On Tuesday, we went to the International Skating Union’s World Figure Skating Championships 2008 held in Göteborg, just down the street a few blocks. We bought our tickets about 6 hours before the competition started and ended up about 3 rows from the very top. Neither of us had ever been to a skating competition.

Tonight it was the Compulsory Dance and the Pairs Short Program. It took us a while to figure out what was good and bad. Some of the routines did not look as good as others, but scored very well. After a few routines we learned the technical score has a lot of weight and also how synchronous the pair performs holds a lot of score. By the end, we could estimate what the scores would be to within a few points before being posted. (Rhonda guesses better more often than me.)

One routine we saw was the Chineese pair Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG. They were excellent and won the evening’s competition. Here is the ISU’s web site and here are the results from the competition.

Here are a few pictures we took.

Chad

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