2025 European Championships Pairs SP

[AlexBreeze]

all those tapes...

They've been taped up since the Grand Prix

According to the Russian broadcast, one of her shoulders was injured a few years ago while attempting an ultra-с element and the other one was injured last summer.

 

[4everchan]

Georgian lady is unimpressed (@4everchan where are you?)

Did anyone call me ?

 

[elektra blue]

Did anyone call me ?

 

[4everchan]

 

[LadyB]

i see Nikita and i think of my spiritual guide @LadyB

I love it when you remember not just our regular banter, but even the little remarks! I'll be back for FS - promise!

 

[elektra blue]

I love it when you remember not just our regular banter, but even the little remarks! I'll be back for FS - promise!

it's that i know you B

 

[labgoat]

Hi Everyone!
I quietly watched the final group of pairs - everyone fought hard. Minerva & Nikita were fantastic.
Pairs rewatch is done, but I cannot stay up for ladies..but will join the fun tomorrow once I get home. Go everyone! Go Laura, Kimmy, Nina, and Niina and Anastasia - lets get my predictions off to a better start than my dismal US Nats.

 

[Ares]

Another very bad skate. The Hungarian had a 1S & 1A (was it even a solo axel?)

 

[Skater Boy]

Minerva Fabienne and Nikita had a great skate! Don't get the deduction though. I thought it was pretty perfect.

Time violation

 

[Ruthypegs]

Hello everybody. Icelandic pair coming up!

It was nice to see all the support they had from the audience today - lots of Icelandic flags

 

[4everchan]

wrong thread deleted

 

[paulusfr]

Volodin's face at the end of the program as if it were a horror show and not a program about angry exes.

 

[ajingmarg]

Minerva & Nikita had a very solid skate! She's a joy to watch in particular. They lost some potential +GOE points for their SBS spin clearly due to them getting out of sync. The triple twist & their throw were fantastic.

Level 3 twist fantastic?

 

[thatdarncat]

Just caught up on the pairs, amazing result for Luke and Anastasia lets hope they can go all out tomorrow!

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Level 3 twist fantastic?

What does the level have to do with how good a twist is? There are only five criteria (woman's split, no upper body contact during catch, woman's above-head arm position, difficult take-off/exit, man's arm position dropping to (below) shoulder level) for achieving levels on twists, and many teams do not even attempt to achieve level fours due to that.

Sui/Han's 4Tw never got a level 4 and still, it was almost always amazing. Liu/Nagy's huge, effortless 3Tw got a level 4 only once, but it was still clearly the class of the field in terms of execution.

 

[aroundtheworld778]

What does the level have to do with how good a twist is? There are only five criteria (woman's split, no upper body contact during catch, woman's above-head arm position, difficult take-off/exit, man's arm position dropping to (below) shoulder level) for achieving levels on twists, and many teams do not even attempt to achieve level fours due to that.

Sui/Han's 4Tw never got a level 4 and still, it was almost always amazing. Liu/Nagy's huge, effortless 3Tw got a level 4 only once, but it was still clearly the class of the field in terms of execution.

is is difficult for the woman to get the split, is that why there are few level 4 twists?
I don't think there's any woman currently doing it with above-head arm position.

 

[aroundtheworld778]

it looked fine to me

what was wrong with the death spiral?

 

[Jumping_Bean]

is is difficult for the woman to get the split, is that why there are few level 4 twists?
I don't think there's any woman currently doing it with above-head arm position.

Both legs individually have to be straight (or at least as close to straight as possible) and 45° from the woman's body axis, which sounds easy enough, I guess, but most tech panels have been quite strict about it recently.

While there aren't a lot of people (if any) doing above-head arm positions anymore, some quite well-known teams switched to doing it due to never being able to achieve a proper split position (Aljona Savchenko for example) or even going for the 4Tw instead (like Yulia Artemieva/Alexei Briukhanov).

 

[Jumping_Bean]

what was wrong with the death spiral?

Initially, I thought that maybe her position was too high, but on closer inspection, it seems like Luka slipped off the toe pick for a short moment during the base revolution. This would be enough to invalidate the death spiral.

 

[moonvine]

Isn't the starting order based on world ranking pts.? M/B then shouldn't be last in the penultimate group. Has anything changed, I didn't recognize?

I'm just watching now and I thought the commentator said it was based on world ranking points.