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2023-24 Retirements, Splits and New Partnerships

sunyafei said:
Han Cong has announced on Chinese social media that he will not be participating any competition during this Olympic cycle. He wished the best for Sui and probably implied his retirement.
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I feel fortunate that I got to see a fabulous pair team skate in person once. They achieved the super slam together. I think they’re the first pairs team to do that together.
 
Can anyone tell me who Anna Lavrova and Jonathan Rogers were? US dancers or a US pair? I found out on Twitter (I refuse to call it 'X', meh) that they split, but the tweet doesn't mention the category. I didn't feel like searching online...
 
GoneWithTheWind said:
Junior Worlds and JGPF, plus Worlds, 4CC (or Europeans), GPF and Olympics
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But it's questionable about their age eligibility when they won the junior comps, in the beginning. Chinese fed has been known to play fast and loose with the ages of their athletes.

Sui/Han were incredible together nonetheless. At first, they were more known for their acrobatic tricks. Eventually, they grew aesthetically. For me, their legacy is about desire, determination, and pure will. Certainly, they hung on by a thread over the last Olympic cycle, in pursuit of the elusive OGM, and they won it by a thread too.

It sounds like Sui is contemplating a return, for yet another Olympics. It will be interesting if she's able to find a competent partner, forget about another Cong Han. As it is, Sui was hampered by her foot injury, and experienced hiccoughs on her salchow jump. Han suffered injuries too, and he apparently wants to move on. For some skaters, though, their competitive desire never burns out.
 
Since we now have the Taking a Break category: it was announced during German Monitoring Skates that Nicole Schott is taking a break from competition. She didn't perform at the monitoring either.

DEU-Monitoring in Oberstdorf: Eiskunstlauf-Nationalteam testet Programme für neue Saison

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CrazyKittenLady said:
Since we now have the Taking a Break category: it was announced during German Monitoring Skates that Nicole Schott is taking a break from competition. She didn't perform at the monitoring either.

DEU-Monitoring in Oberstdorf: Eiskunstlauf-Nationalteam testet Programme für neue Saison

Die Deutsche Eislauf-Union e.V. ist nationaler Spitzenverband für Eiskunstlaufen, Eistanz und Synchroneiskunstlaufen und einer von nur 7 olympischen Wintersportverbänden.
www.eislauf-union.de www.eislauf-union.de
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That's sad. I really enjoyed her skating last season.
 
Anastasiia Smirnova and Danylo Siianytsia (US senior pairs team) have announced the end of their partnership. She is stepping away from skating while he will look for a new partner.



Sad to see the end of this partnership, although, with their injury troubles, it's not overly surprising. They did have some beautiful moments in their programs and made a very elegant team.
Good luck to them both in the future.
 
GoneWithTheWind said:
Anastasiia Smirnova and Danylo Siianytsia (US senior pairs team) have announced the end of their partnership. She is stepping away from skating while he will look for a new partner.



Sad to see the end of this partnership, although, with their injury troubles, it's not overly surprising. They did have some beautiful moments in their programs and made a very elegant team.
Good luck to them both in the future.
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I do agree about it not being surprising, but it's quite sad nonetheless. As juniors, they were already very promising, and after they had made great improvements following Daniil's injury at the start of last season, I was hopeful that they'd have a wonderful future to come - And then came Anastasiia's injury.

They hopefully will still have a wonderful future, just not together or on the ice, in Nastya's case. The split kind of comes at a bit of an inopportune moment for Daniil, a lot of good pairs women (even those who were partnerless for a while) have recently found a partner and while there are still some options, there might be issues in finding one that works for him (as he is rather short).
 
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