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For the ladies Russian Nationals in importance trails only World's and Olympics. I would include Europeans in that but they only allowed three Russians in so they're disqualified.
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For the ladies Russian Nationals in importance trails only World's and Olympics. I would include Europeans in that but they only allowed three Russians in so they're disqualified.
Utter BS. She had facial expression absolutely matching her program https://imgur.com/a/24uASvU That's one of the reasons why this program is such a masterpiece.
Ilya Averbukh is helluva choreographer.
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I agree with you! He has choreographed phenomenal programs. But the skater has to be able to deliver it.
I can assure you that Kamila's facial expression is NOT the reason most people think that that program is a masterpiece lool.
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Maybe I would suggest a kind of intermediate position. I think that Veronika's Ice Age performance and this clip
show a real (and joyful) musicality and love of performing too. I think that in the Cup events I remember and in Nationals she was maybe just a little nervous or restrained somehow. I have been a performer and I know that sometimes you have that indefinable "something" and sometimes you don't.
[Haven't gone back to re-watch all of her shorts and longs from Cup and Nationals though.]
EDIT: Won't let me embed for some reason. Had it cued to 00:48.
show a real (and joyful) musicality and love of performing too. I think that in the Cup events I remember and in Nationals she was maybe just a little nervous or restrained somehow. I have been a performer and I know that sometimes you have that indefinable "something" and sometimes you don't.
[Haven't gone back to re-watch all of her shorts and longs from Cup and Nationals though.]
EDIT: Won't let me embed for some reason. Had it cued to 00:48.
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I just remembered some of his other choreos and I have to say, choreographers (and jump technicians) are the most important part of figure skating.
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That sure was an interesting K&C moment. Was this competition really so important
She did pretty good though in the free. Nice to see
Thanks to Flanker for clarifying about the competition and its role in qualification for (little) Dasha.
Is it just me, or is she really good at twizzles? She certainly does a lot of them.
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Aww that video is really cute. haha. Thank you for sharing
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Pandemic silver lining!
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Seems like it's Zhilina musicality appreciation time!
and a token baby Zhilina (yes, I know, she's still a baby lol)
and a token baby Zhilina (yes, I know, she's still a baby lol)
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Reason or not, you can't say her facial expression wasn't matching her program, let alone call her "blank-faced". That's a lie.
It's not up to Daniil, it is Eteri's prerogative and I bet she knows a thing or two about Olympic programs. Bolero is a great piece of music, choreography is exquisite and I couldn't wish anything better for Kamila's Olympic season FS.Since Kamila is the next in a long row of these Russian girls, and the pattern has been proven time and time again, I assume she will "retire without retirering" either directly after or 1-2 seasons after the Olympics.
So Daniil PLEASE, give this girl the FS she deserves, what a waste it would be to make her skate this Bolero in the Olympic season
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"No need for sweeping, Alina, there are no medals this time."
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I wasn’t talking about a specific performance just trying to offer a different perspective to you saying that “Daria is way behind Veronika in PCS”
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"Do not ever underestimate the heart of a champion." - Rudy Tomjanovich
Amazing video! Anya is so much stronger than she looks. Let's hope she can get to 100% health by Worlds.
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It's a bounce.
I’m sure Anna would prefer to call herself world champion or Olympic champion to 3x national champion.
Alina/ Adelina are always referred to as Olympic champion.
Evgenia/Liza always as world champion.
Their Russian titles are literally only mentioned after their international ones.
I get you Anna stans want to make her achievements more special, but maybe just wait until she achieves something internationally.
And sure all her skates on the national scene are good, but that’s because they don’t have the same pressure as international. She first needs to perform her best at those events.
To date, she has competed in 3 major international competitions, and has come second each time. Meaning someone else always did it better...
Alina/ Adelina are always referred to as Olympic champion.
Evgenia/Liza always as world champion.
Their Russian titles are literally only mentioned after their international ones.
I get you Anna stans want to make her achievements more special, but maybe just wait until she achieves something internationally.
And sure all her skates on the national scene are good, but that’s because they don’t have the same pressure as international. She first needs to perform her best at those events.
To date, she has competed in 3 major international competitions, and has come second each time. Meaning someone else always did it better...
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Let’s just ignore that all those kids scored in the same range in PCS in that competition, and some were getting very generous GOEs on their jumps as well. That would be inconvenient.It's a bounce.
we can certainly take a score for Sofia Muravyova from Cup of Moscow where she won with 56 in PCS with a clean skate, and just in 3 weeks at JrNats she got 65 in PCS. One could spin in it into “wow, look at the sudden 9 point PCS score increase she got in 3 weeks, what a miracle”
Or people can actually have a look and see that Cup of Moscow was kind of strict and conservative with scoring everyone and not take these scores out of context. Certainly people here in some cases would prefer not to look at the full picture.
Though, one got to appreciate how due to Eteri skaters people started watching some small meaningless novice competitions just to scrutinize the scores her skaters receive, and remembering all the scores they received prior to that. Talk about increasing interest in the sport!
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You really don't think that those skaters aren't under great pressure to win at Nationals? Look at a couple months ago, Shcherbakova was skating to be the first ladies skater since Slutskaya did it from 1999-2001 to win 3 consecutive national championships, additionally Shcherbakova was under pressure that she had yet to do a program run-through since she had come down with pneumonia.
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It's not Anna I'm worried about. She has 3 quads and can upgrade. Plus there are 3 spots on the Olympics team. It's others spots..Every year has supposedly been game over for Anna Shcherbakova and somehow she keeps hacking that game.
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