It's already that time, so for the record:
Isabella Tobias & Ilya Tkachenko from Igor to Marina.
I thought we were keeping the current threads open until the official change of season at the start of July, and then starting the threads for next season then.
That's why I requested to get the 2016-17 Retirements thread re-opened a week or so ago.
Although, now that I notice, the 2016-17 Coaching Changes thread has also been archived. So, I see now why you started a new thread, rather than send in a request and wait for the current thread to be re-opened.
CaroLiza_fan
Who did Gracie Gold ever choose to move to?
Marina and her team in Canton.
Elena Radionova has moved to Buyanova: https://twitter.com/ifsmagazine/status/857938865826484225/photo/1 I guess it's official now.
Why??
It is reported on FSU that Kavita and Joti have moved to Marina.
What ?? Why are all the igor teams moving to Marina ?
Anyone wanna do a quick rundown of who Marina is coaching, please? Seems like she is coaching half the skating world!
In Ice Dance she had Shibutanis and Muramoto/Reed. Now she has added Tobias/Tkachenko and apparently Lorenz/Polizoakis.
In singles, she has Patrick Chan and Gracie Gold.
Igor still has Chock/Bates, Nazarova/Nikitin, Min/Gamelin and Coomes/Buckland and some junior couples (Carreira/Ponomarenko, Abachkina/Thauron). And the couple from Georgia who finished last at Worlds.
Anybody else?
I can't remember whether it was Kat Downes or Robin Cousins that said it, but one of them said that Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir had long wanted to work with Marie-France Dubreuil, even before they took their sabbatical, but they were not allowed to.
So, was this a reference to there being a limit on how many skaters can be with a particular coach? And if so, what is the limit?
Or is it simply a case that Marina and Igor didn't want one of their star couples working with other coaches even on a temporary basis, in case they liked it and wanted to work with them full time?
CaroLiza_fan