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Funny thing I saw on twitter... there's a girl born April 1st 2014 who has the name Yuna Vitalievna Kim who is starting to compete in figure skating competitions.
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Спорт вокруг - сайт для тех, кто организует спортивные соревнования и участвует в них. Спорт вокруг - новый уровень ваших соревнований.
So a Russian girl, born after Sochi Olympics, named after Yuna Kim?Funny thing I saw on twitter... there's a girl born April 1st 2014 who has the name Yuna Vitalievna Kim who is starting to compete in figure skating competitions.
Спорт вокруг.
Спорт вокруг - сайт для тех, кто организует спортивные соревнования и участвует в них. Спорт вокруг - новый уровень ваших соревнований.Спорт вокруг.
Спорт вокруг - сайт для тех, кто организует спортивные соревнования и участвует в них. Спорт вокруг - новый уровень ваших соревнований.
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She probably is of Korean descent, judging by her surname, so maybe her parents decided to celebrate their heritage this way. Can't blame them, Yuna's skating is hypnotizing, but the girl has big skates to fill now.
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Thank you so much for the link. I love Sir Humphrey and only expect to learn anything in the fullness of time or at the appropriate juncture.
JGP Kosice (Aug 31st - Sep 4th) Adelia Petrosian and Veronika Zhilina (again!)
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They couldn't resist to confront TT and AoP...
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Im shocked Zhilina got a 2nd one without rusfed seeing how she does in the 1st one after last season. Im assuming she must have been impressive in practice this summer. Tho i do think if she doesnt do well in her 1st assigment this one does go away. We finally have a TT girl on the list, but still no Daria S or Sofia A on sub lists.
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Remember those lists are preliminary and can quickly change from one week to another.
Though, if Daria won't get a spot while Veronika was rewarded by two I'll be probably angry.
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OT: It surprised me Lara Naki Gutmann got an entry. I guess she needs some preparation before the Nebelhorn to improve her chance for getting an olympic spot.
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Zhilina getting a 2nd event already is a bit surprising. I expected RusFed to give first 3 or 4 events to different girls and then assign second event to the ones that performed the best. Maybe it will change after test skates, but even if the spots are provisional, I don't understand why it was Zhilina who was chosen to hold two already.
Agree, especially considering Zhilina has a habit of underperforming at competitions. Or maybe the Fed is hoping that with the provisional 2 spots it will help her competition mindset and that given her talent they are willing to risk the spots and see it she can work through her competition problems
On junior level, it doesn’t really matter who is on the list. Whoever turns up on the day is the person who will compete, as long as the skater was listed at least in alternates. It is not the same like with senior events. On junior level, it is the decision of each federation who they send, whereas in senior GP the skaters are invited by the host country.
So even if Zhilina was listed in every event, it doesn’t really mean that she will compete at least once.
I don’t think the federation put as much thought into the selection yet. Remember, the test skates did not happen, so their only knowledge is how each skater skated six months ago. As long as they submit a big enough group of skaters to be able to choose two decent skaters for each event, I don’t think they cared who they wrote on each spot and who is the alternate. There are no rules to make them to stick to those preliminary lists anyway.
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Who is the 5th skater in Group 2? Shiryaeva? Never heard of her. Is she from Siberia or something?
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Ш in cyrillic is "sh" so it is Shirayeva she finished 6th at Elder Age Champs. (Ulyana Shirayeva) she is listed as an alternate for 2 JGP's (JGP France I and JGP Slovakia)
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I just corrected my post right when you posted! I went and studied Russian Cyrillic alphabet and figured out the "SH". Interesting, I don't remember her at all. But thank you! It's hard reading these names!!
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You also need to distinguish between:
Ш -> Sh (like in the case of this girl Shirayeva or more known ice dancers Shevchenko, Shanaeva and others)
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Щ -> Shch (like Shcherbakova)
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Still it's kind of weird seeing Zhilina listed twice and Eteri girls just once alltogether so far.. I hope Sadkova will do well in test skates..
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Still it's kind of weird seeing Zhilina listed twice and Eteri girls just once alltogether so far.. I hope Sadkova will do well in test skates..
Maybe Zhilina has been awesome all summer and 'learned her lessons'? RusFed probably was keeping close tabs on her, and they like what they are seeing. Zhilina is an awesome practice skater, one of the best in the world, but she's going to need to do it in competition.
I am eagerly anticipating Sadkova's improvements. She is one who I think that once "it clicks" with her, she is going to progress very quickly. Not just a 3axel, but her skating caught my attention too, in the mold of Valieva. I can't wait!!!!! lol
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