Mariia NEKHAEVA / Dmytriy KRAVCHENKO (ISR) | Junior Ice Dance Free Dance | Riga 2025

And as I mentioned at the top of this broadcast, there are teams coming in with a whole different level of experience and time together in this. The newest of partnerships with just four months of training from Maria and Dmitry as they start their free dance to the Mask of Zorro. Life's a dream, we are dreaming. Face the moon. The end. Seize the day. Stand up for. To stand by. Maria Nagayeva and Dmitry Kravchenko representing Israel. Amazing that they have achieved this in such a short space of time. Now, Mark's going to listen to the technical panel. Now, it was really interesting because there was a straight line that was called by the technical panel. But then it might have kind of been a curve that they said, well, OK, let's review. Right. They just stopped that element and waited for the review to determine what the difference is. And Mark, once he gets that information, will come back. Are you back? The chance for me is to be able to multitask and listen to you. No, you're not supposed to listen to me. Did you mess that up? A little bit. Oh, boy. Anyways, they called a straight line lift. They went into a straight line lift, but then they carried the lift into a curve. So I'm not sure what they came up with in the end here. Actually, the panel were very quick to make the reviews that they did make. So upon me finishing discussion at the end of their performance, the panel seemed to be really speedy in their assessment of what took place. And sometimes it's the case that the panel will be watching as we're watching now. And they've seen things in practice. So the official practices have given the panel the awareness of what's to come. So they'll have seen straight line lift in practice. And then perhaps it's a slight deviation and forces them to question things. Here, see, he started with a left forward outside edge in the spread eagle, but managed to straighten out. And then right here. Oh, he put her down, I guess. Then she went. Oh, it looked like it was lifted. OK, clearly that was a straight line lift. I see what you mean. Perhaps that was going to become a combination. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And it is in a level four straight line. There we go. Problem clarified. And here now, as we look through the steps again, confirmation of what is the panel expecting in regards to the difficulty of the turns here? Choreographic sliding movement. And what will happen to the technical panels? They will simply say confirm those elements. The choreographic elements simply need confirmation for the technical panel. The judges do the majority of the work in giving the technical elements. There's no level of difficulty. There's just a level attached to it. Confirm you get it. And then plus or minus. Let's take a look at the scores. For Maria and Dimitri, 74.30. That is first in the free dance so far. And 114.84 for the competition. That will put them, for the moment at least, into first place.