Figure Skating | Winter Olympic Games 2010-2014

NBC commentary by Scott Hamilton, Sandra Bezic, and Tom Hammond.

Standings after Short Program:
1. Kim Yuna (KOR)
2. Mao Asada (JPN)
3. Joannie Rochette (Canada)

There are two segments in all international competitions, the short program and the free skating program. Singles skating has required elements that skaters must perform during a competition and that make up a well-balanced skating program. They include jumps, spins, step sequences, and choreographic sequences. Compulsory figures, from which the sport of figure skating gets its name, was a crucial part of the sport for most of its history until the ISU voted to remove them in 1990.

The short program of figure skating is the first of two segments of competitions, skated before the free skating program. It lasts, for both senior and junior singles and pair skaters, 2 minutes and 40 seconds. Vocal music with lyrics is allowed for all disciplines since the 2014-2015 season. The short program for single skaters and for pair skaters consists of seven required elements.

Medal Ceremony included.
NBC commentary by Scott Hamilton, Sandra Bezic, and Tom Hammond.

The ladies free skate was held on February 25, 2010. Kim Yuna (South Korea) finished first, setting new world best scores for the free skate and combined total.

Standings after Free Skating and Overall:
1. Kim Yuna (KOR)
2. Mao Asada (JPN)
3. Joannie Rochette (Canada)

The free skating segment of figure skating, also called the free skate, free program or the long program, is the second of two segments of competitions, skated after the short program. Its duration, across all disciplines, is 4 minutes for senior skaters and teams, and 3 1/2 minutes for junior skaters and teams. Vocal music with lyrics is allowed for all disciplines since the 2014-2015 season. The free skating program, across all disciplines, must be well-balanced and include certain elements described and published by the International Skating Union (ISU).

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Pairs in order of skating:
1. Jessica DUBE/Bryce DAVISON (CAN)
2. PANG Qing/TONG Jian (CHN)
3. ZHANG Dan/ZHANG Hao (CHN)
4. Aliona SAVCHENKO/Robin SZOLKOWY (GER)

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Pairs in order of skating:
1. Maria Mukhortova/Maxim Trankov (RUS)
2. Tatiana Volosozhar/Stanislav Morozov (UKR)
3. Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov (RUS)

Pair skating is a figure skating discipline consisting of mixed-sex duos. The International Skating Union (ISU) defines pair skating as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating as compared with independent Single Skating". The ISU also states that a pairs team must consist of "one Lady and one Man". Pair skating, along with men's and women's single skating, has been an Olympic discipline since figure skating, the oldest Winter Olympic sport, was introduced at the 1908 Olympic Games in London. The ISU World Figure Skating Championships introduced pair skating in 1908.

Like the other disciplines, pair skating competitions consist of two segments, the short program and the free skating program. There are seven required elements in the short program, which lasts 2 minutes and 40 seconds for both junior and senior pair teams.

Pair skating required elements include lifts, twist lifts, throw jumps, jumps, spin combinations, death spirals, step sequences, and choreographic sequences. The elements performed by pairs teams must be "linked together by connecting steps of a different nature" and by other comparable movements and with a variety of holds and positions. Pair skaters must only execute the prescribed elements; if they do not, the extra or unprescribed elements will not be counted in their score. Only the first attempt of an element is scored. Violations in pair skating include falls, time, music, and clothing.

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Pairs in order of skating (Group 5)
1. Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov (RUS)
2. Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy (GER)
3. Pang Qing / Tong Jian (CHN)
4. Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo (CHN)

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Pairs in order of skating (Group 4)
1. Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao (CHN)
2. Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov (RUS)
3. Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison (CAN)

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Pairs in order of skating: (Group 3)
1. Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig (USA)
2. Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov (RUS)
3. Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov (UKR)
4. Nicole Della Monica / Yannick Kocon (ITA)

Free skating for pairs "consists of a well balanced program composed and skated to music of the pair's own choice for a specified period of time". It also should contain "especially typical Pair Skating moves" such as pair spins, lifts, partner assisted jumps, spirals and other similar moves, "linked harmoniously by steps and other movements". Its duration, like the other disciplines, is 4 minutes for senior teams, and 3 1/2 minutes for junior teams.

NBC commentary by Scott Hamilton, Sandra Bezic, and Tom Hammond.

Single skating is a discipline of figure skating in which male and female skaters compete individually.
Men's singles and women's singles, along with the other figure skating disciplines of pair skating, ice dance, and synchronized skating, are governed by the International Skating Union (ISU).

There are two segments in all international competitions, the short program and the free skating program. Singles skating has required elements that skaters must perform during a competition and that make up a well-balanced skating program. They include jumps, spins, step sequences, and choreographic sequences. Compulsory figures, from which the sport of figure skating gets its name, was a crucial part of the sport for most of its history until the ISU voted to remove them in 1990. The required elements must be performed in specific ways, as described by published communications by the ISU, unless otherwise specified. The ISU publishes violations and their points values yearly. Deductions in singles skating include violations in time, music, and clothing, as well as regulations regarding falls and interruptions.

