David King has said that he and figure skating partner Stacey Kemp were disappointed with their short programme in last week's team figure skating event.

Kemp fell after a throw and they scored 44.97, only a slight improvement on the 44.70 from last week and well down on their 51.33 season's best from last year's Nebelhorn Trophy.

King told reporters: "There was only one mistake and it seemed to cost us a lot of marks. Our levels were loads better and I don't know why we got such big deductions.

"Our lift was better, our twist was better, our death spiral was better, our axel was better - everything was an improvement but Stacey went down and it seemed to cost us a lot of points.

"It was whole lot better than last week and we got similar scores and that's really tough. We feel like we've put some good routines together this season and if we'd landed the throw I think we'd have been quite safe. It wasn't to be and it's just one of those things."

The routine placed the pair 19th, down three places on their performance four years ago in Vancouver.