2016 JGP Mordovia Ladies SP

[dorispulaski]

14 - 17 Sep 2016
Saransk Russia

Ladies' Short Program
Friday, September 16, 2016, 11:00 UTC +3


Time by time zone
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclo...=248&p4=33&p5=240&p6=195&p7=256&p8=236&p9=166

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• First Information
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• Video and Results Thread

YOUTUBE CHANNEL​

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbv...IwotCt2JGySfJA​

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[TH]Name[/TH]
[TH]Nation[/TH]
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[TD]Warm-Up Group 1[/TD]
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[TD]1[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Ilayda BAYAR[/TD]
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TUR

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[TD]2[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Chiara CALDERONE[/TD]
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ITA

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[TD]3[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Kokoro IWAMOTO[/TD]
[TD]

JPN

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[TD]4[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Yu-Hsun LIN[/TD]
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TPE

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[TD]5[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Brynne MCISAAC[/TD]
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USA

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[TR="class: TabHeadRed, bgcolor: #CC3333"]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD]Warm-Up Group 2[/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
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[TR="class: Line2Red, bgcolor: #FFCCCC"]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Kristina GRIGOROVA[/TD]
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BUL

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[TD]7[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Stanislava KONSTANTINOVA[/TD]
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RUS

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[TD]8[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Varvara PETROVA[/TD]
[TD]

KGZ

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[TD]9[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Hana CVIJANOVIC[/TD]
[TD]

CRO

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[TD]10[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Yuna SHIRAIWA[/TD]
[TD]

JPN

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[TD] [/TD]
[TD]Warm-Up Group 3[/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
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[TD]11[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Tianqi YUAN[/TD]
[TD]

CHN

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[TD]12[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Annika HOCKE[/TD]
[TD]

GER

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[TD]13[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Greta MORKYTE[/TD]
[TD]

LTU

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[TD]14[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Polina USTINOVA[/TD]
[TD]

CYP

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[TD]15[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Sophie ABRAMS[/TD]
[TD]

ISR

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[TD]16[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Margarita GALIMOVA[/TD]
[TD]

KAZ

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[TR="class: TabHeadRed, bgcolor: #CC3333"]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD]Warm-Up Group 4[/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
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[TD]17[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Polina TSURSKAYA[/TD]
[TD]

RUS

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[TD]18[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Sophia SCHALLER[/TD]
[TD]

AUT

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[TD]19[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Julia BATORI[/TD]
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HUN

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[TD]20[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Joanna KALLELA[/TD]
[TD]

FIN

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[TD]21[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Hanul KIM[/TD]
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KOR

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[TD]22[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Shokhsanam TOKHIROVA[/TD]
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UZB

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[TD] [/TD]
[TD]Warm-Up Group 5[/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
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[TD]23[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Yelena DZOZ[/TD]
[TD]

KAZ

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[TD]24[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Pauline WANNER[/TD]
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FRA

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[TD]25[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Elisavet VOULGARI[/TD]
[TD]

GRE

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[TD]26[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Elizaveta NUGUMANOVA[/TD]
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RUS

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[TD]27[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Darija SHATIBELKO[/TD]
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LAT

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[TD]28[/TD]
[TD="class: CellLeft, align: left"]Nastasya EREMINA[/TD]
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EST

