Today's DanceSport competitions played out again in front of a capacity crowd of at least 15,000 spectators at the Cali bullring.
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What put the crowd reactions fully over the top was the Salsa gold medal won by the Colombian couple Adriana Ávila - Jéfferson Benjumea. The Cali natives "burned the floor" according to the Colombian press and thus were able to confirm Cali's status as the World Capital of Salsa.
Full results for Standard can be found here. Salsa results are found here!
It will be available as stream in those countries where no rights have been sold. If you should find that the stream is blocked in your country, check your TV guide, a broadcaster there is bound to air it.
We certainly hope that the audio quality and a few other things will get improved for today's Salsa and Standard finals. Broadcast schedule is 01:30 UTC/GMT ... But as yesterday, prepare to be flexible and check the streaming site of the 2013 Cali Organising Committee frequently for up-to-date information. Click here!
What could have been a winners' interview like many others was not. Gabriele and Anna were visibly still under the influence of what had happened over the previous hours.
Dr Helmut Roland was able to capture the unique atmosphere that was created when inspired dancers encountered the appreciation of true dance lovers in a setting unlike any other used for DanceSport before.
The international DanceSport feed (95 minutes) produced by the World Games Host Broadcaster is also available as a stream for viewing from those countries where no rights have been sold. Where rights have been sold by the IWGA partner UFA Sports, the stream is blocked and you have to consult programme guides as to when and where the Latin - Salsa event will air.
We do apologise for the poor audio quality of the stream! We sincerely hope that the sound will be better in tonight's broadcast. Access the stream here!
Sergei Konovaltsev and Olga Konovaltseva, RUS, are ready for tonight's Standard event of The World Games 2013 at the Cali bullring. They invite you to watch them and all the other couples dancing tonight from about 01:00 UTC/GMT!
It will take us all some time to digest the experience, but there could well be a before and an after to this Saturday night ... We will follow up in a few hours.
Gabriele Goffredo - Anna Matus, MDA, were crowned the World Games 2013 Champions, winning all five dances - and bringing the crowd to their feet time after time! Congratulations! Here are the Final results ...
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In those countries where the signal is blocked, a broadcaster has purchased the rights and you will have to resort to a programming guide to find out when DanceSport is on.
Go to the CLOC streaming site here!
The lead is now assigned to the dancers who are already training on the perfect floor that was put in by CLOC in 19 hours of hard work. Muchas gracias!
It's 8:45 a.m. - a press conference is scheduled in 15 minutes ... Stay tuned!
No idea why the picture ended up like this ...
That will then be exactly ten hours from to the start of the competition! Just in time! Significant advances have been made by yet another motivated crew in covering the perfectly level platform with parquet over the past few hours. WDSF Sports Director Marco Sietas stayed at the venue until it was possible to extrapolate the finishing time for the process to be concluded with a reasonable degree of certainty.
Speaking of the start of the competition: we erroneously announced in the last few posts that Standard would be on today - Saturday 27 July - and Latin would be on tomorrow. WRONG! Latin today, Standard tomorrow is the appropriate order! Apologies!
They are joined by other couples from Trinidad - Tobago and the USA. It's all good fun!
Temperatures at 6 p.m. are very bearable - a cool breeze blows through the bullring - and athletes as well as officials concur: the starting ime for tomorrow's competition in Standard and Salsa was well chosen.
At exactly 1 p.m. the crew finally started with the assembly of a solid platform that was last used at an automobile show in Bogota. Through Wednesday! Here we thought that "just in time" is a Japanese concept. Well, the Colombians refined it!
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