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这次NBC转播阵容真是强大，在转播团队里还请到了Jamie Sale&David Pelletier(当然现在已经是小两口了），不知他们是不是要担当像espn本赛季Skate America给维特安排的那种角色。很期待他们这次能调动各种资源，采用各种方式全面报道和转播花样滑冰赛事。
下面转一篇有关David Pelletier观看练习后评论的文章，他提到夺冠大热门应是TTMM，而赵的的训练并不尽人意，不能对申赵期望太大，整个训练看完，他较喜欢张丹张昊等，文章内容中还有对Ingo Steuer间谍事件等方面的评论等，挺有意思的小文。
Pairs set to open figure skating competition
Canadian Press
Turin — David Pelletier sat with his wife, Jamie Sale, watching a pairs practice at the Palavela, the Olympic figure skating venue, and was thankful they were observers rather than participants.
"I can assure you I have no desire to be on the ice," Pelletier said. "I have absolutely no desire to go through that again."
Sale and Pelletier are part of the NBC crew covering the sport, and they'll be having a lot more fun than they did four years ago in Salt Lake City when a judging scandal robbed Canada's stars of outright victory and left them co-champions.
The furor forced the abandonment of the traditional 6.0-is-perfect scoring, and Pelletier doesn't mind in the least that it's gone. He likes the new cumulative points system.
"In pairs, it used to be that, if you were considered a top team and if you landed your throw and you landed your jumps, you'd be set," he said. "Now, if you botch your side-by-side spin, if you botch your footwork, or if you don't put any thought into your pairs spin, and you go onto the ice with easy lifts which I've seen top pairs do, then you're doomed.
"Everything counts now, and that's really cool. Skaters have to put thought into every move they make and use different strategies."
He disagrees with those who say that, because there is so much attention in the new scoring system to technical details, skaters' creativity is being diminished.
"I don't understand why people say that," Pelletier said. "You get bullet points for coming into a lift in a different way and for making other original moves.
"That's creativity to me. I'm seeing footwork that is more original than ever."
The pairs event opens the figure skating competition at these Games on Saturday.
Canada's pairs will be national champions Valerie Marcoux of Gatineau, Que., and Craig Buntin of Kelowna, B.C., who finished ninth at the 2005 world championships, and Jessica Dube of Drummondville, Que., and Bryce Davison of Cambridge, Ont.
The favourites to win gold are Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin of Russia, who have won the last two world titles. Their personal best (PB) overall mark is 198.49.
The PB for Marcoux and Buntin is 174.92, and for Dube and Davison it's 157.48, so they're well back of the contenders.
Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao of China, who were world champions for two years after Sale and Pelletier retired after Salt Lake City, have the highest PB of all the pairs, 206.54, but Zhao is struggling to regain top form after tearing an Achilles tendon last August.
"He hasn't been practising real well," said Pelletier. "I don't think he's competed for nearly a year, and this is no dress rehearsal. It's going to be tough on them."
Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany (PB 188.08) and Dan Zhang and Hao Zhang of China (PB 186.12) are other leading medal contenders.
"I've watched practices and I like Zhang and Zhang," said Pelletier.
Savchenko and Szolkowy have their coach, Ingo Steuer, with them after a Berlin court ruled Monday he should be on the German team despite being deleted by his Olympic federation on Jan. 25 for a past affiliation with the secret police in the former East Germany. The court ruling will be appealed, Germa | 
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