1. Anastasia MISHINA / Vladislav MIRZOEV (RUS) - 63.93 Short Program
2. Aleksandra BOIKOVA / Dmitrii KOZLOVSKII (RUS) - 60.39 Short Program
3. Ekaterina BORISOVA / Dmitry SOPOT (RUS) - 54.74 Short Program
4. Yumeng GAO / Zhong XIE (CHN) - 52.24 Short Program
5. Lori-Ann MATTE / Thierry FERLAND (CAN) - 50.07 Short Program
6. Nica DIGERNESS / Danny NEUDECKER (USA) - 49.36 Short Program
7. Su Yeon KIM / Hyungtae KIM (KOR) - 42.61 Short Program
8. Hailey Esther KOPS / Artem TSOGLIN (ISR) - 41.26 Short Program
9. Sarah ROSE / Joseph GOODPASTER (USA) - 40.07 Short Program
10. Jamie KNOBLAUCH / Cody WONG (CAN) - 36.13 Short Program
YouTube provides auto-translate tool, so I can understand a bit of their talk. The interviewer asks Anthony mostly about his parents, and how he decided to become an ice dander. What influence have they given him..sort of things. Native Russian speakers will fill in the interview in detail.
This is a tip if you want to know how to use the auto translate tool.
1. Click the cc button on the right side at the bottom
2. And then click the setting button (cogwheel shape)
3. Click the "Subtitles/CC"
4. The following message says "Russian-auto generated"
5. Below that, you click "auto-translate"
6. Scroll down to "English"
7. Then the auto-translated subtitles in English come up instead of Russian.
yeah basically they talk about what age he started to skate (4), how involved in the training his parents are (not much now. they just call & ask but dont travel with him) & who's the leading partner in their pair (he says Christina)
Markova: You're pretty experienced athletes already, how would you asses your performance today? You did everything as planned? Are you satisfied?
Ponomarenko: I think everything was done as planned, we had speed, we had energy, we skated very well today
Markova: Yes, you really did. It's probably pretty often asked question about your parents, since you're a son of our lovely and very famous dancers, beautiful Marina Klimova and Sergey Ponomarenko: Did you have a choice to do something else, not figure skating?
Ponomarenko: They didn't want me to be a skater, but I wanted to. They bringed me once on a rink and I really liked it.
Markova: How old you were?
Ponomarenko: I was 4 years old.
Markova: And you decided that you want to do that when you was 4 y.o?
Ponomarenko: Yes (smiling)
M: That's pretty cool! How often did you train with your parents? And with whom did you train more: with your mom or your dad?
P: I worked with them my whole life. But 3 years ago I moved to Igor Shpilband's group. I worked with my mom more, she choreographed some programs for me.
M: Who's the strongest in your team? Who's the leader? You or your partner?
P: My partner (laughs) She tells me what to do every day. She (he forgot the russian word here) encourages me.
M: Good! Are your parents involved in your career now? Do they help with programs, consult you? Or everything is done by the coaching team you're currently working with?
P: They call me every day. Ask me questions about my day. I tell them if the programs are good, and if not they'll tell me what to do. If it was a bad training day too...
M: Okay. How often do they go with you to competitions? Especially now when you're not training with them anymore?
P: They don't. They watch everyting at home
M: ...and worry about you.
P: Yes, yes (laughs)
M: Thank you for the interview, it was very nice. Good luck to you in your next competitions and best wishes after that in 'big' FS life.
P: Thank you.
P.S. His Russian is GREAT! No accent whatsoever :shocked: