quite simply, it's unacceptable.
I still can't figure out why, in general, should Navka be feeling guilt, shame, remorse..... Khorkina or not...Also in Navka's defense - showing any shame, guilt, remorse, or defeat in Khorkina's presence means risking getting smacked or yelled at.
http://youtu.be/xrwo0uMWDK0
https://youtu.be/z-n0qtZW9j0?t=137
(the only positive part of the interview for me)
I'm not so optimistic, I partly agree with Zhulin on what he says about both I/Z and S/K. I do not believe in significant jump next season, but they should and will progress, IMO.
I think the results at Worlds hurt the Russian Fed more than they are showing. I guess it's normal that they are all a little bit nostalgic.
I don't agree what he said about Elena and Ruslan and think with Shpilband's help they can do a significant jump in the rankings.
Big interview with Zhulin about Russian ice dance
- M/K seems to be done because of her injury
- it's still not clear about B/S
- looks like he really really is interested in Z/G
- talks about Shekhovtsova and Piseev
- S/B are still too juniorish
It is a great interview, a very honest one, maybe too much nostalgy though..
Thanks for posting that, really interesting...at least what I understand of it in the garbled together automated translation. I/K are surely a loss, but they were never reliable either in their four years together in seniors. They would have (probably) continued being contenders for medals, but who says they would have ever gotten it together when it mattered? Sochi was the exception in their career. B/S also managed one Worlds medal in their senior career. And that was in 2013, since then it has looked as if they'd been passed over a bit. These two couples were/are stronger than the pairs they have now, but even they weren't setting the world on fire. At this point IMO it is sort of a cop-out for the Russian fed/system to look at individual pairs and ignore the systemic issues that seem to be going on. Why don't strong junior pairs transition into seniors successfully? Kustarova and Svinin/Zhuk haven't always delivered, and neither has Zhulin for that matter.Big interview with Zhulin about Russian ice dance
"Ilinykh needs Katsalapov"
http://rsport.ru/interview/20160412/912510423.html
- M/K seems to be done because of her injury
- it's still not clear about B/S
- looks like he really really is interested in Z/G
- talks about Shekhovtsova and Piseev
- S/B are still too juniorish
It is a great interview, a very honest one, maybe too much nostalgy though..
I hope that's not a dig at Peter T who is the best choreographer out there at the moment in my view
More to do with Zueva not liking outside help as a rule ... Remember how she "liked" Carmen ...
Thanks for posting that, really interesting...at least what I understand of it in the garbled together automated translation. I/K are surely a loss, but they were never reliable either in their four years together in seniors. They would have (probably) continued being contenders for medals, but who says they would have ever gotten it together when it mattered? Sochi was the exception in their career. B/S also managed one Worlds medal in their senior career. And that was in 2013, since then it has looked as if they'd been passed over a bit. These two couples were/are stronger than the pairs they have now, but even they weren't setting the world on fire. At this point IMO it is sort of a cop-out for the Russian fed/system to look at individual pairs and ignore the systemic issues that seem to be going on. Why don't strong junior pairs transition into seniors successfully? Kustarova and Svinin/Zhuk haven't always delivered, and neither has Zhulin for that matter.
Appreciated that he said that B/S would have been probably 5th, 6th at Worlds (I agree with that more or less), it would have been easy to claim them as some sort of saviours to make a point against the Russian couples who were there. Thought that was very fair and realistic of him, noting that Russian ice dance in general is in a transitional phase and not excluding his own couple. At least that's how I understood it. I agree with some of the criticism he has of the current bunch, but I don't think any of them are hopeless. They might not be world beaters, but surely they're all capable of improving and bettering their results. It might not reach former glory days, or at least not in the short term, but it's what they have and what they need to work with. Moaning about the past (or even better, some imaginary future that might have been...or not) can't be the answer.
And I did get a kick out of him somewhat indirectly dissing Shpilband for that "P/C only do easy stuff" remark. That yeah, putting in difficulty only for the sake of difficulty and to make the program look busy isn't so hot either.
I love Zhulin's honesty. But he disses Igor and Marina more for not understanding ICE DANCE as more DANCE than ICE lol. So true. And he had the IT in his days, so he knows
I am sorry to say I agree about I&K ... She's not doing well with Ruslan because they don't fit yet. And they have so little time to gel
My gut feeling is that SinKat are not going to make it too far.
My guess - both of them won't be able even to medal at WC in this Olympic cycle
IMO, in current situation nobody in Russian Fed will force any ice dancer to retire
