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Preview: 2026 World Championships Part 2 (Men + Dance) · The Rocker Skating Podcast

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  Welcome to the Rocker Skating Podcast.
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  It's the second day of our two day preview show for the 2026
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  World Figure Skating Championships.
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  Michelle and I have a lot to say about the men and the ice dance
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  events. So here it is.
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  How much menning are we going to get?
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  I think a supreme amount of men. This will be amending for the
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  ages. I'm still recovering from, I
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  mean, frankly, the men and the ice dance from the Olympics I'm
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  still recovering from. We had another.
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  Drama of those couple of days. We did another Friday, the 13th
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  a couple weeks ago. I was triggered.
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  I'm like again. I hope Italy is not on the ice,
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  wherever he is. Everybody was everybody was
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  commemorating the one month anniversary of.
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  The the day that we live in infamy.
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  My goodness. Yeah.
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  Or in fame in Kazakhstan. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I know that's going to be in their text, their history
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  textbooks celebrated. Yeah.
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  The coronation of King Shidorov. Speaking of which, King Shidorov
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  is not here. He wasn't even on the original
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  entries list because he was too busy accepting new cars and
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  kissing babies and opening restaurants.
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  And I don't know what he's been doing, but he's certainly been
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  the toast of Astana and all of Kazakhstan.
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  There is at at the Summer Olympics in 2024, there was a
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  Filipino gymnast, Carlos Carlos Yulo that won.
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  He first won gold medal I believe on vault, I think was
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  first and it went crazy in the Philippines.
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  Every business there was giving him free stuff, money.
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  We had a whole running list of it and then he won another gold
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  medal and they got even more stuff.
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  And I feel like Shidorov is living that experience.
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  Like when you went from a small country, you you become the
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  beneficiary of all they have to offer.
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  Right. I mean, Carlos Ulow is a is a
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  legend. He's a little brother who just
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  debuted. He's another one, yeah.
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  Yeah, I was joking. And also also good on vault and
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  floor. Yeah, funny how that is, that
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  the businesses in the Philippines are going to run out
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  of free stuff to give the Ulow brothers.
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  Yeah. That's our that's our crossover
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  pop for you, Scott, Scott Bregman on here at some point.
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  So we have Shyderuff not here, Matteo Rizzo not here.
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  Chen Wan Cha just very recently said no.
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  And then even more recently, Jason Brown was out and and we
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  knew behind the scenes that there was he was, he was
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  certainly deciding like this was not one of those where it was
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  like, oh, he had decided a long time ago and and waited till the
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  last moment to say, no, he has been.
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  Yeah, we heard as of last week he hadn't even made-up a
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  decision. Made a decision so.
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  Right. He's been training, he's been,
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  he's still been skating in shows, he's still been keeping,
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  you know, conditioning up And so ultimately decided to not go.
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  And Jacob Sanchez takes his spot because first alternate Max
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  Naumov said no. Second alternate Tomokohi
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  Watashi retired. Third alternate Jacob Sanchez,
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  who just came off a fourth place finish at the Junior World
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  Championships, is now going to make his Senior World
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  Championships debut. Imagine getting that phone call.
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  Jacob, don't. Don't, Jacob, don't kill me if I
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  am spilling secrets. But he's told.
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  He told me he was snowboarding when he got the call.
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  He's young, he can, he'll be fine.
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  That's just he's big, he's training, I mean.
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  He's been training. Yeah, yeah, they, they have been
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  they have continued to be training like, you know, it, it,
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  it just another couple of weeks, right.
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  Junior World was 2 1/2 weeks ago.
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  The real. The real question is did he,
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  once he got the call, snowboard down the mountain then?
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  Or did he get on the lift and responsibly right into the
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  bottom and then get off and go home?
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  Jacob's like my ACL is going to stay so, so that that is that is
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  the the men's withdrawals. And also Matteo Rizzo withdrew
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  and noticed that it was not Nikolai Memola who got the call.
