This is a very unpopular opinion for sure, but to me I/Z have never seemed like a team that is very crisp and clean. There have been very few performances where I wasn't afraid that either of them would fall, so this fall and these results aren't that surprising for me to be honest
To get the results in English, I copied and pasted the table of results into google translate. Sergei Mozgov somehow got translated into Sergei Brains!
Kanivets and chizov have been im seniors for some time. But they never competed outside domestic events
To get the results in English, I copied and pasted the table of results into google translate. Sergei Mozgov somehow got translated into Sergei Brains!
That's because mozgov is the genitive clause of mozgi, which means brain
An overly generous score at a National Competition. Say it's not so!
I think the result is correct, but the numbers have been worked out with the "Nationals Score Inflation Calculator" (tm).An overly generous score at a National Competition. Say it's not so!
I think after seeing what sort of ridiculous scores the French and the Italians put out the Russian Fed decided they needed to keep up to keep in the game, so to say. I thought S/K skated fantastic and deservedly lead and it's great to see that apparently they really knuckled down and worked on those TES, these were a weakness in the SD so far. Sharp and on point now. B/S skated well, I quite like their SD and the darker hair looks nice on Ekaterina. 
S/B aren't my cup of tea, but they did good. Their Skating Skills scores are headscratchers, though. I/Z can't keep on doing this, they have become so inconsistent. They haven't skated a clean competition in about a year now, at a certain point the judges will start punishing them for this in earnest. Perhaps they have already started doing so. If they skate clean, they are better than S/B. But they need to skate clean. And the more I see the SD the more I'm convinced it's not a good vehicle for them, it doesn't make them look as good as they could and should look.
