2011 Figure Skating Four Continents - Pairs Short Quotes Taipei Arena - Taipei City
Amanda Evora (Sugar Land, Texas / Southwest Florida FSC) and Mark Ladwig (Fargo, N.D./Moorhead, Minn. / Red River Valley FSC) - 52.23 (6th place)
(on boot breaking midway through short program)
ML - "I had a fall on the toe loop and my boot had a little bit of a problem, it came unglued a little bit so I'll be fixing it tonight. This is Rudi Swieger of Canada's boot who has a size 9, thank God. It's a little roomier in the toes than mine. I couldn't do everything I planned in the program but I did pretty well."
(on continuing program and looking forward to tomorrow)
AE - "Out of the things that I can control, to tell you the truth, I was kind of disappointed in myself right in the beginning. I popped my jump for the first time this season. Unfortunately, we had the skate boot problem and we were lucky enough to have another skate and be able to finish our short in order to do a very good long tomorrow. It was an experience you can't really prepare for or want but we got through it together. I'm very proud of Mark and am excited about skating again tomorrow."
(on helping Ladwig by offering boot to finish the program)
Rudi - "I don't really know what to say. Mark has been a good friend of ours. We've trained down in Sarasota with him for a couple of years now. I just felt he would do it for me. The least I could do is offer. When the zoomed in on the broken heel, I figured I would grab my skates, run down and offer and see if he could do it. Mark would do it for me because he is a great guy."
Mary Beth Marley (Downers Grove, Ill. / DuPage FSC) and Rockne Brubaker (Algonquin, Ill. / All Year FSC) - 45.60 (10th place)
(on program)
RB - "It was OK. Definitely not one of our best skates but we fought through everything and so I think that's a good thing. We felt good out there. Stamina-wise, we felt good. (This competition) is just the first step in kind of a long process."
Caitlin Yankowskas (Pelham, N.H. / Colonial FSC) and John Coughlin (Kansas City, Mo. / Kansas City FSC) - 55.25 (4th place)
(on program)
JC - "We left a lot of points out there but we are happy with our best component scores internationally ever even with the mistakes so we didn't let the mistake affect the performance which is great. Very happy we are sitting in fourth with some mistakes. That makes us feel that we are pretty dangerous if we skate clean."
(on free skate tomorrow)
JC - "We love doing that long program. We love getting through the short to get to that long. I think we're going to feel a lot more relaxed out there."
