Kseniia Akhanteva & Valerii Kolesov

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Happy birthday!

 

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According to the Russian forum, Akhanteva/Kolesov have split up. Kolesov will be skating with Kadyrova. (Kadyrova/Balchenko have split up too).

 

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I’ve always liked this couple but I really felt they were not going to survive in Seniors. They got to a great level in Juniors but never pushed on from that and seemed to be passed out by newer teams. Two strong skates in Junior nationals this season was only good enough for 7th place. They seemed happy together in the K&C and with Fedor. I really liked their Interstellar short and Heart of Glass showed a new side to them.

I wonder where they will be based and who will coach them? Valeri is in Sochi and Yasmina is in Petersburg.

Best of luck to them to both of them in the future.