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Results!

Results!

Laurie's Comments on the Technical Skates

Laurie's Comments on the Interpretive Free

Julie's Experience

Nicole's Experience

This page will contain the results as soon as Laurie phones in from the competition to Brenda at the Alexei Yagudin Discussion Group. She also brought her laptop along, to keep us posted of the skating, as well as other various things worth noting...

November 30 - Technical Programs

December 1 - Interpretive Free

November 30 - Technical Programs

Men:

  1. Alexei Yagudin

  2. Kurt Browning

  3. Todd Eldredge

  4. Steven Cousins

  5. Brian Orser

  6. Emanuel Sandhu

 I forgot one very important thing - Brenda's phone number! :eek But I will have it for tomorrow night, LOL...

The men tonight were interesting - I didn't think Alexei's first place would hold (he skated second) because his marks didn't seem high enough to hold with Todd and Kurt still to skate, but since all the men made mistakes, his ended up being the best program of the night.

Brief notes on the men:

Brian Orser skated to Rodrigo music, fell on his triple axel attempt. His other jumps were good, but he had no combination.

Alexei was next and fell out of his quad toe but managed to tack on a double toe after it. Triple axel was good and so was the triple lutz. He seemed slightly off tonight - I think he hasn't yet recovered from being sick at Lalique. He looked a little tired.

Steven Cousins had a very good program to Pink Floyd music (think it was "Dark Side of the Moon"). I felt he was slightly undermarked, but maybe the slow tempo of the music was the reason in that it didn't show a lot of variation of speed.

Kurt skated to a very comical and entertaining program - new, I hadn't seen it before. Fell on his triple axel attempt and slipped during his footwork. Kurt did no combination.

Todd - skated to Exotica. Fell on quad toe attempt, single triple axel - no combo. The 3A was very good, though. Triple lutz and usually great spins followed.

Emanuel Sandhu - Started off with a nice quad toe and then followed that by popping his axel. A slight bobble after the 2A - no combination.

Laurie

Ladies:
  1. Michelle Kwan (It's East of Eden! Yay!)
  2. Sarah Hughes
  3. Josee Chouinard
  4. Jennifer Robinson
  5. Surya Bonaly
  6. Lu Chen
Pairs:
  1. Sale & Pelletier
  2. Ina & Zimmerman
  3. Wirtz & Wirtz
  4. Sato & Dungjen

December 1 - Interpretive Free

Ladies:

  1. Josee Chouinard (Wow! Is this a shocker!)
  2. Michelle Kwan 
  3. Jennifer Robinson
  4. Sarah Hughes
  5. Lu Chen
  6. Surya Bonaly

Pairs:

  1. Sale & Pelletier
  2. Wirtz & Wirtz
  3. Ina & Zimmerman
  4. Sato & Dungjen

Men:

  1. Alexei Yagudin
  2. Kurt Browning
  3. Todd Eldredge
  4. Brian Orser
  5. Emmanuel Sandhu
  6. Steven Cousins

More on the men from Laurie! She's so good to us! :)

First the one you're wanting to know about: ;)

Alexei skated to "Gladiator". He skated with the silver knives in his hands tonight.

Jumps were: 3F, 3A, 3LP (popped), 3T

The hydroblade move is back! I'm happy! :) :) :)
There is less rolling around on the ice as a result. Kim's not as happy as I am. :(

He also included a pancake/cannonball spin in his combination spin. I'm not sure which one is correct, so I used them both. Yell at me later. :b


Steven Cousins: "Belfast Child"
3F (fell out)
He skated well, this is a slower song, but I love it anyway.

Emmanuel Sandhu: skated a modified version of his long program
Popped his 3A, possible quad combination. Laurie's seats aren't as close as she'd like. :\

Brian Orser: "Against All Odds" (instrumental)
skated well

Todd Eldredge: "13th Warrior"
He has a new costume. His shirt is a shiny blue material with gray sleeves and his pants are black.
3A/2T, 3A, 3lutz, 3F(?)
His triple axels were beautiful and he skated clean.

Kurt Browning: "Don't Fence Me In" (female vocalist)
comical cowboy number
3A/2T (stepped out of his 3A), 3Sal, 3T combo, and he did three 2A in a row. He's also doing some sort of cantilever move, but it isn't as low as Klimkin's. I'm sure Laurie can do a better job describing it. ;)

It sounds like she had a wonderful time! So much great skating!

Bourne & Kraatz skated an exhibition.....and Shae-Lynn had her hair pulled back. :) That drove me nuts, last time I saw her skate. I don't have a clue how she could see. Whew!

Brenda

Quick impressions - I have to go to bed so I can get up for breakfast to see who might be having breakfast near us, LOL...

I thought Alexei was great. He didn't seem tired (although popping his favorite and most reliable jump was a surprise, LOL), but his expression was great and the footwork was wonderful. The triple axel was lovely.

I thought Todd was undermarked - a perfectly clean program, skated about as well as I've seen him skate it. I think Kurt should have been third and Todd second. I know this is Canada, and we're talking Kurt Browning here - but this wasn't one of Kurt's best programs, in my opinion. I think it needs a little more work. I liked his short program better.

I thought Michelle should have won. Her program was perfect, and Josee fell on her triple lutz attempt. Josee's program was very expressive and told a story. I really liked it. But I don't think it was better than Michelle's, and even the audience seemed surprised.

Sale & Pelletier were outstanding in both their programs. We saw some new lifts tonight that were amazing. I will attempt to describe them for you tomorrow when I have more time.

Laurie