#fusar poli/margaglio

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The only thing ice dance events this GPF did were remind me of this, also in Torino but 16 years ago

[dozydawn]

[arte-mis-t]

Athletes or coaches

Once a champion, always a champion

Babi & Mauri

[wtficedance]

what do you think of the 2003 controversy about the Israeli team of Galit Chait and her partner winning bronze at Worlds and 20 of the 24 dance teams signing a petition saying judging was unfairly biased by politicking from her father Boris, the head of the Israeli fed? And that the Lithuanian team should have been on the podium instead? Galit is a tech specialist now, and her father still runs the Israeli skating fed, so nearly the entire field of a competition could speak up and call foul and be dismissed anyway, no repercussions

Q #211:

Hi anon,

I think you mean 2002 Worlds but yes another strike against the 6.0 system after a very contentious Olympics. I do think it’s a very unique circumstance because there are very few times in ice dance (or skating as a whole) where a weak, non-traditional skating federation controls the narrative and is influencing the formation of judging blocks. Normally in ice dance it’s highly influenced by coach even more so than fed. The whole incident was emblematic of all of the issues with 6.0 (blind block judging and alliances, politics entirely dictating scores in face of errors, a complete and utter lack of movement in standings except in block realignment, smaller federation teams like Drobiazko/Vanagas repetitively getting screwed and being unable to build momentum) but it was only because of a few reasons that it actually resulted in change:

D/V were VERY well-liked in ice dance

Chait/Sakhnovski were not and her father was essentially widely despised

Americans Lang/Tchernyshev took point on organizing the petition

all of the traditional powers in ice dance (Linichuk, Zhulin, Tchaikovskaia, Dubova, Zazoui, Gorshkov, etc.) had teams who were being slowed down by the Israelis

Anissina/Peizerat & Fusar-Poli/Margaglio didn’t compete at Worlds and would’ve been on the podium otherwise, it wouldn’t have generated nearly as much controversy if D/V and C/S were fighting over 5th

North American media were able to leverage the fact that D/V were getting f*cked over by the Eastern Block to apply that logic to Bourne/Kraatz

C/S only won ONE segment: FD

So yes, I do believe that D/V were deserving of bronze at that worlds but I don’t think it was a highway robbery, more of just a boiling over point.

My hot 6.0 ice dance take is that there was so little actual criteria when it comes to the free dances that it is hard to actively differentiate teams beyond a certain point. And a lot of the “well X was clearly better than Y” is truly just preference unlike the CD and OD where there was a clear emphasis on footwork, linking movements, edge quality, crispness, etc. That’s why it’s a little frustrating when commentary under IJS is like “well these teams are evenly matched in everything so its really just down to PCS” because while that was basically true for 6.0 it SHOULDN’T be true under IJS. Especially because all of the top teams since the inception have had very different strengths and weaknesses with their respective rivals. A lot of the things that we value in modern, IJS ice dance are completely different than under 6.0. For example, you’ll here commentators talking about the amazing quality and speed of a dance spin and in a 6.0 FD it will literally be 4 rotations max, where in modern programs they’re at minimum 9 and almost always closer to 20. Lifts are another animal as well beyond just “this is not aesthetically pleasing / this is aesthetically pleasing.”

I don’t think we will ever see something like this replicated because of (1) the Gadbois monopoly means that MF would largely have control over results and it’s more likely that Gadbois teams would be screwed over internally and you would lose all camp backing if you tried to petition, (2) there’s now a lot more money going into each result, and money trumps uniquely intimidating personalities, (3) it was riding the wave of the biggest scandal in skating history at the time and basically everyone in ice dance was sick of 6.0.

So yes it’s not the most ethical that Chait is so involved in sport but as Israel’s whole skater development program is C-list Jewish Canadians, Americans, and Russians, I highly doubt they’re going to be relevant in the next few decades that Chait will be involved. Hope this helps!

