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Sunday, the 22nd: The Long Day

On Monday we got up at 5:30am, since I didn't want to miss the chance to see C&S practice and of course they had to be in the session at 7:20am, aaaargh. But it wasn't that hard to get up and watching all the dance practices was definitely worth it in the end :) So thanks to all the people who advised me to indeed get up so early and go ;) Well I thought C&S looked good in the Midnight Blues, it seems to suit them a lot better than the Ravensburger Waltz, especially expression-wise and they looked smooth, even if they both had awfully messy hair, Sergei looked as if he hadn't combed after getting up and Galit probably did something really complicated with her hair, with the end result of it also looking as if she didn't comb it after getting up ;) Of the other skaters in that group, we noticed that Fraser & Lukanin always skated quite amazingly far apart, you could have fitted most of the rest of the practice group in between them. Evgeny Platov wore a really unfashionable blue baseball cap that morning (but he is forgiven anything, because he rulz :D ). Uhm, I'm afraid my notes are all a bit random :p ...I took a whole bunch of photos of C&S in that practice, unfortunately they are pretty much impossible to photograph as soon as they are moving, I've deleted a ridiculous amount of photos on which they are either blurry or have skated half out of the photo by the time I've hit the releaser or are blurry AND have skated half out of the photo :( This was worse than my attempts to photograph FP&M's I will survive. I should try to become a fan of Viktoria Volchkova. I made the rest of the photos a lot smaller, worked the Photoshop sharpening filter on them and got some barely tolerable ones :-P (I only hope the ones I took of the OD with my normal camera will be better, the Blues is so slow, even they can't have managed to gallop out of my photos...)

Chait & Sakhnovsky
Chait & Sakhnovsky
Chait & Sakhnovsky
Chait & Sakhnovsky
Chait & Sakhnovsky
Chait & Sakhnovsky
Chait & Sakhnovsky
Chait & Sakhnovsky
Chait & Sakhnovsky
Chait & Sakhnovsky
Chait & Sakhnovsky
Chait & Sakhnovsky
Chait & Sakhnovsky
Plus a pic of the lovely Kerr's
Shae-Lynn with Gregory & Petukhov
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama
Huot & Valkama

In the second group we noticed that since Nebelhorn Trophy John Kerr's hair has changed into something that looks like a striped helmet, while Matsjuk (I just realized I don't know his first name at all) wears his long hair in a ponytail, with lots of gel, not my taste either. And we unfortunately never got to see their "Hair" FD where he wears it open. Steffi remarked that Ben Agosto looks like Ross from Friends, but that she doesn't like his sideburns. Having watched both them and Grushina & Goncharov skating CD and OD in the practice, I thought that Belbin & Agosto did not really look up the same level of skating as G&G, at least not based on that one practice. Well they didn't beat them in the end, so obviously I was right ;) Steffi wondered where Walter Rizzo is when Faiella & Scali practiced, since we saw that they were with some woman. Later we met some Italian friends and they confirmed that F&S have left Walter. No more Walter, no more rubber chicken :( When we heard that they won't stay with Joan Slater in the long run, Steffi and I last night (so not on the Monday, but on the last night before going home :-P) tried to think of a possible new coach for them (to be honest we are not terribly crazy about the idea of Pasquale Camerlengo, even if only for most shallow looks-related reasons :D ) and the only thing we could come up with was that they could train with Scotnicky if Winkler & Lohse retire now (has anyone heard anything about them by the way? I mean have they said if they'll retire or continue or what yet?). We figured that if they train with Scotnicky, next year they'll have an innovative new FD, skating to the extravagant never-been-there-before rich-of-contrast theme of "solar-energy vs. atomic energy", a FD covering explosive global environmental questions and problems, according to Stefka co-choreographed by the German minister for the environment, Mr. Jürgen Trittin, set to a breathtaking combination of music selections by "Kraftwerk" and songs like "Let the sunshine in" from Hair and the Beatles' "Here comes the sun". I'm sure it would suit them perfectly. Forget that Ballroom-crap! And it would be the perfect instrument to make them take the bronze medal at Europeans 2005 in Torino by storm...