2026 Silver Skate Winter Cup | Jan 29 - Feb 1

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Two Lithuanians to finish with. Starting with the one that is actually representing the host country.

Evelina STAVICKYTE (LTU) is wearing a beautiful royal blue and black dress, with gold pattern.

It's an "Exogenesis Symphony" programme. At least there hasn't been a hatchet job done on it like the last programme we saw to that music earlier.

That was beautiful.

She goes into 4th position in both the FS and overall.

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Milana. Elegant black dress. Lovely program and skate. Really clean skate, too.

 

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Vilnius girl Milana MOZEIKO (FRA) is wearing a plain black dress.

Skating to "Corps" by Yseult.

That was so beautiful. And so good.

I am pretty sure we have our winner.

And judging by her reaction when she finished, I think she is too!

Yep, like yesterday, they both know she's won. It's just a question of the score.

She goes into 2nd position in the FS, and wins overall.

Tears of joy!

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It's cactus time!

5 Seniors, followed by 1 Junior.

And the Junior is leading after the SP if you combine the competitions.

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Fedir KULISH (LAT) wearing all black. (I think they all are).

Skating to a couple of songs by Il Volo.

They were dark and haunting songs. And boys but Fedir interpreted them well.

It's a pity he messed up that jump near the end, because it was so good otherwise.

He was 6 points behind Daniel KORABELNIK (LTU) after the SP, so he would need mistakes from him or others to climb up. But, this should help to close up the gap.

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Daniel KORABELNIK (LTU) wearing a white T-shirt, black jacket, and black trousers.

Skating to Guns And Roses' cover of "Knocking On Heaven's Door".

You know, that was actually really good from Daniel.

Awwww. He's got a silver heart.

He goes into 2nd position in both the FS and overall.

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Sergey SOKOLOV (UKR) wearing all black.

I was going to say that he is doing a spooky programme. And then I started to realise that it was the "Schindler's List" music. Never heard this version of it before.

Oh, Sergey! You've just left the door open for your fellow Ukrainian, who is representing Latvia, to go through and claim a medal.

That was a hot mess.

They're keeping him waiting a very long time.

And I just noticed - it's not a sofa. It's a wooden bench with a blanket over it.

He goes into 2nd position in both the FS and overall.

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Kirills KORKACS (LAT) wearing all black.

Skating to "Blood Upon The Snow" by Hozier and Bear McCreary

That was so much better than anything we have seen so far.

No question about it, this is the new leader. And it is going to be by some margin.

No. He goes into 2nd position in both the FS and overall.

And I just looked at the actual scores. I didn't realise that Fedir was leading by quite as much as he was. Nobody is going to touch him.

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Nikolajs KRIVOSEJA (LAT) is wearing all black.

He is skating to music by Hans Zimmer from "King Arthur".

Well, he is going to need Merlin's help if he is to keep his overnight lead. But, he could make it three Latvian flags flying above the podium.

The fall in the second half, and the dodgy landings on his final two jumps aren't going to help his cause.

I reckon he'll drop down to third position.

Ouch! It's much worse than that!

He goes into 5th position in both the FS and overall.

Which means he's gone from winning the SP, to being last in both the FS and overall.

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It seems silly that Daniel RUIS (AUT) is doing a Warm-Up all on his own.

I just checked the Panels. They have changed Judge 2 from one Lithuanian to another. But otherwise, it is exactly the same people in exactly the same seats.

Why bother changing any of them for the sake of one skater?

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WHen he was doing his WArm-Up, I thought Daniel RUIS (AUT) was going to be another wearing all black. But, it was his jacket. HE is actually wearing a white T-shirt, with an open white shirt over it, and black trousers.

Skating to "Your Last Kiss" by Karl Hugo and "Dancing On My Own" by Calum Scott.

He was good. But I don't think good enough to stay ahead of Fedir Kulish in the Seniors.

He looked very disappointed when he finished and when he was coming off the ice.

And when he was sitting waiting for his scores. After they were announced, his coach got him to do the hand heart thing, but it was half-hearted on Daniel's part.

If we take the two Men's competitions together, he would be in 2nd position in both the FS and overall.

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We come back from the resurfacing, and it's girls for the rest of the day. Starting with a group of 6 Seniors doing their FS.

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Yay! We actually saw Liza doing a jump early on in the Warm-Up. Just before the sound came back.

And then we saw her do another, before she came over to the boards beside the camera.

For a long time after that, we just saw her going back and forward across the camera shot.

Then just before the one minute warning, we saw her lining up a jump, which she did just out of shot, and we saw her just coming out of her landing position. Then she came over to the boards beside the camera.

Then she went out and did a jump in the middle of the camera shot. And then came back to the boards. ANd then went back out and did a beautiful spin in shot too!

Thank you, Liza!

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[Jeanie19]

Linda. Nice outfit and program. A couple of mistakes but still a decent skate.

 

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Linda DZERVE (LAT) wearing a dress that is mostly brown, but is white down the left hand side.

Very different music. How do I describe it? It was like what I would imagine viking heavy metal music to be like.

A good start to the competition.

She is happy.

Oh, she has such a lovely smile!

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Olesja. Pretty dress. Nice program and skate.

 

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Olesja LEONOVA (EST) wearing a royal blue dress, with the right hand side all silver. To be honest, that right hand side is too much. It spoils what is otherewise a beautiful dress.

Skating to beautiful piano music, which turns into beautiful strings music. "Succession" by Nick Squires.

I really enjoyed that programme.

She's all on her own. And they're keeping her waiting.

She goes into the lead in both the FS and overall.

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Now it is time for my kid, trying to get onto the podium.

ALL THE BEST LIZA!!!

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[Jeanie19]

Elizabet. Beautiful dress. Nice tango program. A couple of mistakes but still a good skate.

 

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Sequence of jumps to start with. Not sure about landing on first.

Fell on Triple Loop

Popped first jump of combination.

Double Axel beautiful. And so was Layback Spin immediately afterwards

Choreo Sequence beautiful

Fall on Triple Salchow.

Just about landed Triple Lutz

Fall on Triple Flip

Change Foot Combination Spin beautiful.

Step Sequence beautiful

And a beautiful combination spin to end with,

That was a real mixed bag. The good was good, the bad was bad.

She hasn't come into the results area. I think I can hear her crying out of shot.

Ah, she has arrived. And she is trying to keep a straight face. But, you can see she is very upset.

She goes into 2nd position in the FS, and the lead overall.

But, her podium chances are gone, unless somebody else has a nightmare skate.



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