Good dancers cannot be spoiled neither by an early starting number in a competition, nor by some difficulties and small injuries in the beginning of the season. Especially it is so when they have a chance to present their favorite Compulsory Dance after a long break. Opening the top ten dancers performance, Jana and Sergei didn’t give even a tiny reason to doubt the excellence of their skating. Their Tango Romantica was about great technique and artistic demonstration. The severe but elegant costumes underlined the athletes' mastery. The scored summed up into 37.87 and after the first dance Jana and Sergei came in second - the European champions are currently right behind the World champions
Now they can completely focus on their Original and Free Dances which are widely loved for the Russian beauty and amplitude reflected in them. We will see the first part of the Russian dilogy on Thursday; Jana and Sergei are scheduled to skate 21st by this closing the next-to-last warm-up.
1 Oksana DOMNINA / Maxim SHABALIN RUS 42.78 2 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS 37.87 3 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA 37.47 4 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 36.76 5 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 36.36 6 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 35.93 7 Alexandra ZARETSKY / Roman ZARETSKY ISR 34.63 8 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 33.33 9 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO UKR 32.60 10 Alla BEKNAZAROVA / Vladimir ZUEV UKR 32.15
Those who haven’t seen Jana and Sergei’s Tango Romantica can watch the video of the Russia-2 channel coverage below.
In a few hours European Championships 2010 will be opened by the Compulsory Dance of the Ice Dancers. Jana and Sergei are chosen to skate first among the top ten couples. Their tango "Romantica” is at 17:00 Moscow time. Four warm-ups will be shown live on Russia-2 channel at 15:50. The full online version from Tallinn is available on Sportbox.ru at 14:25.
Starting order and online results of the Compulsory Dance:
Warm-Up Group 5 18 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS 19 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 20 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 21 Alla BEKNAZAROVA / Vladimir ZUEV UKR 22 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA Warm-Up Group 6 23 Oksana DOMNINA / Maxim SHABALIN RUS 24 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 25 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA 26 Alexandra ZARETSKY / Roman ZARETSKY ISR 27 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO UKR
