The Dance Jump-two Twizzles combination of Davis/White fame? Piper's glitchy rotation and minimal ice coverage? The ugly positions that lack paso character?
On the day after the Short Dance, CBC Sports tweeted updates about Gilles/Poirier's placement and included a link to their performance twice. No updates were tweeted for Paul/Islam, who sat only one place and 1.52 points behind them, nor for the pair counterparts of Séguin/Bilodeau and Ilyushechkina/Moscovitch. No video link was tweeted for the performances of Weaver/Poje and Duhamel/Radford . The only other team to have a link of their performance and an update of their placement tweeted was Cappellini/Lanotte.
Then, the Free Dance...
That's not how it works. If someone is going to criticize Davis/White, they can't then turn around and claim Gilles/Poirier have speed. Is the difference between actual power derived from edges and quickness kept up through workarounds something that needs to be explained to her?
Piper's edges were frequently nonexistent in this program, but I'm even more interested to know how PJ saw lyrical movement in a jazzy program executed with zero grace.
And after the competition...
What is good about a team moving up based on nothing at all to do with their ability or execution? It is becoming increasingly clear how likely it is that Bev's belated Sochi campaign was done under the direction of Skate Canada.
Man, it must be really difficult to keep track of where your terrible third team ends up. Or maybe Skate Canada was just disappointed they finished that high.
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