Aurora Cotop

[Colonel Green]

How to pronounce her name: Sotor? Since it seems an Eastern European name to me, poorly transcribed into English (perhaps at the moment of immigration of her ancestors?)

Her family ancestry is Romanian, so I don't know how it was originally pronounced/spelled, but she pronounces it now in a phonetic Anglicized way: Ko-top.

 

[Colonel Green]

Aurora's free skate for this season is pretty standard in terms of music choice, but she's definitely escalating things on the technical side after the injury-related problems season. In addition to reintroducing the triple Lutz (never her favourite jump), she's doing two new jump combinations she's never attempted in competition before (3F-3T and 2A-EU-3S).

 

[siberia82]

High Performance Camp interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gwOCteSzpU

 

[siberia82]

Aurora and Conrad Orzel play the "Dad Jokes" game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyGDJwXNUYI (This video was posted on Nov. 19, but I didn't notice it until now.)

 

[siberia82]

I now have the ability to download the fluffs and interviews on TSN.ca (although the original files are still only 540p), and these are the two clips which feature Aurora:

Q&A Fluff: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ren1f
How She Has Been Dealing with Back Pain Interview: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7reqha

 

[ana]

Any news of Aurora? Is she is totally out for this season?

 

[Colonel Green]

Any news of Aurora? Is she is totally out for this season?

She said on Instagram she was going to focus on recovery and getting ready for next season (where, hopefully, the parade of injuries will stop).

 

[dorispulaski]

From the Canadian skating thread, Aurora is back training jumps!

https://www.instagram.com/p/B82uGzAJx6J/