2025 Skate to Milano Pairs Free Skate

[flanker]

That was bad by Valesi/Bidař. Much worse than last week at Lombardia

 

[FlossieH]

Not the skate Anna and Martin wanted. It looks like they did get some credit for the aborted lift, though, and it was right to bring it down. They fit together well as a pair.

 

[labgoat]

Anna VALESI / Martin BIDAR CZE are also having a rough go with some of the elements. They are beautiful matched in heights, looks and ability. Their lines are lovely. As the season goes on they should be able to build from this and grow.

 

[Isk]

He was competing back in juniors with with Anna Duskova and it was forever ago, she is probably out of college by now. One really can't afford to mess up a lift and then a couple of throws. But they are a nice looking couple with Anna Valese.

 

[auser]

Sorry about the lift but lovely partner for protecting her.

 

[Princessroja]

Question, would you consider bringing a baby wearing headphones to a skating event?

Oh gosh no. I wouldn't be concerned for their hearing without headphones; I don't think skating gets that loud. Maybe at the really big events with the cheering, but otherwise no. But for me personally, we really have very little money to travel, and I wouldn't consider it worth the sacrifices to go if I had to wrangle a baby while trying to watch the skating. A newborn might be a different story. They're so portable!

 

[EdgeCall]

Another beautiful program spoiled by too many mistakes. The effort they put into their training is visible but something refused to click in.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Anna VALESI / Martin BIDAR (CZE)
Notre Dame de Paris

3Tw3 Nice
3S Hand, step
2A+1A+2A Hop
5ALiB Came down
2LzTh Nice
3STh Hand, step
BoDs4
ChSq1
5RLi4
3Li4 Love
PCoSp4

Score: 98.94
Total: 156.11

I'll repeat, this dress reminds me of Young You's. Shame about the aborted lift, their lifts are usually their most consistent elements. I guess the pressure got to them here. Still, much better than what I expected after Czech test skates, and I think they'll be even better later on in the season. Anna is such a lovely person, she's adorable.

 

[labgoat]

That long shot of the lift showed her rocking all over while he tried to stabilize his feet. So glad they wisely brought it down safely.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Lovely Triple Twist to start with

Not a great landing on Triple Salchow for Anna.

Or on the last part of the sequence of Axels.

Had to abort the Axel Lasso lift.

The Throw Triple Flip was good.

Dodgy landing with hand down from Anna on Throw Triple Salchow

Next few elements good.

Martin nearly lost his balance at the start of the Group 3 Lift. That would have been a disaster!

They both look so relieved when it was over.

Well, after such great results at the Merano Trophy and Lombardia Trophy, they came back down to Earth with a bump. But, we have to remember that this is a very new partnership.

Big group hug between them and Ondřej. They are all being philosphical about it.

They go into 3rd position in both FS and overall.

WELL DONE ANNA AND MARTIN!!!

CaroLiza_fan

 

[labgoat]

Warm-Up Group 3
8 Yuna NAGAOKA / Sumitada MORIGUCHI JPN
9 Karina AKOPOVA / Nikita RAKHMANIN ARM
10 Camille KOVALEV / Pavel KOVALEV FRA
11 Jiaxuan ZHANG / Yihang HUANG CHN

 

[bartlebooth]

Pavel is showing off his arms

 

[labgoat]

Jiaxuan is such a little boss looking back at her partner - hurry up!

 

[Ichatdelune]

I'll repeat, this dress reminds me of Young You's.

Oh wow thank you, I was trying to figure out why her dress was so familiar, it was Young's Les Mis dress

 

[labgoat]

Pavel is showing off his arms

He worked for those - why not!

 

[labgoat]

Love Yuna & Sumitada's costumes

 

[Ichatdelune]

It's so sad that at least one of these teams will not make it

 

[yuumagical]

Oh gosh no. I wouldn't be concerned for their hearing without headphones; I don't think skating gets that loud. Maybe at the really big events with the cheering, but otherwise no. But for me personally, we really have very little money to travel, and I wouldn't consider it worth the sacrifices to go if I had to wrangle a baby while trying to watch the skating. A newborn might be a different story. They're so portable!

I see... it's just that at the last tournament I was at (Worlds 2024), there were two women that had brought a baby there with headphones and I was curious to see your opinion on whether that sort of thing would be appropriate. I didn't think it would be appropriate, but the baby handled herself surprisingly well...

 

[yuumagical]

I'm fading really fast, please send kind thoughts to the Japanese team for me...

 

[labgoat]

It's so sad that at least one of these teams will not make it

That's the part about Olympic year that is the saddest - the dreams that don't happen