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Hsuhs

Record Breaker
Joined
Dec 8, 2006
TAT gives a patriotic speach. She'll be doing the half of commenting.
You can see the arena.
 
Joined
Jul 11, 2003
Not a very interesting group of skaters, imo. Dom/Schab and Pech/Borz, and who are the rest?

Seems to be the Pan Eastern European Games.

Joe
 

life684

Final Flight
Joined
Nov 8, 2007
Domnina and Shabalin are best ice dancers at the moment, i just can't understand why this pan american republic always mourn at russian performances.
 

chuckm

Record Breaker
Joined
Aug 31, 2003
Country
United-States
Not commenting on the performance, just the scoring.

If Domnina/Shabalin and Khokhlova Novitski are really THAT good, then why is there a need to stack the panel with multiple SSR judges at every event where the top Russian teams skate?
 

life684

Final Flight
Joined
Nov 8, 2007
Its not just about judges, look at all the coaches majority of them are russians and even more from SSRS. I don't hear any complaints.

Remember putting judges from Georgia, ukraine , estonia, latvia and lituania means more trouble for russian athletes as they are more likely to score more for US and Canada.

One thing to remember in sport of figure skating is that they had some of best athletes and system to train them and when USSR split more countries with good skills became available for judging. imagine a panel of with India, brazil, Iran and South africa as judges.
 

slutskayafan21

Match Penalty
Joined
Mar 28, 2005
Not commenting on the performance, just the scoring.

If Domnina/Shabalin and Khokhlova Novitski are really THAT good, then why is there a need to stack the panel with multiple SSR judges at every event where the top Russian teams skate?

Since they arent really that good. :biggrin:
 

Mafke

Medalist
Joined
Mar 22, 2004
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Remember putting judges from Georgia, ukraine , estonia, latvia and lituania means more trouble for russian athletes as they are more likely to score more for US and Canada.

Unless the judges from those countries are ethnic Russians ....
 
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