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Entries​

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[TH="class: first, align: left"]No.[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Name[/TH]
[TH="align: center"]Nation[/TH]
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[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]1[/TD]
[TD]Sophia SCHALLER
SP Kung Fu Panda by The Piano Guys; choreo by Maria Barghoorn
LP Monsieur Chocolat by Gabriel Yared; choreo by Maria Barghoorn[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]AUT[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]WD[/TD]
[TD]Morgan FLOOD
SP Caravan by Duke Ellington; choreo by Olga Volozhinskaia
LP Angel and Devil by Maxime Rodriguez; choreo by Olga Volozhinskaia[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]AZE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD]Kristina GRIGOROVA
SP " You're Beautiful" by James Blunt
LP[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]BUL[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]4[/TD]
[TD]Tianqi YUAN
SP Papa Can You Hear Me (soundtrack) performed by Itzhak Perlman; choreo by Dan Fang
LP En Aranjuez con tu amor by Joaquin Rodriguez; choreo by Dan Fang[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]CHN[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]5[/TD]
[TD]Yu-Hsun LIN
SP Limelight by Mantovani; choreo by Joey Russell
LP Madame Butterfly Act II, Part I by Giacomo Puccini; choreo by Joey Russell[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TPE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]6[/TD]
[TD]Hana CVIJANOVIC
SP He Sleeps by James Newton Howard, Pretty Woman (soundtrack) by Ray Orbison; choreo by Marina Gromova, Arkadi Belenko, L. Magri
LP Flamenica y Gitana by Bruno Ribera; choreo by Marina Gromova, Arkadi Belenko, L. Magri[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]CRO[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]7[/TD]
[TD]Polina USTINOVA
SP Libertango by Astor Piazzolla performed by Bel Suono; choreo by Valeri Babicki, Vladimir Dvojnikov
LP Ave Maria performed by Thomas Spencer-Wortley; choreo by Valeri Babicki, Vladimir Dvojnikov[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]CYP[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]8[/TD]
[TD]Nastasya EREMINA
SP Incantation (from "Quidam" - Cirque du Soleil)
LP Ave Maria performed by Hayliy Westenra, Symphony Deo by Era[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]EST[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]9[/TD]
[TD]Joanna KALLELA
SP Les Miserables by Alain Boubil, Claude-Michel Schoenberg
LP Cinema Paradiso (soundtrack) by Ennio Morricone[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FIN[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]10[/TD]
[TD]Pauline WANNER
SP Writing's On the Wall by Paul Clarvis from the Spectre (soundtrack); choreo by Benoit Richaud
LP Warsaw to Hollywood by Wojciech Kilar; choreo by Benoit Richaud[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FRA[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]11[/TD]
[TD]Annika HOCKE
SP Sway (feat. Rosemary Clooney, Perez Prado), Conga bei Gloria Estefan; choreo by Maria Baarghorn, Mark Pillay, Rene Lohse
LP Carmen by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin; choreo by Maria Baarghorn, Mark Pillay, Rene Lohse
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]GER[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]12[/TD]
[TD]Elisavet VOULGARI
SP Tango by Astor Piazzolla; choreo by Inna Damianidi
LP Waltz of Love by Evgeni Doga; choreo by Inna Damianidi[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]GRE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]13[/TD]
[TD]Julia BATORI
SP Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini; choreo by Zoltan Toth (SP only)
LP Imitation Game (soundtrack) by Alexandre Desplat; choreo by Luca Mantovani ( LP only)[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]HUN[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]14[/TD]
[TD]Sophie Davida ABRAMS
SP Appassionata (from "White Stones") by Secret Garden; choreo by Galit Chait, Nikolai Morozov
LP Defying Gravity (from "Wicked" soundtrack) by Stephen Schwartz, For Good (from "Wicked" soundtrack) by Stephen Schwartz[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]ISR[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]15[/TD]
[TD]Chiara CALDERONE
SP "Kill Them All" by Ramin Djawadi from The Game of Throne HBO series
LP [/TD]
[TD="align: right"]ITA[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]16[/TD]
[TD]Kokoro IWAMOTO
SP Malaguena by Ernest Lecuona; choreo by Tom Dickson (SP only)
LP Spellbound Concerto by Miklos Rozsa; choreo by Marina Zueva (LP only)[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]JPN[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]17[/TD]
[TD]Yuna SHIRAIWA
SP I Got Rhythm by George Gershwin; choreo by Jeffrey Buttle, Cathy Reed
LP Le Temps des Cathedrales (Notre Dame de Paris soundtrack) by Richard Cocciante, Les Sans-Papiers (Notre Dame de Paris soundtrack) by Richard Cocciante, Vivre (Notre Dame de Paris soundtrack) by Richard Cocciante; choreo by Jeffrey Buttle, Cathy Reed[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]JPN[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]18[/TD]
[TD]Yelena DZOZ
SP Padam, Padam performed by Edith Piaf; choreo by Kuralai Uzurova
LP The Tale of Wandering (soundtrack) by Alfred Schnittke; choreo by Kuralai Uzurova[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]KAZ[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]19[/TD]
[TD]Margarita GALIMOVA
SP Jumpin' Jack by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy; choreo by Irina Golunenko
LP Chandelier by Sia; choreo by Irina Golunenko[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]KAZ[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]20[/TD]
[TD]Varvara PETROVA
SP Alice's Theme (from "Alice in Wonderland") by Danny Elfman; choreo by Shlaga Valensia
LP Hachi: A Dog's Tale by Jan Andrzej P. Kaczmarek; choreo by Shlaga Valensia[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]KGZ[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]21[/TD]
[TD]Darija SHATIBELKO
SP James Bond (soundtrack); choreo by Sergei Komolov
LP Apres Moi by Regina Spektor; choreo by Sergei Komolov[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]LAT[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]22[/TD]
[TD]Greta MORKYTE
SP "Take Me To Church" by Hozier
LP[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]LTU[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]23[/TD]
[TD]Hanul KIM
SP One Day by Caro Emerald, It Don't Mean a Thing by Pep's Show Boys, Sebastian Roser; choreo by Yea Ji Shin
LP Romeo and Juliet (musical soundtrack) by Gerard Presgurvic; choreo by Yea Ji Shin[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]KOR[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]24[/TD]
[TD]Stanislava KONSTANTINOVA
SP Swan Lake: V. Fanfare, Waltz in D, Black Swan by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; choreo by Olga Kliushnichenko
LP Vai Vedrai (from "Cirque du Soleil") (last year's); choreo by Olga Kliushnichenko[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]RUS[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]25[/TD]
[TD]Elizaveta NUGUMANOVA
SP Malagueña by Ernest Lecuona; choreo by Tatiana Prokofieva
LP Swan Lake by Tchaikovski; choreo by Tatiana Prokofieva[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]RUS[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]26[/TD]
[TD]Polina TSURSKAYA
SP Light of the Seven (Games of Thrones soundtrack) by Ramin Djawadi; choreo by Eteri Tutberidze, Daniil Gleikhengauz
LP February by Leonid Levashkevich; choreo by Eteri Tutberidze, Daniil Gleikhengauz[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]RUS[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]27[/TD]
[TD]Ilayda BAYAR
SP Je t'aime by Lara Fabian; choreo by Florent Amodio, Nikolai Morozov
LP Carmina Burana by Carl Orff; choreo by Florent Amodio, Nikolai Morozov[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TUR[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]WD[/TD]
[TD]Julia BASHYNSKA
SP
LP[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]UKR[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]29[/TD]
[TD]Brynne MCISAAC
SP "Sabre Dance" by Vanessa Mae; choreo by Shirley Hughes, Philip Mills, Derrick Delmore
LP "España Cañi" by Pascual Marquina Narro and "Concierto de Aranjuez" by Rodrigo; choreo by Shirley Hughes, Philip Mills, Derrick Delmore[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]USA[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: first, align: right"]30[/TD]
[TD]Shokhsanam TOKHIROVA
SP Waltz (from "The Master and Margarita" soundtrack) by Igor Korniliuk; choreo by Ekaterina Malinovskaia
LP La leyenda del beso by Raul di Blasio; choreo by Ekaterina Malinovskaia[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]UZB[/TD]
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[studentsb]

