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2025 JGP Ankara Women's Short Program

Natalia has a lot of bravery, competing with so little practice time, and I'm grateful that Mark gives us the background so we understand the challenges the skaters face. I liked the series of hops after the loop jump, and her Ina Bauer. The fall on the salchow looked hard. Gets the axel landed and has a secure edge, for her arabesque spiral coming out. Her skirt stands out very prettily in the twizzles in her step sequence.
 
that's because you don't know Lucca Quinn :)
True, I had to look up whether that was a real person or not... personally I'm not a fan of giving girls such a masculine name (it feels like the parents didn't want the child to be a girl) but who am I to judge
 
Yes... not bad.. .i'd shave that beard a bit though :)

And there I was going to post a photo of a clean-shaven Andrea Vaturi (ITA) from his competitive days, but then Mark says that it is somebody called Panagiotis from Greece that is with her.

Well, here's Andrea anyway:

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CaroLiza_fan
 
True, I had to look up whether that was a real person or not... personally I'm not a fan of giving girls such a masculine name (it feels like the parents didn't want the child to be a girl) but who am I to judge
in English, names ending in "a" are not really sounding that masculine... even with such a hard consonant or the reference to the masculine equivalent.

Andrea in English wouldn't be thought of as a male name, yet it is in Italian.
 
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