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Alena Kostornaia

Some updates ahead of NHK Trophy!

1) Aliona skates first in the first practice group on Thursday afternoon (starts at 1:00pm local time)! :eek:
http://www.isuresults.com/schedules/gpjpn2019_PracticeGroupsAndMusicRotation.pdf

I wonder if we'll get some livestreamed practices...Or at least some practice notes on Twitter or something.
Since she's going first, she won't have much time to warm up her triple axel, so I wonder if she'll omit them from the run-through... :think: My guess is she'll do an FS run-through on Thursday, and then the SP run-through on Friday morning.

2) Here's the NHK (TV channel) listing of the ladies competitors:
https://www.nhk.or.jp/figure/entries/index.html?cat=2
For Aliona, it lists how she's done at JGP/Jr Worlds over 2017-18, and at the bottom it says "Winner of GP France. Last season, she won the Junior Grand Prix Final with a then-record score. Her strong points are her speed and dynamic movements, which she maintains until the end of the program." :agree:

3) Aliona won't have Daria there with her this time, but Alina will be with her again, and she seems like a good older-sister teammate, and Sofia will be there, and she and Aliona are very close too. So I think she'll have lots of fun in Japan too. :yes:

4) There wasn't a banquet after the competition at IDF, but there will be one at NHK. Can't wait to see all the pics!! :biggrin:

5) I wonder if Eteri will go to NHK Trophy... :confused: Japan is far away, so I'd understand if she doesn't, but she did show up for 1 of Anna's and 1 of Sasha's GP events, so it only seems fair for her to go... Plus, this is the last GP event so she doesn't have to be training someone for next week's competition. I guess we'll see!

6) I'm afraid to write what I hope for Aliona for fear that I might jinx her... :slink: But I really hope she does well at NHK!! :pray:
Right now Sasha and Anna seem to be more well-known in Japan because the Japanese media has been focusing on the quadsters, but since NHK Trophy will be broadcast live around primetime, Aliona really has an opportunity to win some more Japanese fans. :agree:

I guess I just hope she puts out two performances that she can be satisfied with! :hap10:
 
I'm starting to see some notes on Twitter now--Eteri is there!! ::yes2:

Warmup: 3S, 2A, 3Lo, 3F, 3Lz, 1A, 1A (as warmups). She is practicing the FS.

ETA:

Run-through:
3Afall
3Lz (fall maybe)
2A (2foot?)
spiral +3Lo
3F+3T rippon
3F+1Eu+3S
3Lz<<2ft
CCoSp
LSp

https://twitter.com/THEWORLD1889/status/1197366759906402304

The person commented "her condition looks pretty bad," but I'm not too worried. She probably just needs some time to get warmed up/used to the ice. :agree:
 
Batsuchan said:
I'm watching the practice stream here with a VPN:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/realtime/rt0001461.html

Aliona landed a 3A+3T rippon! :eek: :eek: See, I knew she just needed to get warmed up.

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I'm watching the practice stream here with a VPN:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/realtime/rt0001461.html

Aliona landed a 3A+3T rippon! :eek: :eek: See, I knew she just needed to get warmed up.
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I am so glad that Eteri is with her to help give her confidence. Hopefully the Japanese fans will give our little angel some confidence too!! There better be a video of that combo or I will be mad!! :laugh:

Hopefully Alena doesn’t feel too much pressure. All she needs to do is get fifth (although we all know that she wants the gold). I hope that she finds the same courage that she found at IDF!! Good luck to our angelic vampire!!
 
So I only found the practice live stream when the session was nearly done, but the camera person pretty much only followed Aliona around and ignored the other girls. :rofl:

Full practice notes:
https://twitter.com/0409_Obi/status/1197374685853274112

Some pics:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5HVqJYp0P5/

Here's a video of one of her 3A+2T's:
https://twitter.com/FCSp4GOE100/status/1197374826337329152

Since it was streamed, hopefully we'll get some more later, especially of that crazy 3A+3T! :eek: I'm sure that's not going into her FS, but it was quite a statement! :shocked:

I loved her practice outfit, and it looks like she got new earrings! :agree:

Also, it looked like she changed one of her combo spins a little bit, but I'm not 100% sure.

Ok, that's it from me for tonight. It wasn't a perfect practice by any means, but I'm pretty satisfied. :yes: The 3A's I saw that were good looked more secure (tighter axis) than at IDF. The one I saw that she fell on--it was pretty obvious that would happen because she didn't get the height she normally does.

ETA One more clip of a 3A+2T (a beautiful one) and with a smile!
https://twitter.com/bluerose173/status/1197379906532827136 :love:
 
Batsuchan said:
I'm watching the practice stream here with a VPN:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/realtime/rt0001461.html

Aliona landed a 3A+3T rippon! :eek: :eek: See, I knew she just needed to get warmed up.

- - - Updated - - -

I'm watching the practice stream here with a VPN:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/realtime/rt0001461.html

Aliona landed a 3A+3T rippon! :eek: :eek: See, I knew she just needed to get warmed up.
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Every single competition it’s something new from her and I love it! With the 4S on the planned elements for Kihira, do you think she’d throw in the 3A+3T for an edge if her SP score is lower? Kihira always has pretty high component scores and Aliona’s have been painfully low so I feel like she may be a bigger competitor than initially thought. Anyone have the technical totals for the two? Not that it guarantees Rika will actually land the 4S, which apparently from practice is still iffy, but, I’m getting nervous!
 
I caught her 3A3T on the livestream:
https://twitter.com/skateskates1/status/1197379197859246080?s=21

It’s such a beautiful combo, even though we probably won’t see if in competition due to her layout. I saw her land 4 3As and fall on one. Missed her runthru but it seems like she wasn’t really warmed up yet since she skated first. Didn’t miss any other triples or 2As that I saw. Also practiced some spins which looked good but the camera angles were zooming in on her feet a bunch.
 
sclloyd said:
Every single competition it’s something new from her and I love it! With the 4S on the planned elements for Kihira, do you think she’d throw in the 3A+3T for an edge if her SP score is lower? Kihira always has pretty high component scores and Aliona’s have been painfully low so I feel like she may be a bigger competitor than initially thought. Anyone have the technical totals for the two? Not that it guarantees Rika will actually land the 4S, which apparently from practice is still iffy, but, I’m getting nervous!
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The 3A+3T is just for practise fun. If she puts it into her FS, it will even lower her BV by almost 1 point...
 
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