http://www.vremya.ru/2007/193/11/189663.html
Some Piseev comments – article 10/22/07
“Last year several team members retired: Klimkin, Volchkova, Sokolova and Petrova-Tikhonov. Volchkova and Klimkin were forced to quit by injury. Viktoria is now coaching, assisting Viktor Kudryavtsev, who will turn 70 on Oct. 24th. Elena Sokolova threw her energies to the wind, in my view, and only said she was serious about training, but never demonstrated it. As for Petrova-Tikhonov – well, there’s nothing to say except that time takes its toll. We are grateful to them for supporting us in difficult times. By the way, they belong to the athletes’ commission and we hope they will help our young athletes.”
“Unfortunately, Obertas-Slavnov decided to skip the season. It’s hard to predict what type of attitude they’ll have to work, as it all depends on Yulia’s ability to overcome her psychological barriers to difficult jumps. Two young pairs that did well last season split: Elena Efaeva-Aleksei Menshikov
hwell: and Darya Kazyuchitz-Sergei Roslyakov. Menshikov finished 6th at Europeans last year, but quite skating. The other 3 are seeking partners.”
Hopes for“Most of all in dance – Domnina-Shabalin, Khohlova-Novitski. They all showed good new programs at the test skate. Domnina-Shabalin got new stimulus for competing as they were awarded new flats. Svinin and Zhuk’s students show good progress. We also have a reserve with potential : Bobrova-Solovev, Mikhailova-Maxsimishin, Rubleva-Shefer (that will compete at 1st GP), Monko-Tkachenko, Pushkash-Kiselev, Ryzanova-Gureiro…In all junior competitions, our dancers are nearly always in the top 3.
“As for pairs…Kawaguchi-Smirnov, Muhortova-Trankov….in Finland they skated cleanly and did several triple jumps.”
“.....Jerome Blanchard is French. He needs permission from his federation to compete. Twice we have requested it and been denied. We’ll try ourselves, and soon will get the documents for Russian citizenship. I’ve already talked with the head of “Russian Sport” Vyacheslav Fetisov. He promised to help.”
…”About girls…only one name Arina Martinova. But she isn’t ready for the results achieved by Korean and Japanese girls yet. Still we have several very young girls, 11-12 years old and already doing the most difficult elements – Elizaveta Tuktamisheva, Evgenia Pochufarova, Adelina Sotnikova and Polina Shelepen. We prepare them for Sochi…”
Some Piseev comments – article 10/22/07
“Last year several team members retired: Klimkin, Volchkova, Sokolova and Petrova-Tikhonov. Volchkova and Klimkin were forced to quit by injury. Viktoria is now coaching, assisting Viktor Kudryavtsev, who will turn 70 on Oct. 24th. Elena Sokolova threw her energies to the wind, in my view, and only said she was serious about training, but never demonstrated it. As for Petrova-Tikhonov – well, there’s nothing to say except that time takes its toll. We are grateful to them for supporting us in difficult times. By the way, they belong to the athletes’ commission and we hope they will help our young athletes.”
“Unfortunately, Obertas-Slavnov decided to skip the season. It’s hard to predict what type of attitude they’ll have to work, as it all depends on Yulia’s ability to overcome her psychological barriers to difficult jumps. Two young pairs that did well last season split: Elena Efaeva-Aleksei Menshikov
hwell: and Darya Kazyuchitz-Sergei Roslyakov. Menshikov finished 6th at Europeans last year, but quite skating. The other 3 are seeking partners.”Hopes for“Most of all in dance – Domnina-Shabalin, Khohlova-Novitski. They all showed good new programs at the test skate. Domnina-Shabalin got new stimulus for competing as they were awarded new flats. Svinin and Zhuk’s students show good progress. We also have a reserve with potential : Bobrova-Solovev, Mikhailova-Maxsimishin, Rubleva-Shefer (that will compete at 1st GP), Monko-Tkachenko, Pushkash-Kiselev, Ryzanova-Gureiro…In all junior competitions, our dancers are nearly always in the top 3.
“As for pairs…Kawaguchi-Smirnov, Muhortova-Trankov….in Finland they skated cleanly and did several triple jumps.”
“.....Jerome Blanchard is French. He needs permission from his federation to compete. Twice we have requested it and been denied. We’ll try ourselves, and soon will get the documents for Russian citizenship. I’ve already talked with the head of “Russian Sport” Vyacheslav Fetisov. He promised to help.”
…”About girls…only one name Arina Martinova. But she isn’t ready for the results achieved by Korean and Japanese girls yet. Still we have several very young girls, 11-12 years old and already doing the most difficult elements – Elizaveta Tuktamisheva, Evgenia Pochufarova, Adelina Sotnikova and Polina Shelepen. We prepare them for Sochi…”
. After being paired up, during junior years Totmianina and Marinin did side-by-side 2A, 3Lo, 3T, 3S and 3Lz. Now russian junior pairs are mostly doing only 2A.
