Yuka Orihara and Juho Pirinen were the number one pair of Finland in the rhythm dance of the World Championship Ice Dance. Juulia Turkkila and Matthias Versluis survived Saturday’s free dance, hopping.
The number one pair of Finnish ice dance Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis He experienced the harsh failure of the World Championships in the Ice Dance Rhythm Dance Competition in Boston.
Versluis crashed in the step series, which vaccinated a couple of points.
– Oh oh, this crash hurts at a bad time. It occurs in the middle of the step series, or element. In addition, there will be a (one point) fall reduction. That is a tough place, but they still kept the presentation together, the narrator Sara Honkavaara annoyed.
After the race, Versluis said that his skate hit another leg, which was why he lost his balance in the situation. He was quickly caught in Turkkila, and the rotating lift of the end of the program was a great success.
– The first thought was how we get to one of the next element and get the rest of the elements. There was nothing in mind than listening to music and going to the next one, Turkkila told Sports.
The Helsinki couple received only 68.09 points from their program. The couple fell far from their record, as they got more than 81 points in the European Championship in January. Turkkila and Versluis were 12th, while nine pairs were unknown.
It seemed very likely that Turkkila and Versluis would be left without a place on Saturday’s freelance program and among the top 20, as they skated in advance of the toughest couples.
– It’s a big disappointment of course. We are in really good shape and the blocks have gone well. It is a pity that an unexpected and big mistake was now in the race that vaccinated too much points, Versluis said, annoyed.
However, after the performance of Turkkila and Versluis, the race soon saw great drama. Lithuania often struggle with the same positions with Finns Allison reed and Saulius Ambulvicius Failed in their own rhythm dance as Reed crashed.
Incredible Reed and Ambulevicius scored 68.08, so Turkkila and Versluis rose to the last vacant dancing spot with one hundred points.
Orihara and Pirinen at 11th place
Yuka orihara and Juho Pirinen In turn, they opened the Finnish Ice Dancers World Cup with a successful rhythm dance. The couple competing in their other World Championships scored 73.98 from their fast-paced program.
– It was a strong entity. At this point, we can’t be happy with the performance, Pirinen said with a smile.
The couple’s record of 75.70 is from the end of January European Championship.
Orihara and Pirinen stood out not only by their pure performance but also with their inventive choreography in, for example, disco music.
– Orihara and Pirinen received by far the best quality points from the choreographer rhythm, the narrator Mika Saarelainen said after a couple of performances.
The Finnish-Japanese couple is ranked 11 after the rhythm dance. A year ago, they were 16 in the World Championship ice.
At the top of the race are the two previous world championships winning the US Madison Chock and Evan Bates With a great score of 90.18. Canadian Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are other with 86.44 points. Last year’s World Cup Neloset, Big Britain Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibsonwedged in the rhythm dance to the third place (83.86).
The free dance competition will begin on Saturday at 5:15 pm Finnish time. Turkkila and Versluis skate first.
On Saturday night, Boston will solve the women’s World Championship medals. In a short program 20th Linnea Ceder Skates in the race fifth at 00.38 Finnish time.
Finland’s ice dancers were interviewed by Heiko Oldoerp in Boston.