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Glitter and Gold Ice Dancing - Season 1 - Episode 02
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00:15We are in my childhood bedroom, there's all of our trophies over there.
00:23Gosh, I've had this Olympic dream as long as I can remember.
00:27I feel like as a kid you hold on to that hope of like something big is gonna happen and
00:34I hope that's possible.
00:37These are all my U.S. national medals.
00:40I competed for them until I was 18, so six years internationally.
00:49My old skating partner Zachary Donahue and I split in 2010 after Junior Worlds.
00:55He had a girlfriend and I think she wanted to skate with him.
00:59We were both teenagers and young and fiery and there was a lot of drama in that.
01:05Oh gosh, here we go.
01:07This one cracks me up because this is Evan with his old partner Emily.
01:12We were both available at that time.
01:15Piper and I were looking for partners at the same time.
01:18Finding the right partner is so challenging.
01:22It's a photo of Maddie.
01:23And I, again, like the side part, the everything, like just she was skating with Greg Zerline.
01:32There was a website at one point called IcePartnerSearch.com.
01:37IcePartnerSearch.com, I think it's still up.
01:39It was kind of like a dating profile.
01:41You put your height, your history, where you train.
01:44Definitely was on that at one point and used it.
01:46And then at that same event, Paul was also there.
01:50He and Vanessa were so good.
01:52Vanessa Crone and Paul Aurier.
01:54I was 19 when I was looking for a new partner.
01:58We were babies. Babies.
02:00So back in 2010, 2011, there was like a mass breakup of so many teams.
02:08Evan broke up with his partner Emily.
02:11I had asked for a tryout with Evan.
02:13We didn't try out together because I was waiting to hear back from Maddie.
02:17Paul and Vanessa split.
02:19Paul had actually written to me for a tryout.
02:21Like a year later, I realized I gave him the wrong email.
02:25I don't know if I knew that.
02:26I need to tell sweet Polly.
02:27I'm so sorry about that.
02:29Oh, that's really cute.
02:29We all kind of wanted to try each other out in a sense.
02:35But then at the end of the day, I just kind of went with my gut
02:38and my gut said Evan was the choice for me.
02:41Piper had been skating with Zach Donahue, who ended up skating with Maddie Hubbell.
02:46I moved to Canada to skate with Paul.
02:48Once I started skating with Paul, Emily started skating with my older brother.
02:52Paul's old partner cried out with Laurent's old partner.
02:55Laurent's just now skating with Guillaume.
02:56And so we're all kind of intertwined in this strange sort of way.
03:01It's just wild to see how all of us have been connected.
03:06Everybody will do something for a dream, right?
03:09For all of us.
03:10My dream was to go to the Olympics and stand on top of the podium.
03:15You're so young.
03:28You're right.
03:31You're right.
03:35I'm sorry.
03:38I'm sorry.
03:41I'm sorry.
03:45So during the summer is the fresh new start.
03:52This is when the teams are thinking about new concepts,
03:56music, character.
03:57I think we need like orange, a light blue.
04:01They're all different teams.
04:02It's the maximum of pressure.
04:04It's all about what you create.
04:07All the choices, the strategy.
04:11There's two programs that each couple has to perform.
04:15The first one skated is the rhythm dance.
04:22There's always a set theme or rhythm.
04:25So this year, the International Skating Union
04:28has assigned a 90s theme for that program.
04:33Wondering if we were missing some dimensions with the shoulders.
04:36Through, through, hey!
04:39And the free dance is whatever the skater's choice.
04:43So it can be anything from classical to modern,
04:46and it's supposed to display just what you do best.
04:50The free dance has got to feel like an iconic Olympic program
04:57that is your legacy.
05:00And especially in an Olympic year,
05:03this is a very important time
05:05because you are picking the programs
05:07that could seal your fate in Milan at the Olympics.
05:11Because there is no, he jumped higher.
05:15There is always going to be a little bit of,
05:18I just liked it better.
05:21It's anybody's game.
05:23It just depends on what teams have the right material.
05:27It's all about their material.
05:42Piper and Paul are literal, they're camp.
05:46Get it!
05:48They're just very, like, big and, like, very,
05:51so much character, so much personality.
