Cute Matyas! Hope he skates better here than at Santa Claus Cup. No Tomas today, though.
No Tomas, no party
Cute Matyas! Hope he skates better here than at Santa Claus Cup. No Tomas today, though.
ohh Matyas, shame about 3-3 but he never fails to entertain :luv17: but please work on your spins more
Very disappointed to see that we only have one Pairs couple competing in the entire event. And that they are only at Advanced Novice level.
I was hoping that Anna Dušková and Martin Bidař would be making an appearance in Senior Pairs this year, having skipped it last year to concentrate on Senior Ladies and Senior Men.
But, if nobody else was entering, I suppose there was no need for them to either.
That said, since they didn't enter Pairs this year, I am surprised Anna didn't take the opportunity to do Senior Ladies again.
But, perhaps a break is what Anna needs, given the difficulties she is having this season.
CaroLiza_fan
So the overall champion in Ladies Is Ivett Toth! Congrats! She's obviously once again, a Hungarian Champion. Nicole Rajicova once again is SLovakian champion, Czech Republic Champion for the first time is Michaela Lucie Hanzlikova! And Elżbieta Gabryszak became also for he first time, a Polish Champion
Ivett overall score is promising! Maybe she will fight for top5 at Europeans! I checked, and fortunately Hanzlikova does have TES minimum for Europeans, but she doesn't have SP TES for Worlds yet.
Unfortunately I'm not so sure the Czech Skating Federation will send her to compete at the Europeans. I'm afraid a little bit they will send Eliška Březinová. Personally I think Hanzlíková is more promising for sure and she should go as she is now the national champion. But who knows, we will see...
Oh my god...what happened to Michal? He fell on his shoulder, couldn't finish his program, couldn't even stand up straight when he got off the ice. Hope it won't be too serious...but I guess Jiri will be the new champion by default?
Not sure why Petr Kotlarek withdrew, either. He was on the ice, then got off.
I think it is very hard to practice two disciplines, and I hope that Anna decided to stop working on singles and put all her attention to pairs. The bottom line is, the pairs they are competing against are putting all the attention to pairs. If Anna spend even one quarter of her training time doing singles, it will be time they would be missing as a pair. And singles need a bit more than just a quarter of her training time anyway to work on all those triples. If one could get away with training aonly a quarter of the time and get the same results, they wouldn't spend every day so many hours at the rink. So doing two disciplines could mean that she would end up undertrained and not getting any decent result in each of them.
Don't worry, I fully agree with what you are saying. But, Anna said at he end of last season that she wanted to continue doing Singles. So that is why I was surprised that she didn't enter.
Let's face it, at last year's Ladies Nationals, Anna should have finished ahead of Eliška. For that matter, so should most of the Czech girls...
But, I'm not going to start that argument up again.
I'm just saying that Anna is good enough to be National Champion in Singles as well as Pairs. And she wouldn't be the first to carry on doing both at the same time (Other high profile skaters to do the double in recent years include Ashley Cain, Julianne Séguin, Giulia Foresti and Anabelle Prölß, who disappeared completely after she got too tall for Pairs.).
I love Anna and Martin. That's why I adopted them. But, after watching them at the Junior GP Final, I do worry that Anna is getting too tall for Pairs.
So, I really hope Martin gets a growth spurt too!
CaroLiza_fan
Good score for Mysliveckova/Csolley