2022 Olympic Ice Skating

[onawah]

Russian 15 year old Valieva WINS GOLD in stunning Grand Prix debut | NBC Sports
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Russian 15-year-old Kamila Valieva ran away with the win in her senior Grand Prix debut, scoring a 180.89 for her free skate, putting the world on notice and taking the competition by over 30 points rQIntekPlfo

15-year-old Kamila Valieva sets TWO world records in stunning free skate | NBC Sports
3,829 views Nov 27, 2021
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"15-year-old Kamila Valieva cements her status as a gold-medal favorite in the Beijing Games, besting her own free skate and total score records en route to a decisive win at the Rostelecom Cup in Sochi."
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(I"ve always loved the grace and beauty of ice skating, and this young champion, with some of the highest scores ever recorded, demonstrates clearly why so many people do.)

[Mashika]

Amazingly enough, i can't watch those videos :D

It says:

"Video unavailable
The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

Oh well, i guess i'll just have to watch it outside youtube

Is there such a thing as "cultural miss-appropriation" or something on those lines? Because i just think i have been the end of that one :P lmao

[Violet3]

Not available in Australia either :facepalm:

[Mashika]

Maybe these are the ones?

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In any case, Kamila is invincible by now, no other skater will be able to match her i think, from now on :) :heart:

[onawah]

Different performance in the first one, but I'm not able to see the second one, so can't say about that one.
But I've asked the Mods if they can help with those first two, so that everyone can see them.


Maybe these are the ones?

In any case, Kamila is invincible by now, no other skater will be able to match her i think, from now on :) :heart:

[onawah]

15-year-old Valieva sets ANOTHER world record with spectacular short program | NBC Sports
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"Russian 15-year-old Kamila Valieva put up the highest score ever for a women's short program, earning an 87.42 at the 2021 Rostelecom Cup and going on to win gold in the event."

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[onawah]

She did it AGAIN: Valieva breaks her own record with incredible short program | NBC Sports
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At the 2022 European Figure Skating Championships, Russia's Kamila Valieva broke her own short program world record with 90.45 points
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(Flawless!)

[onawah]

Also FLAWLESS--Nathan Chen in record breaking Nationals short program
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Nathan Chen broke his own national short program record with a 115.39-point performance at U.S. Nationals in a spectacular performance that gives him the lead heading into the free skate -h0_wqfV-i8

[onawah]

Team USA's Green and Parsons win Four Continents title with personal best | NBC Sports
(Beautiful synchronicity)
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"At the 2022 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, the United States' Caroline Green and Michael Parsons won the ice dance competition with a 119.97-point free dance."

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Cha Jun-hwan soars into first with outstanding short program | NBC Sports
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"At the 2022 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, South Korea's Cha Jun-hwan wins the short program with a personal best 98.96 points. He will head to the 2022 Winter Olympics."
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Sinitsina and Katsalapov golden at European Championships | NBC Sports
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"At the 2022 European Figure Skating Championships, Russia's Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov scored 130.07 points in the free dance. They won the title"
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Stepanova and Bukin brilliantly dance their way to silver at European Championships NBC Sports
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"At the 2022 European Figure Skating Championships, Russia's Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin scored 126.75 points in the free dance. They finished second overall"

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[onawah]

ET theme in winning Olympic Ice Dance
(Listen to the introduction for the ET/astronaut reference)
USA's Chock/Bates channel Daft Punk to win team ice dance | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
252,166 viewsFeb 6, 2022

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"With a routine set to Daft Punk, the U.S. team of Madison Chock and Evan Bates win the ice dance portion of the team event with an international personal best of 129.07 points."

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Kamila Valieva becomes first woman EVER to land Olympic quad | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
495,870 views Feb 6, 2022
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"Not only did 15-year-old Russian sensation Kamila Valieva become the first women's figure skater to land a quadruple jump at the Olympics -- she did it twice in one routine, leading the ROC to team event gold with a stunning free skate."
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[Bill Ryan]

Kamila Valieva becomes first woman EVER to land Olympic quad | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
495,870 views Feb 6, 2022
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"Not only did 15-year-old Russian sensation Kamila Valieva become the first women's figure skater to land a quadruple jump at the Olympics -- she did it twice in one routine, leading the ROC to team event gold with a stunning free skate."
hda3vvmqQHQWow. I have to say, I've never seen anyone skate like that. Not ever.

[onawah]

Both videos are available in the US, if the youtube address is clicked on.
I don't know about elsewhere, but I would think there would be others of the same events that are.