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  He probably is still recovering from the the injuries and also
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  very busy, I think with Fashion Week and TikTok and TikTok and
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  and so Gabriella Fonzipani is going to be did you see there
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  for the Italians. Someone made a take talk about
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  Nikolai Memola's Inside Edge. Let's take off.
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  And they were like, he needs to fix this.
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  Here it is. And he commented on it.
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  And he said, girl, I know. Of course he did.
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  Of course he did. Nikolai Memola knows everything
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  in the social media space. Fun.
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  Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right.
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  So what's going to happen? Will it be the redemption of
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  Ilya Malinen? That is, that is a big one,
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  right? Last time we saw him, it was a
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  well, last time we saw him, it was at the exhibition gala.
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  But the last time we saw him compete, it was a one of those
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  programs you'll never want to watch again because it was just
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  so it was so heartbreaking and. Completely out of character.
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  Completely out of character. I think he'll be fine.
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  He's done many worlds. I think he'll just skate fine.
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  I don't, I don't expect any drama.
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  I'm I'm really worried about the difference Olympics.
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  Though, Oh my goodness, it is a very different kind of pressure
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  here. And you know you're not going to
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  have all the cameras and all the stuff following you everywhere
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  you go and. Snoop Dogg will not be here as
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  far. As there's no student oh, thank
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  no Martha, no Snoop Dogg, yeah, yeah, none of that going on.
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  So it'll be. Jackie Wong.
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  And Ilia just walks past me. Anyways, that's fine.
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  So Ilia. And then will it be the
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  redemption of Yuma Kakiyama I? Just didn't see that free skate
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  clean once. Just give it to us clean.
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  As much as Yuma got his fourth silver medal, it was not a good
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  skate for him. No.
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  It just so happened that he rotated everything and didn't
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  have a complete disaster. But you know, I'm sure he he
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  wants to go back in time and fix that up, but he's got a chance
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  to become a world champion. So I.
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  Think his this is one of his best chances so.
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  Exactly. I do.
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  I do hope that we can see a Turando that is clean because
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  that program is so, so good. Shun Sato after his bronze medal
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  at the Olympics, how does he do? I mean, you got to then kind of
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  look at these other guys who were in the mix at the Olympics,
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  right? Steven Gogolev was literal like.
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  A spin level A. Spin away.
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  Yeah, a spin level away from from the from the podium.
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  He is so consistent. I mean, we watched him practice
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  so many times because he got there early for the team event.
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  He doesn't even make mistakes in practice.
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  He warms up the same way. He gets his jumps out, he does
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  his run throughs, he doesn't step out of anything.
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  He's just so, so solid and I reliable, which I feel like we
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  haven't been able to say about a Canadian men skater in a while.
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  So I, it's really impressive. And I, I'm, I'm putting him on
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  the podium. I think he's going to do it.
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  I'm, I'm putting him up there. Yeah.
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  Because they have to do 2 programs, you know, and he's the
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  only one that I really believe is not going to mend.
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  They do. And I'm not even jinxing them so
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  when I say that. I know like we're not jinxing
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  anything anymore at this point because they jinx themselves.
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  Like, you know. Speaking of redemptions, does
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  Adam Salhemfah have a redemption?
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  Does Danielle Grasso have a redemption?
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  Does Kevin Amos have a redemption like all these guys
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  who who had moments of brilliance at the Olympics and
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  then just couldn't get it all together?
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  I. Would say that Kevin Amos
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  doesn't need a redemption. He had some issues but he fought
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  pretty hard. I think the redemption would be
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  from for Europeans, but I think he got that at the Olympics.
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  He got that at the Olympics. Yeah, he got.
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  That at the Olympics. I'm really interested to see how
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  Andrew Torgeshev skates. He skated some of his best
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  performances his last two competitions so.
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  Like at the Olympics, I've never seen him train better.
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  And, and, and I think the question is, has he been able to
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  maintain that's that level of intensity and consistency that
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  he had at the Olympics? And, you know, has there been
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  sort of a, a let down from the Olympics and has he been able to
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  to to bring it back up? That's, you know, we'll see it
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  first day whether his quattos are popping or they're popping.
