The star last night was the voguing of the French couple Laurence-Fournier-Guillaume Cizeron to the rhythm of Madonna, black gloves up to the elbow, angular movements of arms and hands, because that’s what dancing is, and in their shadow the two Spanish couples pass the cut of the rhythmic dance and qualify for the grand final of the free program (tomorrow, 7:30 p.m.).
One of them is the most established, (who as a couple with Adrián Díaz was already a finalist, eighth, in the Beijing Games) and her new partner, Tim Dieck, a former German soldier from Dortmund, who became a skater in Russia who seduced Smart, an Englishwoman from Sheffield, to leave the circus in which she had joined after Beijing. They finished tenth. All the couples were forced to do a program with pop music from the 90s, they – Spaniards by nature – chose George Michael and Robbie Williams, in agreement with their coach and choreographer, the Canadian Romain Haguenauer, the same one who guides the French and the North Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates, very close seconds with music by Lenny Kravitz.
Surprising, encouraging and very hopeful was the classification, to the Latin rhythm of Ricky Martin, of the debuting Spanish couple, formed by the Madrid-born Sofía Val and the German born in Saint Petersburg Asaf Kazimov. While Smart-Dieck train in Montreal, they represent the germ of what could be the great Spanish tradition: they train in Madrid in the school that the Sara Hurtado-Kirill Jalyavin couple formed after retiring.