Video unavailable in your country…l

[jaybee]

Video unavailable in your country…l


I just watched this in the UK....


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Just incredible how she can perform like that at 15... interesting that she should use Ravel's Bolero like our own Torvill and Dean did in their historic performance in 1984... :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KJexrHugEU

[jaybee]

here's another one that we can see in the UK...

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beautiful performance...

[ExomatrixTV]

Not available in The Netherlands either :facepalm:

[onawah]

Nathan Chen sets WORLD RECORD with breathtaking short program | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
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18-year-old Kagiyama breaks through with second-place short | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
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'After storming onto the scene with a sensational performance in the team competition, 18-year-old Yuma Kagiyama hit two quads and scored a 108.12 in his individual short program -- placing him second behind Nathan Chen."
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[onawah]

NBC Deals with ‘Lowest TV Ratings in Olympic History’
February 8, 2022
By Team Terrell
https://theleoterrell.com/nbc-deals-with-lowest-tv-ratings-in-olympic-history/?fbclid=IwAR0FAJWPELHVYHjEYQtQ2B0v0iKqUT4MEPtwq5dhCR_xE093Hawd50aDk8U

"Instead of telling Olympic athletes not to speak freely while competing in Beijing such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should have never put them in that position to begin with. One of the consequences may be the “lowest TV ratings in Olympic history.”

Citizen Free Press reports “NBC is facing a cataclysmic loss of audience for the 2022 Winter Olympics as viewership tanked for Friday’s Opening Ceremony, averaging just 16 million.”

The new record low is significantly worse than the previous record low which was for the 1988 Calgary Opening Ceremony at 20.1 million. It’s an entire 43 percent below the 2018 Games in South Korea with 28.3 million viewers.

It’s not just the opening ceremony that is failing in the ratings department. Thursday’s “ratings disaster that saw just 7.7 million people tune in, dramatically below same-night audiences of 2018 (16 million) and 2014 from Russia (20.02 million).”

NBC said the 16 million is a “total audience delivery” and includes all of its networks and streaming. The television-only average audience was below 14 million for the day, per the preliminary data released by the network.Reports are being leaked out of China that their severe anti-COVID measures have made life inside its “closed-loop” a high-stress and near joyless experience for the athletes and a massive challenge for NBC.

As if enough stress weren’t on the backs of these young competitors attempting to live out their dreams, “athletes have complained about the fear of positive tests, substandard conditions in unnecessary “isolation centers” and the need to guard against China hacking into their phones and computers to mine data and steal identities.”

Not only are few people watching on television, but the “lack of fans in attendance doesn’t help either. Thursday’s ice skating competition was surreal, a performative event where the connection between competitor and crowd is paramount. Instead, with just 800 in attendance, it looked and sounded like a practice session, complete with music rattling around within the poor acoustics.”

All of this is a nightmare for NBC, which is paying the IOC $7.75 billion to broadcast the Olympics through 2032, writes Citizen Free Press. NBC is doing almost all it can but its reporters and crews are stuck in the “closed loop.”

Production value has been extremely limited as a result: “that eliminates live shots with mountains or historic buildings as backdrops as well as stories about the culture, architecture and people of China that can make the Olympics about more than just sport.” "

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Pelosi Tells U.S. Athletes To Not ‘Speak Out’ Against China’s Human Rights Abuses
February 4, 2022
By Team Terrell

"During testimony before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) told U.S. athletes to not “speak out” against China’s human rights abuses during the Winter Olympics because it could upset the communist country.

“I would say to our athletes — you are there to compete,” Pelosi said. “Do not risk incurring the anger of the Chinese government because they are ruthless. I know there is a temptation on the part of some to speak out while they are there, I respect that. But, I also worry about what the Chinese government might do to their reputations, to their families.”

As Bloomberg News reported, “The commission’s hearing on the eve of opening ceremonies for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing was organized as a platform for Pelosi and several activists to highlight China’s human rights record, including reports of forced labor and acts of genocide against the Uyghur ethnic community in the Xinjiang region as well as suppression of democratic protests in Hong Kong and religious repression of Tibet’s Buddhists.”

Pelosi’s comments sparked outrage from other members of Congress.

“Speaker Pelosi doesn’t want to upset the Chinese Communist Party,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) responded. “So she’s warning US Olympians to stay silent about China’s atrocities. No surprise this comes right as Democrats are trying to jam through the 3,000-page ‘America Concedes Act’ that helps China but hurts America.”

