Matryeshka]

I really want to like P/F, but they make it REALLY difficult

 

[Rukia]

that final lift is a banger once again though so they've got that going for them

 

[Private Citizen]

Well, there was no blood, and believe it or not, they did better with all of the elements than on warmup.

 

[Wyliefan]

I really want to like P/F, but they make it REALLY difficult

I do like them. I've just learned not to expect much. Like with Camden, in his own way.

 

[Karen-W]

PlaFern - well, not a complete disaster on the jumping elements, but what happened with their 2nd lift that it was only called a L2?

Overall, I'm just not feeling this program that much for them.

 

[Rukia]

Overall, I'm just not feeling this program that much for them.

because it's barely a program. They too are just trying to get through this apparently.

 

[thvu]

I do like them. I've just learned not to expect much. Like with Camden, in his own way.

We really have been conditioned to believe a fall and a bunch of shaky landings is considered a good performance.

 

[skipaway]

I really want to like P/F, but they make it REALLY difficult

Isn’t that the same with most American Pair teams?

 

[Rukia]

ok who can out-tragic the other this is the real competition

 

[airgelaal]

SBS 2S

 

[tony]

Inspired by Jun-hwan Cha's free skate? Until I see synchronized glorious Ina Bauers, I don't buy it.

By the way, superficial but her hair sans crazy perm thing we saw earlier this season is 10000 times better.

 

[Primorskaya]

From last year? That must be peculiarly unmemorable, I blanked it, and I usually like the music in Bond programmes, If nothing else.

 

[Wyliefan]

SBS 2S

NOW it's a pairs competition!

 

[honey]

It’s interesting he’s got gloves on. Would think that makes lifts a bit more risky with hand placements.

 

[airgelaal]

No time to die as they back out death

 

[Hanna]

I have no idea what he-Kovalev's costume is.

They do have decent speed and power going on, which is nice.

 

[Colonel Green]

Is the world ready for two-time Grand Prix medalist Kovalevs?

 

[thvu]

At least the Kovalevs are giving us some drama and theater. Just for that, #Kovalelvsforbronze.