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- Aug 2, 2011
On the contrary, Mateusp1--your English is wonderful! We're very glad to have you at GS. Thanks for your well-informed insights on Makarova as a short-program skater. It will be interesting to see how she does at Worlds.
By the way, if you're Russian-speaking (or if anyone else knows the answer to this), I'm curious about Polina's last name, Shelepen. Is it by any chance related to the name Chaliapin? (Like Feodor Chaliapin, the great opera singer.) I love the origin of names, and it's great to have so many international posters to ask for information.
No, from what I understand, these are two completely different last names.