According to this Russian article, Bobrova & Soiev are going to Zhulin as well as Maria Monka & Kirill Khaliavin
http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/vellena/post215900978/
According to this Russian article, Bobrova & Soiev are going to Zhulin as well as Maria Monka & Kirill Khaliavin
http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/vellena/post215900978/
If Vaytsekhovskaya is right, it's great news. The B/S have good technic but they need somebosy with taste to do choreo for them and watch what they are wearing. Zhilin can indeed produce good programs and even N/K's costumes weren't that tacky.
Oh, and a fight between B/S and I/K would get interesting
Yes indeed.Originally Posted by Redstone
It would also be interesting if a re-packaged Monka & Khaliavin come out with all guns blazing.
With R&T moving to Spilband and these 2 couples with Zhulin, Elena & Nikitia have just got themselves some real competition,
the fight for the top 3 Russian places just got very hot.
Bring on Sochi!!!!
Last edited by Mattieu; 04-15-2012 at 07:08 AM.
And now, the Russians will have medalists in ice dance at Soch
Now I worry for Natalie et Fabian!!
great now I hope Viktoria and Ruslan follow B/S and M/K
they have the best potential of all the russian ice dancers and it will be a waste if Kustarova will just trash them up.
FREE Viktoria and Ruslan !!!
And that looks like the best thing that happened to the Ru!ice dance in last 6 years, because the internal rivalry should finally shake that sleepy swamp of the senior ice dance.
Wow! This is fabulous news. Now we've got a horse race. I hadn't heard about R/T going to Spilband, and I hope it's true. Their lack of speed has been holding them back, IMO, and thats bound to be addressed.
Bobrova and Soloviev updated an article today to say that this is just a rumour and isn't true!!
http://rsport.ru/figure_skating/20120415/591761386.html
Bobrova/Soloviev and Zhulin, have all denied the article is true in the following article updated today.
http://rsport.ru/figure_skating/20120415/591761386.htmlhttp://rsport.ru/figure_skating/20120415/591761386.html
Dang it...hopes dashed again. Zhulin showed how entertaining he can be with the Azerbaijani couple, and I was imagining B/S doing something like that. Please, Skate Gods, let it be true about R/T, at least.
And now, the Russians won't have medalists. Well, they might.
LOL they might but it sure as heck wont be Bobrova & Soloviev. IF they do end up going to Zhulin it will only accelerate their decline. Zhulin is not a good coach and has been out of favor with the Russian fed. for several years now. By Sochi I predict them to be in danger of not even making their own Olympic team. Regardless what they do though they are in trouble now.
Heh. Honestly, I don't think they're gonna be THAT far off the pack. The big three Russian teams all struggle with levels. B/S still have higher PCS than I/K and R/T. Zhulin's great for teaching technique and that would've improved B/S. Great technique means stronger chance of levels, and that alone could've made the difference for them, along with more strongly accepted programs. Sinitsina/Zhiganshin are riding a huge wave of hype, but that's all it is. Monko/Khaliavin are question marks after missing last season.
Anyway, I think B/S at Zhulin, I/K with Morosov and R/T at Shpilband/Zoueva (still a question mark), Russian dance would've been less insular and more interesting.
Russia is not going to have any medalists in Ice Dance in Sochi. Maybe if there is a mistake made by a couple of teams! It would have to be OD 2006 again and it not effect a Russian couple. Because Gold is obviously DW or VM and P/B are there. Then you have possibles in W/P and still S/S even with 2012 worlds.
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