05:54One more to go.
05:55You're almost, like, thinking too much.
05:58I want more after this,
06:02when that goes bang, bang, bang, bang.
06:09The theme for the rhythm dance this year is 1990s.
06:13We wanted to lean into something that was very them.
06:16Obviously, like, we had to do a RuPaul song.
06:19I think TU Supermodel was an obvious choice
06:23just because it's such a banger,
06:25but also it being a style of dance
06:28that emerged from the queer community.
06:31When I first came out of Luke Lee,
06:33it was exactly four years ago.
06:35It feels like a long time ago, but not a long time ago.
06:38It's not really, like, a skating part.
06:41No.
06:41It's more like...
06:42Yeah.
06:43But needs more groove.
06:45I think it's been a really positive change in my life.
06:49And I feel like I can bring more of myself
06:51to the process of skating and of creating.
06:55That's been really nice.
06:56As you're coming up from sexy,
06:58there's two beats, bam, bam, started there.
07:05That was it.
07:08Ay.
07:11That was good, except for no face.
07:14Yeah.
07:15What face are you gonna do?
07:16Let's decide.
07:17Ooh.
07:18Ooh, ooh.
07:19Yeah.
07:19On that one, right?
07:20Yeah.
07:20Okay.
07:21Mm-hmm.
07:21New steel.
07:22Mm-hmm.
07:25At the beginning of every season,
07:27Paul and I and our coaches,
07:29we always call ourselves the cliff jumpers
07:30because we've created something so unique and new,
07:33and we don't know if the people are gonna understand
07:35the characters.
07:36Hand.
07:37Magician.
07:38Magician.
07:38Hat.
07:40Swipe it.
07:41That's a lot of things.
07:43That's gonna take two months for him to think about.
07:46This is what you asked?
07:46This is what you asked?
07:46Did you not just ask for that?
07:47I did.
07:49Polk not multitask.
07:51Look, he just did.
07:52And he did it with a smile.
07:54Who are you?
07:55I was smiling because he was saying I can't multitask,
07:57which is entirely true.
07:59I'm like 99.9% sure no one is gonna do Supermodel by RuPaul
08:04because people aren't brave enough to do it.
08:07And the best thing about Piper and Paul is that they are.
08:13Thanks, Allison.
08:14Mm.
08:15So you mean my living room?
08:16I'm just like...
08:17Correct.
08:23I just think the contrast,
08:24when you look at it overall and it's on his arm,
08:27I feel like it might be too much or...
08:31I don't know.
08:31Can we look at it with the other browns?
08:33Mm-hmm.
08:34And we can go on the other side also.
08:36It's...
08:37The light is better.
08:38And are these the swatches for his...
08:41This is for his pants?
08:42Yeah.
08:43It's for the pants.
08:44And this is probably some part of the chest and the back.
08:49I'm gonna use this.
08:51I love, love designing costumes and the research
08:55and then like seeing how the costumes look when they're all finished.
08:58What do you think?
09:00There's just a lot of brown.
09:02I'm just worried about being like so brown.
09:05Well, I mean, your pants can be airbrushed with black.
09:08Like there's gonna be darker...
09:09I feel like you just need darker texture and depth.
09:12So I'm not just like a big brown.
09:13I mean, you're not supposed to be fully brown.
09:16We're not trying to make you look like a turd.
09:20I don't look like a turd out there.
09:22It's my nightmare.
09:24Watching her create something from scratch
09:26and then see the full process of like,
09:29it becomes a wearable piece of art.
09:32And then we're the ones who get to wear it
09:33and go out and perform in it.
09:35It's pretty unique.
09:36From literally just an idea in Maddie's head
09:38to center ice.
09:40It's just, it's pretty cool.
09:43Let's try a dress.
09:44Let's try a dress.
09:44You dress your...
09:45Not at all.
09:46My pants and cape.
09:48Mm-hmm.
09:51It's the whole family right here on the couch
09:52supporting you guys.
09:54Good job, guys.
09:56So it's the first fitting,
09:57so it's not really glamour.
10:01This is the skeleton of the costume.
10:03I am the matador in our program this year
10:06and Evan is the bull.
