Ptichka said:Thank you Sandra!
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As to Steuer - I still wish the Federation released more information on his Stasi involvement. According to rumors (gleaned from Artur Werner forum), it was indeed rather substantial, though the federation was directed to investigate through information from someone jealous of Steuer's success. BTW, Werner also talks about how inappropriate it was of Steuer to use Savchenko as his shield in dealing with the charges instead of shielding his students from the whole mess.
Ptichka said:I don't believe Vasiliev is likely to move to Germany - he is well established in Chicago, why would he move?
Ptichka said:I don't believe Vasiliev is likely to move to Germany - he is well established in Chicago, why would he move?
I don't really get that sense from him. I think if he is offered enough money and a talented enough team to work with, he'd take them in a heart beat. I just don't think he'd move to Germany for it.soogar said:I highly doubt Vassiliev would agree to coach this team. The impression I got from Vassiliev is that he is very keen on maintaining the Russian tradition of winning pairs titles and I don't think he would jeopardize that by coaching a team that could develop into a legitimate threat to win an OGM. I see Oleg putting his energies into the Russian team he's coaching now (those juniors whose names escape me) and trying to develop them into the next OGMs.
attyfan said:So, who else might be available to coach S/S? I don't think that Bin Yao speaks English well enough to take on a non-Chinese speaking team.
Ptichka said:My dream would be for them to work with Moskvina. Of course she's set on remaining in Petersburg...
attyfan said:So, who else might be available to coach S/S? I don't think that Bin Yao speaks English well enough to take on a non-Chinese speaking team.
Ptichka said:Anke, as for Steuer - I have extremely mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, just about everyone in the German elite sport worked with Stasi in one way or another; on the other hand, I have no problem with a person being punished for consciously destroying careers and/or lives of others as an adult. That's why I would like to know exactly what he did, and be able to decide for myself.
Anke G said:I totally agree! I think the DEU is not being realistic if they think they can get a world-class coach to move to Chemnitz, and frankly, if they think they can dictate to Aliona and Robin whom they will work with. It's a battle of wills at this point.
Could someone translate the gist of it? German is not among the languages I understand...Jaana said:There is a difference between working and working, LOL. The problem is that Steur apparently worked much more than the others. I noticed on FSUniverse this article with plenty of info in German:
http://www.faz.net/s/Rub9CD731D06F1...4DAED549AC468E6C2B~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html
Borzenkova & Chuviliaev now quit skating. Obertas & Slavnov went back to training with the Velikovs. Surprisingly enough, Shestakova & Lebedev chose to train with Vasiliev, not Moskvina. Originally I heard that Mukhortova & Trankov were going to Chicago as well, but now there have been rumors they'll go to Moskvina as well.STL_Blues_fan said:On the other hand, Moskovina coaches at least one more young Russian team in addition to Obertas and Slavnov (and what are they up to?) so would she want to coach a direct competitor to her teams?
Ptichka said:Could someone translate the gist of it? German is not among the languages I understand...
Mathman said:ITA: away with spiders!
I once tried to use Babblefish to read an article in French about Sale and Pelletier. I learned a lot about Jamie Salt Merchant and David Fur Trader.
Ptichka said:Could someone translate the gist of it? German is not among the languages I understand...
Anke G said:[I'm picking up from various sources that German training centers are supported by the DEU only when they have promising skaters, and losing DEU support can be tough. Maybe someone can give us more information. In any case, there could be a whole new can of worms for the German sports federations to deal with.]