“The U.S. should be BACKING UP athletes using their freedom of self-expression to expose the Beijing communists for the murderers they are, NOT telling them to hide. Americans down cower to communists. We defeat them.” Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (R-FL) said.

“Americans fight for freedom and defend the voiceless – if our athletes can’t display those American values while representing @TeamUSA in the Olympics, why are we there at all?” Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) said. "

[onawah]

Mishina/Galliamov recover from fall to win team free skate | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
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"Despite falling coming out of a lift, reigning world champions Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov still impressed enough to finish first in the pairs free skate portion of the team event. "QxVp910WP4U

Wakaba Higuchi lifts Japan with sensational team short program | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
168,758 viewsFeb 5, 2022
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"Wakaba Higuchi delivered for her country in a big way, placing second beyond Kamila Valieva ni the women's short program portion of the team competition with a score of 74.73"

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Karen Chen steps up to skate U.S. to silver in team event | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
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"Karen Chen was strong in the women's free skate for the United States in the figure skating team event, finishing fourth to lock up the silver medal."6gzj5-kklzM

[pyrangello]

Thanks for all the updates onawah,very much appreciated. I spoke with a buddy of mine who trained for the 80 Olympics that were boycotted by U.S. He told me politics should never be involved in the Olympics. And for any company or tv channel the last spokesperson in the world I would have would be Pelosi , she's a big fat zero when it comes to credibilty and integrity.

[Le Chat]

The last ice skating routine I watched was in 1982 (I know...). Torvill and Dean were skating to 'Bolero'
I see that the above skater is also doing the same.
Has Bolero become the only tune that skaters dance to since then?

[pabranno]

Fox is reporting Kalima Valieva tested positive for banned substance Tremetazidine. Medals are on hold. Consider the source. Perhaps more political shenanigans. Perhaps legit. Perhaps misinfo.
Very sad, if true.

[rgray222]

Fox is reporting Kalima Valieva tested positive for banned substance Tremetazidine. Medals are on hold. Consider the source.

Actually, this was first reported in USA Today.

Russian figure skater's positive drug test after winning gold in team event delays medal ceremony: report

The International Olympic Committee delayed the medal ceremony for the team figure skating competition on Tuesday over what it said were "legal issues," but according to reports, one Russian skater has tested positive for drugs.

A source told USA Today on Wednesday (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/beijing/2022/02/09/olympic-figure-skating-team-medals-delayed-russian-drug-test/6717526001/) that one of the six members competing for the Russian Olympic Committee tested positive for drugs after winning gold in the three-day team event that concluded on Monday.

The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, did not identify which skater turned back the positive test, but Russian media outlets later reported that 15-year-old superstar Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned drug named Trimetazidine after the ceremony had already been postponed, according to a Reuters report.

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Kamila Valieva of Team ROC reacts during the women single skating free skating team event at the 2022 Winter Olympics on Feb, 7, 2022, in Beijing, China. (Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)

The ROC, followed by the United States and Japan were to be honored during their official medal ceremony on Tuesday, but the event was pulled from the schedule without explanation.

IOC spokesman Mark Adams later told reporters during a daily news briefing that the issue required "legal consultation" with the governing body of skating. He offered little information other than confirming that "We have athletes that have won medals involved."

Reporters on Wednesday speculated if the issue could affect the podium.

"Let’s, for the sake of understanding, wait for some explanations either from our sports officials or from the IOC," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in response to questions.

The medals presentation could be further delayed if a team or skater were to be disqualified over the incident. In this case, Canada, which finished fourth in the event, could find itself on the podium.

The Russians are already serving a two-year ban, acting as representatives of the Russian Olympic Committee, after a large Russian state-sponsored doping program was first uncovered in 2016.

Source:https://www.foxnews.com/sports/russian-figure-skaters-positive-drug-test-gold-delays-medal-ceremony?cmpid=fb_fnc&fbclid=IwAR0mu1PEX9ytQX8IJRXvZ5TIVCDqJ7NBuNkYXQ6zKz5YXDTAM6yATc9ibwQ

[onawah]

Very sad. I wonder if she took the drug (assuming she actually did) because she had cardiac problems due to the jabs.




Fox is reporting Kalima Valieva tested positive for banned substance Tremetazidine. Medals are on hold. Consider the source.

Actually, this was first reported in USA Today.

Russian figure skater's positive drug test after winning gold in team event delays medal ceremony: report

The International Olympic Committee delayed the medal ceremony for the team figure skating competition on Tuesday over what it said were "legal issues," but according to reports, one Russian skater has tested positive for drugs.

