Comments on: Davis and White: ice dancing, with an accent on the “dancing” https://thenewneo.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 19 Sep 2014 02:26:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Pramiracetam https://thenewneo.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-828337 Fri, 19 Sep 2014 02:26:25 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-828337 Mr. White,
I am the Mother of SGT Adam James Ray. Adam was a fantastic Son and loved serving his Country. He was fierce plus courageous yet gentle plus loving to all he met. Adam was KIA 2-9-10 in Southern Afghanistan at the Helmond region by an IED. Even in his last moments he was considering the other鯿½s welfare. Thank you for a service plus courage. I am encouraged in my grief by your good gift of your talent to honor the Fallen. God Bless We Ron White!
Donna Ray

]]> By: Sue https://thenewneo.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147662 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:44:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147662 I too was bored with the Canadians’ free skate. I thought Davis and White should have won. But the Russians’ original skate was awful — I’m glad they didn’t do better than a bronze.

]]> By: Tom Grey https://thenewneo.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147407 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:28:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147407 Thanks for GREAT note, neo. In Slovakia, we have to get up at 6am to watch (Slovaks beating the Russians in Ice Hockey! yeah!), but I don’t, usually.

Really fantastic skating — it would have been great dancing as just dancing.

SteveWH’s review was spot on for Davis & White, but I didn’t see the gold performance. (Neo, an embed or link for easy quick comparison would be nice).
I noticed in the score that their tech 49 was a bit lower, so maybe there were small ‘quiet skate’ issues I don’t even know enough to look for.

Nobody’s mentioning that while Davis is lovely, her costume was only elegant. White’s hair was flashier than her costume.

]]> By: Tatyana https://thenewneo.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147299 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:19:17 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147299 Neo: in this corner of the Olympics I prefer straight figure skating to dancing. I don’t think I even watched it this time, so can’t form an opinion of Pluschenko’ style.

But the fanaticism in equaling victory or failure of athletes with National Tragedy demonstrated by Russian blogs is quite ridiculous. And what they say now, when hockey team is out of duration, is beyond printable!

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147262 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:04:50 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147262 Steve: dancing is definitely about both sex and athletics—and dancing. And it doesn’t hurt to be handsome (or beautiful)—not at all. But this is not about handsome, it’s about the way the guy moves and what he expresses through that movement. Just look at the first few seconds of the program in that first video and I think you’ll see what I mean.

]]> By: Steve https://thenewneo.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147243 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:01:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147243 Dancing seems more about sex than athletics. I cannot help but wonder if the fascination with White is just that he is a handsome guy.

]]> By: David https://thenewneo.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147213 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:39:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147213 Just a note to say thank you for bring my wife and I a few moments of enchantment. I agree with your appreciative comments. We actually surfed their videos for a couple of hours with great enjoyment. Just a note a lot of the intelligentsia hold their noses when it comes to Andrew Lloyd Webber but then I suppose atonal discords are more post-modernistic. Anyway, thanks again, David

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147193 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:03:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147193 Tatyana: I find the guy not just boorish, but boring—an ungraceful and klunky sort of skater.

]]> By: Tatyana https://thenewneo.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147191 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:44:39 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147191 Oldflyer : “…boorishness of the Russian”

If you only knew HOW boorish!
I read the outraged interviews he gave to various sports media; the guy is going to sue the the judges, I think.

Also, his fans are beside themselves (Russian fans I mean). One of them said (in her LJ) something like “he is a genius, and even pauses and hesitation from a genius are of a higher plane and have to be watched with baited breath. How dared they!!!”

]]> By: Obloodyhell https://thenewneo.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147152 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:35:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/02/23/davis-and-white-ice-dancing-with-an-accent-on-the-dancing/#comment-147152 > Ice dancing is a funny sport.

It’s not really a sport. It’s athletic, and it certainly involves talent, but it’s not a sport.

Sport does not depend on “opinion” (there’s always minor “refereeing” controversies, but that’s not the same thing) of judges as to “who wins”. Put in a different set of judges, and the results may well be entirely different. For sport, the winner and loser is less subject to interpretation.

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