Salt Lake 2002 Dance CD2 'Blues' (BBC w/ Robin Cousins & Jayne Torvill)

Описание: British coverage (commentators: Barry Davies, Robin Cousins, Jayne Torvill, Sue Barker).
compulsory dance no. 2 (CD2) 'the Blues', ice dance event. Salt Lake 2002 Winter Games. Performances shown here marked with (^) below:
Rank Name Nation Points CD1 CD2^ OD FD
1 Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat France 2.0 1 1^ 1 1
2 Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh Russia 4.0 2 2^ 2 2
3 Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio Italy 6.0 3 3^ 3 3
4 Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz Canada 8.0 4 4^ 4 4
15 Marika Humphreys / Vitali Baranov Great Britain 30.4 16 16^ 15 15
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[from the NY Times, 16 Feb 2002] ICE DANCING; French Need No Help To Take an Early Lead
Under normal circumstances, the performance of the ice dancers Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat of France this evening would have raised few eyebrows. The skaters, among the favorites to win the gold medal, were in sync, technically sound and worthy of their first-place finish after the two compulsory dances.
But ice dancing -- and the French couple -- are smack in the middle of the figure skating controversy that has engulfed these Games. The French judge Marie Reine Le Gougne was suspended today for misconduct, after allegations that she scored the Russian pairs team of Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze higher than the Canadians Jamie Salé and David Pelletier on Monday night so that Anissina and Peizerat would be favored in ice dancing.
Tonight in the quick step and blues programs in front of a crowd of 14,990 at the Salt Lake Ice Center, the French team certainly did not need any kind of help. Anissina and Peizerat, who won the bronze medal at the 1998 Nagano Games, received mostly 5.6's and 5.7's for technique in the quick step and mostly 5.7's and 5.8's in the blues. Their scores for timing and expression were all 5.8's and 5.9's.
''We really don't think about it, care about it,'' Peizerat said about the judging controversy. ''We're here to skate and not to listen to everything around it. The important thing is to have confidence in ourselves.''
Irina Lobacheva and Ilya Averbukh of Russia were in second place, with Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio of Italy, last year's world champions, third. The Canadians Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz were fourth; they finished fourth at the 1998 Games and complained loudly about the judging.
But it is early in this competition. Tonight's compulsory dances count for a combined 20 percent of the overall total, with the original dance on Sunday counting for 30 percent and the free skate on Monday for 50 percent.
''We did really good for what we can do,'' Margaglio said modestly. ''I think we have a chance to stand on the podium.''
He said that he and Fusar Poli had not been watching television much, so they had not been following the judging controversy closely.
But, he added, ''if the I.S.U. and I.O.C. decided like that, it's all right.''
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Averbukh also said he’s focusing on his own competition.
“Each one has his own profession to practice,” he said. “You [reporters] write stories and publish them. We skate. We skate our best and put out the best performance.”
Fusar-Poli had nothing to say at all, apparently disappointed by being third.
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