Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze (RUS) - 1998 Nagano Winter Games, Figure Skating, Pairs' Short Program

Nagano, JAPAN - 1998 Nagano Winter Games, Figure Skating, Pairs' Short Program - Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze of Russia placed 3rd after this skate.

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• Berezhnaya
• Sikharulidze
• figure
• skating
• 1998

[intldawn]

@Dylvente Thanks. And of course I meant triple toe. Embarrassing typo, there. :-)

[Dylvente]

@RustDemon79 I was lumping all the European and Asian countries as well as Australia together with the east, leaving only Canada and the U.S. to the west. When countries like France join with the Russians, I tend to count them as east. I thought about it after posting that comment: by my standard, who else could have been west? Not unless there were judges from Mexico and South America, which there naturally wouldn't be. So you make a fair point.

[Dylvente]

@Dylvente Sorry I meant B & S

[Dylvente]

@intldawn It's true that B&B were particularly strong on the other elements and had very good choreography, so your point is well taken.

[RustDemon79]

@Dylvente I count 4 from the west, 4 from the east and one from the far east?

[intldawn]

@Dylvente That and because the quality of everything else they did was unbelievable. I'm still not sure they should have been above Ina & Dungjen, but the speed, flow, choreography, extension, power, control of all their other elements was without parallel. Had he landed that triple tow, given how late in the evening they skated, I can't imagine there wouldn't have been a slew of 6.0's for that program.

[Dylvente]

@xmykeyx 7 judges from the east, 2 from the west.

[xmykeyx]

lol how do they place 3rd with a fall!?