What I am saying is that it is absolutely wrong to let one coaching team occupy all good resources. I don't care about Vasiliev who is not qualified to coach any other pairs in the sense of morality, but Dmitriev, a former two-time Olympic Champion, should have better teams than A/R to coach. V/T's FS at Boston really made me angry, you know. It is the worst program presented by pairs Olympic Champions I have ever seen, and they even got 73+ PCS! Maxim should sometimes keep his big mouth shut when giving a post-event interview or something. If you want to be treated like the Olympic Champions by the judges, you should first skate like the Champions!
TAT pretty much said it all in her commentary;
1. Trankov is no longer invested in training and I don't think its all about his injuries. He was never a hard worker to begin with and after Sochi he has very little motivation. Tati on the other hand has nerves of steel if she had another partner willing to work harder they would be world medalists now.
2. St/Kl are injured period. They have two interesting programs.
3. T/M are just bland, like vanilla bland. They need actual programs and some sort of actual coaching.
4. Mozer and Morozov think choreography is useless. That's about it.
While they go on deluding themselves other pairs are getting so much better. Did they see Lubov and partner?
The whole season VT fight with injuries because of trying to learn quads... And yes, Tanya really got injury even before Bordeaux and made it worse during one of throws in Bordeaux. People even went to her and asked what is injured THIS time (during last 2 years she got one injury after another((( But who cares - it is easier to write that all these is fake of course)
Is winning a medal or placing top 5 the only consideration? It's an honest question, I'm not implying anything or being sarcastic. I'd love to have seen Astakhova/Rogonov skating there. and I don't think they would have endangered the 3 Russian spots for next year. I'm American, so obviously our team wouldn't have gained anything.
no excuses but i think we can safely say Russia has not been able to send their top three teams in a while - V and T, S and K and K and S. Morevoer, they certainly were not healthy. As mentioned all three teams were injured enoghthat they had to cancel various competitions. T and M are a pretty decent back up and A and R still need to find their mojo and place - but it is a huge disappointment and I swear Aliona lol has some great luck on h er side - i would have hammered their pcs - the programs are not great and he still needs to catch up in many ways. But this disaster for Russian pairs whhile a huge let down for them is not like they didn't have any team in the top ten or five. We'll see if this continues.
I also love Moskvina, and 1994 was a great match-up of Natalia/Artur and Katia/Sergei. Such an interesting contrast in styles.TAT pretty much said it all in her commentary;
1. Trankov is no longer invested in training and I don't think its all about his injuries. He was never a hard worker to begin with and after Sochi he has very little motivation. Tati on the other hand has nerves of steel if she had another partner willing to work harder they would be world medalists now.
2. St/Kl are injured period. They have two interesting programs.
3. T/M are just bland, like vanilla bland. They need actual programs and some sort of actual coaching.
4. Mozer and Morozov think choreography is useless. That's about it.
While they go on deluding themselves other pairs are getting so much better. Did they see Lubov and partner?
