2025-26 Russian Local Events – Discussion

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Interesting moment at Grinkov, the girl who was last yesterday and was supposed to skate first today skated only after three groups. I suppose she missed the time or so...

 

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Anashkina was good.

 

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Daria Lebedeva landed 4S, but fell from 4T.
The rest was good. I just hope the judges won't kill her again.

Edit: well 77.79 for TES, but only 50 for components. Insane...

 

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Unknown Alena Boldyreva from Yaroslavl landed clean 4T. Some of her jumps should require second check but interesting.

 

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I feel bad for Masha G while she looks better than at the start of the last season as she has a 3lz and a flip but she clearly cant put them in a combo and her rotation issues get more and more visible. At least she is not going for the 4S rn and trying to go clean. I get that she feels comfortable in Davydovs group and been there since she was very young but at this point its clear he struggles with the transition of his athletes from novices/young juniors to older juniors/seniors. Varvara has the same issues as well tho little less than Masha and she is much tinier so its not the height of the skaters he struggles with. I wonder how this all bodes for Alisa and Lev?

Kulikova transition to Sokolovskaya saved her even if she didnt improve much she at least maintained her content from juniors. Davydov does seem to know how to work with older girls and women like Anna just not the transition there so I dont think the move is back is bad for Liza but I could be proven wrong.

 

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Zlata Burya started strong but seems to have run out of steam in the second half. Some of her landings also require a check, plus one doubling.

 

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Arina Parsegova delivered well. Scorebox was out through her whole skate though, I suppose it makes it easier to cheat her again.
Edit: her score is not that ridiculous today though, TES 70.81, components 55.41, 126.22. Still like 5-6 points lower than deserved.

 

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Maiia Sarafanova landed 4Lz+2T.

 

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Masha S finally landing her 4lz

 

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Vika 4S+2T, 1A, 4S fall, 3Lo, 4T+2A+2A, 3Lz+3T, 3Lz fall.
She still lacks stability.

 

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Sofia Dzepka 4T+2T, 3S, 4T, 3F, 3Lz+3T unstable landing, 3Lz+2A+2A, 3Lo. Not all landings were clean IMO but otherwise very very good.

 

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Sofia is ready to compete for that gold medal in juniors nats. Insane to think that she retired for few seasons in novices and has managed to come back to this level.

 

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Kulikova transition to Sokolovskaya saved her even if she didnt improve much she at least maintained her content from juniors.

She had bad URs with Sokolovskaya though. After returning to Davydov, her jumps became much better.

 

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Lev Lazarev 4S, 4Lz, 4T fall, 3Lo (with stumble during the transition into the jump), 4Lz fall (rep), 3F+3T, 3Lz+2A+2A

 

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Lenkov just wow.

Clearly No.1 junior man in St Petersburg.

 

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Maria Zakharova tried 4T but fell.

Nevertheless she achieved solid score and will be on podium.

 

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Maria Elisova is brave. She fell on first 3A attempt, then did only 1A, but third attempt was 3A+2T. She will most surely slip out of medal position but she doesn't give up.

 

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So Liza got from two events in Moscow. Restored consistency is doing its job.

 

[Remilia]

Happy to see Dzpeka delivered! She's definitely going to be a force this season with her quad seeming pretty stable + her amazing artistry. Sad Lera withdrew from the free, though Also, it's starting to look like Streltsova's improved stability last season was just a fluke...maybe there's too much pressure on her now with her seemingly being the #1 Eteri junior with Margarita's status being a question mark. Meanwhile, Gordeeva's decline has been sad to watch. I understand that she's probably struggling with puberty, but it's obvious Davydov doesn't know how to handle the transition from child to young woman and the body changes that come with it (and we will see if it's not just limited to girls and the same happens with Lev). She's only hurting herself by not leaving.

I'm glad Mazur went for a clean skate here rather than trying a quad, but she missed out on so many levels...

 

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SPb Cup

Nice to see Masha winning! I was afraid she won't get any stages in this deep field but she will! Her PCS is so weirdly low though. There's no way it's lower than Nesterova's

No Zakharova among the participants, I hope she's OK.

Efimchuk was incredibly good last time, but this time it was clear that he lacked shape to do a free skate. I hope he gets better prepared for the RGP (I believe he gets two spots, he deserves them based on the qual).

Vetlugin has very promising content. But absolutely no stamina for it. Less than 90 TES with a three clean quads.