10:08I wanted to play with the traditional aspects
10:10and detailing.
10:12How much would you take off the bottom?
10:14Like the same as my practice skirt.
10:16We wanted a longer skirt because I am the matador
10:20and I wanted to play with it like a cape
10:21so it had to be long so I can, like, drape it over my arm.
10:24We wanted to keep it as long as possible
10:26within reason, of course, because safety.
10:30Oops, there's a pin there.
10:33Hello.
10:34There is a possibility that my skirt
10:36comes completely over his head
10:37and obstructs his vision,
10:39which as a matador, great, that's what you want.
10:41But as an ice dancer, not ideal.
10:44That's so cool.
10:46It moves really well.
10:48Mm-hmm.
10:48But it's got, like, a real cool whip,
10:50like a ripple.
10:52It looks like that momentous.
10:55All right, well, let's just do the practice skirt
10:56in the same exact style as you have this now with the two.
10:59Right.
11:00See how that goes.
11:06Five, six, seven, eight, one, and two, and three.
11:11For Laurence and Guillaume's Rhythm Dance,
11:13they're skating to Depeche Mode.
11:15It's the third one.
11:16It has a unique European sound,
11:19a little bit underground.
11:20It has good bones for voguing.
11:23Cha-cha.
11:25Zo.
11:25Brill is a specialist in arm control movement,
11:29which is one category of the big family of voguing.
11:34Better?
11:35Better.
11:36From there, can we open...
11:36Can you open this?
11:38Open the bottom one, maybe?
11:41Si?
11:41No.
11:45I think it's really special because voguing
11:47and arm control, what we're learning,
11:49is like going back to basics.
11:54Probably one of the hardest things that I've done.
11:56Like, honestly...
11:59It's literally like learning a language in a few weeks.
12:04Okay, let's get on the ice.
12:09There are fans of both Laurence and Guillaume
12:11that have already decided
12:13that's your next Olympic champion.
12:15I think that's very bold to assume.
12:19After the illusion when we do all this,
12:21should I try to aim to go here
12:24so I finish on this side?
12:26I like you there.
12:28Yeah.
12:28I kind of naturally like it more you here and here.
12:33So, I represented Canada for many years
12:36and now I'm representing France.
12:39She doesn't have her citizenship yet.
12:41I can represent France in all the competition
12:44up to world championships.
12:46In order to do Olympics, I need the French citizenship.
12:52Oh, you're going so hard.
12:54I'm crossing my fingers that everything will go
12:57accordingly to plan
12:58and that we'll have the citizenship in time
13:00for me to go to the Olympics with Guillaume.
13:03We're doing the best that we can every day
13:05to get closer to our goal
13:06and the rest you kind of leave to date.
13:10When we did the footwork yesterday,
13:12we were tracking it.
13:13Most of the time when you find a partner,
13:16they're not from the same country.
13:17So, it makes getting the citizenship even more challenging
13:21because some countries, it takes years
13:24and it's impossible to get it.
13:26So, we don't know if they will be able to compete
13:29for the Olympics.
13:30Like, we're hoping.
13:31They're hoping, but we don't know.
13:34I love it.
13:35In Ice Dance, we're dealing with a sport
13:39that has so many women and not so many men.
13:44And, of course, finding two people of the same age
13:48from the same country, oh my God, it's hard.
13:52Representing Finland, Yuka Hora Hora and Yuhal Pirates.
13:57As skaters, we live a very global lifestyle.
14:01There is some country hopping.
14:05Sometimes the best option for you is from Lithuania.
14:09Representing Lithuania,
14:12Thomasin Reed and Dissolius up to innovation.
14:15If you look at the Lithuanian team,
14:17the famous last name Reed
14:19does not really ring a bell
14:22when you kind of go through the yellow pages.
14:25I don't think you're going to find any reeds in Lithuania.
14:29We see that even with the Spanish team.
14:31That's the craziest one to me.
14:33Olivia's British.
14:35She got her Spanish citizenship.
14:36But she's not Spanish at all.
14:38She gets a new partner that's German.
14:40But it's easier for them to get Spanish citizenship
14:43than for her to get German citizenship.
14:45And now they're Spanish.
