She found her partner in junior ID.Oh, Shevchenko, not Shanaeva. It didn't look all that great, but growth potential...
She found her partner in junior ID.Oh, Shevchenko, not Shanaeva. It didn't look all that great, but growth potential...
Gubanova is not a top Russian athlete, she rather represents the second echelonI don't really get where you are getting this idea from that the Japanese are so overscored and the Russians are dunked.
There is no high class Russian woman competing at the moment except for Gubanova who has not yet had the best skates - so it's no wonder they are not getting the highest PCS
the Japanese skaters usually do get great PCS because obviously their training is very focused on clean basic skating skills - and they are rewarded for those.
It is true, though, that there is a tendency in international judging now to be a lot stricter about edge calls and URs, but it also depends a bit on the event and the persons responsible.
Good point. But I would just love to show the ISU and effing Thomas Bach that we still have the best girls in an official skate-off.The world championship could be held at Khrustalny to determine gold to bronze.
Zhilina also up there assuming she can land every jump clean.
Akatieva I think will struggle a little this season because she will be several months behind the other girls.
So it's just Valieva and Petrosian. Valieva is landing her quad in training but likely no 3A. Valieva generally more stable as well but easier technical content. So it's close.
I felt that the spread of PCSs I saw in JGP for Russians was very telling, not just for someone like Shiryaeva, but also for Gladki. My understanding is that knees and edges is something that Russians just don't do as well as the Japanese, and when I look at Petrosyan, she seems to do what most young Russian athletes do: skim lightly and fast along the surface, without deep knee bend and cut into the ice with the blade being visible on each stroke and turn. I also don't think she matches stroke to music naturally.I don't really get where you are getting this idea from that the Japanese are so overscored and the Russians are dunked.
There is no high class Russian woman competing at the moment except for Gubanova who has not yet had the best skates - so it's no wonder they are not getting the highest PCS
the Japanese skaters usually do get great PCS because obviously their training is very focused on clean basic skating skills - and they are rewarded for those.
It is true, though, that there is a tendency in international judging now to be a lot stricter about edge calls and URs, but it also depends a bit on the event and the persons responsible.
If the judges have a negative bias based on training location that indicates some form of corruption which is outside Petrosian's hands.You don't, because international judging is very different from Russian. They very, very strongly punish anything on 3-3s and higher elements, taking off GoE, edges and URs. In addition, Petrosyan will not have high PSC internationally, since pretty much every Russian trained woman who came out after the removal had a spread ranging from 3.75 to 7, nothing close to the Japanese. And PCSs make all the difference between the podium and top 6 finish.
I would love nothing more than to see Petrosyan skate for Armenia.
Really? I thought they said it was singles import during test skates.She found her partner in junior ID.
Yeah I can think of someone who gets perfect 10s with very simple technical content. It's true.People sometimes forget that part of a skater's score comes from the flag or in some cases, the coach.
There are some skaters who would have never gotten some results if they were skating for other countries.
She really is very self critical which could be both good and bad thing, she doesn't look to have nerves tho and I hope she doest develop them out of nowhere like Sonya did.Adelia to journalists - "Such victory does not suit me, so I will not celebrate"
Gubanova is not a top Russian athlete, she rather represents the second echelon
i kind of in love with her alien make up, i know sister @icewhite doesn't agree with me
I love her make up it screams drama to mei kind of in love with her alien make up, i know sister @icewhite doesn't agree with me
He competed at novice nationals last season.Really? I thought they said it was singles import during test skates.
Trust me, the judges are very, very good at math, particularly now that they have 3 PCSs to work with, not 5. Lol.If the judges have a negative bias based on training location that indicates some form of corruption which is outside Petrosian's hands.
I'm making my opinion based on judges being neutral and unbiased.
International judges ignore wrong edge lutzes all the time. They ignore blade assisted jumps all the time.
Petrosian received 69 for PCS today vs Frolova 68.
Adelia's base value was 80 scoring 82.
In the world championship, the world champion's base value was 56.
That is a massive deficit to overcome plus Adelia has a stable 3A in the short. The world champion's maximum is about 80 in short and that's ignoring things like wrong edge on a lutz.
Try as judges might, they can't defeat the maths.
and no Leo's voiceovers! they're going to hear from his lawyers i thinkTitanic song without suspenders! What has the world come to?