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  And he was also going to go on that pizza sampling tour of
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  Milan after his event ended. So I know I got to ask him about
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  that. He's recovered from that.
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  Yeah. Oh, the pizza in Milan.
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  What am I going to eat in Prague?
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  I eat, eat lots of something. I need to figure it out, you
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  know, like, there, there, there. There are other skaters there,
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  too. I mean, Nikkei Ikatsu, same
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  thing, right? Like Rushdenko.
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  Rushdenko, European bronze medalists.
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  What does he do here? Speaking of many, Yeah.
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  I mean, you know, like you do have to realize, yeah, you do
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  have to take take a look back at those scores at Europeans and
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  that it was like a 230 something that got him the bronze.
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  Yeah. That's not going to get him top
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  10 here, I don't think you know, Although, again, who knows.
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  I want redemption for Vladimir Ludvan stuff.
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  I want him to skate well here. I want to see him make the free
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  skate, smoke that cigarette at the start of his program, have a
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  great skate and enjoy himself. That was like one of the most
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  heartbreaking parts of Milan was him having that short program
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  implosion and missing the free skate.
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  I was I feel we were all robbed of the performance that we
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  deserve to see. Yeah, yeah, that would have
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  been, I mean, that would have been a lot.
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  That would have been very nice. Let's hope he doesn't do a
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  triple flip 5 seconds later, single toe again.
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  That is still one of the iconic combinations of the Olympic
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  Games. But it's crazy because it was so
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  iconic in that moment and then it became relevant in the
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  women's event because if Kyrie had done that, she would have
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  won. She could have held.
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  That edge for 10 seconds and done the single toe and she
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  would have won. Yeah, I don't.
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  I, I, I, I don't care about the song anymore.
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  It's like that. That single toe needed to be
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  there. Can we also just do a segue back
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  to the women? Oh yeah.
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  And that Calorie Sakamoto did a a domestic competition about a
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  week ago. She's not ready.
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  She's not ready to say goodbye. No, she's not ready to scape the
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  guy. But they did not change the
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  combination. The the the the double toe is
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  still on the triple Lutz and she fell on the triple flip, so she
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  had another Rep call. Oh.
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  My God. They like.
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  All right. Change the combination.
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  With that double toe on that first flip, this is crazy.
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  All right, you need to do some investigative journalism as soon
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  as you hit the ground in Prague and ask what is going on with
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  that? What's going on?
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  Oh, she does the solo let's in the short program.
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  What's wrong with the solo let's in the free skate?
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  It's the only one she's doing. Miss Nakano, please.
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  Oh my God, we can't take this. I know.
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  Yeah. So back to the men.
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  I'm too. Traumatized to continue
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  triggered. I know same litvince of
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  redemption we get another minions from Tommy Querino.
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  Let's. Go.
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  And you know, like things could lots of things can happen again,
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  like with the other competitions, it's it's a, it
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  can be a wide open field. And if if the menning does
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  occur, and it most certainly probably will occur, there could
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  be some wild, wild standings at the end of this whole thing.
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  We have France, Japan and the US coming in with three spots.
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  I don't know that that's going to, that's going to hold up for,
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  for for France, but I hope it does.
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  I don't know if it holds up for the US either.
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  I, I, I, I think it really, it depends on what 1 you know, Ilya
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  has to be up there Two, Torgashev has to be as good as
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  he was at the Olympics or Jacob Sanchez does 2 clean programs
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  and and they don't hose his components like there's there,
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  they, they can keep the, the three spots.
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  Yeah, but it's not, it's not easy.
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  Yeah, I weirdly have a lot of faith in Jacob.
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  I don't know why. I think he's going to skate
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  well. I would like to have a lot of
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  faith in Jacob. I feel like he's burned me
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  before so. Is this like who's World Team
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  without Jason Brown in a whole quad?
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  Jason Brown, been a while. Yeah.
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  He's been at the he's been at the last three worlds.
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  Yeah. Oh, 2022 he didn't go.
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  Yeah. Right.
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  But he's, he's, he was at 232425.
