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转一篇最新的报道，DL的冰鞋也是费了一番周折啊：
Dubreuil and Lauzon take lead in Japan
Dubreuil and Lauzon
Canadian Press
12/1/2005 11:03:56 AM
OSAKA, Japan (CP) - Canadian champions Marie-France Dubreuil, whose skates arrived only hours before the competition, and Patrice Lauzon took the lead in the ice dance competition at the NHK Trophy on Thursday.
Dubreuil and Lauzon scored 36.41 points in the compulsory Tango Romantica to hold off Bulgarians Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski, who got 35.10.
Dubreuil was without skates five hours before the competition. She and Lauzon, who are from the Montreal region, had travel trauma getting from Lyon, France, where they train.
"I woke up and I couldn't move my neck and shoulder so I rushed to my masseuse and he fixed it and I almost missed the plane," Dubreuil said. "We got into Amsterdam and (the connecting flight) was cancelled - a technical problem.
"They rebooked us later in the day (to Beijing) and that was cancelled as well. So we spent 10 hours at the airport for nothing. The next day there was a direct flight to Osaka. Everything went fine but we didn't have our luggage.
"Only one bag made it to Osaka - his skates. The thing that really scared me was there was one baggage they could not trace, and they were my skates. We didn't know where in the world they were."
They were told one piece of baggage went to Beijing and another to Shanghai. Fortunately for Dubreuil, her skates were delivered just in time for the competition.
Denkova and Staviski, who were fifth at the 2005 world championships, are the top seeds. Dubreuil and Lauzon were seventh at worlds. World silver medallists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto of the United States withdrew from this meet - the sixth in the six-meet Grand Prix series - because Agosto has a groin injury.
A top-two finish would give Dubreuil and Lauzon enough points to qualify for the Grand Prix Final for the sixth consecutive year. They won at the Skate Canada International earlier this season. The GP Final is in Tokyo, Dec. 14-18.
Dubreuil and Lauzon were unable to practice for three days because of the missing skates, but they were going to compete no matter what.
"I think I would have tried to use someone else's skates because we are almost sure to do the final," Dubreuil said. "I was willing to try.
"It's a good thing we were very ready for this competition, otherwise it would have been stressful."
Chantal Lefebvre and Areseni Markov of Lasalle, Que., were in fifth place among 11 couples.
In the pairs event, Germany's Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy lead over favoured Dan Zhang and Hao Zhang of China after the short program, 61.06-60.86. The Zhangs, who are not related, won 2005 world bronze.
Utako Wakamatsu and Jean-Sebastien Fecteau of St-Leonard, Que., got 47.98 and are in fourth place among seven pairs.
Singles short programs will be presented Friday. Ben Ferreira of Edmonton and Chris Mabee of Tillsonburg, Ont., are representing Canada.
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