14:49If you look at the top ten teams in the world,
14:51more than half have a skater
14:52who's represented more than one country.
14:55It's a dog-eat-dog world.
14:58Sometimes you just got to get your Azerbaijani citizenship.
15:02From Azerbaijan, Samantha Rinder and Daniel Brickpall.
15:09For the last one?
15:11She just said it, yeah.
15:13Technically, it does count as a lift once the music starts.
15:16Can you...
15:17Show them again the steps in between the...
15:19Two and three?
15:19Yeah.
15:21So, up here.
15:30One, two.
15:31Now, take this under the arm.
15:32And now, move forward.
15:34Yeah.
15:37That's cool.
15:38Beginning and intention of separation.
15:39Yeah.
15:41So, we're here at Champs Camp,
15:42and it's the annual pre-season camp
15:44that U.S. Figure Skating holds.
15:46So, all the skaters who are going to be sent out
15:48for international competitions come here
15:50and debut their programs for the American judges.
15:54But this is a really great starting point
15:56to just kind of share our music, share the concept,
15:59what our vision for the program is,
16:01and see how people respond.
16:03Yeah.
16:04Remember, Judges 1 through 9
16:05are completely scattered along the boards here,
16:09and everybody's going to have a different perception
16:11of that face-to-face moment
16:12and what it looks like.
16:14I know it will feel insane what I'm about to say,
16:19but sometimes the judges and different officials
16:22will come to the rinks,
16:24and they will watch the skaters train.
16:29They are there while the skaters
16:31are picking out their programs and their music,
16:34and they're letting the teams know,
16:36we think this is good, we think this isn't,
16:38we think scratch this, start over here.
16:41That's always kind of like the first scary moment
16:44of the season,
16:45putting it out in front of other people,
16:47and like opening the program up
16:49to the opinions of people.
16:51It's beautiful,
16:52but it's not counting as an exit for me.
16:54It's so important to be on the good side of the judges,
16:58and to have them be involved in your process.
17:01Because we're a creative sport,
17:03everybody has something to say, good or bad.
17:06You have to choose what's going to help you.
17:11You have to understand what's going to break you too.
17:14It's kind of the game of,
17:15does anybody have something negative to say about this?
17:19If it's a constructive criticism coming from the right people,
17:23then we're going to use it to get better.
17:38So you have to be ready for judgment.
17:40You have to embrace it,
17:42and you have to use it as a tool to be the best that you can be.
17:47It's an uphill, never-winning battle to try to appease everyone.
17:55We've had moments where we've decided mid-season
17:57to change the music or to change the program.
17:59Like in the last Olympic season,
18:00we really felt that we had to do everything
18:04that everyone was telling us to do
18:05in order to get the result that we wanted.
18:11And it didn't go the way that we wanted to.
18:16Fighting through this lift,
18:18she was going to go up to the top,
18:19and she couldn't get it.
18:25You couldn't hide the disappointment in a program like that.
18:29You just couldn't.
18:31I think the last games was a good learning experience for us.
18:37So this year, we're really sticking to our vision.
18:40Especially if you've been in it for a while,
18:42you're a veteran,
18:43you want to stick to your guns and say,
18:46I know that's your opinion,
18:48but it doesn't feel right for us.
18:50But that's also then taking a chance
18:52because you're telling the judge,
18:55like, okay, thanks, but no thanks.
18:58We skated a few weeks ago
19:00just to get some initial feedback,
19:01and they weren't sure about it.
19:05They couldn't really see the vision,
19:07and maybe the pieces of music
19:08weren't their favorite cuts.
19:10We want to listen to your feedback
19:12and kind of make the changes,
19:14so we switched some songs,
19:15we added a song,
19:16we're playing with remixes,
19:18but we felt like what we have
19:19is the most mature option for us,
19:21and we feel like this is the best vehicle for us still.
19:25But, I mean, we're working on it daily,
19:28so it's kind of still evolving.
19:32Yeah.
19:48I was just happy saying that
19:49I'm happy about it.
19:51I'm happy!
19:52I'm happy for you,
19:53I'm happy.
19:54I'm happy.
19:54Is there a coffee?
