Challengers Dmitry Zharkov and Olga Kulikova, RUS, staged the upset over defending World Champions Simone Segatori and Annette Sudol, GER, and claimed the world title after an amazing final.
How much surprise can a DanceSport competition generate, you are asking? We believe even more than just the outcome of a final as the one yesterday. Being perennial champions should be very close to mission impossible in a sport where multiple factors have great influence on how these are determined. And no, it is not the composition of the panel of adjudicators we are referring to! Daily form and other, similar, variables should be reflected in the number of points that each couple is awarded in the four components. Nothing else!
Having said this, it is hard to grasp that the difference in points between winning one day and losing the next could be as much as the margins we have seen in the last two encounters between the two best Standard couples in the world.
We at WDSF Communications are already looking forward to the next match-up: Dmitry and Olga vs. Simone and Annette... The "Showdow in Shanghai" is only one week away. You can be there too ... Our "Live from Shanghai" blog gets launched on Friday 11 December.
Let's keep the surprises coming!
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