Stepanova / Bukin hopefully
Elena Ilinykh is calling for you Bukin ! :scowl:
Can you accept that S/B are actually not splitting up?
Stepanova / Bukin hopefully
Elena Ilinykh is calling for you Bukin ! :scowl:
Can you accept that S/B are actually not splitting up?
it doesn't matter because she is getting taller by the day
their partnership will end sooner or later
ice dance is dead.
ice dance is dead.
In Russia it is.
I wish R/T left Gorshkov instead of splitting up....they seemed to have been stuck in a rut for awhile, but it seems to me that sticking with Gorshkov was the real problem behind their stagnation.
R/T just never gelled for me. I far preferred Riazanova when she skated with Guerrerio (? I never could spell it for some reason) so I will be happy to see them back together if that is true.
Devidas has been talking about retiring after this season for a while now. His dream, from what I gather, was always to be able to represent Lithuania, and he was finally able to accomplish that in Sochi (his partner at the time of the Vancouver games, Copely, was denied Lithuanian citizenship so they were not able to compete). I've read that Tobias has been looking for a partner for next season for awhile now.
AFAIR, Jonathon's father's name is Portuguese, not Spanish.
Skater ladies often grow later, because they may severy restrict their food intake when they are young. Consider the case of Dan Zhang, not to mention Lucinda Ruh, both of whom grew in their mid 20's.
Furthermore, skyfly is not realistic about the height difference that is needed in dance to be successful.
Exactly!!
For me, Stagniunas / Tobias had the potential to go on and get into the Top 10 in the World, which would be a great achievement for a small country like Lithuania. So, I am surprised that Deividas did not share that belief.
Lithuania was well represented from the mid 1990's to 2002 by ice dancers Margarita Drobiazko/Povilas Vanagas. They were 3 time GPF bronze medalists, 3 time European bronze medalists and 2000 World bronze medalists. They retired after the 2002 Olympics, but returned to compete again in 2006. In 2002, they placed 5th and filed a petition stating the 2 teams ahead of them fell and weren't penalized. Personally, they were the team that first made ice dancing a consistent favorite discipline for me.