Men's LP

[strangeperky]

Abt is listed on the Russian Nationals site as withdrawn! Eek! Anyone know what's up?

~ Kali

 

[strangeperky]

Anyway, here's the skate order, in case anybody's interested...

*sigh*

1 Ivan Blagov Moscow
2 Andrei Lezin Moscow
3 Denis Balandin Moscow
4 Aleksei Vasilevskii Moscow
5 Andrei Saburov Moscow-Ekaterinburg
6 Aleksei Vasilyev Saint Petersburg
7 Sergei Dobrin Moscow
8 Nikita Mikhailov Moscow
9 Andrei Lutai S.Petersburg-Belgoro
10 Aleksandr Uspenskii Moscow
11 Anton Smirnov Saint Petersburg
12 Konstantin Menshov Saint Petersburg

14 Ilya Klimkin Moscow
15 Denis Leushin Moscow-Kirov
16 Andrei Gryazev Moscow
17 Evgeni Plushenko Saint Petersburg
18 Aleksandr Kondakov

(13 Alexander Abt Moscow - withdrawn)

~ Kali

 

[windspirit]

Abt withdrew due to injury:

http://home.snafu.de/figureskating/abt/
(click on "News & Events")

As for the skate order, sure we're interested. I'm "watching" the competition right now:
http://www.engis.ru/skate/results/index_lat.htm
(Men Free skating > Live results)

Btw, welcome to GS!

 

[strangeperky]

Me too!

Thanks for the welcome, and the latest news on ye olde groin injury. What a surprise to wake up to! ARGH.

~ K

 

[strangeperky]

For the free skate:

1 Plushenko
2 Klimkin
3 Gryazev

Overall:

1 Plushenko
2 Klimkin
3 Gryazev

Everybody: http://www.engis.ru/skate/results/fs_summary_eng_me.html

 

[windspirit]

I am SOOOOOOOO happy!!! Wheeeeeeeeee!!!

 

[strangeperky]

Hee. I'm happy for Ilia. And Zhenya's scores...good lord!

Still bummed about Sasha, though.

 

[Ptichka]

I suppose now the Federation will have no choice but to send Andrei to Worlds. None of the skaters who finished close behind have any more exprerience. Will be interesting if Evan get on the US team, and Evan and Andrei will meet again

 

[Hanaka]

Hee. I'm happy for Ilia. And Zhenya's scores...good lord!

I'm so so happy about Ilia! Whee! He's back!

What can I say about Plush!?

Tech: 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.9 6.0 6.0
Pres: 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0

I need to see this performance!!

 

[strangeperky]

I screamed when those presentation scores came up! Insanity! I hope his knee is holding up okay.

 

[gracefulswan]

god lord he's kicking butt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! plushy all 6'0s for presentation and several in the tech. part to boot!!!! that loss must have lit a fire in him that no win could have...

 

[Jaana]

Congatulations to Plushy for winning the Nationals again - and how!!! Feeling very happy for him, would be wonderful to see that performance... Also would love the see Menshov´s freeskate which is described as dynamic by Tatiana.

I guess we´ll see Gryazev at the Europeans now.

Marjaana

 

[Tove]

Andrej and Ilia davaj!!
of course I'm happy for Plushy also, but unless he worked on his program from Cup of Russia I wonder if all those 6.0 was a little over the top, but oh well, the comp was in Russia.....:sheesh:

 

[Lyoshie]

Hi, all!
Greats results!!! Congratulations to Andrei ! But he knew he would be in Budapest, before the nationals: the russian federation chose him two weeks ago, in place of Abt (I guess it's because of an injury ). Even if Lysacek isn't in the US Team, Andrei will meet again during Worlds Jr. !

 

[Kasey]

Would love to see an all-6.0 artistic program!

 

[Hanaka]

Would love to see an all-6.0 artistic program!

You can see that here.
http://www.kingonice.com/video/rn04-nijinsky.rm

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

Would love to read more about Klimkin if anyone saw the competition.

Joe

 

[dlkksk8fan]

Hanaka-
thanks for the video link

 

[Rgirl]

I LOVE IT!!! Woo-hoo! Plush, Klimkin, Gryazev. Maybe it will be the Russian men who will really heat up Worlds this year. I mean besides Michelle, who is a one-woman ice melter.
Rgirl