- Joined
- Feb 17, 2007
According to the schedule, the pairs' free skate should be going on now. The ISU web page doesn't have rsults yet.
Paetsch/ Nuss are leading with 5 teams still to skate...
The event was a little bit disappointing. Too many mistakes.
The gold- and silver pair will hopefully both compete in senior competitions next season - the girls turn 17 this year, the boys are already 19 or 20.
Well maybe there were few mistake, but I liked the competision. I would say it was more intresting than Europeans. For my the only disapoitment was lack of Bazarova&Larionov
The gold- and silver pair will hopefully both compete in senior competitions next season - the girls turn 17 this year, the boys are already 19 or 20. Kawaguchi/Smirnov and Murkhatova/Trankov have to look out! Especially the silver pair (they won the freeskate by the way) are a force to be reckoned with, rather polished, great throws (loop and flip), Triple Twist, their sbs jumps were a bit shaky here - but apart from that - excellent job. And of course the lifts
They were all at the Russian senior championships this year and were beaten by K/S and M/Tand also by Ushakova/Karev.
Lubov Iliushechkina turned 16 in November and her partner Nodari Maisuradze just turned 20 this month.
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There are quite a few competitive Russian Senior pairs: Mukhortova/Trankov, Kawaguchi/Smirnov and Ushakova/Karev.