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  So he was, yeah. You know that Jason has never in
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  his career finished lower than 9th at Worlds.
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  That's that's what I keep saying, like as much as as much
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  as we've people talk about how he hasn't battled at worlds,
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  yeah, he's been very reliably in the top five to top 8.
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  He's like, he's like an index fund.
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  He is just. You can count on him.
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  Very, Yep, Yep. Yeah.
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  You're not going to go big, but you're you're going to, you're
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  going to be very steadily earning your money, that is for
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  sure. Yeah.
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  The men, wow, I don't know what's going to happen.
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  Gogolev. Gogolev's going to happen.
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  Gogo, Medal Gogo. Medal.
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  And that'll be the first Canadian men's medal since Do
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  you have to be Patrick? Am I making that up?
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  Yeah, who else would? Who else would have been besides
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  Patrick? Well, I know Keegan didn't.
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  He didn't win 1 Patrick, the last World medal for a Canadian
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  man. 15. No earlier. 14. 1313 Patrick won
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  his last fourteen of three titles.
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  Wow. All right, so we're down to ice
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  stand. OK, Speaking of the last time
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  worlds were in Prague, this was the first.
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  Was that was that? Go, go, go Julen.
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  They won their first and only world title, the forever just on
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  the bubble team that could never breakthrough.
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  They could never be claim of on Pan Mariko.
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  And then the Duchenne started, you know, passing them and it
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  was like they just could not get there.
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  And finally in 93, they have this incredible Blues for clue
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  program and they won their first and only world title and Russia
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  swept the world podium. They won all three medals in
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  dance. It was Usava Julin, Grisha
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  Platov, Krylova Fedorov. But I, you know what?
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  This dance event, I think something similar is going to
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  happen in terms of a long, long Time Team that has always been
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  on the bubble finally getting their flowers.
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  And I'm, I think Piper are going to win this world.
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  I totally agree. It's going to happen.
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  Look, I could be just making up in my head, but there's
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  something about the momentum that they got at the Olympics
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  and the fact that as and shock Evan baits are not here where
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  the judges brains have now been freed up in some ways to think
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  about a different team out there.
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  And yeah, I, I, I totally would agree with you about the
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  potential for Piper and Ball to win this thing.
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  And you know, the, the continued potential, frankly, of 48,
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  Beaudry and Cicero making a major error because that we've
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  seen that this season. We saw that at, we saw that in
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  practices at the Olympics. They push so hard and I, I
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  wonder about like, because I, I talked about in our Olympic
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  recap about how they push so hard in practice and then hold
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  back a lot in competition. And I wonder when they are
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  pushing harder in competition, if that's when the mistakes
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  happen. I don't know.
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  I, I don't know. I just, I just, I have a feeling
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  that it's going to be Piper and Paul.
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  I just the momentum is there. And A and a post Olympic world
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  for for ice dance has not been without its surprises either.
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  Remember the day when Anna Kaplina and Luca Lenote won
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  World? In. 2014.
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  By a whisker. All the medals were within like
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  a few like 33 hundreds or 3/10 of a point or something.
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  They were so close. Yeah.
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  Yeah, the there have been a couple Olympic champions who
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  have defended their world title or who won worlds right after.
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  Virgin Warrior did it in 2010, Papadakis and Cesarone did it in
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  2022. But it's not a guarantee by any
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  means. No, I, the thing that I think of
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  with with Piper and Paul for me is that they, their Olympics
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  free dance was so utterly transformative for them that
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  they might come in with a very different kind of just like
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  mindset of what this competition is for them.
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  And they were even saying this on the interview when I was
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  talking to them was that they felt a difference in the way
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  that they did that program at the Olympics.
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  Then they had done it before. And you wonder if if that kind
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  of magic is going to happen again.
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  I go back to this is obviously pairs, but I go back to
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  Sapchenko and Maso in 2018 after the Olympics where we were like
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  they can possibly do that program any better than they did
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  at the Olympics and if they did it better at worlds.
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  Yeah, OK, I have chills. So Chenko Maso.
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  Yeah, my free skate was so good. It was so good.
