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  1. 02-17-2011, 09:31 AM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kasey View Post
    or, maybe one is nursing a mild injury or illness that they don't want to exacerbate...
    He did mention in his AOI interview having a flu just before the show when asked why unlike SavShel they dont' skate their SP and LP in the show. He replied he is not sure he can right now.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kasey View Post
    Or, maybe the meaning was lost in translation, and he meant they weren't going to go full out at this event like it's Worlds...or .... any number of things
    It was equally ambiguous in Russian. It least for me
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  2. 02-17-2011, 09:36 AM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by Finnice View Post
    Count me among the Stas Morozov fan club. I have been a member since he fighted for the stuffed animal with a flower kid in Tallin 2010.
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  3. 02-17-2011, 03:02 PM #23
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    Quote Originally Posted by TAHbKA View Post
    It surprised me Trankov expected Morozov NOT to skate well - he was an ice dancer after all and not such a bad one either.
    ...but a failed one


    Am shocked there is a skater with high enough grades to get anywhere near the med school. Most of them skip the school and even those who dont are not that good....
    I don't know which nationality/skaters you're refering to but I would like to mention that Stéphane, Sarah and Jamal all have the possibility to study medicine with their high school degree

    Quote Originally Posted by TAHbKA View Post
    He did mention in his AOI interview having a flu just before the show when asked why unlike SavShel they dont' skate their SP and LP in the show. He replied he is not sure he can right now.
    How many programmes they skate is not the skaters's decision but Höner's.
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  4. 02-17-2011, 04:47 PM #24
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    Quote Originally Posted by bek View Post
    Oh now I'm going to be nervous, way better Trankov to just do things as planned.
    I think he means they are going to treat it as a qualifying round before Worlds, which is really what it is. No need to burn out/exhaust yourself just to achieve a minimal qualifying score, kind of like Alissa Czisny had to do at Sectionals in order to advance to Nationals this season or how Nicole Bobek intentionally doubled some of her planned triples during the qualifying round at the 1995 Worlds. I recall Angela Nikodinov winning sectionals one year and all she did in her LP was a 3toe and she doubled all of her other jumps. A watered down, conservative skate is all that is needed at this event. Why do more?
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  5. 02-17-2011, 05:19 PM #25
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jackie Sparrow View Post
    ...but a failed one
    Yes, but he still was an ice dancer. Unlike, say, Najarro, who while being a brilliant choreographer is not an ice skater.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jackie Sparrow View Post
    I don't know which nationality/skaters you're refering to
    The Russians (or ex-USSR) obviously. In almost every Yags interview it was mentioned he was a decent pupil and it was declared to be an exception rather than a rule.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jackie Sparrow View Post
    How many programmes they skate is not the skaters's decision but Höner's.
    Yes, exactly and Trankov said - if I remember correctly he was asked why SavShel skate their competitive programmes and they dont' he replied SavShel's programmes were fun etc, but he had a flu and is not sure he could skate the SP/LP in one go and besides they received the music they are to skate to in AOI from the organizers.
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  6. 02-17-2011, 09:50 PM #26
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    The organizers just wanted to see Aliona in that pink catsuit.
    Your program sucks and your partner just fell: lay down and play dead or think Feck this and do a Th3A at the end of the program: Aliona Savchenko: Definition of a competitor
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  7. 02-18-2011, 11:06 AM #27
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    Quote Originally Posted by rfisher View Post
    The organizers just wanted to see Aliona in that pink catsuit.
    No one wants to see a skeleton in a pink catsuit
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  8. 02-18-2011, 11:30 AM #28
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jackie Sparrow View Post
    No one wants to see a skeleton in a pink catsuit
    Don't give Kevin VDP any more ideas!

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    Tatiana and Max received qualifying score at MBTC
    http://www.mbtc.it/results.php?pag=s...ir/results.php
    There is a video and same pictures too
    http://www.mbtc.it/top_classificatio...nior_pairs.php
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