<p>Boring as all get out, but technically there are no problems at all and they’re really fast and powerful.</p>
<p>Not feeling Tanith etiher.</p>
<p>I thought both teams were wonderful. Some of the Canadian lifts and spins were they were absolutely amazing. I wasn’t surprised they scored high.</p>
<p>I am not a fan of these ropes around their bodies that they are using in their lifts. Very distracting!</p>
<p>All the competitors should just wear bungee cords around their bodies to help with lifts. That looked kind of like cheating to me…</p>
<p>I must have missed the ropes …</p>
<p>What a fabulous night of ice dancing! Happy with the results for the top two pairs. They were both wonderful.</p>
<p>Too bad for Tanith & Ben, though.</p>
<p>Agree - nice job by the top couples. The difficulty of the moves has really increased. I hope they don’t keep pushing it until we start seeing lots of falls. I like not having to gasp through the entire routine.</p>
<p>The ropes were part of the Russian couples costumes and were used to aid in some of the spins and lifts. The commentators were saying there will probably be some new rules disallowing that next year.</p>
<p>I like the way the Canadians really sing the song, rather than just mouthing the words. The song is very “singable.”</p>
<p>Oh, I missed the Russians as ds came in the room. I wish I’d seen that.</p>
<p>I also like the rousing rendition of “Oh, Canada.” I love when the winners sing their national anthem.</p>
<p>Am I the only guy here who’d like to get Canadian curler Cheryl Bernard on a slow bobsled to Saskatoon? I’m surprised they can keep the ice from melting when she’s playing… I’m sure lots of the women here have similar crushes on some of the male curlers.</p>
<p>Did you hear that one of the French ice dancers, Isabelle Delobel had a baby just 3-4 months before the Olympics? :eek: WOW.</p>
<p>I liked the exuberance of the American couple best, how they utilized the Phantom music so well. I was turned off by Ave Maria.</p>
<p>Real congrats go to the coach & choreographer of these 2 top teams. Plus, their outfits exceptionally nice.</p>
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<p>Youdon’tsay, I enjoy that, too. It was such a wonderfully happy medal ceremony with the entire arena singing. I doubt if the NBC coverage showed it but CTV had live feeds at a community centre in the small town where Tessa and Scott are from, and it was packed to the rafters with friends and supporters, all singing, as I imagine was happening all across the country.</p>
<p>One of the most stirring things I’ve personally experienced along these lines was when I attended the World Championships in track and field in Helsinki in 1983. The whole country of Finland was wishing with all its might for a Finn to win a gold medal, but being such a small country their chances were not that good. Things were looking bleak for the Finns, but on the final day of competition, and on the last throw of the event, the Finnish female javelin thrower uncorked the throw of her life to come from behind and win the gold. I had tears in my eyes listening to that entire stadium sing the Finnish national anthem in unison, even though I couldn’t understand a word they were singing. (Of course it helps when your national anthem has a tune that was composed by a world class composer - in this case Jean Sibelius).</p>
<p>I think the crowd all singing *Oh Canada *was the sweetest moment I’ve seen in the Olympics so far. Who knows if the medalists had originally planned to sing, but when all the Canadians in the house started to, they did, too. So sweet.</p>
<p>I think ice dancing has become all about the tricks and lifts. I can stand on your knee. I can stand on your calf. I can stand on your chest. I can stand on your head. I can skate with your crotch in my face. I can skate with you circled entirely around my body.</p>
<p>I think the sport has sort of passed Taneth and Ben by, because they do more dancing and fewer of the insane lifts and standing tricks.</p>
<p>But my my my, some of those ladies were painfully thin…it looked like you could snap them in half.</p>
<p>I loved the singing of the anthem, but I especially loved that the US silver medal couple were current students and U of Michigan. Did anyone else see the video of them as a couple when they were only 10…too cute!</p>
<p>missy, I don’t know about you, but I would not want an ice skate that is as sharp as theirs anywhere near any part of my body.</p>
<p>AS far as the Anthem, I too thought it was endearing the whole crowd singing it. The problem with the US anthem is not many of us can hit that high note and so we mouth words instead of being Roseanne Barr :eek:</p>