2022-23 Russian Ice Dance

[flanker]

Just to cover it on all relevant places and disprove the rumors:



Recently, a lot of false information about us has appeared on the network, so we would like to clarify the situation. A couple of weeks ago, we decided to leave Igor Shpilband's group and start working with a new team of Elena Novak and Alexey Kilyakov. Under Igor's leadership, we have made a huge leap forward in skill, in our individual and partner skills. We are immensely grateful to Igor, Pasquala, Natalia and Adrian for their work. Training with our new team, we are athletes of the Russian National Team and look forward to starting the new season at the test rentals. As for the rest of the news, in figure skating around the world, there is a practice of receiving comments from various specialists in the off-season, which relate to significant technical changes in connection with the new rules. As for our personal life, we try to protect it and hope for understanding and tactfulness on the part of fans and journalists. DG

 

[Alex Fedorov]

Just to cover it on all relevant places and disprove the rumors:

Did not help. The "discussion" continues. I wonder if it will soon become clear that Gleb will marry Eteri? I think if TSL reports this, then no one will dare to doubt.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Alexandra Stepanova got engaged.

 

[Weathergal]

To whom?

 

[AlexBreeze]

To whom?

To Vladislav Malinov, Sokolovskaya's nephew.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Tyutyunina/Bagin's training

 

[AlexBreeze]

Changes in the national team:

Elizaveta Pasechnik has been removed from the junior team
Elizaveta Pasechnik/Maksim Nekrasov have been added to the reserve of the senior team
Pavel Drozd (Shanaeva's partner) has been added to the reserve of the senior team
Dmitri Studenikin has been added to the reserve of the junior team

https://minsport.gov.ru/2022/doc/10082022/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5%20%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%20(%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%204).pdf

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

Zagorski/Guerreiro are have announced they're taking the season off to let Tiffani recover fully, and decide on their "next steps":

 

[Lipa.strom]

Russian ice dancers Victoria Sinitsnina and Nikita Katsalapov got married:

 

[Flying Feijoa]

Just caught up with Dancing Anna Scherbakova / Big Brother Goncharov's skate at Russian Cup stage 2:

Those are some pretty high levels! Anna got L4 on both the one-foot and serpentine step sequences (twizzles too, but that's fairly common among top juniors). Maybe the tech panel here was feeling generous, but even a L3 one-foot is pretty decent internationally. They also had great GOE on the choreo elements (sequence and slide).
I'm really becoming a fan of Team Sokolniki - strong technique, refreshing choreo and kindly vibes from both skaters and coaches.
Anna Rumak / Little Brother Goncharov will be up next at Stage 3. Looking forward to seeing how they do!

 

[Flying Feijoa]

By sheer coincidence a vlog episode came out featuring Scherbakova/Goncharov and Rumak/Goncharov!
As far as I can gather (relying on auto-translate) it's 'a day in the life', where the Goncharov brothers and their Annas show us around Sokolniki rink, with snippets of on-/off-ice practice and interviews with both pairs. Lots of giggles and cuteness!

Interestingly Anna/Gleb actually have deeper voices than Anna/Egor! And Gleb grew so much, he is almost as tall as his older brother
I love the music in the off-ice dance class (folk dance?). Tarantella from Anyuta, Sviridov Snowstorm etc.
Spotted younger teams working on 14-step/Ten-Fox, way to go kiddos
Sasha Shustitskiy also appears in the background with his new partner Sasha Kravchenko. I saw them in RC stage 3, where it was evident there is a huge skill difference Fingers crossed they manage to remedy that, otherwise I'm not optimistic for the partnership to last...

The Goncharovs/Team Sokolniki could do with a fanfest at some point if only to stop me spamming this thread (I'm just a bit too lazy to commit to making one)

 

[AlexBreeze]

Just caught up with Dancing Anna Scherbakova / Big Brother Goncharov's skate at Russian Cup stage 2:

Those are some pretty high levels! Anna got L4 on both the one-foot and serpentine step sequences (twizzles too, but that's fairly common among top juniors). Maybe the tech panel here was feeling generous, but even a L3 one-foot is pretty decent internationally. They also had great GOE on the choreo elements (sequence and slide).
I'm really becoming a fan of Team Sokolniki - strong technique, refreshing choreo and kindly vibes from both skaters and coaches.
Anna Rumak / Little Brother Goncharov will be up next at Stage 3. Looking forward to seeing how they do!

Looks like you're not the only one who caught up with their skate, but the author of the music too.

 

[Flying Feijoa]

Looks like you're not the only one who caught up with their skate, but the author of the music too.

Nice to see he's watching. I guess skaters may have contacted him beforehand for permission to use the music...

 

[theblade]

Online sources the past 24 hours are starting to confirm the split of Senior ice dance team Annabelle Morozov/David Narizhny. Confirmed by Annabelle's dad Nikolai Morozov and the president of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR), Alexander Kogan.

Wow! Did not see this coming. Supposedly David did not want to train in the US part-time in prep for upcoming competitions. Will have to see what further information develops

 

[Lipa.strom]

Online sources the past 24 hours are starting to confirm the split of Senior ice dance team Annabelle Morozov/David Narizhny. Confirmed by Annabelle's dad Nikolai Morozov and the president of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR), Alexander Kogan.

Wow! Did not see this coming. Supposedly David did not want to train in the US part-time in prep for upcoming competitions. Will have to see what further information develops

It's surprising as the recent split of juniors Ovsyankina/Samokhin.

 

[Kittosuni]

Online sources the past 24 hours are starting to confirm the split of Senior ice dance team Annabelle Morozov/David Narizhny. Confirmed by Annabelle's dad Nikolai Morozov and the president of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR), Alexander Kogan.

Wow! Did not see this coming. Supposedly David did not want to train in the US part-time in prep for upcoming competitions. Will have to see what further information develops

Wow did not see that coming. I honestly think this is the best pairing both of them can hope for especially for Anabelle.

 

[Lipa.strom]

So the other Anna Sherbakova also made a picture with the well known pink ball of Novogorsk

 

[Caliban]

Anna Shcherbakova arrive in China

She participate here in Russian-Chinese games -

Spoiler: full list of participants

On December 14-20, 2022, China will host the III Winter Russian-Chinese Youth Games. 2 sports pairs, 2 dance pairs and 6 singles (3 boys and 3 girls) will take part in figure skating competitions from Russia.

Team composition:

Dance: Anna Kolomenskaya/Artem Frolov, Anna Shcherbakova/Egor Goncharov.

Pairs: Elizaveta Osokina/Artem Gritsaenko, Ekaterina Chikmareva/Matvey Yanchenkov.

Men: Vladislav Dikidzhi, Nikolai Ugozhaev, Grigory Fedorov.

Girls: Ekaterina Anisimova, Elizaveta Kulikova, Taisiya Shcherbinina.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Russian-Chinese Winter Youth Games

1st Anna Shcherbakova/Egor Goncharov 164.30 (69.02 + 95.18)
2nd Anna Kolomenskaya/Artem Frolov 160.47 (66.81 + 93.66)

 

[IceDancingQueen]

Wow did not see that coming. I honestly think this is the best pairing both of them can hope for especially for Anabelle.

Totally agree. I was completely shocked when I read this, especially as they did so well in their competitions for such a new pair. It’s a shame David didn’t want to train part-time in the US. Seems odd this is what broke up the partnership.