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You're probably right, but don't tell my boss. He's from the Netherlands.
2026 World Figure Skating Championships | Pairs' Free Skate
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Probably Poland - we even have separate feds...
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I went back and read some of the play by plays and I'm telling' ya: this group beats T&J six ways from Sunday. 
Special congrats to elektra blue and 4everchan for their dueling GIFs. Couldn't stop laughing. Honest!
Special congrats to elektra blue and 4everchan for their dueling GIFs. Couldn't stop laughing. Honest!
So thrilled for Pereira/Michaud! I had all my fingers and toes crossed for them, but they had not managed a good long program all season, so I was braced for disappointment. But they rose to the occasion! Easily their best skates of the season. So excited for them to be on the world podium. Just too bad they couldn't have squeaked out the silver, with that second in the free.
Lia is an absolute star. l've been saying that since this team paired up, but most people didn't seem to agree with me, lol. She has incredible commitment and musical expression. Her posture and positions have improved a lot over the years.
They came out of the gate in their partnership with such great potential and results, and then seemed to flounder a bit, but they've really stepped it up a notch in the absence of Deanna and Max.
So thrilled for them to medal here.
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An excellent question. Of course, In the Netherlands, which is different from Holland, BTW, People would actually use skates as transportation.
In the US, if you say skating....I dont think people naturally think of hockey. If you say hockey, they think hockey. Lots of people recreationally skate in the US...Spokane has a "skate Ribbon" outside during the winter and there are multiple rinks....I would like to know what our forum members say about other countries.
When I was a kid in the last century...ok, deep in the last century...we had a pond people skated on...skating was very popular with Japanese Americans, You could order skates right out of the Sears catalogue.
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If you pick the one that says Pair free skate (World Feed) it's the one with Mark and Tonia.Started watching the replay on Peacock and was disappointed to hear Johnny and Tara again. I guess Tonia and Mark are considered the "B" team. Oh well.
Well no 3 spots for the US and to be honest we don't need that many spots especially if there are any more breakups or retirements among the top teams which will leave little depth. P/M on the other hand have really come on in the last couple of months and might make it a easy decision for S/D to retire since they have now firmly established themselves as Canadian Pair team number one and are much younger and will only get better.
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The crabby kitty with the glasses was me all week -- muttering at my laptop because I had to work instead of watching Worlds live. I hissed a few times, too...
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I fully approve of the Headbanger!Back from work just in time for the Meatloaf Headbanger
Also not surprised it comes from a Hotacek coached team… I remember him and Marchei sneaking in modified Detroiters back in their day
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So thrilled for Lia/Trennt. Of course it should have been silver (69 almost 70 PCS for the Georgians is Russians-in-Russia level PC-bS. But glad they medaled.
Super thrilled for the Germans too!
Super thrilled for the Germans too!
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What a success for my Fedi and his team overall!Yuna NAGAOKA / Sumitada MORIGUCHI (JPN) skating to various instrumental pieces by Roberto Cacciapaglia.
Well, instrumental with a bit of wailing thrown in that could be done without.
Yuna is wearing a deep pink dress. Sumitada is wearing a brown top and black trousers.
On the whole it was beautiful. But that wailing did really spoil it.
They've been crowned!
Go on, one of you put your crown on Fedor, just for @LadyB!
They go into the lead of both the FS and overall.
And a great reaction!
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Dima Savin is truly a master of his art. So happy, although I wish Masha and Lyosha had finished higher and my heart goes out to D/T. Sensational result! 
Hugs to Kelly Ann (and Loucas). 
I was hoping they could reach top 10 on a good day, but Worlds never seems to work out well for them. Hope they get some rest and regroup for the next season! 
Happy for Lia and Trennt, thrilled for Minerva and Nikita!!
I was hoping they could reach top 10 on a good day, but Worlds never seems to work out well for them. Hope they get some rest and regroup for the next season! Happy for Lia and Trennt, thrilled for Minerva and Nikita!!
Actually I think South Korea also has a lot of success in speed skating compared to figure skating nowadays. I just hope they can develop a pairs team for the next quad.
A quote from a classic: “For they know not what they do”
Does the bald guy who “concocted” this choreography perhaps know?
In any case, I consider this “storytelling” to be completely overrated. You can count the recurring elements on one hand. The whole secret probably lies more in a fluid, clean flow that adds certain accents to the music here and there, so that the two somehow come together without seeming arbitrary. Etc./pp...
