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Digging out accidentally abandoned (which may or may not be due to laziness or forgetfulness…) memes to say, “Happy Birthday to Chris Dean!”

→ Favorite Ice Dance Teams (in no particular order) || Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean

1984 Olympic Gold Medalists, 1994 Olympic Bronze Medalists, Four-time World Champions (1981-1984), Four-time European Champions (1981-82, 1984, 1994), Seven-time British Champions

• Mack and Mabel
• Paso Doble
• Bolero - I don’t always try to go with such obvious choices. But honestly, I still feel shocked every time I watch it.
• History of Love (which was to become the Rhumba D’Amour)
  

→ Favorite Ice Dance Teams (in no particular order) || Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko

1992 Olympic Champions, 1988 Olympic Silver medalists, 1984 Olympic Bronze medalists (the only skaters to have a medal of each color); Three-time World Champions; four-time European champions

• Lawrence of Arabia
  
• Romeo & Juliet
• “Man and Woman”

Admittedly, I only recently REALLY came around to them and started to consider them a personal favorite, even though I understood and appreciated their high praise. Pity about the my life prior to this realization, how I lived in the dark!

→ Favorite Ice Dance Teams (in no particular order) || Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder

In 20 years of skating together: 2008 World Champions, 2007 European Champions, 2008 Grand Prix Final Champions, Three-time Olympians, Six-time French National Champions

• Vivre pour le meilleur
  
• Frida
• Carnival in Venice

I just realized I stuck the Canadian teams together, and now the French. Unintentional, I promise.

→ Favorite Ice Dance Teams (in no particular order) || Nathalie Péchalat and Fabian Bourzat

2011 European Champions, Two-time Olympians, Two-time French Champions, Two-time Grand Prix Final medalists, still very much World medal hopefuls.

• Les Misérables
• Circus
• It Don’t Mean A Thing
• City Lights
  

→ Favorite Ice Dance Teams (in no particular order) || Shae-Lynn Bourne & Victor Kraatz

2003 World Champions, Three-time Olympians, Ten-time Canadian Champions, “Inventors” of hydroblading, North-American pioneers, Notoriously vocal advocates of…fair~ judging.

• High Society
• Riverdance
• Michael Jackson (BUT THE ENDING. I DIE. DDD:)
  

→ Favorite Ice Dance Teams (in no particular order) || Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje

2010 Four Continents Champions, Canadian silver medalists, Best Texan-Canadians, tallest and longest people ever.

• Dorogoi Dlinnoyu
• Blues for Klook (…I know. My life. I have a soft spot for that music.)
  
• Phantasia

That picture of them, forever my favorite. I’ll never get over using it at any possible time, not sry2say.

→ Favorite Ice Dance Teams (in no particular order) || Anjelika Krylova & Oleg Ovsyannikov

1998 Olympic Silver Medalists, 1998 & 1999 World Champions, 1999 European Champions

• Masquerade Waltz
• THE Carmen
• Tosca
• Malaguena

Krylova is seriously the most beautiful person I have ever seen via tv or computer screen. ♥

→ Favorite Ice Dance Teams (in no particular order) || Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto

2006 Olympic Silver Medalists, Five-time U.S. Champions, Four-time World Medalists, Three-time 4CC Champions

• Sarajevo
• Elvis
• Let’s Get Loud
• Chopin
• Shadritsa
  
• I have a lot of feelings and/or sentiment. Apparently. Hush, you.
  

→ Favorite Ice Dance Teams || Maya Usova and Alexander Zhulin

1993 World and European Champions, 1992 Olympic Bronze medalists, 1994 Olympic Silver Medalists

• Blues For Klook
• Butterfly
• Paganini

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For fun, general entertainment and archiving purposes, I’ve been planning on doing a series of several of my favoritest~ of favorite skaters (starting with ice dancers. I’ll get to other disciplines eventually!), past and current (and for some, hopefully future) that includes links to some of the programs I hold so dearly in high regard, for whatever reason. I have, like, 10 planned, but there is a slight chance I may add more in the distant future.