My understanding is that people discretly arrange try outs all the time. Someone at his level, isn't going to give up his partner without something else lined up.
This was always a bad behaviour example to make try-out in secrecy. Nora Hoffmann went for try-out when Attila Elek didn't have any idea about it and lived in opinion that he has Nora like dance partner for sure. They split fastly then.
Maxim Shabalin for example firstly split with Khaliavina, then he looked for a new partner. Jana Khoklova firstly waited for Novitski's confirmation about retiring, then she looked for another partner.
Dancers who split and in the same time already had a partners, it was arranged by Russian Federation in these cases, because one of partners was too fat, slow, not enought talented, not enought blonde etc.
sky_fly said:
Nikita has enough decency to fund his new training in the US , he isnt waiting for the Feds support
Nobody would be waiting for Feds money support when that money support is connected with great results at competitions. You can't gain medals in skating sitting home and watching TV.
Btw. 80 percent of skaters are giving a lot of money (from show or money from parents) to skating even while they compete at world level, not every Federation is so generous to sponsor all necessary things.
As long as Nikita was doing it discretely and didn't tell everyone in sight, then I think the people who need to be blamed are those who decided to spread the gossip.
We don't know what happened in that relationship. Maybe when they were getting along Nikita did want to stick it out, and then he didn't. Clearly there was an up and down relationship there.
I don't see why anyone has to make anyone here the bad guy. We don't know those people or their relationship. Business relationships don't work out, and why the business relationship didn't work out, is nobody's business but the people involved in the relationship.
This is the same all the time. This is not about the fact that they split, this is about how they split! Of course the bad one is a jurnalist who told the true….maybe he/she was devastated by Nikita’s sweet behaviour to Lena althought he/she knew what would happen in mid-season while a Lena had no idea about it.
Looking at Lena’s life style it leads to think that she was the one who had more lazy attitude during working process, but like Bramweld noticed more times, Zhulin connected with lazy attitude and star manners both of them, not Lena only. Number of mistakes at competitions (= the power to concentrate well when it matters) is equal for Lena and Nikita.
Do you really think that Nikita kept a split info sooo secretly that “somebody“ told the journalist and Morozov himself told Zueva about a new couple? No. Nikita had to tell Morozov…and then Nikita or Victoria or Morozov told the journalist. Why should be a journalist the bad one then? Did he/she stole mobile phone from Nikita and read all messages to make sure what he and Victoria plans? Of course no. But somebody from that trio had to tell him/her.
Or once when Nikita discovered that Morozov is no more needed he immediately called Zueva. So Nikita get rid of Morozov as well. Don’t you think that Morozov (who was so sure of things that he himself told Zueva) got some assurance from Nikita about a new cooperation? And suddenly he reads in press that Nikita and Vika flew to Zueva…shock a little bit, no? Morozov gave an interview where he complained that he has no longer any skaters. Wasn’t it beyond Morozov’s back behaviour from Nikita as well? Personally I am glad that a couple finished with Zueva and not Morozov, but if Nikita arranged a cooperation with Morozov and then he suddenly changed it, this is not nice.
What are people looking for in this split….it is fair play and respectful behaviour. Victoria and Nikita should tell their partners sooner, they should tell their coaches as well (Kustarova didn’t know and also her job was blocked by Nikita and Victoria’s secret plans). If Nikita has so low respect to Lena that he didn’t feel a need to tell anything even in moment when everybody around rumoured this…then he and Victoria should be respectful enought to Kustarova who had nothing to do with Lena and Nikita’s personal relationship….and of course both Victoria and Nikita should be respectful to Ruslan and tell him – how is Ruslan responsible for Lena and Nikita’s personal relationship? How does it feel to compete at the most important competition in season when everybody looks at you and rumours you that your partner doesn’t want you….ask Lena and Ruslan.
You can notice that the only note about Victoria’s explanation went from Kustarova who told that Victoria left without any explanation….so she even didn’t find a time to tell Ruslan or coaches. Kustarova mentioned in interview from April that they were waiting for Victoria’s confirmation…
Overall a behaviour of Nikita and Victoria was poor. I can understand that journalist crossed their ways, but kids behaviour since that time is far to good. They should explain their partners what is going on, they shouldn’t keep a secret no more when everybody talked about it, simply they should show a fair play. That’s all. Now they had the first possibility during the interview to explain their not fair behaviour (keeping silence, having extremely long waiting period, laying – after World‘s FD Victoria told the rumour passed beside them and Nikita was enthusiastic about his couple with Lena in interviews before Worlds). And what happened during an interview? Even one word about wrong situation with journalist, about being sorry that their split affair went in such direction when they had to lie to their partners.
Victoria told that it is impossible to look back…and Nikita agreed. I don’t agree. They should look back, because how they behaved in last two months was not fairly done. Even with some personal troubles with Lena, this is not how should be a split arranged. Maybe Nikita really looks older next to Victoria, but he is far to mature one looking at his behaviour. The same for Victoria. If you want to betray your partners in such way and let them stay in vacuum for so long time to make them believe that maybe things will come back…OK, maybe this is a possibility how to pay a bill with him/her….but why to betray your coach who did so much for you. In this moment sorry for Morozov, but this comes mainly in direction of Kustarova / Alexeeva. Do you remeber how Victoria fell at NHK Trophy during opening steps of Finnstep in SD?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ehS722TRrcg#t=139
The couple finished last because of it….but coaches and Ruslan were the first one who supported Vika in that moment when she almost started to cry. Did Kustarova / Alexeeva really deserved such behaviour from Victoria and Nikita without even one word of confirmation / explanation?
I can't wait for their debut
laugh
Amazing really. 