19:55I'm happy?
19:56You don't have an idea of coffee.
19:58I'm happy.
19:59I'm happy.
20:00I'm happy.
20:01It's been great.
20:05so we we have a little bit of a change of plan pivoting pivoting with the music of our rhythm
20:29dance our coach homa had some feedback from judges that our last music from depeche mode
20:38personal jesus the single was released in 1989 so a few months before 1990
20:50basically we would take the risk of having an illegal music which would make us lose a lot of
20:58points our original idea was to skate to vogue from madonna we wanted to do arm control movement
21:08which is like a very technical version of the voguing so we're coming back to the original idea
21:20i think it's a big deal but i think it's still it's still early in the season so it's very
21:28good
21:28that it's happening now in september we've spent like five months on you know cutting music trying
21:37to make everything perfect so it's it's always a bit frustrating when you've done so much work
21:42and you have to kind of start again but we're we we think that it's it's very good to pivot
21:50now
21:51towards this avenue and we're having now costume changes and we have to figure out which part of
21:58music could highlight what we had and at the same time change and modify what we were not super satisfied
22:04with um so it gives us a breath of fresh air and a little challenge
22:13we have four weeks from now until the grand prix of france and i would say we're like halfway through
22:21transposing the program into this new um with this new music
22:25you know it's still it's enough time i think we'll be ready
22:42welcome to the beginning of the grand prix season oh my god the grand prix is here oh my gosh
22:50it doesn't feel real the big events the ones that are going to move us towards the big ticket events
22:56of the olympics the world championships right each year the best skaters in the world phase off against
23:03one another on the grand prix series you have six events and the skaters will have two each and then
23:10the
23:10best place skaters of this series will then go on to the grand prix final which is the top six
23:17teams
23:17in the world it's the creme de la creme of the grand prix series this is where you set the
23:24tone this is
23:24where you let everyone know i'm the one to beat
23:33okay grand prix of france oh oh so exciting i'm so jealous of like literally everyone on my twitter
23:40feed that's there today we also are going to get our first international look at laurence fournier
23:45boudre and guillaume caesarone can't imagine they're not going to be hotly in the mix for that
23:50podium here for guillaume and laurence doing their first grand prix in france for sure has more
23:58pressure because they represent the country it's like a full house
24:02thank you very much
24:08heading into grand prix france this is a critical moment for guillaume and laurence this is their
24:13first international event together but this is also where they're letting the entire ice dance world know
24:21where they will rank this season if they're able to go out and dominate the field and end up on
24:28the top of
24:28the podium at their first event i think it would send a message we haven't seen anything yet and
24:35we have no idea what's going to happen and they have apparently recalibrated and gotten a new rhythm
24:40dance it'll be very interesting to see how the international judges rank them because it's a really
24:45strong field overall what they're doing has never been done before like an olympic champion coming back
24:51with a new partner it's not been done there's always nerves like we're competing that we you know
24:57it fuels it fuels us and and you need the nerves to make a good performance i don't think anyone
25:03expected me to come back with laurence it might shake things up a little bit for everyone i was the
25:10last olympic champion but lawrence and i were kind of the underdog it's the first time we're hugging each
25:17other in the backstage and it's the first time where we exit up the curtains and they say
25:23laurence fournier baudry and guillaume suzeron and it's really special to feel that i was gonna
25:32skate on the ice with my best friend guillem of course the five-time world and european champion
25:39reigning olympic champion and there's a lot of hype a lot of expectation to see
25:46how he fares with his new partner for guillaume and laurence it's very important here to show
25:54everybody that they are contenders for the olympic medal in the rhythm dance it would be great if
26:00they could be between 85 and 90 points
26:11and there is the new partnership of laurence fournier baudry and guillaume suzeron
26:17and the crowd knows only too well that despite the newness of their partnership
26:21they have the potential to take goals in their grand prix debut in france
26:41in ice dance every step counts because the technical panel
26:46is going to really analyze every difficult turn look at that
26:55have an amazing presence when they go out there
27:03strike the pose every moment counts a lot for the final score
27:09it's a very important to be perfectly in sync perfectly on the music on the beat
27:15thank you
27:19let's go
27:20let's go
27:21jump drops to both knees that has to count as a fall
27:27Well, that would be a cost of mistake.