Very excited to see Polina's program to Game of Thrones music! Great choice

 

[Interspectator]

Yes! Game of Thrones. Can't wait to see it.

 

[sneakers]

http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1617/jgprus2016/SEG003.HTM

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Ilayda BAYAR TUR
2 Chiara CALDERONE ITA
3 Kokoro IWAMOTO JPN
4 Yu-Hsun LIN TPE
5 Brynne MCISAAC USA

Warm-Up Group 2
6 Kristina GRIGOROVA BUL
7 Stanislava KONSTANTINOVA RUS
8 Varvara PETROVA KGZ
9 Hana CVIJANOVIC CRO
10 Yuna SHIRAIWA JPN

Warm-Up Group 3
11 Tianqi YUAN CHN
12 Annika HOCKE GER
13 Greta MORKYTE LTU
14 Polina USTINOVA CYP
15 Sophie ABRAMS ISR
16 Margarita GALIMOVA KAZ

Warm-Up Group 4
17 Polina TSURSKAYA RUS
18 Sophia SCHALLER AUT
19 Julia BATORI HUN
20 Joanna KALLELA FIN
21 Hanul KIM KOR
22 Shokhsanam TOKHIROVA UZB

Warm-Up Group 5
23 Yelena DZOZ KAZ
24 Pauline WANNER FRA
25 Elisavet VOULGARI GRE
26 Elizaveta NUGUMANOVA RUS
27 Darija SHATIBELKO LAT
28 Nastasya EREMINA EST

 

[Layback11]

Get it Liza!

 

[[email protected]]

Group 2 is interesting. In most predictions Konstantinova and Shiraiwa are here to fight for the bronze. May be they will show they have quite different ambitions.

 

[hippomoomin]

Polina's sp music sounds very promising. Hope she rocks!! I just wonder how tall she is now.

 

[bosskil]

Go Stasya Konstantinova!
Love 'em all the little tsarevnas, but it's time for some Russian Amazon now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZdB1rrA3OE :dev2:

 

[hippomoomin]

Konstantinova has a very unique style, as unique or even better than Anna P. in terms of coolness.
Hope she improves her jumps and becomes a late boomer.
She is just another stunning skater just to look at.
However, since her jumps are far less stable than Polina, Liza and Yuna, I would say her chance of medaling is low.