A source told USA Today on Wednesday (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/beijing/2022/02/09/olympic-figure-skating-team-medals-delayed-russian-drug-test/6717526001/) that one of the six members competing for the Russian Olympic Committee tested positive for drugs after winning gold in the three-day team event that concluded on Monday.

The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, did not identify which skater turned back the positive test, but Russian media outlets later reported that 15-year-old superstar Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned drug named Trimetazidine after the ceremony had already been postponed, according to a Reuters report.

https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/02/1862/1048/GettyImages-1369054995.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
Kamila Valieva of Team ROC reacts during the women single skating free skating team event at the 2022 Winter Olympics on Feb, 7, 2022, in Beijing, China. (Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)

The ROC, followed by the United States and Japan were to be honored during their official medal ceremony on Tuesday, but the event was pulled from the schedule without explanation.

IOC spokesman Mark Adams later told reporters during a daily news briefing that the issue required "legal consultation" with the governing body of skating. He offered little information other than confirming that "We have athletes that have won medals involved."

Reporters on Wednesday speculated if the issue could affect the podium.

"Let’s, for the sake of understanding, wait for some explanations either from our sports officials or from the IOC," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in response to questions.

The medals presentation could be further delayed if a team or skater were to be disqualified over the incident. In this case, Canada, which finished fourth in the event, could find itself on the podium.

The Russians are already serving a two-year ban, acting as representatives of the Russian Olympic Committee, after a large Russian state-sponsored doping program was first uncovered in 2016.

Source:https://www.foxnews.com/sports/russian-figure-skaters-positive-drug-test-gold-delays-medal-ceremony?cmpid=fb_fnc&fbclid=IwAR0mu1PEX9ytQX8IJRXvZ5TIVCDqJ7NBuNkYXQ6zKz5YXDTAM6yATc9ibwQ


Bolero has been used so much it should be banned, and there are a few others that have been overused, as well, as I recall.
It certainly doesn't add anything to a performance when the music is so old hat.


The last ice skating routine I watched was in 1982 (I know...). Torvill and Dean were skating to 'Bolero'
I see that the above skater is also doing the same.
Has Bolero become the only tune that skaters dance to since then?

[onawah]

Russian skater Kamila Valieva can compete, but medal ceremony won't be held
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"Russian teenager Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete in the women's figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics despite failing a pre-Games drug test. But if Valieva is in the top three, the IOC says, 'No flower ceremony and no medal ceremony will take place.' "
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[onawah]

Trusova vs. Shcherbakova: Side-by-side of skaters' stellar free skates | Winter Olympics 2022
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Anna Shcherbakova and teammate Aleksandra Trusova both put on impressive routines for the women's free skate program. The ROC will be going home with both the gold and silver medals from this competition.
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Dramatic skates, reactions from unforgettable women's free skate | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
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(Very sad for poor 15 year old Valieva. I hope that she didn't actually need that heart medicine because she was forced to take the jabs. But either way, she was used. )

[onawah]

Inside the Rings: Day 15 of the 2022 Winter Olympics
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(Ice skating clips start at 1 minute 51 seconds. Youtube videos can be seen in the US by just clicking on the youtube address in these posts.)

"Day 15 of the 2022 Winter Olympics gave us a memorable pairs free skate, a showdown in the freestyle skiing halfpipe, photo finishes in speed skating and much, much more."
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[onawah]

Figure skating exhibition gala lights up the ice | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports
Feb 20, 2022
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(It's nice to see the competitors after the competition is over, and they can relax and just enjoy performing.)
"The stars of the Olympic figure skating competition cut loose with skates full of energy and beauty to close out their 2022 Winter Olympics, including Alexandra Trusova of Russia."

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But then there's this:
Figure Skating Gold Medalist On Russian Skating Coach: ‘It Was Just Alarming’
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"NBC News Correspondent Gadi Schwartz, NBC Sports Figure Skating Analyst Scott Hamilton, and Mayo Clinic Anesthesiologist and Expert in Human Performance Kori Schake joined Chris Jansing to discuss yesterday’s Olympic figure skating women’s final, after Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva fell to fourth place in her final performance amid the attention of a highly publicized doping scandal, “the most intense scrutiny and pressure, and controversy imaginable,” Schwartz says. "

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[onawah]

Nathan Chen pulls off FORBIDDEN BACK FLIP with Keegan Messing at Olympic gala | Winter Olympics 2022
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"At the Olympic Gala, gold medalist Nathan Chen and Canada's Keegan Messing both pulled off backflips to wow the crowd, even though they are forbidden to do during competition."

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