Europeans - Pairs Short

I'm heading to Tallinn tomorrow morning, but the Pairs SP is on right now and Eurosport is showing the last two groups so here are my thoughts, as it happens:

Yuko Kawaguti / Alexander Smirnov
Last season, she wore tutus for both programs, and this season, she is wearing a little white dress with a frothy little skirt and a tiara. If I was a figure skater, I would definitely wear costumes like that. Anyway, the program was nice, I wish I'd paid more attention because the commentators are saying that it's basically the best thing they've ever seen. Also, he looks kind of a lot like Brian Joubert.

Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morosov
They are dressed in shiny blue catsuits with silver piping-y bits, which is interesting. They were just kind of blah. I wish I liked pairs more.

Stacey Kemp / David King
This is kind of a terrifying group for these two to skate in! They're dressed in purple and sequins. I like. Nice double flips but apparently they were supposed to be axels. Absolute disaster on the spins though. Oh, bless him, he looks gutted.

Aliona Savchenko / Robin Solkowy
Oh, Aliona has little sparkly hearts on her boots! These two are one of the only pairs I actually really like to watch. The music is lovely too, t's twinkly and pretty but somehow not boring, and oh, that was just gorgeous. Into first, of course.

Maria Sergejeva / Ilja Glebov
Oh, these only look about twelve! They have cute black and yellow outfits and they started with a really nice triple twist, a lutz triple twist apparently. Nice throw as well, but then sbs jumps were off in timing. I quite like these two, actually, they're nice and light. And now that we can see them in the KnC, she's a pretty little thing. Good job guys!

Maria Murkhortova / Maxim Trankov
She has a pretty pink dress but he has a hideous brown/peach thing that is just horrible. Nice triple twist. That was really nice, too.

I missed the last two pairs; they obviously didn't make that much of an impression. Full thoughts on the rest of the competiton coming soon!

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