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2024-25 Russian Grand Prix - Stage 4 - Moscow

People seemed to think she has some grudge against Eteri so laying it on the non-Eteri skaters.
Nah, even if she had a grudge I think she is very professional by nature. I think she made birthday posts and trainer's day posts for Eteri as well so no strong grudge. She was consistent in her commentary aside from the Akateva support.
 
OMG. Everyone should study Gushchina and her jump technique. Her jumps are always superclean and looks so easy. No underrotations.
 
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So happy Medvedeva is commentating again. Why did Yagudin replace Anna? Thats terrible. I saw Kostornaia commentates some other tournaments I'd like to see her try out at gran prix. Trusova as well I think.
From the sound on the arena it seems that Anna keep doing what she was doing at previous stages- talking with the audience in the stadium, introducing skaters, explaining them what happened in the program etc.
 
Does anyone know what time the Free Dance is tomorrow? The schedule in Thai thread only has women, men, pairs but no ice dance. Thank you!
 
Ouch. Fall on the combo might be a very crucial mistake for Tretyakova.

It will be difficult to qualify for nationals when lesser known girls like Bityushkova and Doroshevskaya shows up and make 3+3 combos like it was easy...
 
Good start. :clap:

Can someone help me with translation please? Is Kamila's family name somehow associated to "unloved"?
There is an old, pre-Christian tradition to give children names that protect them from envious and scary demons and other dark spirits just as often as the excited parents named long-expected baby Lovely. So, when a baby is born, they would call them something like not-pretty, unloved etc so the dark spirits don't go anywhere near and target kids who are called Lovely and Gift etc. These names persisted into sixteenth century with Russians often having two names, a Christian and non Christian ones. And, like in other traditions, an ancestor's given name sometimes turned into a family name. In case of Nelyubova, Nelyub could have meant either unloved or ugly. So, long, long time ago, she likely had an ancestor whose parents where so traumatized by high child mortality of the age, they wanted to protect their newborn with a warding name. And the kid survived.
 
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