27:47Well, they are such incredible skaters.
27:50However, the mistake on the final element has to have a cost of impact on their score.
28:13My expectations are extremely high.
28:16I need to know that I'm the best version of myself.
28:21But there's always a question of, what if we don't win?
28:26Is this the mistake of pressure?
28:32He's passing by his pointe, so he falls on his two knees.
28:37And that, for us, is considered a fall.
28:40But, no, it's a little stupid mistake.
28:44But, well, it's a good experience for the next competition.
28:53I don't know what the score is, but I know that 68, it's not very good.
28:58It's not very good.
29:00I don't know what the score is, but I think...
29:05I don't know what the score is.
29:10Mmm!
29:12What do athletes eat?
29:14Whatever they can find.
29:15there the performance was good it was really good until until that that point until the end
29:24you know when you think about all the you know um you know all the facts that we forget about
29:31like you know how long we've been skating together how long we've been skating this
29:35specific program how it's like you know an extra maybe uh extra nerves or skating in
29:43france having the whole family here you know you you lose uh you lose eight nine points in
29:51like one second you know it's not ideal but it's also a really good lesson for
29:56the rest of the season because competition is not over and there's tomorrow and we have a pretty
30:04strong free dance so yeah
30:26i feel pretty good i get nervous when you put your skates on it's a hard time to stay in
30:35the present
30:35moment because your brain keeps going towards the future to do the performance of our lives
30:50i've heard people say like when you stop being stressed it means you stop caring
30:55and i'm still stressed so to us it never goes away
31:00km and lawrence are currently in third position to be secure to go to the grand prix final you need
31:05to
31:06win here i think with a clean skate they should be able to win the free dance but to catch
31:13up
31:146.38 points over the british team that's a huge amount of points
31:30the crowd making quite clear who their favorites are here in france but laurence and guillaume have to
31:37skate not just cleanly but brilliantly if they are to have any chance of moving up to take the title
31:43the world
31:45the world
31:50the world
32:02I don't know.
32:42I don't know.
32:53I don't know.
33:16I don't know.
33:31I don't know.
33:31Just sublime.
33:33Arguably, some of the best quality of skating skills that we have ever seen.
33:45And the crowd here standing on their feet applauding what was an absolute masterclass of skating skill.
33:57They will need a huge score to close the gap and move up to first place.
34:03Please score, s'il vous plaît.
34:06The scores, please.
34:10Laurence et Guillaume obtenu un total de 130 points.
34:26That score will take them to the top of the leaderboard.
34:31Laurence and Guillaume go home with the goal.
34:35You're very happy about that.
34:37I don't want to say that.
34:37I'm not going to throw my mom to go home.
34:39It's going to get me out of the game.
34:41You're going to cry.
34:43Coming back into that free and skating so flawlessly,
34:47such a beautiful performance,
34:49and still dominating the score in a way
34:51that's quite a bit on top of anybody who's competing,
34:55we'll see if they can keep the momentum going
34:57into their next Grand Prix.
35:12It's a really good start.
35:14I feel like we're going to be able to really build a lot
35:17on this first experience together
35:19and get ready for the long road that's ahead.
35:23Well, long and not long, it's only a few months.
35:26But every experience, we try to learn from it and get better.
35:48Soar?
35:48Yeah.
35:51Taking a little while to go away.
35:54We are leaving for Lake Placid in a few days.
35:58We're competing this upcoming weekend at Skate America,
36:01which is our second Grand Prix.
36:04You have, like, not that much time between Grand Prixs,
36:08so, like, you've got to just kind of, like, get back in,
36:10and we wanted to make some adjustments to both programs.
36:14We changed some lifts.
36:17That adds, like, another layer of challenge
36:18because then you take out, like, the comfort
36:20that you were just starting to feel,
36:22and that's where we're at right now.
36:24Like, we had time, but we're just figuring it out.
36:27Sorry, I need a minute.
36:32You okay?
36:33Yeah.
36:36In our sports, like, you never really want to show
36:39that you're struggling.
