True, Sisinka. Nikita is one of three things; not very bright, highly mean spirited or a very insecure man. He was clearly the reason that they did not become world champions this year. So it is pure folly on his part to not quickly and clearly state that the rumours are unfounded. Unless of course as Pechalat was so eager to tell the world Nikita does really want to skate with someone else. However his plans were essentially squashed when Piseev said this would not be supported. So intuition tells me he is being purposely vague to let her squirm or see if something else can be worked out. Maybe his parents are persons of influence.
She is the more technically consistent in the pair and I think he cannot handle it. Further she has begun to really develop artistically. Their issues should never be allowed to fester like this in public but he seems to be either oblivious or he just doesn't care the effect it may have on her or them both. This is short sighted in my view and may come back to haunt him in the future. He lacks a sensitivity chip somewhere and it is clear to see now why she may have dumped him in the first place. Many couples have their rough moments but for pride's sake they would NEVER allow it to muddy their collective reputations like this. His behaviour borders on the disrespectful, not only to Elena but to the sport.
Lena‘s behaviour in past one month is strange also. She loves quotes of different authors in her instagram page, and last months some people mentioned that she is pointing that the only man in her life is her brother, that she asks everybody to forgive her, that if a woman wants to change a life – she changes a hair, that people should forgive their friends because a God forgives the people etc. She also chose one of her black and white pictures with Nikita kissing her from this season’s SD and made a comment: “Like an old movie.“
So, frankly she is writing many things which lead people to an opinion that someting is going to happen in her life…and thanks to that info/rumour about split, it can be easily and logically explained. I don’t believe that in moment when a couple wants to split, that one or another have absolutely no idea, especially if we are talking about a couple who wanted to split so many times. We are talking about people who spend a half of every day together, they know each other, so she would certainly noticed if Nikita was “strange“ and he would certainly noticed that she was not in mood. Why she would write those strange comments in Instagram then? She had everything to be happy in that moment, but she obviously solved something.
I know Natalie’s comments about crying Lena (and I don’t think that Natalie was doing anything bad saying it, Lena was probably not crying on toilet but on some place where everybody saw her), but I don’t believe that Lena didn’t know that before. Lena was always crying quite often…after good skate, after bad skate, after loosing titles…so many times. Did she really started to cry and then came to Natalie and told her, that she cries for Nikita’s behaviour? Or did Lena cryied because they once again lost Gold Medal because of missed element in SD and Natalie saw it and because she knew about a split info she made a different explanation of it?
I don’t want to be too harsh to Nikita. If Lena is really screaming on the ice often, if she tends to lack of work ethic and have star behaviour…I am not surprised that he is looking for more calm harbour. We can notice that this couple is always connected with talent, but almost never with working ethic (one exception came from Tarasova), and they were never connected with great relationship on and off the ice, Lena says Nikita is great and Nikita says that Lena is great, but one thing is to say it and another thing is whether it is true. Nikita told already about two years ago that they are not fighting in the ice, that it is a waste of time, and this season Lena herself admits, that she is screaming and crying on the ice if she wants something? Frankly would you handle screaming and crying from your partner every second day? I guess that nor Lena either Nikita will never say true about their real off ice and during trainings relationships, but I wouldn’t put all the blame on Nikita only. If he really finds a new partner (I hope it will be somebody else then Sinitsina), we will see if he will improve in skating/dancing or if he will start to complain. The same we will see in Lena’s case, if a new partner (if she wants to continue) will be able to skate with her without any problems.
(From some old talks – Nikita‘s former partner Kabysheva, I heard that a couple split because it didn’t work together in skating terms, she was not good enought skater for him, while Lena’s ex partner Ivan Bukin – there were some personal problems, kids couldn’t stand each other like they couldn’t stand each other with Nikita for the first time. But of course there are much more mature now.)
I hope we will see soon what is really going on.
There is not much time…slowly there comes a time for thinking about new programs and music…so both coaches and skaters should know who they will be skating and working with. I don’t want to see once again that while Americans and Canadians are able to skate good looking programs in late August at competitions, Russian are in trouble to skate whole program without an interruption at the exhibition.
