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Elena Ilinykh & Nikita Katsalapov Split

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tulosai

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What about Elena though? Any sympathy for her? Surely she couldn't have seen this coming when the rumour first broke out and was blindsided by this whole mess.

I actually think, whatever she wanted, she is in a better position than Nikita now. She has a partner who emotes and who can twizzle. I predict that she and Ruslan will be beating Nikita and whoever consistently from the very beginning, and will never stop doing so.

I am very saddened by this news though. Basically my two favorite Russian dance teams have (IMO senselessly) split.
 

bartlebooth

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and what was Morozov 's goal with it? And why? Morozov and Elena aren't a couple ?

Reportedly, they're not together anymore: if Elena dumped him, I can totally see Morozov acting professional and classy as usual and orchestrating this.
Oh well, if Nikita didn't have his motives, he wouldn't have agreed. Such a shame though.
 

plushyfan

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Reportedly, they're not together anymore: if Elena dumped him, I can totally see Morozov acting professional and classy as usual and orchestrating this.
Oh well, if Nikita didn't have his motives, he wouldn't have agreed. Such a shame though.

:disapp:
 

Dots

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Wow this came out of left field. I thought Victoria said a split wasn't true... poor thing :no: She gets dumped and now has Morozov as her coach....

I don't see Russia winning a world championship in this quadrennial. So it's Canada and Italy who'll dominate this quad? The US and Russia might go back and forth with the bronze medals.
 

dorispulaski

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Bobrova & Soloviev have a shot at World gold, if someone will only give them some decent choreo.
 

caitie

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I actually really dug S/Z as a pair and of course I/K were great (but a little overrated IMO), so this is a huge bummer. I don't understand why they would do this but I would guess Elena and Morozov broke up, Elena wanted to leave and Nikita didnt?
 

uhh

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I actually really dug S/Z as a pair and of course I/K were great (but a little overrated IMO), so this is a huge bummer. I don't understand why they would do this but I would guess Elena and Morozov broke up, Elena wanted to leave and Nikita didnt?

Probably a bit of that, a bit of Morozov orchestrating getting rid of her once she dumped him - he's got a history of pretty much abandoning skaters once he's bored with them, I've heard all sorts of stories about how he acted towards Rippon & Amodio in particular. And maybe things were more difficult than we knew between Elena & Nikita. I just find it so surprising because things seemed so much better between them this year & in a choice between coach & partner it makes sense to me to go with partner every time - it's much much easier to find a coaching set up that works than find a partner that you really click with when skating in the way that I/K did.
 

Mattieu

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Sky_fly20 will be pleased, as Sinitsina/Zhiganshin only had 9cm height difference, whereas Sinitsina/Katsalapov will have 12cm height difference.
Ilyinkh/Zhiganshin will have 11cm height difference, as Elena is 4cm shorter than Sinitsina.
 

Snow63

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Okay.

So what do you guys think: who will be more successfull S/K or I/Z?

Do we know if Yanovskaya/Mozgov are going seniors next season? I think it's a big opportunity for them to go to the Worlds since russia have 3 spots.
 

chuckm

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Yanovskaya/Mozgov have already said they plan to stay junior and go for the World Junior title.
 

dorispulaski

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I know, but if I were Y&M, I would seize the moment and work my butt off for the senior GP.This is the best chance they will get.
 
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