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I discovered last night that it has become absolutely impossible for me to listen to the Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet Overture-Fantasy without the image of a pair of Russians launching into a side-by-side double Salchow double toe-loop combination flashing across my mind's eye.
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What are they doing in that picture? It doesn't look quite decent.
Posted by: sfmike | Jul 19, 2007 at 07:08 PM
no idea, but you know that blaring out of those stadium speakers is some recording of a non-union eastern european violin section going solatidoremifa fiiiiiiiii soooooooool, ti do re la sol doooooooooo....
Posted by: M. C- | Jul 19, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Looks like he's going to skate right over her ponytail and cut it off!
Posted by: Kathode Ray Tube | Jul 20, 2007 at 09:34 AM
These are Russian ice dancers Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov. They became Olympic champions in 2006, with the free dance to the music of "Carmen". And you have posted a picture of their free dance to "Carmen" :-), so actually there's no "Romeo and Juliet". You can check that move here in their Olympic program at around 1:15 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3p7X_WEttw
This picture is from some competition earlier in the season, because for the Olympics Navka changed her dress to another a little bit different.
Besides, there's no double salchow and double toe-loop as well, because it's ice dancing, not pairs skating ! :-)
Posted by: Daina | Jul 26, 2007 at 03:22 PM
Daina: You are, of course, right. And I am ashamed.
I knew when I put that photo up that it was ice dancing, not pairs skating. And I knew that there are no jumps in ice dancing. (I didn't know it was 'Carmen'.) But for some reason I couldn't find any good horizontal images of side-by-side jumps when I was doing the post. I considered using a death spiral image instead, but it wasn't nearly as dramatic.
So... my apologies for the lapse in bloggy integrity. (Frankly, I was shocked that no one called me on this for an entire week!)
Posted by: M. C- | Jul 26, 2007 at 03:48 PM