Oh, that bald guy named Knut Schubert is a truly good-hearted soul, with a certain tendency to view life from a comedian’s perspective (on stage, you could clearly hear him addressing Minerva in a fatherly tone and in the Berlin dialect as “my little one”). Anyone who knows him knows that he is a very profound and wise person who, as a rule, questions everything first. Miniki spent what felt like over 99% of all their training time with him, and so the world championship title is also their farewell gift to the big, little man. Although he has to retire, he will continue to stand by Minerva and Nikita in the future, depending on how the future of “his” pair unfolds.
Incidentally, as is well known, Aliona Savchenko is Miniki’s biggest role model—as Minerva recently emphasized, Aliona’s determination to keep fighting has become incredibly important and inspiring to her. And Aliona and Robin truly had to fight a thousand times harder than any pair before or since, which is ultimately what allowed them to make history in the sport. For that reason alone, I find the current media chatter about the end of this new success story ridiculous. With a steadily growing wealth of experience and the world championship title under their belts, Miniki will also find sponsors; the only question is not how, but where they will continue their careers.
“Her career has only just really begun,” Nikita replied when asked where he sees her right now. His hunch might be right (I’ll go out on a limb and say, as an insignificant, secret fan of this fantastic revival of what will hopefully be the next successful decade in pairs figure skating).
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Curious why Nikita said "her" career has only just begun. Is he retiring?
A quote from a classic: “For they know not what they do”
Does the bald guy who “concocted” this choreography perhaps know?
In any case, I consider this “storytelling” to be completely overrated. You can count the recurring elements on one hand. The whole secret probably lies more in a fluid, clean flow that adds certain accents to the music here and there, so that the two somehow come together without seeming arbitrary. Etc./pp...
Oh, that bald guy named Knut Schubert is a truly good-hearted soul, with a certain tendency to view life from a comedian’s perspective (on stage, you could clearly hear him addressing Minerva in a fatherly tone and in the Berlin dialect as “my little one”). Anyone who knows him knows that he is a very profound and wise person who, as a rule, questions everything first. Miniki spent what felt like over 99% of all their training time with him, and so the world championship title is also their farewell gift to the big, little man. Although he has to retire, he will continue to stand by Minerva and Nikita in the future, depending on how the future of “his” pair unfolds.
Incidentally, as is well known, Aliona Savchenko is Miniki’s biggest role model—as Minerva recently emphasized, Aliona’s determination to keep fighting has become incredibly important and inspiring to her. And Aliona and Robin truly had to fight a thousand times harder than any pair before or since, which is ultimately what allowed them to make history in the sport. For that reason alone, I find the current media chatter about the end of this new success story ridiculous. With a steadily growing wealth of experience and the world championship title under their belts, Miniki will also find sponsors; the only question is not how, but where they will continue their careers.
“Her career has only just really begun,” Nikita replied when asked where he sees her right now. His hunch might be right (I’ll go out on a limb and say, as an insignificant, secret fan of this fantastic revival of what will hopefully be the next successful decade in pairs figure skating).
I don’t really know what to make of the question, but as far as Nikita is concerned, the well-known German figure skating expert Daniel Weiss reported the following behind-the-scenes details: Nikita is homesick. He spends almost the entire year in Berlin, isolated from his family—including his girlfriend—who all live in St. Petersburg. Aside from that, Germany as a whole doesn’t offer him the standard of living he could and would enjoy in Russia. This, combined with the long-term outlook, could (perhaps surprisingly to many) spell the end of the Hase/Volodin partnership. That’s according to Weiss.
On the other hand, it was Nikita who (laughing) dismissed the speculation about an imminent end to their previously unstoppable success story; we’ll soon see how serious he is about that. I suppose “a little noise is part of the trade,” as the German saying goes: to preserve one’s chances, maintain market value, secure one’s livelihood, etc., one sometimes has to keep a certain drastic doomsday scenario alive so that certain decision-makers grasp the gravity of the situation.
As I’ve already hinted, I personally wouldn’t care under which nation and flag they compete—the main thing is that they keep going, just as Aljona has written it in H/V's family book (the story of Aljona—and mainly Aljona and Robin—is beginning to intertwine more and more clearly; it’s fun to watch… even if it’s meaningless, but still: Savchenko/Szolkowy needed four seasons to become world champions for the first time, Hase/Volodin needed only three, and the latter were also quicker to achieve success with the Olympic medal)
I think they should have. The Georgian team had a bad death spiral. Initially it was red and then quickly went green. And a fall on throw
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that death spiral is so damn ugly. like seriously. How can olympic and world medalists get away with this ? Some other teams are being nitpicked on poor elements and well, they don't get nitpicked enough on their DS and definitely not on the lift. I'd say that the lifts were less scary this week than they were during the Olympics though. So maybe, and I say maybe, they heard the criticism from the commentators and worked on that.
I don’t think his English is so good, he may mess up her and his etc
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