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Four Continents Results Update: Ice Dance and Pairs

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Olympic champs in ice dancing, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, wasted no time getting back to form as they formed a slim lead in the short dance at Four Continents in Taipei.  America's poor Meryl Davis and Charlie White will have to get used to being in second again...it's the first time they haven't led a competition all season.  UPDATED:  I believe they had a bit of a bobble on the twizzles.  So if they are only one point behind a clean Virtue and Moir, that actually bodes well for them if they skate clean in the free dance...although it pretty much depends on how the judges like Virtue and Moir's free dance, which will surely be amazing.

In a bit of a surprise, Canada's Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje are in third (and decisively won the technical portion!) with the U.S.'s Maia and Alex Shibutani are fourth, with Crone and Poirier about four points out of third.


Not a great start for the American pairs in Taipei.  Caitlin Yankowskas and John Coughlin are in fourth place, and Amanda Evora and Mark Ladwig are in sixth.  According to Twitter folks, Mark Ladwig's skate heel BROKE while they were skating, he was given three minutes to repair it, and then they finished the program.  WOW.  I hope someone posts on youtube!  China's Pang and Tong dominated the short program, despite a deduction for running overtimea fall.  They lead by more than ten points over Canada's Paige Lawrence and Rudi Swiegers.

Pairs

 

Pl.   Name Nation TSS
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TES
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SS TR PE CH IN Ded.
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StN.
1 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN 71.41 39.29   33.12 8.25 8.11 8.29 8.39 8.36 1.00 #9
2 Paige LAWRENCE / Rudi SWIEGERS CAN 59.98 34.21   25.77 6.36 6.14 6.54 6.64 6.54 0.00 #3
3 Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD CAN 59.92 35.38   25.54 6.50 6.07 6.46 6.43 6.46 1.00 #2
4 Caitlin YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN USA 55.25 29.02   26.23 6.61 6.18 6.61 6.71 6.68 0.00 #10
5 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN 54.41 28.12   26.29 6.61 6.36 6.54 6.68 6.68 0.00 #6
6 Amanda EVORA / Mark LADWIG USA 52.23 28.14   25.09 6.29 6.07 6.14 6.54 6.32 1.00 #8
7 Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG CHN 50.61 28.93   21.68 5.64 5.25 5.46 5.57 5.18 0.00 #4
8 Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN JPN 50.25 26.77   25.48 6.43 6.39 6.25 6.46 6.32 2.00 #7
9 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU CHN 46.41 25.41   21.00 5.50 5.00 5.25 5.29 5.21 0.00 #5
10 Mary Beth MARLEY / Rockne BRUBAKER USA 45.60 23.60   22.00 5.68 5.25 5.50 5.61 5.46 0.00 #1

Ice dancing

 Pl.   Name Nation TSS
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TES
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SS TR PE CC IT Ded.
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StN.
1 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN 69.40 35.64   33.76 8.29 8.18 8.57 8.54 8.57 0.00 #5
2 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA 69.01 34.50   34.51 8.61 8.46 8.64 8.71 8.68 0.00 #9
3 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 65.45 36.50   28.95 7.18 7.04 7.36 7.18 7.39 0.00 #8
4 Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI USA 62.04 34.22   27.82 7.11 6.75 6.96 6.96 6.96 0.00 #10
5 Vanessa CRONE / Paul POIRIER CAN 61.66 33.50   28.16 7.14 6.86 6.96 7.18 7.04 0.00 #6
6 Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN USA 57.14 30.94   26.20 6.50 6.32 6.50 6.82 6.57 0.00 #12
7 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN 52.93 28.42   24.51 6.21 5.89 6.14 6.18 6.18 0.00 #7
8 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 50.58 27.78   22.80 5.71 5.43 5.82 5.71 5.79 0.00 #11
9 Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG CHN 42.77 24.72   18.05 4.64 4.39 4.46 4.61 4.46 0.00 #2
10 Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN AUS 42.67 25.00   17.67 4.46 4.21 4.43 4.57 4.39 0.00 #1
11 Corenne BRUHNS / Benjamin WESTENBERGER MEX 40.68 25.28   15.40 4.04 3.64 3.86 3.96 3.75 0.00 #4
12 Maria BOROUNOV / Evgeni BOROUNOV AUS 28.52 15.62   12.90 3.46 3.04 3.21 3.39 3.04 0.00 #3