 

[puremagic]

Group 2 is interesting. In most predictions Konstantinova and Shiraiwa are here to fight for the bronze. May be they will show they have quite different ambitions.

That's very strange. Stanislava has much better jumps than Liza. So she have to beat her absolutely easy with clean skate.

 

[Sugarpova]

I saw some ppl who def hate her style & find it ugly

 

[Crossover]

Had Shiraiwa been free of injuries previously, and competed outside of Russia, I would've placed her over Liza Nugumanova in my prediction. I didn't remember a thing about Konstantinova's skating, so watched her SP at Nationals just minutes ago. Konstantinova has Stolbova's face and expression , but not the level of her SS and solid jump landings....Nevertheless Konstantinova is interesting, but her skating is somewhat rough, so she may not be everyone's cup of tea. Liza has small jumps, but her presentation and solid SS as well as the hype over her may help her to place after Tsursksaya.

However, my top priority for this event is to know how much Polina has been recovered from her injury, and how tall she is now. Can she jump as huge as herself last season and dominate the junior circuit with the changed body as last season until the abrupt withdrawal from Junior Worlds? I hope so.

 

[Sugarpova]

Ilayda BAYAR
SP Je t'aime by Lara Fabian; choreo by Florent Amodio, Nikolai Morozov

ha & Polina uses K/S music in the LP!!!!

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Hopefully there is no confusion over the start time for the Ladies SP, like there is for the Short Dance.

Here is the link for the Time Schedule:

http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1617/jgprus2016/jgprus2016_JuniorLadies_SP_TimeSchedule.pdf

And for the Live Streaming (not on air yet):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B4ZaZ9vaWM

Hope this helps

CaroLiza_fan

 

[bosskil]

Konstantinova has a very unique style, as unique or even better than Anna P. in terms of coolness.
Hope she improves her jumps and becomes a late boomer.
She is just another stunning skater just to look at.
However, since her jumps are far less stable than Polina, Liza and Yuna, I would say her chance of medaling is low.

Lizochka has not been known for stability of her jumps, she use to be a chronic URer...

 

[bosskil]

However, my top priority for this event is to know how much Polina has been recovered from her injury, and how tall she is now. Can she jump as huge as herself last season...

Hopefuly yes, her jumps are unbelieveable!

...and dominate the junior circuit with the changed body as last season until the abrupt withdrawal from Junior Worlds? I hope so.

Not a chance with Marin Honda still breathing. Polina can't match her presence and star power.

 

[Crossover]

Hopefuly yes, her jumps are unbelieveable!

Not a chance with Marin Honda still breathing. Polina can't match her presence and star power.

Well, isn't it true that Polina dominated the junior circuit last season until the JWC? Give credit where credit is due. I believe she would've won the Junior World title easily if she had not been injured and withdrawn. However, we have to wait and see how she is doing depending on her current condition. but I can't imagine she would lose her jumps because of the injury and height. You know I love Marin as well and Polina possesses a regal presence. They have just different styles to each other. Polina's programs (so Eteri's taste) didn't help people think she has a nice SS and interpretation though.

 

[sunnystars]

I would love for Tsurskaya to work with Tchernyshev in the future. He makes great dramatic programs that cater the skaters. Her Chess LP was not my cup of tea.

 

[bosskil]

Well, isn't it true that Polina dominated the junior circuit last season until the JWC? Give credit where credit is due. I believe she would've won the Junior World title easily if she had not been injured and withdrawn.

I disagree completely with an "easy" part. Yes, Polina was the favourite, but it'd by no means have been walk in the park for her.
We all knew (and know) Marin is not a super consistent type of skater (at least yet), but we have to remember that before the 2016 Worlds Marin participated in 4 international tourneys that year and medalled in all of them: 1 gold, 2 silvers and 1 bronze. You might even observe the "optimistic" pattern: good JGPs, poor JpnJunNats, good JGPF, poor JpnSenNats,...
Feds are not ignorants, they knew what they were doing sending her to Worlds in spite of her poor domestic outcomes and they were not disappointed - she got her form back and shined brighter than ever setting PBs in both short and free. She was visibly on top of her mental and physical game and delivered two clean, spectacular skates. We don't have the crystal ball just our common sense and claiming it would have been easy win for Polina is a myth, dismissed even by Russian fans in their skating fora. Knowing how patriotic and crazy for their girls they are, I was pleasantly surprised back then, reading how much respect they were giving Marin after that win, often telling ubers to stop speculating, shut up and give props to the new world champion. :thumbsup:

 

[MalAssada]

Just saw that Polina is staking to Light of the Seven. I cannot wait to see it! (Why not get in character, though?).