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  Psychological breakthrough and they can skate with that kind of
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  freedom. Right.
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  And you know, like their programs really came together at
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  the Olympics. RuPaul came together at the
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  Olympics. Finally, Vincent came together
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  at the Olympics. So again, you wonder.
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  So you'd think those two for gold.
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  You'd think Theor and Gibson versus Zynga's kalesnik for
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  bronze, which are words that I did not think I would say at the
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  beginning of the season. It's interesting because Fear
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  Gibson for so long had so much momentum, momentum, momentum,
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  momentum, and in their last two competitions I feel like it
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  really screeched to a halt. And Zynga's, on the other hand,
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  is just like shooting for the stars.
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  Speaking of momentum. Yeah, so I'm, I'm interested to
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  see how Fear Gibson compete here.
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  I know that they were a team that it was, they really had
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  this very strong mental game and their attack was really what
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  powered them forward. And I think once the doubt
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  started creeping in there, especially with Lila's twizzle
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  issues, if I think that really kind of unseeded them the last
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  two competitions, especially at the Olympics.
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  So I I'm interested to see how they skate here.
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  And I feel like we know how Zynga, Zynga Leznik are going to
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  skate. They're going to be skating out
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  of their skin. They're going to be raising the
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  roof. It's going to be, you know, all
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  energy all the time. Yeah, I think, I think the two
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  of them and I think Zingis, Kolesnik, Reed and Brulevichus
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  and Smart and Deke, all three of those teams I think have the
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  potential to be the spoiler for the bronze would think of
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  Kolesnik being the higher potential of those 3.
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  But still like I, I, you know, like you look at you look at
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  them versus Allison Saul at the Grand Prix Final, right.
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  At Grand Prix Finals, Allison, Saul were were were scored
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  higher. I just wanna put Scott Deek a
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  little parade of a Bristow in that conversation, too.
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  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I would agree with that.
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  You know, it's like then you is, is there even a dark, dark, dark
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  horse of a green Parsons coming in after not being at the
• 23:59
  Olympics and maybe bringing something a little bit different
• 24:04
  than what everybody's been seeing, right?
• 24:06
  Because they, we haven't seen them since 4 continents.
• 24:10
  They're the ones who are replacing chalk and Bates here
• 24:12
  And, and they, you know, they're, they're fresh.
• 24:14
  They, they haven't had to come down from the Olympics.
• 24:18
  They've they've, you know, in the interview that I had with
• 24:21
  them were saying how grateful of what they were to their season,
• 24:26
  getting another shot, getting a, you know, having another chance
• 24:30
  at at extending their season. So.
• 24:34
  I'm interested to see how tour Columbus Louis look because they
• 24:38
  really weren't, you know, they said that they were feeling 100%
• 24:41
  better, but I didn't feel like they looked at the Olympics like
• 24:44
  they were as comfortable as they were in the past, you know, with
• 24:47
  his injury and everything. And I'm wondering if a few more
• 24:50
  weeks of training if they look more like their old selves,
• 24:54
  because I feel like in this field they should be contenders.
• 24:58
  They I mean, they have fantastic material, especially that
• 25:01
  freelance. It's just like, it's so good.
• 25:04
  It's just that tango, like that's just, you know, so
• 25:07
  addictive and easy to reward and easy to like and very
• 25:11
  accessible. And, you know, their season
• 25:13
  scores are not great just because of his injury, but I
• 25:17
  think they could move up, Yeah. Yeah, they they did.
• 25:21
  They lost some of their power and and they're just sort of
• 25:27
  assertiveness, especially in that free dance.
• 25:30
  Yeah, I remember last season when we were seeing when we were
• 25:33
  watching that free dance, it was like it just, it just sent
• 25:36
  chills down your spine because they were just like so well done
• 25:40
  most of the time. Especially that straight line
• 25:42
  left at the end. So good.
• 25:44
  Yeah, yeah. It'll be interesting.
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  I mean, Carrera Panamarenko also here, you know, Hannah Lim and
• 25:53
  Yaquan, do they get a little bit of a redemption they have?
