2018 Russian Nationals Ladies FS

[alvina9894]

Where did Gubanova finish overall?

6th behind the podium, Polina and Stasya.

 

[russianfan]

I am so confused with Russian diminutives, Masha, Dasha, Pasha, Zhenia...Anyway, Alina's Don Quixote is mesmerizing. I don't like backloaded programs, but her jumps on music in the last part are so entertaining. She needs to change something in that SP. She won't be able to beat top skaters with mistakes in the SP. I love Maria, and I don't find her boring. Her dress is so nice. She was a bit nervous today, but who would not be...

well, she already did it multiple times

 

[MaiKatze]

time to sum it up

The discovery: Anna Tarusina
The dissappointment: Elena Radionova
The breakthrough: Alena Kostornaia
The slayer: Alina Zagitova
The best CSKA bonus: Maria Sotskova
The best non-CSKA bonus: Stanislava Konstantinova
The underscored one: Anastasia Gubanova
The unlucky one: Polina Tsurskaya

Sounds like Tarot Cards.

 

[xeyra]

That is odd. A 9.5 skating skill skater cannot perform a required step or turn? I wonder if it actually is choreod now or if she just cheats on something every time.

Even Patrick Chan has had plenty of level 3 step sequences. It happens. Sometimes you have an unclear turn, sometimes you take your blade off the ice on a required loop a bit too much... Just seems weird in Alena's case because she doesn't get level 4 very often in SP AND FS.

 

[luckyguy]

What an event! 14 fascinating ladies, and even the rest (Leonova, Istomina, Gracheva and Yakovleva) was nice to watch.

 

[Shayuki]

Even Patrick Chan has had plenty of level 3 step sequences. It happens. Sometimes you have an unclear turn, sometimes you take your blade off the ice on a required loop a bit too much... Just seems weird in Alena's case because she doesn't get level 4 very often in SP AND FS.

Difference between time to time and never, right? If she sometimes hit lvl 4 I of course wouldnt think it could intentionally be lvl 3

 

[Zhenya is DIVINE]

6th behind the podium, Polina and Stasya.

Ugh, she should be ahead of Stasya!

 

[alvina9894]

Ugh, she should be ahead of Stasya!

I agree. Stasya had very generous GOE and PCS

 

[Shayuki]

Ugh, she should be ahead of Stasya!

And polina. Got robbed unfortunately.

 

[Jan elle]

Well done to all, particularly to Alina and Alena, and also a special mention to Stasya who can obviously rise above all the vitriol and ridiculously nasty negativity thrown her way!! Have said nothing this time, but come on, guys!!

 

[lavender]

So not a Med fan but I'm worried for her. To me she doesn't deserve based on skills to be bypassed. Crap like this always happens at the Olympics.
Not a Olympics fan....

 

[Shayuki]

So not a Med fan but I'm worried for her. To me she doesn't deserve based on skills to be bypassed. Crap like this always happens at the Olympics.
Not a Olympics fan....

Would be a shame. Her pcs categories are miles ahead of zagitova and the gap should be well into the double digits. But for one reason or another pcs inflation dilutes the gap massively.

Well done to all, particularly to Alina and Alena, and also a special mention to Stasya who can obviously rise above all the vitriol and ridiculously nasty negativity thrown her way!! Have said nothing this time, but come on, guys!!

Konstantinova? Yes she sure is skilled at getting overscored by 15 points domestically. Wish others were as skilled.

 

[Sam-Skwantch]

Is Polina injured again or something? She looked sluggish to me and never really accelerated into her elements. Pretty disappointing performance actually and I’m not talking just the mistakes.

 

[Anyasnake]

So not a Med fan but I'm worried for her. To me she doesn't deserve based on skills to be bypassed. Crap like this always happens at the Olympics.
Not a Olympics fan....

Olympic season = people freaking out more and faster.
Both clean : Med wins, don't worry. She isn't going to be toped like that, I just hope her injury won't affect her at Euros. This competition will be insane.

Thankfully Med skipped Nationals. You know, she might have been ready - at least partially healed and able to perform. But with errors and/or falls, she loses to a strong Zagitova and she couldn't let that happen. She knows what she is doing.

 

[russianfan]

Is Polina injured again or something? She looked sluggish to me and never really accelerated into her elements. Pretty disappointing performance actually and I’m not talking just the mistakes.

after SP she said she is fully healthy and nothing disturbs her anymore

 

[Jan elle]

Would be a shame. Her pcs categories are miles ahead of zagitova and the gap should be well into the double digits. But for one reason or another pcs inflation dilutes the gap massively.


Konstantinova? Yes she sure is skilled at getting overscored by 15 points domestically. Wish others were as skilled.

Do you not look back at your constructive criticism of Stasya and regret it a bit? Babes, try and be kind; she's a teenager who likes to skate!

 

[alvina9894]

Do you not look back at your constructive criticism of Stasya and regret it a bit? Babes, try and be kind; she's a teenager who likes to skate!

Aye, calling someone overscored isn't something unkind. It is directed towards the SCORE, i.e. the judges who give them, not towards the skater herself.

Stasya is a lovely young lady, but she is very, very overscored today.

 

[vorravorra]

I am so confused with Russian diminutives, Masha, Dasha, Pasha, Zhenia...

Masha=Maria
Dasha=Daria
Zhenya= Evgeny/Evgenia
Pasha=Pavel
Sasha= Alexander/Alexandra
Dima=Dmitri
Misha=Mikhail
Nastya=Anastasia
Stasya=Stanislava/Anastasia
Alesha(Alyosha)/Lesha (Lyosha)=Aleksei
Lena=Elena
Sima=Serafima
Serezha(Seryozha)=Sergei
Sonya=Sofia
Anya=Anna
Lera=Valeria
Lida=Lidia
Volodya/Vova=Vladimir
Fedya=Fedor(Fyodor)
Andryusha=Andrei
Roma=Roman
Kostya=Konstantin
Natasha=Natalia
Tanya=Tatiana
Katya=Ekaterina
Lyuda=Lyudmila
Rita=Margarita
Vika=Viktoria
Ilyusha=Ilya
Tolya=Anatoli
Grisha=Grigori
Danya=Daniil
Yulya=Yulia
Petya=Petr(Pyotr)
Liza=Elizaveta
Ksyusha=Ksenia
Ira=Irina
Lyuba=Lyubov
Nadya=Nadezhda

Diminutives are never used officially, and you don't put "Sonya" in a birth certificate, it has to be Sofia. Full names are not often used in everyday speech since they sound too official (but this is not 100% true of all names, e.g. Andrei is common because Andryusha sounds a bit too familiar/childlike). And some names do not have established diminutives, e.g. Nikita, Alla, Emma, Alisa.

 

[Spirals for Miles]

that made my day

I love how smiley Eteri is there

 

[Shayuki]

Do you not look back at your constructive criticism of Stasya and regret it a bit? Babes, try and be kind; she's a teenager who likes to skate!

She lost to massively boosted zagitova by 10p despite not being good enough to participate in gp. You dont think she was overscored?