DAVIS / SMOLKIN (GEO) | Ice Dance Rhythm Dance | Finlandia Trophy 2025 | #GPFigure

Georges, Diana Davis and Gleb Shmokin, as I said they've changed part of the music since Angers, going with an even more energetic and powerful piece this time so the whole program stays high energy as requested by the Ice Dance Technical Committee. Pretty fly for a white guy, the music. So there's the chop to a difficult turn followed by outside closed mohawk, next difficult turn back inside counter, forward inside twizzle and finishing with a rocker turn. I love the musicality at the end of the program for the husband and wife team of Diana Davis and Gleb Shmokin and as I say changing the music to keep the high energy and that the criteria this year the Ice Dance Technical Committee have suggested required characteristics for the Rhythm Dance Team to be high energy and crowd-pleasing, demonstrating the essence of the 1990s and Diana and Gleb doing all they can to fulfill the criteria to satisfy the judges and make the difference and you can see the team just even now post-performance obviously so aware that whilst they've done all they can they need to wait to see how their fate is decided by the judges and tech panel. Marie France and Roman, coaches responsible for the majority of teams at most international Ice Dance events on the Grand Prix saying good job here back inside counter it's so difficult because the teams have to try to showcase more speed and more flow but when you increase speed showcasing pristine clean edges at the apex of the turn really hard to do so they too have a level one for both in the midline step so at least consistency for all giving the same base value as we look through the twizzles now here only one turn allowed a step allowed in between the first and second twizzle and you can see struggling through the second twizzle for Gleb so that will be costly as they showcase their difficult entry into the rotational lift and in the absence of high levels in the pattern dance type step and non-touch step sequence all the couples getting level four in the lift but trying to push the grid of execution and Diana and Gleb doing the pretty impressive stuff on theirs so Diana Davis Gleb Schmalkin have to accept 70.42 as Roman and Marie France question what's happening here with the scores