[delectablywaywardbeard-blog]

Pattinaggio: il dramma di Kostomarov, olimpionico in fin di vita

Era abituato a danzare sul ghiaccio, a prendersi applausi e medaglie. La più bella l’oro a Torino 2006, in quell’ovale che aveva visto sognare e poi piangere la coppia azzurra Fusar Poli Margaglio. A 46 anni, Roman Kostomarov, stella del pattinaggio russo, lotta tra la vita e la morte: colpito da una polmonite bilaterale alcune settimane fa, al campione a causa delle condizioni critiche erano…

[telodogratis]

Record di azzurri alla finale del Grand Prix

Record di azzurri alla finale del Grand Prix

AGI – Nell’ambiente difficile, invidioso ed arzigogolato come quello del pattinaggio di figura, c’è un’Italia che torna ad essere fucina di soddisfazioni. Dopo l’era di Barbara Fusar-Poli e Maurizio Margaglio nella danza a cavallo tra gli anni ’90 e il nuovo secolo, e l’epopea della graziosa Carolina Kostner, le nobili lame sul ghiaccio italiane, in punta di pattino a suon di salti quadrupli e…

[figureskatingcostumes]

Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio skating to The Prince of Egypt for their free dance at the 2006 Olympics. 

2006 was such a terrifying time for ice dance costumes; I have to brace myself to delve into those dark archives.

(Sources: 1, 2 and 3)

[anythinggoe]

Day 19: Most dramatic figure skating moment

Barbara Fusar-Poli & Maurizio Margaglio | Original Dance | 2006 Olympics

[lesbianhanguangjunji]

highlights from the diaries i kept when i was ten thru twelve:

"I am learning Chinese. I want to go to China when I grow up." (From what I can gather, I knew how to say "hello," "year," and "i love him/her")

"The pig is back in Iowa after a 42-24 victory over the Golden Rodents." (There's a pig trophy involved in our rivalry with the Minnesota Golden Gophers and it's a long story.)

"The Iowa Hawkeyes are going to the Alamo Bowl [...] [We] were surprised because 6-5 teams don't usually get good bowl games."

my star wars fanfiction was banned from the local christian school after my friends started passing it around and the principal deemed it inappropriate

"I wish I was normal. I don't feel normal. I feel crazy and half of the time I'm at war with myself." (And then I go on to describe bipolar disorder with alarming accuracy.)

"The Hawks dominated the Red Raiders ... even our normally not so good quarterback played well." (Fuck you Kyle McCann.)

"The good thing about Fruit by the Foot is that they taste the same coming up and going down."

"I hate Jules Verne."

"Mom bought us two Celine Dion tapes that were on sale."

"Jules Verne is not my favorite author."

"I have a reading problem. I read things over and over, the same lines, again and again."

"[The Mysterious Island] is my favourite Jules Verne book."

I wrote a lot about the weather because I was so scared of tornadoes that I kept on high alert at all times.

I was in love with ice dancers Fusar-Poli & Margaglio and wrote a lot about skating on my town's tiny outdoor rink

anyway i was a precocious, pretentious little bitch and i'd love to go back and smack myself in the face but twelve yo me and thirty yo me still have a lot in common (i don't like jules verne)

[ohtheseskaters]

                                      Tango Romantica Watchpost

Tango Romantica first made and appearence in the 70s and since then was frequently chosen as the compulsory dance.

