PAIRS
Tarah Kayne and Danny O’Shea display their chemistry and unison in front of a packed TD Garden.
tallica,” Scimeca said. “It’s one of our favorite pro- grams. Chris’s jumps have been so great in practic- es, so we are just a little bummed right now, but we are still proud of what we put out there.” “Tey stayed in the program and they skated
Scimeca and Knierim answer questions after their free skate.
well and didn’t allow the mistake to take away from the program,” their coach, Dalilah Sappenfield, added.
Te team wrapped up their season at the end
of April with the KOSÉ Team Challenge Cup in Spokane, Washington. “We’ll debrief when we get back home and
go over the entire event, practices and everything,” Sappenfield said after the World Championships. “We’ll regroup and go forward.” Kayne and O’Shea started their short pro-
gram to Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” with a clean skate through their side-by-side triple Salchows, but they hit an unexpected bump in the road on their footwork when O’Shea came crashing down near the boards. Te miscue dropped the team to 14th in the standings after the short program. “It stinks to have a mistake on something
like that,” O’Shea said. “We’ve run that program a hundred times since nationals and it’s something that’s never happened before.”
After the mistake, the team finished strong
with Level 4 being rewarded on a lift and spin. In their free skate to “Music of the Night”
from Te Phantom of the Opera, Kayne and O’Shea performed a powerful and moving routine, but had a fall on their throw triple Lutz. “It’s our first season performing the throw tri-
ple Lutz and it’s actually been pretty solid for us all year,” Kayne said.
Kayne said the timing was off on the takeoff. “After watching the video, I only pushed off with one hand instead of with both hands,” she said. “So it tilted me a little bit in the air. ... I want- ed to get to that landing and have that amazing moment that I had at nationals, so I think I rushed a little bit.” Despite the mistakes, the fourth-year team’s
optimism remains strong. “It definitely pushes us for next season, hav- ing been to this World Championships,” Kayne
Kayne and O’Shea get mentally ready to take the ice.
said. “Maybe going to the next World Champion- ships, hopefully we won’t be in the first warm-up group and not just qualify for the free skate. We want to make a splash and not just a drop in the puddle.”
Teir coach Jim Peterson said his team did a
good job in their Worlds debut. “Tere were basically two mistakes out of
the two programs, but otherwise they skated ag- gressively, their speed improved, they performed well and really didn’t feel the pressure of a World Championships, and I’m proud of them for that.” After taking a few weeks off in April, the team plans to get back to work on next season’s programs. Peterson has already determined a few points of emphasis. “First and foremost, the twist,” he said. “I want to get it to a level of international height. I want to add a second triple jump and, of course, she has a throw quad Salchow, which will be in every competition next year.” For the champions from Canada, repeating as the gold medalists didn’t seem likely after a rough season.
“Back in October at the Grand Prix, I
thought we were out of contention for a medal at Worlds; I thought we would be fighting for fourth or fifth,” Duhamel said. “So what a turnaround we made; it feels so unbelievable.” Duhamel and Radford chalked up 231.99 points, finishing second in the short program and first in the free skate to “Hometown Glory” by Adele.
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