- HD format, Australian/Canadian coverage (commentators: Ted Reynolds, Toller Cranston) - top 4 pairs free skates from the 1990 World Figure Skating Championships: Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov Soviet Union 1.5 1 1 2 Isabelle Brasseur / Lloyd Eisler Canada 4.0 4 2 3 Natalia Mishkutenok / Artur Dmitriev Soviet Union 4.0 2 3 4 Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov Soviet Union 5.5 3 4 as well as an excerpt of Australia's Danielle Carr & Stephen Carr who finished 16th. --- [L.A. Times extract] Canadian Pair Nearly Scores Upset By RANDY HARVEY March 8, 1990 12 AM PT HALIFAX, Canada — It seemed as if all the three Soviet figure skating pairs had to do Wednesday night in the final phase of their competition was show up at the Halifax Metro Centre to collect their World Championship medals. The only question was which pairs would win which medals. But the crowd-pleasing Canadian pair of Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, who finished third in their own national championships last month, came within one judge’s scores of upsetting the defending champions, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, in the freestyle program and surprised even themselves by winning a silver medal. Such is the state of Soviet pairs skating that they were disappointed with a first, a third and a fourth. Gordeeva and Grinkov, four-time world champions and 1988 Winter Games gold medalists, gave the Soviets their 23rd pairs world championship in the last 26 years. There was a question, however, in all but the judge’s minds about whether Gordeeva and Grinkov were the best Soviet pair. Natalia Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriev, the third-place team, did not have programs that were as technically challenging as those of Gordeeva and Grinkov, but the skaters were more innovative and made fewer mistakes. Gordeeva seems less enthralled, and enthralling, than she did two years ago at the Winter Games. Their coach, Stanislav Leonovich, said it only appears so because she has grown eight inches to 5-4. But Gordeeva, 18, admitted last month at the European championships that she is losing her motivation. #figureskating #フィギュアスケート #eiskunstlauf #фигурноекатание #pattinaggioartistico #patinageartistique
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