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2024 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge Junior Competitions

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CaroLiza_fan

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This is fun. Keeping an eye out for two skaters, when you don't even know what one of them looks like! :drama: :laugh:

Well, at least Varvara is easy to spot, since I've already seen her this season. White team jacket over a blue jumpsuit.

Aha! Vasilisa is wearing a black team jacket over a salmon coloured dress. I spotted the shape of the island on her back when she was getting up from a fall... :slink:

But she did a nice jump just before the end of the warm-up.

EDIT: During the break before the Junior Men's SP, I went back and watched the Group 1 Warm-Up again to check something that was bugging me. And I was right. They barely showed Varvara at all during the Warm-Up. Any time she was in shot, she was just in the background skating across the ice. We didn't see her do any elements. 😞

Vasilisa, meanwhile, was in the back ground of shots quite a few times, and we even got to see her doing some elements. HOWEVER, the shots weren't great! :drama: For example, there was a time when she did a jump just at the edge of the shot. And another time when the camera was zoomed in on a skater at the far side of the rink, and then Vasilisa's blurred head popped up into the screen when she was doing a jump closer to the camera.

We saw Vasilisa fall twice. The first time, she took off in the background of a shot of Anastassiya ENGELGARDT (KAZ), and then the director switched to a camera pointing directly at Vasilisa mid-jump, and we saw her falling and getting up. The second time was a similar scenario. The camera was again focussed on the same skater. Anastassiya did a jump and fell, and then Vasilisa in the background jumped and fell. Then the director changed to a different shot of Anastassiya moving away, and we saw Vasilisa getting up in the background.​

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Some nice flexibility in Anna SANNIKOVA spins. First of multiple Annas in this group. :)
 
Wow! That is some size of a display of flowers sitting in front of the armchairs! It's so big you can barely see the skater sitting behind them! It's just a head popping out from a mass of flowers!

:)​
💐 💐💐

CaroLiza_fan
 
I take it that Anna IUSHCHENKOVA (ISR) is the sister of Viktoriia IUSHCHENKOVA (ISR) who is competing in Seniors later on.

Don't like this remix of "Sweet Dreams", but at least it is the Eurythmics rather than a cover.

Ooops! The announcer said she was from Kazakhstan when she finished. :eek: Well, I suppose she is sandwiched between skaters from Kazakhstan whose first names start with the same letters.

Not bad. And a really nice black dress.

Awwww. She looks so tiny behind the flowers. Hang on, it's because she was lying back. When she sat up she didn't quite look so small.

Now she's tying her laces or something, and is completely hidden by the flowers!

She goes into the lead.

CaroLiza_fan
 
Bit of a cleaner skate for Anna IUSHCHENKOVA. She is currently ahead with 48.40 pts
 
I take it skater #3 is not here, so we go straight onto my new kid.

No, hang on, she is here. It just took a long time to introduce her. (And going to the overhead shot just further confused matters).

CaroLiza_fan
 
And I am glad Anastassiya ENGELGARDT (KAZ) wasn't missing. I loved that programme to "Show Me How You Burlesque" by Christina Aguilera!!!

:cheer: :clap: :rock: :party2: :points: :hb:

But, I do usually enjoy to programmes to music from "Burlesque" (and they are playing more music from the film in the rink during the highlights!)

Lovely white dress with gold trim. And the skating was good too!

She goes into 3rd position

CaroLiza_fan
 
Here we go. First time seeing my new kid. And going by her past scores, she should be good.

:cheer: ALL THE BEST VASILISA!!! :cheer:

CaroLiza_fan
 
Bright costume from Vasilisa BOGOMOLOVA that matches her hair. I like the way she attacks the elements of her program with gusto. She is promising and I am looking forward to watching her grow.
 
Oh, boys. She's tiny! :jaw:

She's wearing a dress that is black in the top half, and red in the bottom half.

"Bolero" with lyrics?! That's something different.

Lovely jump to start off with.

Combination jump looked effortless.

Combination spin good too.

Fall on next jump.

I see Varvara warming up in the background!

No further jumps, but everything she did in the second half looked good.

Have to be honest, I didn't like the vocals. But the skating more than made up for it.

Wow. She's a little jumping bean! Just like her team-mate in a couple of skaters time!

She certainly lived up to my expectations, having seen her scores in domestic competitions in Russia.

Should be the new leader.

She is. By a large margin.

:cheer: WELL DONE VASILISA!!! :cheer:

CaroLiza_fan
 
Valentina ANDRIANOVA from Germany wanted to "Be Italian".

Not a bad skate.

She goes into 2nd position.

CaroLiza_fan
 
Now for the second of my little jumping beans from Moscow via Cyprus.

:cheer: ALL THE BEST VARVARA!!!

CaroLiza_fan
 
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Oh, boys. She's tiny! :jaw:

She's wearing a dress that is black in the top half, and red in the bottom half.

"Bolero" with lyrics?! That's something different.

Lovely jump to start off with.

Combination jump looked effortless.

Combination spin good too.

Fall on next jump.

I see Varvara warming up in the background!

No further jumps, but everything she did in the second half looked good.

Have to be honest, I didn't like the vocals. But the skating more than made up for it.

Wow. She's a little jumping bean! Just like her team-mate in a couple of skaters time!

She certainly lived up to my expectations, having seen her scores in domestic competitions in Russia.

Should be the new leader.

She is. By a large margin.

:cheer: WELL DONE VASILISA!!! :cheer:

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She is a cutie - a little red chili bean.
I am on break at work and just checking in.
 
I didn't think I would be saying this given that she is wearing royal blue, but Varvara's dress blends in too well with the ice! Well, the event logo on the ice, that is. :laugh:

OK. It looked almost like the combination was added onto the first jump as an after-thought! But, she does normally start with a combination jump.

Individual jump good. As was combination spin that followed.

Next jump and spin good too.

Step sequence and ending section good too!

That was good. She should be right up there.

Yep, she goes into 3rd position.

But, I have to add in the caveat that for some reason she normally doesn't do as well in the Free Skate.

Hopefully she will break that trend this week.

:cheer: WELL DONE VARVARA!!! :cheer:

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labgoat said:
She is a cutie - a little red chili bean.
I am on break at work and just checking in.
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I'll be honest, I didn't even know what Vasilisa looked like until I saw her in the Warm-Up. But, having seen Varvara regularly over the past couple of seasons and having seen that Vasilisa's scores have tended to be a good bit higher than Varvara's, I knew she was going to be good.

And boys but she was!

Glad you were able to join us for a bit.

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She is darling with those long limbs. :)
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Yes. She may be tiny overall, but Varvara does have long limbs. And it does emphasise what she is doing.

And if you think these two are cute little jumping beans, wait until you see Advanced Novice skater Olivia Bazlova. Although she too is Russian, she has lived almost her whole life in Cyprus, and started skating there. So, she grew up as part of the Cypriot system, rather than joining it late on.

CaroLiza_fan
 
I absolutely loved this programme from Jasmine COETZEE (ZAF) when we saw it in Ostrava a few weeks ago. And I loved it again now!

Ach. She's sitting all on her own. 😞 Given that she was born here in Kazakhstan, I would have thought somebody would be with her.

She goes into 7th position.

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