2026-27 Russian Women's Figure Skating

[Mathematician]

Someone told me yesterday that Alisa has basically gone silent on everyone at Team Tut for the past week.

You need to keep us updated with your insider scoops. I haven't seen any of this anywhere.

Who knows, maybe they patch things up over the summer. Though I don't think moving to Mishin would be the worst thing for her. The last thing I think any of us fans want to see is for Alisa to become another Sofya Akatyeva.

BTW, do you know anything about Akateva generally? I want to see her come back strong.

I think the Eteri project is on the downturn in general at this point. They managed to break Adeliia twice in her Olympic year. Unforgivable TBH. I don't think you'll find a skater hardier and better built for the sport than her and they still managed to wreck her. It really is pathetic.

 

[lariko]

Imo that 'perform harder content than you are comfortable with' led to Basylyuk's FS disaster and subsequent injuries after her 3A in SP that she didn’t want to do as well. That team never learns and never teaches athletes to listen to their bodies' feedback, quite the opposite (based on Kostornaya's quotes) and this is imo what causes so many early injuries. Not really a deep mystery.

Anyway, i am so glad to hear that more Russian juniors might be able to change feds. Hoping to hear about some pairs doing it as well.

 

[lariko]

This too. Polina Tikhonova is much happier in ID, for example.

Yes, she seems to be thriving in dance, so good for her!

 

[lariko]

Well, yes, if you look at my previous post about how stacked the Russian pairs field is, it's pretty apparent how glorious it is.

I'm just saying that despite some of the dismissive comments about her prospects, Anna could have had a nice career for herself in singles. And I'm also pointing out that I don't think advancing in pairs will be much if any easier than it would have been in singles.

That doesn't mean she shouldn't have made the move, or that it won't work out for her. I'll be rooting for Anna.

I agree with you completely and also will be rooting for her.

 

[Remilia]

It's been all over the Russian media that she's injured and not expected to be ready for the start of the season.

I also wouldn't be shocked if, when Alisa returns, it's to Mishin and not Eteri. I think she blames Team Tut for her injury situation. (She was apparently made to perform advanced content during the Team Tut tour despite already having injury trouble, which might have led to something more serious.) I hear there was some friction and resentment over the favoritism Sasha was immediately shown by Eteri after her return, despite Alisa arguably being their strongest senior last season. And then, of course, there's the Arseniy factor.

Separately, I wouldn't be shocked if we see Liza Andreeva jump over to Team Sokolovskaya.

Didn't her and Arseniy break up? Ppl seem to think so and that she's with Mozalev now...(which I hope isn't true, given the differences in age)
But I won't be surprised if she leaves. She was kind of pushed to the side last season in favor of Adeliia, and she made it known that she wasn't happy about losing to her at nats. I'm sure she sees the writing on the wall with Sasha being back and maybe isn't willing to put up with the favoritism and being pushed to the side again