Worlds 2024 Pairs FS: ‘The wedgie always gets its woman’

[jkl]

I hope I have a body like Deanna when I get to be 40.

 

[skategal]

Saw this reply to Jackie Wong: https://x.com/wilsondb83/status/1771000587569574106

He was visibly breathing quite heavily when he skated off the ice. I could even see it from the upper level.

When I saw the stretcher go backstage and the announced delay I thought it must have been him.

Hope he is okay.

 

[Sylvia]

Top 6 get money, correct?

Correct - from ISU Communication no. 2368 (Jan. 2021): https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-...25455-2368-prize-money-isu-championships/file

Pair Skating (for each Pair):
Only Pairs who qualify for and compete in the free skating shall receive Prize Money, i.e. up to maximum 6 Pairs as follows:
Place
1. US$ 90’000.--
2. US$ 65’000.--
3. US$ 45’000.--
4. US$ 26’000.--
5. US$ 16’000.--
6. US$ 10’000.--
Total Pair Skating: US$ 252’000.--

 

[Yazmeen]

Isu didn’t care when America invaded Iraq! This is such a joke and cover for extreme anti Russia hatred! America was invading a country while hosting worlds

Isn’t there something going on with Evan Lysacek that you can whine about instead of annoying us on a celebratory night? I’m sure there’s a conspiracy theory calling your name out there…

 

[danafan]

https://x.com/rockerskating/status/1771007515385639310?s=20

https://twitter.com/rockerskating
Just talked to Bruno Marcotte - Ryuichi Kihara all of a sudden got lightheaded; they had to administer oxygen to him. He's on the mend now and feeling better, but he feels bad that he couldn't perform his duties for the medal ceremony and properly congratulate Stellato/Deschamps

 

[Lara]

Hope Ryuichi’s told we’re just glad he’s better now. So sorry not to applaud them as well during the ceremony, that was an excellent skate especially given the injury recovery.

 

[airgelaal]

Saw this reply to Jackie Wong: https://x.com/wilsondb83/status/1771000587569574106

Couldn't Riku go to the award ceremony alone?

 

[Lara]

Just hit 2+ years on Duolingo (Italian) on the way home - pretty fitting!

 

[Colonel Green]

Couldn't Riku go to the award ceremony alone?

I doubt she had any desire to.

 

[Wyliefan]

Just hit 2+ years on Duolingo (Italian) on the way home - pretty fitting!

Bravo!

 

[Jay42]

I doubt she had any desire to.

Yeah I can't blame her for not wanting to be there alone.

 

[airgelaal]

I doubt she had any desire to.

I understand, but I was wondering if this was possible

 

[Colonel Green]

This is Canada's thirteenth gold in pairs, from eight different teams:

Dafoe/Bowden (1954-1955)
Wagner/Paul (1957-1960)
Jelinek/Jelinek (1962)
Underhill/Martini (1984)
Brasseur/Eisler (1993)
Sale/Pelletier (2001)
Duhamel/Radford (2015-2016)
Stellato-Dudek/Deschamps (2024)

 

[kemc]

Good for them, that was a hard act to follow.

It definitely was but they rose to the occasion and I hollered myself hoarse for them

 

[made_in_canada]

Awww So do the choir learn every anthem of skaters likely to win? They didn’t just sing tonight because Canada won?

Yes! They sing everyone’s anthem.

 

[kemc]

Very happy for all three teams on the podium.

Dream debut season for Minerva’s new partnership.

Loved the German team’s happiness on the podium.

 

[danafan]

Quotes from Bruno Marcotte.

https://x.com/goldenskate/status/1771012955447972103?s=20

Golden Skate
@goldenskate
Coach Bruno Marcotte spoke to the press about his team Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara who just took the silver medal at Worlds:

“They were extremely proud of their performance. After their performance. Ryuichi started to cough, he hyper ventilated, and he had low suger, he was dizzy. He tried to stand up a couple of times but couldn’t keep his balance. The medical team took care of him, gave him some fluids and when I just saw him he started feeling a lot better.

He felt bad to not go and do his duties but he also felt very bad that he couldn’t go congratulate Deanna and Max. So I want to congratulate them in behalf of Riku and Ryiuchi.”

 

[jenny12]

I hope I have a body like Deanna when I get to be 40.

I wish I had a body like Deanna when I was 22.

 

[Dobre]

Yay, Deanna & Maxime!

