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I'm late to this thread but what a beautiful short program he has this season, it was about time he got some good choreography!!! He's so talented.
 
Mika was supposed to skate at Tallinn Trophy but it seems that he withdrew. I pray it is not injury this season is just getting more depressing by the day...:pray:
 
Mika was supposed to skate at Tallinn Trophy but it seems that he withdrew. I pray it is not injury this season is just getting more depressing by the day...:pray:

Are you sure? He's still in he entry list. (I mean, he was two days ago, and I they haven't published the official schedule for the men. And I saw in the vk community that they said he's not there, so I guess we'll wait)

Edit: correcting myself, he's not in the training list, so probably withdrew. :(
 
Mika was supposed to skate at Tallinn Trophy but it seems that he withdrew. I pray it is not injury this season is just getting more depressing by the day...:pray:

It's possible he just realized participating at Tallinn is too close to GPF, which he might not have originally thought he'd attend.

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Are you sure? He's still in he entry list. (I mean, he was two days ago, and I they haven't published the official schedule for the men. And I saw in the vk community that they said he's not there, so I guess we'll wait)

Edit: correcting myself, he's not in the training list, so probably withdrew. :(

He's not on the Entries list of the results page so that confirms it too.
 
It's possible he just realized participating at Tallinn is too close to GPF, which he might not have originally thought he'd attend.

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He's not on the Entries list of the results page so that confirms it too.

I hope you are right though it is a bit odd, if it was a tactical decision he would have given notice before hand and someone else could have replaced him. This situation looks more like a last minute decision but why - illness, injury? I hope we hear something soon!!!
 
Finally some news - thanks to his active VK group!
Misha is on the way to GPF and in a small interview taken just before his trip to Nagoya he said that the reasons for missing Tallinn Trophy were health related, but all is okay now - thank God!
There will be no changes in programs layout, he is still training 4lz3T combination but as of now not going to put it in competition.
More here:
https://vk.com/fsrussia2018
 
Finally some news - thanks to his active VK group!
Misha is on the way to GPF and in a small interview taken just before his trip to Nagoya he said that the reasons for missing Tallinn Trophy were health related, but all is okay now - thank God!
There will be no changes in programs layout, he is still training 4lz3T combination but as of now not going to put it in competition.
More here:
https://vk.com/fsrussia2018

hope, his health issues wasn't that serious. It's so much injuries in this sport this year, I wish for Mika at least to escape it somehow. Happy for him that he finnaly earned his first trip to Grand Prix Final. If I'm not mistaken, he is the only one senior participent, who never had been before in GPF neither senior or junior. Good luck!
 
hope, his health issues wasn't that serious. It's so much injuries in this sport this year, I wish for Mika at least to escape it somehow. Happy for him that he finnaly earned his first trip to Grand Prix Final. If I'm not mistaken, he is the only one senior participent, who never had been before in GPF neither senior or junior. Good luck!

Yes you are right Mika is the only debutant! Hope Mika & Sergei are not too shaken by the sad news and are able to focus on the job in hand... What a mess and the Timing of it...:sad21:
The start order is up, Mika is to skate 4th after Sergei
 
Men's press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtW14ewsRNY

13.30 - OMG, what have they translated? Where did any of it come from? :eek: Misha said "I think it was the right decision to let Russia participate in the Olympic games. To be honest, I cannot imagine the Olympics without the Russian team." The interpreter seems to have invented an entirely different answer. There has already been a backlash about his short interview on the subject in Russian, now this. Maybe Misha should just reply "no comment" to all questions about the Olympics.
 
Men's press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtW14ewsRNY

13.30 - OMG, what have they translated? Where did any of it come from? :eek: Misha said "I think it was the right decision to let Russia participate in the Olympic games. To be honest, I cannot imagine the Olympics without the Russian team." The interpreter seems to have invented an entirely different answer. There has already been a backlash about his short interview on the subject in Russian, now this. Maybe Misha should just reply "no comment" to all questions about the Olympics.

OMG, that lady translated completely wrong :noshake: I wonder why??
 
I feel like Misha should be less accomodating. Next time just say no comment, you're not there to win the hearts of the press, especially if they don't have much care with what you say.

On another note, good short program. At least good enough.
 
Now all we need is for someone to translate this translation back into Russian, and Misha will be buried under a torrent of vitriol. Sigh. He really doesn't need and interpreter's help to put his foot in his mouth, but in this particular instance his answer was totally aboveboard.
 
Now all we need is for someone to translate this translation back into Russian, and Misha will be buried under a torrent of vitriol. Sigh. He really doesn't need and interpreter's help to put his foot in his mouth, but in this particular instance his answer was totally aboveboard.

Good thing he seems like he doesn'treally follow what happens in the press circle. Also, I don't really know what the russians will make of his answer? Most likely someone will ask him about it either way, and then he'll have to end up answering it again. I don't know what the translater was thinking about, tho.

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Yes, a good lead on the 4-6 group, too. Now all he needs is a good enough FS.

I think something in the lines of what he did at COR or COC is enough for the podium.
 
http://www.fsrussia.ru/news/3429-mikhail-kolyada-tretij-posle-korotkoj-programmy-v-nagoe-sergej-voronov-pyatyj.html
In this short interview Misha explains what the health issues were that prevented him from skating in Tallinn. He has naturally elevated muscle tone, and when he puts his muscles under heavy strain, such as working on the 4Lz, it adversely affects them, so they need to take time out and attend to his back. But it isn't an injury.

He also says he is reasonably satisfied with his SP (Valentina says the same). His 4Lz has been getting more consistent, but still needs more practicing.
 
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What does Misha have to do to get higher GOE on his step sequences? But at least the judges have rewarded his SS.

I think that almost stumble, perhaps, played a part in it. But I'm happy about most of his other scores and I agree with them. I think the flying sit spin was slower today compared to what he can do and he was very focused on the elements of his program, so I accept that the judges didn't want to give him the edge in IN and PE. But the SS score above Nathan, even if he skated before, is good.
 
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