Marjorie LAJOIE / Zachary LAGHA | Ice Dance Free Dance | Saatva Skate America 2025 | #GPFigure

Ladies and gentlemen, a nice welcome please for Marjorie Lajoie. But we'll see, Marjorie Lajoie, Zachary Laga of Canada, second after the Rhythm Dance, but it's ever, ever so close. They need to be brilliant on this day, they need to skate their best, keep the flow, keep the emotion, and deliver. So skate, to the white crow. Well that music and this team cast a spell here in Lake Placid, in this building, but you can see in the upper left hand part of the screen, the technical score was just hundreds ahead of Le Brébec. So from France, will it be enough? It's gonna be ever so close. But I think it will be as we start to see the scores coming in. Nine for composition, almost nine for performance, and high eights for skating skills. Mesmerizing performance by Marjorie and Zach. And I was thinking, as I was watching so closely in this performance, how difficult the discipline is, and not because of this team at all, because of all the teams, they cannot make a mistake. We saw that little jump into the twizzles, nice and close. Here's the steps in between, great extension, turned out toe. Unison on that second set. We see here this pick up in the back edge, holding that into this spread eagle as she goes down, that is incredibly difficult. And it might be missed by most people, but he had to hold her and softly bring her down into that position. Take a look near the ending here. Wow. And what I wanted to say was, for all these teams, I'm just thinking that it's so beautiful, you get lost in the difficulty. It's incredible, just one small little bobble by one partner will set a chain reaction. It's so difficult to mesmerize people while you're doing these incredibly difficult lifts and spins and edges and turns. Wow. I want the world to know how hard this is, but I want them to appreciate how beautiful it is, which we do, but remarkably difficult. Now they have a 116.46 is their season's best. And the first place score in the free dance is 115.20 at the moment. Need to beat that. But they look pretty happy with that performance and so they should be. And it's very delicate in many ways, so any mistake will break that. Delicate movement and the connection to the music. The scores for the free dance, 119.74. That is a season's best, it's first. And even Zach, and he's hard on himself for sure. He said, whoa, that's good. Season's best, 197.16. Marjorie Lajoie, Zachary Laga are in the lead with one team to come.