I remember Val working hard on jumps during Max's recovery- she would post instagram clips- but maybe it's a technique problem as you say, which will be hard to correct.
Winter had posted she was looking for a new partner. Maybe she found one and Max is choreographing?
Unfortunately that's not very relevant to the scores (other than fewer one point deductions)
Both their programs were very well done.Moot point on both ends. Sigh...
M/P seemingly have had more difficulties with their fp this season. Hopefully, they will work things out over the coming weeks, as 2026 U.S. Nationals is early in January.Congrats to E/M for their silver and K/O for their bronze at Finlandia!!
M/P had a pretty disastrous free skate at Warsaw Cup but it's good to get those bad skates out now and not at Nationals.
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I couldn't find their fanfest to post it but here is Shin/Nagy fs. I loved seeing Audrey happy.
I don't recall ever seeing Val look this good on jumps and throws. But, this time, it's the formerly steadier Max who is having trouble with his jump landings. Sigh. But the throws look solid. If Max gets his act together and Val remains as confident, there will be a very exciting battle at U.S. Nationals. What do you mean? Val and Audrey both landed good throws and were okay on some sbs jumps in the Golden Spin YT videos.
As much as I wish things were different, I do not believe the US Federation has THAT kind of influence with the Immigration authorities. Even if Alisa/Misha had won a World medal in Boston it might not been enough. So I doubt very much that their non-participation in GPF has made any difference in that regard.«С первого дня говорим по-русски». Звезды сборной США – Ефимова и Митрофанов
Интервью от Багрянцевой.m.sports.ru
An interesting interview with Alisa & Misha by Russian sports journalist, Maya Bagryantseva, who resides in the U.S. The article is translatable to English, or the link may pop up already translated to English.
It is not looking very good at the moment for Alisa to get her passport waiver. It might have helped had they fared even better on the GP and made GPF. At least, they won silver at Finlandia Trophy with a memorable outing.
I said jumps not throws
Just making a comment that none of them made positive goe on jumpsThanks for making your distinction about positive GOE. What you said earlier is: "not a single usa pairs woman had a clean jump..." I haven't seen Liu/ Bedard's performances at Golden Spin, but certainly both Audrey and surprisingly, Val, landed clean sbs jumps. No matter that persnickety judges decided not to deem the jumps worthy positive GOE.I said jumps not throws
