2020 Ice Star

[Jontor]

i don't know, Gulyakova had a strong lead from the short and probably better pcs

Safonova was less than a point behind Guliakova in the short.

 

[anonymoose_au]

Seriously though, does Team Mishin know what the voiceover means? I feel like they must not.

I'm not sure whether to laugh or not!

 

[elektra blue]

come on judges, grumpa is falling asleep

 

[gliese]

I missed Guliakova's score

 

[elektra blue]

i eat my words congrats Vika! you go girl! Rippon your way to the top!

 

[anonymoose_au]

do not exit the building fine i won't

Oh that's fine, I meant the er...climax bit...

Gasp! Vika wins! Unless the 3rd group makes a huge comeback or do they not actual get medals? (Rina Ryabova came second in at St Petersburg comp, but didn't get a medal because she wasn't officially competiting).

 

[elektra blue]

I missed Guliakova's score

181.97

 

[Jontor]

Safonova wins with almost 19 points!

I must say the Mishin girls seemed to have a bit of a stamina problem.

Can someone tell Mishin that he mustn't run around arena's without a mask. The guy is a relic and antique. The Russian's must take care of him.

 

[anonymoose_au]

Can someone tell Mishin that he mustn't run around arena's without mask. The guy is a relic and antique. The Russian's must take care of him.

Mr Mishin appears to be a law onto himself I was hoping Urmanov could set him straight at the 3rd Russian Cup stage, but alas.

 

[Jontor]

The protocols will be interesting to see. They must have hammered both Guliakova and Samodurova with carrots.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

OK, so I'm back a lot sooner than I expected.

I was planning on watching the F1 race LIVE, and then coming back to the skating once it was over. However, because I have been watching skating the past few days, I didn't know was that the schedule had been changed, and that the race was starting an hour earlier than planned.

So, I'll have to wait for the race to appear on the On Demand.

Well that was odd! The Zambonis did not appear so there was apparently a 10 minute break for...some reason?

It was because there were 2 withdrawals from Group 1 (#1 Emilea ZINGAS and #3 Alina IUSHCHENKOVA), and the organisers wanted Group 2 to start at the scheduled time. So, they stuck in a roughly 10 minute break.

It wasn't because they didn't want me to get too far behind!

This is working now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muac8URoRLs

Thank you for stepping up and providing those watching LIVE with this link!



This stream, from the Ministry Of Sport And Tourism, has actually been on air all morning. I had it open in the background as a backup in case there were any shenanigans like there has been the past few days. It also went off air at the end of the Group 2 Warm-Up, but came back half-way through #7 Kristina SKULETA-GROMOVA's routine.

The Skating Fed's channel that we had been watching started up a new stream, but it started slightly later than the Ministry's, coming on air at the start of #8 Viktoria SAFONOVA. Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15nLuameFTM

I realise that all this doesn't matter to you guys that were watching live. But, I'm just putting it in the thread for future reference.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[anonymoose_au]

Nice of the stream to show Kristina for those who missed her during the stream drop out.

 

[gliese]

GO EMILEA!

 

[elektra blue]

@CaroLiza_fan i'm allucinating or Emilea didn't withdraw

 

[anonymoose_au]

@CaroLiza_fan i'm allucinating or Emilea didn't withdraw

No they've put the not officially competiting skaters in their own group for some reason

 

[Jontor]

@CaroLiza_fan i'm allucinating or Emilea didn't withdraw

Yes, strange. Emilea and the Iushchenkova sisters are scheduled to skate now. Why?

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

@CaroLiza_fan i'm allucinating or Emilea didn't withdraw

What the...

I thought the live scoring page couldn't cope with late withdrawals, and so got messed up. So, Emilea and the Israeli-Russian sisters are actually there?

What on Earth is going on?!

By the way, I've just started watching what we have of Kristina S-G. Don't like slowed down Scorpions! I want them proper speed!!!

CaroLiza_fan

 

[elektra blue]

Yes, strange. Emilea and the Iushchenkova sisters are scheduled to skate now. Why?

there're so many things i'm failing to understand about this competition, like the Zamboni overuse

 

[gliese]

She was good! I liked the choreography but it got a little to Gracie Gold for my taste sometimes.

 

[anonymoose_au]

This is confusing I'm sure I heard someone mentioned in this thread that as they're representating Cyprus and Israel they're not officially in the competition.

Why they've been put in a separate group I don't know. Could it be Corona virus related?