36:41Perception becomes reality in some sense,
36:43so you always want to put on
36:45that you're, you know, thriving,
36:47and this is just easy for you,
36:50but obviously it's not easy.
36:51It takes a lot.
36:55Stop.
36:56You all right?
36:58My back's not feeling good,
36:59because when you put new stuff in,
37:02you repeat it, like, over and over and over again
37:04to get the muscle memory.
37:05When you repeat lifts over and over and over again,
37:07your back doesn't feel good.
37:15But we're training over 30 hours a week, I'd say,
37:18and the mileage can add up over years.
37:20I don't know.
37:21It's just, like, the mid-season slog, I suppose.
37:24It's just kind of hard.
37:27So our first Grand Prix was Cup of China,
37:29and then afterwards we always get a load of feedback.
37:33People had more chatter about the skirt than the dancing.
37:36That skirt is the scariest to me.
37:40It limits the visibility of what she's performing.
37:44There was a couple of people, judges, commentaries
37:48about the skirt being a little bit heavy, a little bit long.
37:51So we changed the customers.
37:53We made them with the intent of doing, like,
37:55a little more of, like, a sleek, modern look.
37:58Is the skirt the same length?
38:00It's a little bit shorter.
38:02And it's not double-layered?
38:03It's just one layer.
38:07I feel like it looks dinky and, like, small now.
38:13I'm gonna take a video. It looks really good.
38:15No, it's fine. Let's just get going.
38:27When you go to the Olympics,
38:28you do not want to have any variable
38:30that, like, you are not in control of.
38:32You're not in control of a long skirt.
38:37It can move the same direction 1,000 times.
38:40And then on the 1,001th time,
38:44it'll go the other direction.
38:45And if I were competing for the Ice Dance gold medal,
38:49I wouldn't want to leave anything to chance.
38:51It's not that skirt my face.
38:53You still did?
38:55Yeah, it's okay.
38:56Yeah.
38:57You gotta trust it and look a little bit inside,
39:00because the skirt is this way.
39:19I do love the skirt, but the choreo slide would for sure
39:23be the riskiest moment of the program for him to get a little bit
39:26of that skirt underneath the edge of his blade.
39:28He will fall, she'll fall.
39:30Like, we're talking probably an eight-point mistake
39:34for something as silly as your skirt being long.
39:38I know you weren't bothered by the skirt.
39:41It changes, like...
39:43See, like, I put a hole in your skirt.
39:45Yeah, yeah.
39:46You stepped on it, there's a hole.
39:49What are we gonna do?
39:51As long as I've been skating,
39:53Madison Chalk has been the gold standard
39:56of how do you want to look when you go to a competition.
39:59And so I think that this costume is something
40:02that's probably really important to her,
40:05that she takes this in her...
40:07Let's imagine their final Olympic season,
40:10takes the biggest swing of her life.
40:21We don't always get ready in matching outfits,
40:23but just on special occasions like today.
40:27Actually, exactly, I've been...
40:31We have to do our makeup together in our...
40:33It's the best!
40:34...in our matching outfits.
40:37We are in Lake Placid, New York
40:39for the Skate America Grand Prix.
40:45I never have enough curl cream.
40:48Well, we did make a lot of changes to the program,
40:50and I feel like the goal would be to have a good showing,
40:55show the progress we've made,
40:57and show the potential of the program.
41:02I'm not feeling great, honestly.
41:06I saw the doctor last night,
41:08and they thought maybe because I've been taking so much ibuprofen
41:10is why I feel, like, so nauseous and sick.
41:12So I'm gonna switch to a leave.
41:16And I think I was more stressed because I knew I wasn't feeling good.
41:19And then Maddie was just doing the deep breathing
41:21and just anchoring the team, pulling me through.
41:26And I was so grateful for her yesterday
41:29because that's the only reason why I can still do it, honestly.
41:34I got your phone.
41:35I do think that Maddie and Evan, they only let in certain people.
41:39Usually it's for a week or so before the event.
41:43They start being a little bit tighter.
41:46They don't skate as free.
41:48They're not as much in the enjoyment.
41:50All righty. Let's do it.
41:52They're starting to overanalyze every little bobble.
41:55I don't feel good. I don't like this.