Figure skating is the oldest winter sport contested at the Olympics, with men's and women's single skating appearing as two of the four figure skating events at the London Games in 1908.

Medal ceremony included.
NBC commentary by Scott Hamilton, Sandra Bezic, and Tom Hammond.

NBC commentary by Tom Hammond and Tracy Wilson.

The compulsory dance was the Tango Romantica. It was created in 1974 by Lyudmila Pakhomova, Aleksandr Gorshkov and Elena Tchaikovskaia.

Skating order:
1. Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte (ITA)
2. Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali (ITA)
3. Meryl Davis / Charlie White (USA)
4. Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN)
5. Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin (RUS)

Compulsory dance results: TOP 3
1. Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin (RUS)
2. Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN)
3. Meryl Davis / Charlie White (USA)

The Compulsory dance (CDs), now called the pattern dance, is a part of the figure skating segment of ice dance competitions in which all the couples or solo dancers perform the same standardized steps and holds to music of a specified tempo and genre. Ice dancers performed the same pattern around the rink once or twice, to the same step sequences and the same standardized tempo. The competitors were then scored based on their execution of the various elements of the dance. The CD allowed the judges to compare the technical skills of each dancer.One or more compulsory dances were usually skated as the first phase of ice dancing competitions.

The 2009-2010 season was the final season in which the segment was competed in International Skating Union (ISU) junior and senior level competition. In June 2010, the ISU replaced the name "compulsory dance" with "pattern dance" for ice dancing, and merged it into the short dance beginning in the 2010-2011 figure skating season.

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Skating Order:
1. Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev (RUS)
2. Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte (ITA)
3. Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali (ITA)

The original dance (OD) was one of the programs performed by figure skaters in ice dance competitions, in which the ice dancers skated "a dance of their own creation to dance music they have selected for the designated rhythm(s)". It was normally the second of three programs in the competition, sandwiched between the compulsory dance (CD) and the free dance (FD). The rhythm(s) and type of music required for the OD changed every season, and were selected by the International Skating Union (ISU) before the start of the season. The ice dancers were free to choose their own music and choreography (within the specified constraints) and to create their own routines. They were judged on a set of required criteria, including skating skills and how well they interpreted the music and the rhythm.

The ISU voted in 2010 to discontinue the OD, along with the CD, and to introduce the short dance (SD) as a replacement. Accordingly, after the 2009–2010 season, the ice dance competition structure was changed and the original dance was removed from all ISU junior and senior level competitions.

NBC commentary by Tom Hammond and Tracy Wilson.

Skating Order:
1. Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates (USA)
2. Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder (FRA)
3. Oksana Domnina/Maxim Shabalin (Russia)
4. Meryl Davis / Charlie White (USA)
5. Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat (FRA)
6. Alexandra Zaretsky / Roman Zaretsky (ISR)
7. Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN)
8. Tanith Belbin / Ben Agosto (USA)

Results after Original Dance: TOP 3
1. Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (Canada)
2. Meryl Davis / Charlie White (USA)
3. Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin (Russia)

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Couples in skating order:
1. Alexandra Zaretsky / Roman Zaretsky (ISR)
2. Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski (RUS)
3. Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates (USA)
4. Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte (ITA)
5. Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder (FRA)
6. Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat (FRA)
7. Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN)

The free dance (FD) is a segment of an ice dance competition, the second contested. It follows the rhythm dance (former Original Dance). Skaters perform "a creative dance program blending dance steps and movements expressing the character/rhythm(s) of the dance music chosen by the couple".
Its duration is 4 minutes for senior ice dancers, and 3.5 minutes for juniors.

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CBC commentators: Brenda Irving, Carol Lane and Kurt Browning.

CBC commentators: Brenda Irving, Carol Lane and Kurt Browning.

CBC commentators: Brenda Irving, Carol Lane and Kurt Browning.

CBC commentators: Brenda Irving, Carol Lane and Kurt Browning.

CBC commentators: Brenda Irving, Carol Lane and Kurt Browning.

CBC commentators: Brenda Irving, Carol Lane and Kurt Browning.

CBC commentators: Brenda Irving, Carol Lane and Kurt Browning.

CBC commentators: Brenda Irving, Carol Lane and Kurt Browning.

Russian TV coverage with Tatiana Tarasova.
With No Commentary: https://www.bitchute.com/video/YAhbNDNuAOaW/

1. Fluff: Ilinykh & Katsalapov
2. Fluff: Bobrova & Soloviev
3. Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat (FRA)
4. Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN)
5. Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov (RUS)
6. Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev (RUS)
7. Meryl Davis / Charlie White (USA)
8. Flower Ceremony

CBC coverage with Brenda Irving, Carol Lane and Kurt Browning.

1. Gold Medalist(s): Meryl Davis / Charlie White (United States)
2. Silver Medalist(s): Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (Canada)
3. Bronze Medalist(s): Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov (Russia)

CBC commentary: Brenda Irving, Carol Lane and Kurt Browning.

Pairs in order of skating:
1. Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara (JPN)
2. Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise (ITA)
3. Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer (AUT)
4. Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao (CHN)