Martin Bidar finished school already and wanted to move abroad to another coach. But Anna is still high school student and has one more year ahead. She is determined to finish school properly with final exams (we call it "maturita"), so she refused to leave Czech Republic.
Yep. As I explained in the paragraphs below the one you quoted. (Thanks for mentioning the name of the exams. I couldn't remember what they were called).
I was trying to keep my explanation to the core reason because, as
Jana explained in the
post after your's, there were a lot of other factors that turned it very messy.
According to this article - yes. But it was something "btw her new partner is ...". They should do this better way but I think they are waiting for Anna. I saw on her IG that she has something wrong with the knee and she need crutches and wear a support. I hope it will be OK.
Thank you. You are right that the article didn't dwell much on the new partnership. They talked about the old partnership (understanably enough, given their success), but only glossed over the new partnership. Which makes it sound like the writer at least is not too confident about this new partnership.
Martin, according to his Instagram, is is St. Petersburg (Russia). He didn't post anything about skating but yesterday he has a day off. So is he maybe trying to skate with someone? Or just a camp?
It's hard to tell at this time of year, with so many camps going on.
There was a gossip on a Russian forum that he skates with Nika Osipova and that their coach will be Natalia Pavlova.
Nika Osipova is a Russian junior pair skater. She didn’t look that bad a year ago, when she skated with Galliamov. She had triples. Then Galliamov left her to skate with Mishina and Osipova was paired with a pair beginner
You know, I feel for these skaters that switch from Singles to Pairs. It can't be easy for them to learn a discipline that is so radical compared to what they are used to. Especially when they get paired up with somebody who did quite well in their previous partnership. There is an expectation that they will carry on from where they left off. Which would put a lot of pressure on the raw rookie of the partnership.
So, I too have a lot of sympathy for Tarasenko. I hope it was his decision that Pairs wasn't for him, and that he wasn't just thrown to the side for not being "on it" straight away.
My heart sank when you started talking about Pavlova's reputation. Those images of the state Antipova was left in will never leave my mind. I still often think of her and wonder how she is doing now.
Is it possible to train under Russian coach and in Russia when you are not Rusian/don't skate for Russia? I don't know any skaters/pairs who do that.
It is possible. It wasn’t possible only the year or two coming to Sochi Olympics, which is understandable.
Russian coaches coaching foreign pairs - as far as I remember, the Serbian pair (Serbian lady and Russian guy skating for Serbia) are coached by Larionov. Alexandrovskaya/Windsor also spent some time in Russia being coached by Mozer. There were several more half Russian pairs training in Russia and skating for another country. And dancers too, e.g. Hurtardo/Khaliavin train with Zhulin in Russia and compete for Spain.
Are you possibly thinking of Lana Petranović / António Souza-Cordeiro who skate for Croatia? I keep forgetting that he is Russian, because of the Portuguese name.
The thing about the examples
hanca mentioned is that all of them include at least one skater who is Russian. So, although they are not representing Russia, there is still that connection.
But what about the situation we had in Ladies Singles, where Carolina Kostner and Li Zijun training with Mishin last season? Admittedly, Zijun ended up not doing any international competitions. And you saw Mishin with Carolina less often as the season went on. But, he was still part of her team.
Personally, I don't have a problem in Russian coaches working with skaters representing other countries.
I can understand why the Russian Fed mightn't like it, as these other skaters might end up beating the skaters that are actually representing Russia. But, at the same time, it is a glowing endorsement of how good the Russian system is that skaters from other countries want to train with Russian coaches.
So, it can work for the Russian Fed as well.
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