41:57And it sometimes manifests in, like, a stiff neck, a stiff back.
42:12Maddie and Evan are at a home Grand Prix.
42:15They have the home field advantage.
42:18What do you want to do if you have the home field advantage
42:21and you just saw another team, Guillaume and Laurence,
42:24who's in that mix for gold now.
42:26When they had the home team advantage, they got this crazy score.
42:29Oh, my God.
42:32So the goal isn't to win.
42:34They're going to do that.
42:36They are head and shoulders above the rest of the teams in this field.
42:41Their focus is to basically draw a line and go,
42:47how we have set the precedent.
42:50Great job at your Grand Prix in France, Guillaume.
42:53But we're the three-time and reigning world champions.
42:59Look at the score that we can get.
43:16I was feeling pretty good, actually, this morning.
43:18And then on practice, we did one combo lift where she jumps over my shoulder and I catch her.
43:23And I just felt like in that moment, I felt this really sharp pain in my back.
43:29Competitors, there is one minute remaining in this practice session.
43:33I knew that I kind of tweaked something a little bit.
43:35And it was going to kind of, the pain is going to get a little bit worse.
43:40I mean, that's the hardest thing is there's nothing I can do.
43:43I can't, like, fix it for him.
43:44I can't, like, do anything more to help but just be supportive and make sure that he knows that I've
43:51got his back, literally and figuratively.
43:59Is he okay?
44:01For the combo lift that we warmed up, the catch was kind of hard.
44:06Like, maybe it was too far.
44:07I'm not sure.
44:08It felt, like, pretty normal, but it, that aggravated his back and then we modified our pieces.
44:15Because he was like, I think I can do it right now.
44:22I don't know how he's feeling right now.
44:24But it was pretty bad.
44:26His back is out.
44:28He's been having an issue with his back for, I don't know, at least a week, if not more.
44:33And in practice, doing a lift, it just, like, made it much more worse.
44:39I don't know.
44:40It's just moving my arms and stuff.
44:42Like, it hurts to breathe, you know?
44:43It's like my ribs.
44:45It's not a static sport.
44:47Like, the whole thing is on curves and the physics of it all is, like, momentum-based.
44:51And it's all twisting and turning and stuff like that.
44:53So it's just, like, it's not conducive to having back and rib pain.
44:59Withdrawing would be a last resort.
45:01That would mean no Grand Prix Final.
45:03We'd be out.
45:04If they don't do the final, then they wouldn't get another international event before the Olympics.
45:09It's a big part of the preparation towards the Olympics.
45:13Getting your programs to be seen.
45:15Getting to fine-tuning your programs.
45:17It's hard to fine-tune programs without doing competition.
45:22If it's unsafe for Maddie, if he feels he cannot lift her and keep her safe,
45:26I think he would make a decision to keep his wife safe.
45:32I'm worried that some of the moves that we're doing on the ice are really putting Maddie at risk.
45:38If I'm not feeling my best, I'm questioning whether I'm going to be able to do it.
45:43To be continued...
46:01To be continued...
46:04To be continued...
46:13Straighten the flow
46:20Let your body move to the music
46:24Hey, hey, hey
46:26Come on, let's flow
46:29Let your body go with the flow
46:32You know you can do it
46:35You got to dance
46:41Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
46:45oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
46:45oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
46:46oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
46:48oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
46:52oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
47:06Is it all of a bad jubilee?
47:11Is it real? I thought you're much in common.
47:15Can't believe it.
47:18Can't believe I still believe it.
47:23I think I like it's too much.
47:27You got me missing on your touch.
47:32Am I drinking too greedy?
47:34I wish I could keep it cool, yeah.
47:39I think I like it too much.
47:43You got me missing on your touch.
47:47Am I drinking too greedy?
47:51I wish I could keep it cool, yeah.
47:55I think I like it too much.
47:59You got me missing on your touch.
48:03Am I drinking too greedy?
48:07I wish I could keep it cool, yeah.
48:14I think I'm hard hanging with you.
48:33You got me missing where you're begging me.
48:45You saw that in Europe, how was the last decade of life in England.
48:45Except for me.
48:45He would love to have you very much.
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