“We know that this stuff takes a really long time. “It’s not something that we’re really thinking about right now,’’ claimed Gilles. Since this was the first we’ve seen of figure skaters since the team event - more specifically, since it was learned that 15-year-old Russian sensation Kamila Valieva had tested positive for a banned substance, a drug most commonly prescribed for angina in older people, the matter to be heard at an expedited hearing Monday at the Court of Arbitration for Sport - dancers were buttonholed about the controversy in the mixed zone. She wore a high necked outfit on Saturday evening. Some observers still maintain the French would have taken gold, scored just a teensy bit higher, if not for the distraction of Papadakis’ breast popping out of her costume in a wardrobe malfunction midperformance. It was a very close thing for the medal-studded Canadians.
The twizzle dance free#
To no one’s surprise, the leaders coming out of the rhythm dance segment are four-time world champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France, who were silver behind Virtue and Moir in Pyeongchang, though they actually won the free skate portion and set a world record. “But it definitely wasn’t a perfect performance for us.’’
“We really wanted to do it with more abandon today. “We felt after the team event that the program was a little bit contained in energy,’’ Poirier continued. “Despite the (bobble), we did have an improvement in the score compared to the team event,’’ Poirier pointed out. This offering, however, didn’t quite match the standard of what the other top teams were showing off, though both tried to find the silk (or bejeweled) lining. Gilles and Poirier, both 30, like to have a bit of fun with their programs and their presentation, although completely capable of changing up the mood and the music in the free dance. We well remember the jaw-dropping “Aboriginal’’ routine and costumes - an unbelievably distasteful appropriation of culture - by a Russian couple at the Vancouver Games, offensive even back in un-woke 2010. They have a history of outre outfits, in a figure skating discipline that has been over-the-top sartorially over the decades. It just felt like coming home and having something I’m used to and I enjoy performing in.’’ “It just felt like what the program needed today. Seriously, these details matter, at least in the minds of the skaters. This slate was performed to an Elton John medley, Gilles reverting to the long pants version of her costume that she’d worn at nationals in Ottawa last month. But you know, it’s a new day on Monday’’ - the free dance - “and I’m excited to kind of have a fresh slate.’’
So Gilles admitted that misfit twizzle would be much on her mind when she got back to the athletes village, lying in bed. The slightest deficiency in execution, or too much space between the skaters, or lack of synchronicity and judges will make you pay for it. But twizzles - everybody gets twizzles, the most bedazzling trick in the ice dance repertoire. Ice dance is technically complex, much of which isn’t understood by a casual fan base which sees only no jumps and no throws and no spectacular lifts. “We had a small bobble on the twizzle,’’ granted Poirier. And it’s a long way up to the podium from sixth, for what had been considered Canada’s best shot at figure skating laurels, in a period of transition. On Saturday night, back in their matching tangerine onesies, the Canadian national champions weren’t quite so smiley about their performance, which drew a score of 83.52 - incremental improvement - yet knocked them down into sixth. They claimed to be pleased, although it’s hard to tell with this particular tandem who spent so many years skating in the long shadow cast by ice dance virtuosos Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, merely gold-silver-gold at the Winter Games.īut it was certainly useful to have a competitive skate under their belts, get their energetic program before the judges, sift through the entrails of their detailed scoring, what needed work, what had been rewarded. That’s not what Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier were hoping for in the rhythm dance section of the figure skating ice dance competition at the Olympics.Ī week earlier, in the team event - which might still find a medal winding its way to the Canadian squad, depending how the legal wrangling from a Russian positive drug test shakes out - the reigning world bronze duo racked up a score of 82.72 in the first phase of the competition, what used to be known as the original dance.
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