• 25:57
  To I hope they make the free dance and get to do their free
• 25:59
  dance here. I have like one thing to say
• 26:01
  about Christina Carrera and Anthony Panmarenko, just not
• 26:04
  related to this competition. But you know, talking back to
• 26:08
  the pointing back to the March gladness that we talked about at
• 26:12
  the beginning of the episode to everyone who didn't vote for
• 26:15
  them. I you're on my list.
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  I'm really judging you. I think Christina's dress that
• 26:22
  she debuted at the Olympics is like the probably the best
• 26:24
  costume of the season that anyone's had.
• 26:26
  That dress is stunning. And so, you know, so effective
• 26:31
  with the theme of their program. And, you know, I took it kind of
• 26:34
  personally that that she didn't get votes and that they lost
• 26:37
  their category that that, you know, that was upsetting to me.
• 26:41
  I'm very excited to see it again.
• 26:44
  Michelle is very upset. She was telling me how upset she
• 26:46
  was about it. Yeah, yeah, she was up again.
• 26:49
  They were up against the Amber Glenn like a prayer costume
• 26:53
  though. I, you know what?
• 26:54
  I voted for Amber in the ISU costume award.
• 26:57
  I didn't feel bad not voting for her here.
• 26:59
  This was this was Christina's. This was Christina's award.
• 27:02
  She should have won. So just saying.
• 27:06
  I, I, I have very much enjoyed the, the great deal of thoughts
• 27:13
  and opinions that everybody's been having on March gladness,
• 27:15
  which they were unable to maybe have with the ISU costume awards
• 27:21
  because they, you know, it was it, it, it, it felt, it felt, it
• 27:25
  feels so terminal, right? Like it's like you have one
• 27:28
  chance to just vote for your one costume and now you have like
• 27:32
  whatever it is, 15 chances to vote for your costume.
• 27:35
  So anyway, back to dance. The, the, the podium will be
• 27:41
  very interesting. I do think like at with every
• 27:45
  other one of these competitions, the potential for there being
• 27:49
  some kind of surprise on the podium is high.
• 27:52
  The question is what is the surprise and will there be more
• 27:57
  than one? So it could be what the ice
• 28:02
  dancer is, right? You don't have chalk and Bates
• 28:06
  and that's basically or you don't have chalk and Bates and
• 28:08
  you don't have king yard fabric, but that's basically it.
• 28:12
  Everybody else is here for the most part.
• 28:18
  And so it'll be interesting to see because the, the Olympics
• 28:23
  was very close across a lot of these teams.
• 28:29
  And, you know, it was an exclamation point for Spartan
• 28:34
  Deke's choreograph character step.
• 28:37
  Or it was, it was a level here and there for these people.
• 28:42
  Or it was a, you know, a, a miss on a, a, a, a bracket turn that
• 28:49
  left somebody with two levels fewer.
• 28:51
  Or, you know, it was like. Something the choreo step calls
• 28:54
  at this event. Just please, we've given out
• 28:56
  enough. We met, we met the quota.
• 28:58
  Just don't do what this this event.
• 29:00
  Leave them alone. It's like parking tickets.
• 29:02
  Yes, when you're legally parked. Yeah, somebody decided that you
• 29:09
  were, you know, 4 feet, 8 inches from the fire hydrant or
• 29:19
  whatever it is. I don't even know what the rules
• 29:21
  are for parking near fire hydrants because I don't have a
• 29:23
  car. But you know, it was like one of
• 29:26
  those things where it's you're like, it's just so close and you
• 29:30
  that the nickel and diming is quite upsetting.
• 29:34
  Should we do our top three for each of these?
• 29:37
  Disciplines. Oh boy.
• 29:41
  Yeah. OK, let's start with the dance.
• 29:43
  OK, Gilles Poirier first. Forney Baudreu Cesarone second.
• 29:49
  Zingis Kolesnik, 3rd. I have the exact same top three.
• 29:53
  Go OK. OK, I'll, I'll, I'll do the I'll
• 29:58
  do women on my part. OK, we'll switch off.