1992 Worlds CD

Klimova and Ponomarenko 

Usova and Zhulin 

Grishuk and Platov

1994 Worlds CD 

Grishuk and Platov 

Moniotte and Lavanchy 

Rahkamo and Kokko 

Krylova and Fedorov 

Bourne and Kraatz

1996 Worlds CD 

Grishuk and Platov 

Anissina and Peizerat

1999 Worlds and Europeans CD

Krylova and Ovsiannikov 

Anissina and Peizerat

Lobacheva and Averbukh

Fusar-Poli and Margaglio

Drobiazko and Vanagas

2001 Worlds CD 

Fusar-Poli and Margaglio 

Anissina and Peizerat

2006 Europeans CD 

Navka and Kostomarov 

Grushina and Goncharov 

Drobiazko and Vanagas 

Delobel and Schoenfelder

2010 Olympics CD 

Virtue and Moir 

Davis and White 

Domnina and Shabalin 

Belbin and Agosto 

Faiella and Scali 

Delobel and Schoenfelder 

Pechalat and Bourzat 

Kerr and Kerr 

Cappellini and Lanotte 

Samuelson and Bates

Now that we watched it as a compulsory, here are the videos of tango (not specifically romantica though) as an original dance. 

(Note: it was also a part of the 2001/2002 OD mix but I feel like in that case it was overshadowed by flamenco and paso doble so not including it here)

1997 OD

Grishuk and Platov

Krylova and Ovsiannikov

Bourne and Kraatz

Moniotte and Lavanchy

Anissina and Peizerat

Fusar-Poli and Margaglio

2007 OD

Denkova and Staviski 

Dubreuil and Lauzon 

Belbin and Agosto 

Delobel and Schoenfelder 

Domnina and Shabalin 

Virtue and Moir 

Davis and White 

Faiella and Scali 

Pechalat and Bourzat 

Cappellini and Lanotte 

Weaver and Poje 

Bobrova and Soloviev

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Truly legendary performance alert: Pakhomova and Gorshkov doing La Cumparsita

[illyria-and-her-pet]

Often commentators and critics of ice dance will comment on how the man is the stronger skater of the team (Scott, Jean-Luc, Guillaume, etc.) I was wondering if you could name a couple teams where you think the lady is the stronger skater.

Of the teams competing this season, I think Madi Hubbell is stronger than Zach Donohue. Tho they’re pretty evenly matched I would say of the Shibs Maia is stronger than Alex too. Hmm and going back good examples are Oksana Domnina was stronger than Maxim Shabalin, Tatiana Navka was stronger than Roman Kostomarov, and Barbra Fusar Poli was stronger than Maurizio Margaglio.

[dozydawn]

Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio Free Dance “Dracula” 1999.

The Brides by Wojciech Kilar from Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

“... far and away, that’s the best program that these two have come up with.”

[theicedancekingdom]

TBT ~ Olympic Ice Dance medalists 1988-2014

2014  1. Meryl Davis & Charlie White (USA)           2. Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir (Canada)           3. Elena Ilinykh & Nikita Katsalapov (Russia)

2010  1. Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir (Canada)           2. Meryl Davis & Charlie White (USA)           3. Oksana Domnina & Maksim Shabalin (Russia)

2006  1. Tatiana Navka & Roman Kostomarov (Russia)           2. Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto (USA)           3. Elena Grushina & Ruslan Goncharov (Ukraine)

2002  1. Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat (France)           2. Irina Lobacheva & Ilia Averbukh (Russia)           3. Barbara Fusar-Poli & Maurizio Margaglio (Italy)

1998  1. Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Russia)           2. Anjelika Krylova & Oleg Ovsyannikov (Russia)           3. Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat (France)

1994  1. Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Russia)           2. Maya Usova & Alexander Zhulin (Russia)           3. Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)

1992  1. Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko (UnitedTeam)           2. Isabelle Duchesnay & Paul Duchesnay (France)           3. Maya Usova & Alexander Zhulin (United Team)

1988  1. Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin (USSR)           2. Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko (USSR)           3. Tracy Wilson & Robert McCall (Canada)

[aryabliss]

Day 14 - Favorite Olympic Warhorse

I will survive - Fusar Poli / Margaglio Salt Lake City 2002

Ave Maria - C. Kostner • Sochi 2014

Spanish flamenco & Tango romantica - Virtue / Moir • Vancouver 2010

and songs from musicals

[dozydawn]

Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio Free Dance “Dracula” 1999. Photographed by Matthew Stockton and Pascal Pavani.

[dozydawn]

Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio Free Dance, 2001. Photographed by Jamie McDonald.