His words perfectly summed up the bizarre world of sports amid a global pandemic.
Moore-Towers and Marinaro scored 71.04 points for their short program to Alabama Shakes Gimme all Your Love, a skate that due to COVID-19 was recorded at their all-but-empty Oakville, Ont., home rink more than a month ago.
Moore-Towers touched a hand down, nearly falling on the landing of their throw triple loop, but the program was solid enough to give them a 10-point lead over Deanna Stellato and Maxime Deschamps (61.19 points). Lori-Ann Matte and Thierry Ferland were third after the short program with a score of 59.01.
The long program will be broadcast Saturday.
If the dancers had difficulty wrapping their heads around competing in isolation, their bodies knew what to do. On ice, it really felt like it was a competition, Gilles said. The nerves came back, the random leg fatigue, the ankle cramps, all that stuff that you experience before you compete, it was no different than doing it in an arena in front of people. Your body and your brain knows the pressures of the situation.
COVID-19 has wiped out every event for Canada s figure skating team since last March, including the world championships last spring in Montreal and Skate Canada International in October.
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The 49ers took charge in the second, outscoring the Warriors 25-11. They shot 60% from the floor (9 of 15), including three of five from three-point range. For the game, Long Beach drained nine of 18 attempts from beyond the arc.
Westmont outscored Long Beach 16-15 in the third quarter and 15-13 in the final frame. I thought our defense in the first half really let us down, Moore said. They obviously had a lot of weapons out there, but we needed to make them take tougher shots and didn t. I thought our defensive effort in the second half was much better. Although we won the second half, we just couldn t dig ourselves out of the hole.