OD(D) RESULTS?

Last night's Original Dance may well end up setting the record for most falls ever in an Ice Dancing competition. As a result of falls by the Italians, the Canadians, the Lithuanians and more, the top standings currently are:

#1) Tatiana Navka & Roman Kostomarov RUSSIA
2 1 99.27

#2) Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto USA
6 2 97.89

#3) Elena Grushina & Ruslan Goncharov UKR
5 3 96.68

#4) Isabelle Delobel & Olivier Schoenfelder FRA
7 4 94.78

#5) Albena Denkova & Maxim Staviski BUL
3 5 93.50

#6) Marie-France Dubreuil & Patrice Lauzon CAN
4 7 91.80

#7) Barbara Fusar-Poli & Maurizio Margaglio ITA
1 10 90.51

#8) Margarita Drobiazko & Povilas Vanagas LIT
8 8 88.02

#9) Galit Chait & Sergei Sakhnovski ISR
13 6 86.72

For those who complained that the Compulsory Dance standings were like nothing they expected -- so obviously the fix was in! -- the current top five is identical to the top 5 at the 2005 World Championship, as expected -- so obviously the fix is in!

Meanwhile, although they are still ahead of the Israelis overall, the Lithuanians did come in two places behind them in the OD. Maybe they can blame Jewish money, again...