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  Kari Sakamoto, Amber Glenn, Monet, Chiba.
• 30:10
  Monet Ami Nakai first. Kari Sakamoto, second.
• 30:18
  Amber Glenn, third. Wow.
• 30:22
  I adore Monet, but. This was, this was the, this was
• 30:25
  the, this was the switcheroo from the Olympics where I was
• 30:29
  like, Monet's not going to be in the top five.
• 30:32
  All right, Paris. Pavlovos, Viachenko, Hassa,
• 30:38
  Volodin, Michochina, Berlava. I've never heard the Hungarian
• 30:44
  anthem. I'm ready.
• 30:50
  Oh gosh, this one is I, I have the same top three.
• 30:53
  I I would put Hassevalden first. OK, so and then Pavlovos,
• 30:58
  Fiachenko and then Batalkina Perulva.
• 31:00
  OK. Yeah, makes sense.
• 31:02
  OK, men. Oh, this is so hard.
• 31:05
  I. Don't even know.
• 31:08
  I don't even know here. It's like it's, it's too.
• 31:15
  I'm just going to go for it. Yuma, Ilia.
• 31:18
  Adam. Wow, OK.
• 31:26
  That that's not even like I don't, I don't even know what
• 31:28
  that came from, but you know. I'm going to do Eli no Ilya
• 31:36
  Gogalev Yuma. Wow, there's already men in
• 31:44
  going on in our predictions. And I I shouldn't pick Ilia to
• 31:48
  win because he burned me before, but I feel like it's inevitable
• 31:50
  that he will win. So I just don't.
• 31:54
  I just don't know. I really just don't know.
• 31:59
  Well, there we go, I think. I think of all of the podium
• 32:06
  pics I've done all all season, this one is by far my most
• 32:09
  unhinged. It's going to be something
• 32:11
  insane in the men. It's probably going to be like
• 32:13
  Kalmira in second. Something like things are like,
• 32:17
  I think both of us are reacting to the fact that a post Olympic
• 32:21
  world is not typical. It's just not typical.
• 32:26
  Something's going to happen and we don't know what is going to
• 32:28
  happen and our minds are just like going off.
• 32:33
  It was the year. Was it 2010 when Daisuke and Mao
• 32:39
  won worlds after they both failed to win the Olympics?
• 32:43
  I feel like that was the year. Maybe it's 24.
• 32:47
  Yep, Mao won and 20. She won in 2010 and 2014.
• 32:52
  Yeah, it was Dice K in 2010. And Yuzu, well, Yuzu was the
• 32:55
  Olympic champion in 2014, but yeah, I was thinking in 2010.
• 32:58
  So they both missed gold in the Olympics and landed on the
• 33:02
  podium, and then they both won worlds.
• 33:05
  So maybe it will be Yuma and Calorie.
• 33:08
  Wow, wow. That's it for our last preview
• 33:14
  episode of this very long season.
• 33:18
  Crazy. And hey folks, thank you for
• 33:23
  joining us during this whole thing.
• 33:25
  We will be back with both recap shows.
• 33:31
  Michelle may be joining me for some recap shows during the
• 33:34
  week, and we will be back for the full recap of the World
• 33:39
  Championships next week. Michelle, anything before we.
• 33:44
  Go. I guess I'm going to be watching
• 33:47
  some skating. Here's two hours and hours.
• 33:52
  Here's two hours and hours I this week is going to be 6:00 AM
• 33:58
  to midnight almost every single. Day.
• 34:01
  Wow. Yeah, maybe something.
• 34:04
  There's going to be something. I hope you have some good
• 34:09
  snacks. I'll be in Lai, will definitely
• 34:12
  have good snacks. Luckily, I am right next to the
• 34:16
  arena, so it's not going to be a a long a long commute.
• 34:22
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• 34:26
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• 34:29
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• 35:17
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• 35:21
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• 35:26
  Practices start on Tuesday, competitions start on Wednesday,
• 35:31
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• 35:37
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• 35:39
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• 35:43
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• 35:50
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