Dance twizzle1/12/2023 ![]() However, the judging panel in Tallinn did not quite view the performance the same way as the tens of thousands of people who watched it online. The duo flowed through their free dance set to “La Bayadère,” by Ludwig Minkus, making no mistakes. We just need more competition experience.” After we finished, we looked at our results and saw that we can compete on an international level and that gave us confidence. We had to keep a clear mind, to focus on what was coming next. You have to keep going the music continues, and no one is going to stop you. At nationals we kind of had the same experience, so today we were calm after the big fall. “We never fall and never made that error in practice. ![]() We both had the wrong timing, but we’re really happy with how we performed after the mistake,” said Muramoto. ![]() The error left them sitting in second heading into the free. Performing the rhythm dance to “Sōran Bushi” (a traditional Japanese sea shanty) performed by Maïa Barouh, Muramoto tripped on Takahashi’s blade at the beginning of the routine and tumbled to the ice. It’s very special for us and we are proud to be here.” “It’s a big opportunity to compete with the other skaters. “It feels very interesting that I’m back here with Daisuke and it’s our first Championship together,” she said. Muramoto, who competed at her first ice dance competition in Tallinn with a former partner, Hiroichi Noguchi in 2014, expressed the same nostalgic sentiment. I would never have thought of coming back and competing as an ice dancer, so I am very glad and thankful.” “It was my first time as an ice dancer, so it was something fresh and new. It felt very nostalgic,” Takahashi admitted. “It had been nine years since the last time I was at Four Continents. ![]() As a singles skater, he competed at this event seven times, winning bronze in 2005, gold in 20, and silver in 2012. The Four Continents Championships, which took place in Tallinn, Estonia, in mid-January, was a familiar one for Takahashi. We wanted to take another step forward and feel more confident in our own skating.” “We wanted to change a lot of things, but we didn’t have much time, so we worked on the quality and on our confidence. “Between nationals and Four Continents, we focused mainly on the rhythm dance and didn’t work so much on the free dance,” Muramoto explained. 2 and with just two weeks until the next competition, worked on improving their technique and elements. The Japanese federation subsequently assigned Muramoto and Takahashi to the 2022 Four Continents and World Championships. It was a result that surprised many who watched the competition. Muramoto and Takahashi finished in second place overall. Following an unexpected fall in the rhythm dance, the duo sat in second and though they won the free dance, it was not enough to catapult them over the leaders. Things did not go as they had hoped at the All Japan Championships. Due to the restrictions on entering the country, Zoueva was unable to accompany them. With the goal of earning the sole ice dance berth Japan had available at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, Muramoto and Takahashi returned to their homeland for the national championships in late December. The following week, they finished second at Warsaw Trophy behind a young Russian team and ahead of Caroline Green and Michael Parsons of the U.S. In November, the duo competed on the Grand Prix stage at NHK Trophy in Japan, finishing sixth in a field that included the Russian team of Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov, the 2021 World champions, and Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the U.S. Muramoto and Takahashi first found success at a local competition in September 2021, with YouTube videos of their free dance performance at this small event going viral, garnering more than a million combined views. Though they were a little rough around the edges in their first outings, two years into the partnership the performance aspect, execution and presentation of their programs began to improve with each competition. ![]()
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