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Vayana Hristova and Axel Ahmed are a new pairs team. Looks like they will skate for Bulgaria.
2024-25 Retirements, Splits and New Partnerships
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I actually assumed they would skate for France as he tagged the French Skating fed (in the picture, not the caption), but maybe they haven't made the final decision yet? Anyways, I hope we get to see this partnership make it to competitions.
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I somehow interpreted it that way
but you have a point. We will see.
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Delighted to hear that Vayana has finally found a Pairs partner. It has been a very long year for those of us that are fans of her.
After being so impressed with her when she was competing in Singles at Novice level, it was so sad seeing her really struggle in Juniors in the season that is just finishing. For somebody who was used to fighting for the top positions in Novices, it must have been so demoralising for her to be near the bottom of the field in her debut season in Juniors.
It was obvious that competing in Singles at the same time as searching for a Pairs partner wasn't working. But now she can focus.
Looking forward to seeing her and Axel in action.
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I somehow interpreted it that way
Going by the number of photos of Paris that Vayana has been posting on Instagram in the past couple of months, it looks to me that it is more likely that they will be representing France. Or, at least, that they are training in that country.
Incidentally, Axel also announced that Louis Thauron is choreographing their FS:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKZ-GEdIYHR/
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Not a great off-season for German skating so far...
This is false information.
TIke Zhang (one of the most prominent figure skating bloggers in China) has confirmed personally with Grigorii about this information and he said he doesn't have an Italian passport
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Yep, Vayana is Chiara's younger sister.
I adopted both of them on here a couple of years ago.
And don't worry, Chiara is still active. Unfortunately, she's not been scoring as high this season, so we haven't been seeing her as often as usual on the international circuit.
But, hopefully she'll be back on form this coming season.
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Emma Aalto and Millie Colling are a new Junior Ice Dance team and are the first same-gender team for Finland.
They won't be able to compete internationally yet, but it's good to see another country changing the rules to allow for same-gender teams
I hope the Finnish Fed and Canadian fed host some competitions where same sex dance teams can compete "internationally", with other federations joining them. The more this grows, the better possibilities of the ISU taking notice.
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As a separate event in the competition, do you mean? Or as part of the general ice dance event? Just curious.
As part of an ice dance event. Of course, it's not possible right now in ISU competitions as it's not sanctioned by the ISU, but to host non-ISU competitions. Pairs of course is more complicated with biological advantages which can be discussed further, but for ice dance by default it is pretty fair for same sex teams of any gender to compete together
(I think if we discuss further though, we should use a seperate thread).
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Could that perhaps just mean she has an injury that will take a long time to heal? Or does the disappearance from WS always mean a skater asked their federation to be removed, presumably because they want to quit skating and focus on university etc?
They have to ask to be removed from the World Standings list. That's why it's being assumed this is retirement.
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So.. forgive my lack of knowledge in these matters. Out of curiosity, is she able to compete in any way at all say in Challengers? ( My guess is probably not..)
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