Crystal Skate

The pairs' final at Skate America 2018 begins with great hopes for two underdog pairs: Alisa Efimova & Alexander Korovin, and Minnerva Fabien Hase & Nolan Seegert. However, their rankings at the end of the short programme were as much a consequence of their own performance as they were of the failures of other pairs. If those pairs manage to outperform their previous routines, we will see a different podium at the end of tonight's competition. Evelyn Walsh & Trennt Michaud  start the event with a performance that is even worse than the one in the short. She falls on the side-by-side 3Toeloop and 3Salchow, then also falls on the throw 3Toeloop. There's a very dicey moment at the very end of a lift too, when she probably would have fallen again if he hadn't caught her. Score: 84.35 . Total: 129.06 . I thought Nica Digerness & Danny Neudecker  were going to skate to Frozen  because one of the songs is entitled Let It Go , so imagine my surprise to hear ...

Wow, it has been a really long time since I've written a blog post about figure skating. Longer than I wanted or expected. I realised this as I was trying to update the theme of this blog and couldn't remember the settings... Oops! Life has been busy, but life is always busy and unless you make time for the things you're passionate about, you will probably never get back to them. So I decided to stubbornly make time and bring figure skating and this blog back into my life. Let's get started then. The season always begins for me with the Grand Prix Series and therefore, almost every time, with Skate America. This year's Skate America is being held 8 hours before my time zone, so it's proving a bit of a challenge, but hey, I'm committed to commenting on as much of it as I can. I did mean to write a Preview post trying to predict what the podiums will be like, but life and other temporary miniature disasters got in the way, so I'll have to start my co...