Figure Skating ISU World Championships 2022

[dcro 10,210]

19 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Brutal Putinesque purge of the Commentary team.

 

The International Skating Union has replaced its World Championships commentators after they made offensive remarks about Canadian former world champion Meagan Duhamel.

British commentator Simon Reed called the 36-year-old the "bitch from Canada" at the end of Wednesday's pairs event in Montpellier, France, apparently thinking his microphone was turned off.
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/60862927

Funny thing is that he was replaced by the commentator who is known to be a Russophile... I immediately switched to the Eurosport Player upon hearing his voice.

EDIT: Also, Duhamel is far from an innocent bystander in all of this. But I guess it's easier to get away with it on Twitter (surprise, surprise).

[intoronto 5,624]

30 minutes ago, dcro said:

Funny thing is that he was replaced by the commentator who is known to be a Russophile... I immediately switched to the Eurosport Player upon hearing his voice.

EDIT: Also, Duhamel is far from an innocent bystander in all of this. But I guess it's easier to get away with it on Twitter (surprise, surprise).

Yea Duhamel has a nact for not minding her own business and victimizing herself, but what the announcer said was plain wrong.

 

Also

 

 

[hckošice 14,794]

Mixed Pairs
Final Results

 

United States

Alexa Knierim

Brandon Frazier

221.09

 

Japan

Riku Miura

Ryuichi Kihara

199.55

 

Canada

Vanessa James

Eric Radford

197.32

 

Full Final Result HERE

Short Program Result HERE

[hckošice 14,794]

First Pairs World title since 1979

 

[Monzanator 4,485]

fielded a girl born in Poland in pairs? This event is truly going nowhere

[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, Monzanator said:

fielded a girl born in Poland in pairs? This event is truly going nowhere

Well, their Beijing pair got suspended over a lip gloss.

[Monzanator 4,485]

Just now, dcro said:

Well, their Beijing pair got suspended over a lip gloss.

 

Yes, I know, but what happened with importing Russian or American skaters? I mean even Poland imports some Russians to figure skating these days. Who da hell imports Poles?

[opruh 129]

This is tournament is a big joke, although the commentary drama was quite entertaining.

[Werloc 3,161]

It's crazy what's going on right now in the women's free skate. 

 

An amazing example of what contests can do to people and these girls know that this might be the only chance for a world title, because figure skating will do everything to get Russia back on board as soon as the war is over.

 

Everybody is chasing a life time achievement and everybody is way more nervous than usual.

[dcro 10,210]

Medal for Loena! What a great program to watch.