Plushy skated his old SP "Tosca" with elements from his new SP on 5 shows in St.Petersburg 01-04.10.2013
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVze-YWYNijP12CJceiKWyH_TMY37jsiu
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Tarasova: Russia's Plushenko Guaranteed Olympic Place if Fit:
http://en.ria.ru/sochi2014/20131005...nteed-Olympic-Place-if-Fit---Rival-Coach.html
He won't win anything there anyway. He won't even place in top five. The competition is too tough for any of Russian men, ru fed had probably just sent there the one they had less pity for.He's improving. By Skate America he should be ready
They say yesterday morning Zhenya was training at AFK, there Panin Memorial is held, and he planned to compete, but then desided against it.
several people on Russian boards reported so. They didn't go into details.
Several, but that's not what matters. It can be seen in the videos from Panin, that there weren't many people watching. But many were ready to come (it's St. Petersburg after all) if Plushenko skates there.One poster wrote that he will compete.
Several, but that's not what matters. It can be seen in the videos from Panin, that there weren't many people watching. But many were ready to come (it's St. Petersburg after all) if Plushenko skates there.
Now, imagine there would have been Kovtun training. Would there be rumors? Would people start calling their friends, telling them to come watch his two quads? That sounds doubtful.
Mishin and Plush never mentioned this race. This is the reason why I was surprised, when I read your post. Why did some poster think that he competes there, if they never said? They talked about Volvo Cup in Riga as Plushy's first competiton.
To understand why the rumours started, one has to know what kind of competition Panin Memorial is. It's like St. Peterburg's federation's home party. Local sportsmen compete, some guests may come (Mitina-Shevchuk from Moscow, Bariev who is Italian now) and some local "celebs", members of the national team, may show up and check their programmes. If they want, they may inform about their participation in the morning, and no one will deny them. And they need no special reason to abort FS, may just say "We didn't plan so". People are glad to see them anyway.
If you read the full interview you linked, Mishin says that's exactly what Liza and Artur did. And so did Kostya Menshov. Test skating, that's it.
Also, AFK (Academy of Figure Skating) is not in Yubileyni Ice Palace, where Zhenya usually trains.
So we can reconstruct the situation: Mishin comes to AFK with his students and they train. People see Plush and start to think oh wow seems we are lucky, everybody come here. And then Artur (who also was not in the entries) shows up in skates and dressed for the SP. Well, no Plushies today, everybody go home.
Probably Professor didn't want Zhenya to miss the morning thraining and took him to AFK, since it is not in the other city. Also AFK has several rinks. People might know he's where but not see his training itself if they were watching juniors on the main arena.
This is great if it is true but something tells me this is a bit of showmanship or gamesmanship. Plushy had major surgery and a history of health problems If he was so healthy he would work on that 4salchow. If he is healthy he still could win a medal imho.
Gachinski's akte today at Panin Memorial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc6QZzIhKCU
jumps are tilted and unstable - I think Gachinski is done, retirement in mind perhaps after Sochi ?,
even Voronov got a higher PCS than him considering what Voronov is like 29 or 30 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KoeXSrGSMg&list=UUjaUiznBS9O3SeqwqlIc4UQ
In case nobody posted this yet. I accidentally bumped into this just now.
That's a whole hell lot of footwork, in a good way. I have never seem something like this before, perhaps in ice dance.
Kovtun's advantage against Gachinski is he can jump both 4S and 4T
something Gachinski can never do
4S, 4T & Tarasova!
Gachinski unfortunately is third season in not so good state.Kovtun's advantage against Gachinski is he can jump both 4S and 4T
something Gachinski can never do