Savchenko and Massot team up
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Firstly, Tatiana and Maxim had even less time, as she didn't compete at Worlds 2010. Secondly, Tania and Max were skating on - more or less - the same level (Maria and Maxim were slightly better) with previous partner, on Vancouver M/T placed 7th when V/M placed 8th. At Worlds 2014 S/S won gold medal - P/M placed 15th (16 pairs take par in the free skating). Massot and Popova's season's best in combined total score is a few points higher than Aliona and Robin's season's best in free skating. I'm not saying that they have no chace, but your comparison is quite strange
You could see though, even then, that Tatiana was one of the best skaters out there, if not THE best.
Anyway, I'm not comparing the skaters (Tatiana with Aliona or Maxim with Bruno etc.). I'm saying that a year out it's not a problem, not even 2 years.
The problem is Aliona's age. If she can keep up than it's fine. Of course I have no idea how Bruno is as a skater and if they are going to be a good match.
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It would be funny if they ended up doing "pro" skating together when they teamed up because Aliona wanted to stay eligible lol.
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So Robin has also found a new partner to skate in shows: http://www.mdr.de/mediathek/suche/video210676_zc-485c01ae_zs-d23ba9ff.html
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Who is it? I translated the page but for some reason it didn't all translate.
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It's Robin but it's a video and the title says: Robin Szolkowy hat eine Neue
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http://www.freiepresse.de/NACHRICHT...-kehrt-auf-das-Eis-zurueck-artikel8912429.php
Myriam Leuenberger - 23 years old from Switzerland - they know each other from the shows of "Art-on-Ice" - it was Robin´s idea - first show will be September 20th, 21st "Opera on Ice" in Italy (Verona)
Myriam Leuenberger - 23 years old from Switzerland - they know each other from the shows of "Art-on-Ice" - it was Robin´s idea - first show will be September 20th, 21st "Opera on Ice" in Italy (Verona)
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It's Myriam Leuenberger, from Switzerland (ISU Bio; Wikipedia).
Here is the story on the MDR website:
http://www.mdr.de/sachsen/chemnitz/szolkowy-leuenberger102.html
After all these years with Aljona, it will be interesting to see how Robin gets on with partnering somebody who has all their experience in Singles skating...
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I am starting to wonder if the lack of popularity or falling popularity of skating which has reduced skating shows (pro) and competitions (pro) has meantskaters are staying competitivelonger as that is the way to make money? Right now we seem to have more skaters having issues of saying good bye now some are fairly young like Chan and Kim but Takhahashi, Kostner, Aliona, Kavaguti and Smirnov, Marchei, Joubert, Plushenko et al have been around for a while. Sadly not everything like wine gets better with age; sometimes you just rot or go moldy.
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Apparently it's being reported that they lifted that can for Ingo to receive funding and he will now be getting it. So my question is...now that the coach is getting paid is the German federation going to want to release Aliona? We already know Massot won't be released. What will happen to this team?
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Aljona and Bruno's Facebook Fanpage have posted the link to the announcement:
http://newsletter.dosb.de/newsletter/newsletter.php?id=5115&html=1
So, both France and Germany are doing everything they can to get the team to represent them. France by not releasing Bruno, and Germany by agreeing to pay Ingo.
Personally, everything I have seen over the past few month or so says that the team wants to represent Germany. But, it looks like it is not going to be up to them.
Whichever country they end up representing, they will have proper competition for the international slots. As it stands at the moment, this is how it stacks up for the 2 countries:
France have 2 slots in Europeans and Worlds for this coming season, and they have 2 good teams (James/Cipres; Popova/Novoselov).
Germany also have 2 slots in Europeans and Worlds for this coming season, and they have 3 good teams (Hausch/Wende if they continue; Vartmann/van Cleave; Prölß/Blommaert).
So, we will have to wait and see what happens. But, in the end, I suspect it will be the French that give in. After all, as the Men's Football World Cup recently reminded us, the Germans always win...
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Wende/Wende aren't retiring so they will skate on the GP.
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Ach, for goodness sake! I never even thought of looking at the GP assignments table again when I was writing my previous comment!
I was just writing off the top of my head! 
And, now that I have checked it again, sure enough, there they are at Skate America and the Cup of Russia.
Can I just say, I am glad that they are continuing. And, if Savchenko and Massot do end up with France, this could be the one chance for Maylin and Dani to really establish themselves as the German No. 1's for a year or 2, before Prölß/Blommaert take over (Which they will. Assuming they stay together...
)Thanks blue_idealist
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Aliona is staying for that gold medal, not the money. She could've made more money with Robin doing shows. Plushenko as well doesn't need the money and he also could be making more money doing other things than competing.
For many athletes it's just hard to "retire". This is not just in FS. For many football players is the same thing. They just can't bring themselves leaving when it's time.
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Ach, for goodness sake! I never even thought of looking at the GP assignments table again when I was writing my previous comment!
And, now that I have checked it again, sure enough, there they are at Skate America and the Cup of Russia.
Can I just say, I am glad that they are continuing. And, if Savchenko and Massot do end up with France, this could be the one chance for Maylin and Dani to really establish themselves as the German No. 1's for a year or 2, before Prölß/Blommaert take over (Which they will. Assuming they stay together...
Thanks blue_idealist
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No problem.. I love Maylin and Daniel! I thought they considered retiring after the Olympics so they may be retired by the time P&B are good enough to overtake them.
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Perhaps it's more understandable if we consider that many of these athletes love competitive skating. Take the biggest hobby of your life. Now, imagine you need to "retire" from it at the age of 25. You can see why it's difficult.
I believe there was an article posted earlier in the thread where Robin was done, and didn't want to do shows with her anymore... so doing shows with Robin wasn't really an option for her.
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