Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Skate Canada - Pairs short program

As I expected, there's more to view of Skate Canada. It doesn't look like I was correct about the popularity of figure skating in Canada, though; all you have to do is to look at the audience in these videoes to demonstrate that. According to this story, they only "broke even." It also states the following:



Next year, Skate Canada will be later in November because of scheduling issues during the Olympic season. Because Skate America had difficulties attracting a broadcaster for a date that would put the competition a week earlier, the dates for all Grand Prix events have been shuffled. For next season only, Skate Canada will be the last of the six Grand Prix events, instead of the second. Skate America will be the fifth.


That is so interesting. It's gotta be an NBC thing. I wonder what's going on next year for that to happen. At any rate, here at the videos I found. I'm also including the scores, since not all include them.

Kawaguchi and Smirnov - Eurosport - 65.02
McLaughlin and Brubaker - Eurosport - 60.66
Dube and Davison - Eurosport, French - 60.14
Vise and Trent -Eurosport - 53.94

Dong and Wu - Eurosport, French - 50.84
Brodeur and Mattatall - Eurosport - 50.76
Kirkland and Radford - English - 50.08
Evora and Ladwig - English - 47.04

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