I enjoyed the unpredictability of this pairs event. With all the new teams scattered throughout the starting lineup yesterday, it was a lot of fun because there was always someone interesting coming up in each group. Thank goodness it sounds like Ryuichi is OK. Tonight had it's sprinkling of mistakes throughout, but when you think about the condition the pairs field was in as recently as last year's GP, it is quite impressive how well the field is shaping up. The Dutch team, for example, compared to how they looked at SC this year. Much improved.

 

[Badams]

Quotes from Bruno Marcotte.

https://x.com/goldenskate/status/1771012955447972103?s=20

Ahhh, low sugar. I know that feeling extremely well, as a type 1 diabetic. I'm glad he's on the mend. I could tell some scary stories about me and low blood sugars. I laugh about them after the fact, but I've scared many humans.

 

[kemc]

Saw this reply to Jackie Wong: https://x.com/wilsondb83/status/1771000587569574106

Not to be all about me, but I really missed them during the medal ceremony, it just didn’t feel quite right. I’ve been cheering for them so long

 

[Karen-W]

Pairs Multiple Entries for 2025 Worlds -

3 = CAN, JPN, GER
2 = HUN, ITA, GEO, AUS, USA

Direct Entries = 19 - if all countries with multiple entries use all of their spots then only 5 teams from the Qualifying Round to the Championship Round Short Program. It is possible, though, that only 15 DE spots will be used (JPN 2, HUN 1, GEO 1, AUS 1) which will give 9 teams the opportunity to advance from the QR. Any way you slice it, it's going to be FIERCE next year in the Qualifying Round with likely entries from NED, CHN, UKR, FIN, POL, GBR, PHI, AUT, SWE, CZE and FRA.

 

[manhn]

This is Canada's thirteenth gold in pairs, from eight different teams:

Dafoe/Bowden (1954-1955)
Wagner/Paul (1957-1960)
Jelinek/Jelinek (1962)
Underhill/Martini (1984)
Brasseur/Eisler (1993)
Sale/Pelletier (2001)
Duhamel/Radford (2015-2016)
Stellato-Dudek/Deschamps (2024)

31 year gap for coach Josee Picard. She hasn’t built an empire like other coaches have but she just marches on.

 

[Aussie Willy]

Congratulations to the Canadians on their win. Haven't seen it yet but after the season they have had I am not surprised. Deanna is the queen of excitement.

Yeah for Anastasia and Hektor. Top 10 finish. Fabulous. Maybe Lachlan Lewer-Parr can come back and skate for Australia. Although I know he is doing quite well for the US.

 

[kirkbiggestfan]

Back from the arena, what an amazing competition! You could feel the tension in the air. When Deanna gives you face and performance during a lift, it’s unreal to see it live. The second mark should not be close. The Japanese fought hard but did not feel their programs.

The choreography for the Chinese was even more brilliant in person. Spend the money on a real choreographer and see the difference !

 

[sk8girl]

Who is skating around with the flag? Balde? Or is it really Keegan?

Way late to the party, but it was Keegan with the flag and Nam and Patrick with the t-shirt guns.

 

[TAHbKA]

Reading the headlines one would think Stellate's biggest achievement is being 40, not being a world champion. Oh, and Dechamps who?

 

[kwanfan1818]

I'm over-the-moon for both Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps. Deschamps had respectable results with previous partners, but few would have predicted that he'd find a great partner and become a World Champion.

 

[Frau Muller]

….

The choreography for the Chinese was even more brilliant in person. Spend the money on a real choreographer and see the difference !

So Lori Nichol is not a real choreographer? I loved the non-pops class of both of P/W’s programs.

After a good sleep, I am most thrilled for H/V’s bronze…and for S-D/S’ Oxygene SP. H/V are my future of pairs. Hungarians also good and technically capable but not musical or artistic now.

 

[millyskate]

Deanna Stellato is amazing. I remember buying a Patinage Magazine in the mid 90s when she medalled/won was it the "Trophee St Gervais" at the age of 13 with 7 triples, and reading all about it and wondering where she would go. World Pairs champion in 2024 was not on my bingo card.

I really enjoyed watching this competition and generally, the standard of pairs is much more encouraging than it was last year.

But I felt pretty awful for the other competitors when I saw the GOE the winners got for their throw jumps in the LP. A pair in the second or third group would have got negative GOE, never mind the wildly positive marks they got...