2025 Russian Junior Test Skates

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Only 9 junior pairs will attend:
Sofia Diana Kasins/Alexander Bregei
Zoya Kovyazina/Artemyi Mokhov
Kira Domozhirova/Ilya Vegera
Olga Sabada/Pavel Astakhov
Taisiya Guseva/Daniil Ovchinnikov
Albina Kamaldinova/Dmitry Rodionov
Yulia Filimonova/Ilya Pylnev
Victoria Dvinina/Victor Potapov
Polina Shesheleva/Egor Karnaukhov

I will esp. miss Taisia Shcherbinina/Artem Petrov. But I suppose they move to seniors already.

 

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I suppose these 7 teams were invited for the training camp but not for test skates (same thing often happens in seniors).

Edit: confirmed by the federation.

Yes:

ФФККР о снятии семи юниорских пар с контрольных прокатов: «Они показывают свою программу специалистам»

Юниорские спортивные пары представят короткие программы 20 августа. В списке участников контрольных прокатов осталось 9 спортивных пар из 16.

www.sports.ru

 

[AlexBreeze]

I will esp. miss Taisia Shcherbinina/Artem Petrov. But I suppose they move to seniors already.

They are on the senior team so must be invited to the senior test skates.

 

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About 20 minutes to go.

 

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The stream has started.

 

[katymay]

Tiny Kira is not tiny anymore!

 

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Tiny Kira is not tiny anymore!

Children are growing fast...

 

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Kasisns/Bregei have started.

 

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Only steps seemed weaker to me, otherwise technically very good. Ugly music.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Cousins/Bregei - The music mix and the costume are a lot, but it's also so fun and high-energy. I think this will land really well to energise a tired audience.
On the technical side, absolutely nothing to say, they look good.

 

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Kovyazina/Mokhov. I think this was their last year's SP too.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Only steps seemed weaker to me, otherwise technically very good. Ugly music.

To be fair, a lot of pairs (in Russia and also internationally) don't have outstanding skating skills and the step sequences reflect that.

 

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Also technically impressive, just the solo spin was little out of synchro, but they were able to correct it during execution.

 

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Domozhirova/Vegera now.

 

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Outstanding execution

 

[Jumping_Bean]

I don't know how to feel about about D/V's SP. I see the vision, but at times the choreo seems a bit too gimicky? Not sharp enough? Maybe gimicky is not quite the right word, but more that they aren't quite commited/comfortable enough to make it fully work yet?

 

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Sabada/Astakhov open the second group.

 

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I'm not sure about the program but technically great.

 

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Guseva/Ovchinninikov now.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

I like S/A program well enough, though I could see this music getting repetitive really fast if I had to listen to it every day in training. Not sure about the back of her dress - "Corset", yes, but on skin colour mesh, maybe not.