A.H.Black
02-09-2003, 03:17 PM
I thought that now the a year had passed it would be fun to look back to the competition at the Olympics last year. This is not a thread to rehash old arguments or controversies. If you want to do that please start your own thread. I'm hoping to talk about all the pairs the participated and to give special attention to those that were not in the spotlight.
Here were the standings after the short program.
PlaceTeam NOC
1 Elena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze RUS
2 Jamie Sale & David Pelletier CAN
3 Xue Shen & Hongbo Zhao CHN
4 Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin RUS
5 Kyoko Ina & John Zimmerman USA
6 Maria Petrova & Alexei Tikhonov RUS
7 Katerina Berankova & Otto Dlabola CZE
8 Dorota Zagorska & Mariusz Siudek POL
9 Dan Zhang & Hao Zhang CHN
10 Qing Pang & Jian Tong CHN
11 Tiffany Scott & Philip Dulebohn USA
12 Mariana Kautz & Norman Jeschke GER
13 Jacinthe Lariviere & Lenny Faustino CAN
14 Anabelle Langlois & Patrice Archetto CAN
15 Tatiana Chuvaeva & Dmitri Palamarchuk UKR
16 Aliona Savchenko & Stanislav Morozov UKR
17 Olga Bestandigova & Jozef Bestandig SVK
18 Natalia Ponomareva & Evgeni Sviridov UZB
19 Michela Cobisi & Ruben de Pra ITA
20 Maria Krasiltseva & Artem Znachkov ARM
I remember that this was the first time I had seen Barankova and Dlabola skate and how impressed I was with them as a pair. I really enjoyed their performance.
I remember Olga Bestandigova's hair color. It was Olga wasn't it?
I remember Ponamareva and her broken foot. I remember I wondered why she continued to skate, then I remembered that this was the Olympics and it would most likely be her only chance to skate in the Olympics and then I understood and admired her courage and detemination.
I remember liking Petrova and Tikhonov's short program a lot although this wasn't the best performance of it. I remember being more impressed with them when I could see them closely and in person.
Here were the standings after the short program.
PlaceTeam NOC
1 Elena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze RUS
2 Jamie Sale & David Pelletier CAN
3 Xue Shen & Hongbo Zhao CHN
4 Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin RUS
5 Kyoko Ina & John Zimmerman USA
6 Maria Petrova & Alexei Tikhonov RUS
7 Katerina Berankova & Otto Dlabola CZE
8 Dorota Zagorska & Mariusz Siudek POL
9 Dan Zhang & Hao Zhang CHN
10 Qing Pang & Jian Tong CHN
11 Tiffany Scott & Philip Dulebohn USA
12 Mariana Kautz & Norman Jeschke GER
13 Jacinthe Lariviere & Lenny Faustino CAN
14 Anabelle Langlois & Patrice Archetto CAN
15 Tatiana Chuvaeva & Dmitri Palamarchuk UKR
16 Aliona Savchenko & Stanislav Morozov UKR
17 Olga Bestandigova & Jozef Bestandig SVK
18 Natalia Ponomareva & Evgeni Sviridov UZB
19 Michela Cobisi & Ruben de Pra ITA
20 Maria Krasiltseva & Artem Znachkov ARM
I remember that this was the first time I had seen Barankova and Dlabola skate and how impressed I was with them as a pair. I really enjoyed their performance.
I remember Olga Bestandigova's hair color. It was Olga wasn't it?
I remember Ponamareva and her broken foot. I remember I wondered why she continued to skate, then I remembered that this was the Olympics and it would most likely be her only chance to skate in the Olympics and then I understood and admired her courage and detemination.
I remember liking Petrova and Tikhonov's short program a lot although this wasn't the best performance of it. I remember being more impressed with them when I could see them closely and in person.