Olympic Champions Virtue & Moir were looking to be back as strong as ever having won the short dance, but the bubble burst as the pair were forced to stop midway through their free dance. According to icenetworks Sarah and Drew, Tessa Virtue appeared to be injured. I wish them a speedy recovery.
That means the gold and silver went to their training mates Davis & White and the Shibutani siblings.
Watch the video of Virtue &Moir's curtailed samba free dance here. This from Universal Sports:
Virtue had strained her quad in training before Four Continents, and the demands of their free dance aggravated the tightness, said Mike Slipchuk, Skate Canada's high performance director. They withdrew about 30 seconds into the program.
"It's nothing major. Nothing linked to the surgery she just had," Slipchuk said. "In no way are they looking at this changing their plans going into worlds."
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SD | FD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE |
| 172.03 | 2 | 1 | |||
| 2 | Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI |
| 155.38 | 4 | 2 | |||
| 3 | Vanessa CRONE / Paul POIRIER |
| 151.83 | 5 | 3 | |||
| 4 | Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE |
| 151.14 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN |
| 142.44 | 6 | 5 | |||
| 6 | Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG |
| 130.29 | 7 | 6 | |||
| 7 | Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG |
| 125.75 | 8 | 7 | |||
| 8 | Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG |
| 106.26 | 9 | 8 | |||
| 9 | Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN |
| 104.69 | 10 | 9 | |||
| 10 | Corenne BRUHNS / Benjamin WESTENBERGER |
| 88.55 | 11 | 10 | |||
| 11 | Maria BOROUNOV / Evgeni BOROUNOV |
| 72.23 | 12 | 11 | |||
| WD | Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR |
| 1 |
Pang & Tong won the pairs free skate with ease, followed by Canadians Duhamel & Radford and Lawrence & Sweigers
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qing PANG / Jian TONG |
| 199.45 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD |
| 181.79 | 3 | 2 | |||
| 3 | Paige LAWRENCE / Rudi SWIEGERS |
| 171.73 | 2 | 4 | |||
| 4 | Caitlin YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN |
| 166.97 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 5 | Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH |
| 166.22 | 5 | 3 | |||
| 6 | Amanda EVORA / Mark LADWIG |
| 157.30 | 6 | 6 | |||
| 7 | Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN |
| 152.63 | 8 | 7 | |||
| 8 | Mary Beth MARLEY / Rockne BRUBAKER |
| 144.46 | 10 | 8 | |||
| 9 | Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG |
| 138.93 | 7 | 10 | |||
| 10 | Huibo DONG / Yiming WU |
| 135.10 | 9 | 9 |
In the men's event Japan's Daisuke Takahashi took a commanding lead with brilliant execution despite not attempting a quad.
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daisuke TAKAHASHI |
| 83.49 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Jeremy ABBOTT |
| 76.73 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Yuzuru HANYU |
| 76.43 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Adam RIPPON |
| 72.71 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Armin MAHBANOOZADEH |
| 66.40 | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Takahiko KOZUKA |
| 66.25 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Shawn SAWYER |
| 65.71 | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Kevin REYNOLDS |
| 65.47 | 8 | ||||
| 9 | Jinlin GUAN |
| 64.68 | 9 | ||||
| 10 | Jialiang WU |
| 63.30 | 10 | ||||
| 11 | Abzal RAKIMGALIEV |
| 60.95 | 11 | ||||
| 12 | Nan SONG |
| 60.47 | 12 | ||||
| 13 | Misha GE |
| 58.60 | 13 | ||||
| 14 | Joey RUSSELL |
| 57.67 | 14 | ||||
| 15 | Min-Seok KIM |
| 53.67 | 15 | ||||
| 16 | Mark WEBSTER |
| 48.26 | 16 | ||||
| 17 | Brendan KERRY |
| 45.45 | 17 | ||||
| 18 | Jordan JU |
| 44.37 | 18 | ||||
| 19 | Wun-Chang SHIH |
| 40.36 | 19 | ||||
| 20 | Stephen Li-Chung KUO |
| 37.82 | 20 |
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