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I'll see how my evening goes and perhaps will translate it (and 2 other interviews I planned to translate yesterday but fell asleep 
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From Russia with love [#28]: Autumn to Winter 2017
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I think it's also sad that Tuktamysheva didn't make the Olympics either time. 
And she's a former World champion!
And she's a former World champion!
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Bad timing. She was very strong in her last junior year and the first year at seniors, and then her puberty started...and then she managed to pull herself together in the middle of the Olympic cycle, and the following season it was again gone...I think it's also sad that Tuktamysheva didn't make the Olympics either time.
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I feel much worse for Radionova and Pogorilaya.
Sotnikova has Olympic gold medal. Tuktamysheva has world gold medal. Lipnitskaya has gone to Olympics, has team event gold medal and with her Red dress SL program she became the face of Sochi.
Radionova and Pogorilaya have worlds medals, but their timing has been very unfortunate- not ready for the last Olympics, (Pogorilaya age eligible but still skating in juniors, Radionova missed the age cut off), this season struggling and therefore will miss 2018 Olympics and may be completely out of picture in 2022.
Sotnikova has Olympic gold medal. Tuktamysheva has world gold medal. Lipnitskaya has gone to Olympics, has team event gold medal and with her Red dress SL program she became the face of Sochi.
Radionova and Pogorilaya have worlds medals, but their timing has been very unfortunate- not ready for the last Olympics, (Pogorilaya age eligible but still skating in juniors, Radionova missed the age cut off), this season struggling and therefore will miss 2018 Olympics and may be completely out of picture in 2022.
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Radionova is a bit like Mao in terms of timing. But I don't think we've seen the last of either of them, or at least I hope we haven't!
I'm sorry to hear about Zhulin's father passing away. I knew there had to be something else going on when we saw that reaction.
I'm sorry to hear about Zhulin's father passing away. I knew there had to be something else going on when we saw that reaction.
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I think it's also sad that Tuktamysheva didn't make the Olympics either time.
Out of curiosity, are there many other world champions who never made an Olympics?
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Irina Vorobieva / Igor Lisovsky (1981 World champions in pairs for the Soviet Union).
She currently coaches in Colorado Springs and he in the St. Louis area.
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I hope both Radionova and Pogorilaya plan to continue. They are both still quite young, and they looked quite motivated. Not sure if Tuktamysheva will continue though. For the last season or two it seemed like if she skates because she doesn’t know what else to do, rathen than because she wants to skate.
She has already said numerous times in different interviews that she will continue
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Hmmm. That's not necessarily something that heals very quickly
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Well, he is not going to Europeans and Olympics, and very likely not to worlds either, so he has nine or ten months to heal. His next competition will be at the beginning of the next season - at the end of September or in October.Hmmm. That's not necessarily something that heals very quickly
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Well, Katsalapov has been having leg problems for some time now, even from the beginning of the season, he also looks so thin. I wonder if its due to his lift limitations. He always needs to do lifts on one leg or on his knees. Maybe he could also relearn his stroking like Tessa had anything to somehow ease the pressure?
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Will Russia determine its Olympic team based on results from Euros? Sorry, I'm on vacation, didn't have a lot of downtime and lurked online for some answers, but didn't see anything definitive ....
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Yes, along with their World team.
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Have they named the skaters going to euros and olympics yet?
TAHbKA
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Yes. Euros. 2 pages ago
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Several pre-World War I World Champions never made it to the Olympics, even though some of them were competing in 1908 and presumably could have gone to London if so inclined.
Ice Dancing was contested a Worlds for many years before it was an Olympic event.
Lily Kronberger, Opika von Méray Horváth, and Herma Szabo, who between them won all twelve Ladies' World titles contested between 1908 and 1924 never went to the Olympics. Szabo also won World titles in Pairs with Ludwig Wrede. He did go to the Olympics in Men's and in Pairs with a different partner, but never with Szabo.
Meghan Taylor, the World Champion in 1938 and 1939 never got to go to the Olympics (because of World War II).
And, lest we forget, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner were World Champions in Pairs and went to the Olympics, but withdrew.
In other words, it has happened, but not very recently, and not for the main reason it will happen this time, namely the embarrassment of riches that is Russian Ladies' figure skating.
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Herma did go to (and win) the 1924 Olympics in Ladies Singles. I remember it like it was yesterday.
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Normally, I would be suspicious of a claim like that, but there's video evidence to back it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HByUOyu0u0Herma did go to (and win) the 1924 Olympics in Ladies Singles. I remember it like it was yesterday.
That's you in the stands, right?
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Thank-you
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The main Euros team is so much stronger than the reserve team in the ladies all through the season that I don't think there is any contest for a reserve lady to make the Olympics even if Kostner knocks any one of the three girls from the main team off the podium at Euros. Same for pairs.
Similarly, Kolyada seems a virtual lock and in any event a heavy Euros silver medal favorite. I am hoping Aliev can surge to a Euros bronze and snatch the final spot.
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Ladies are a lock for sure. Kolyada had his spot ever since end of last season or begining of this one - he's by far the best Russian men. Aliev is a great skater though, I like to watch him skate better than Samarin.
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Aliev skates better than Samarin. My left shoe skates better than Samarin. It's the jumps that fail Aliev
Interview with Aliona Kostornaia
https://tulup.ru/news/687/interview_alena_kostornaya/
She says that she really likes pairs skating and would like to try it some day; has already tried 3A on the floor and is eager to work on some ultra-c elements but it’s too risky to work on them during the season
https://tulup.ru/news/687/interview_alena_kostornaya/
She says that she really likes pairs skating and would like to try it some day; has already tried 3A on the floor and is eager to work on some ultra-c elements but it’s too risky to work on them during the season
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Oh my. She'd be exquisite at pairs if she had a worthy partner. I can picture DivaVera lift positions.
Speaking of DivaVera: Bazarova and Larionov are skating together at Navka’s show (‘Ruslan and Liudmila’)Oh my. She'd be exquisite at pairs if she had a worthy partner. I can picture DivaVera lift positions.
Some pics from the show
https://instagram.com/p/BcJ0Mgmjb12/
https://instagram.com/p/BdGWfsZjWcr/
https://instagram.com/p/BdKmW9FjNRB/
https://instagram.com/p/BdLJU62lfGf/
Ilinykh, Sotnikova & Urmanov are taking part at ‘SnowWhite’ show in St Petersburg
Volosozhar/Trankov were at the talk show yesterday
#tragic hair
https://instagram.com/p/BdNXLxdjz3U/
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EnPIPfSGUDk (22:47)
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Trankov looks like he should be wearing a white t-shirt and sunglasses and sprinkling salt on a porterhouse.
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#tragichair indeed 
How did Tatiana let him out of the house?
How did Tatiana let him out of the house? Or the focus & conditioning. He's had falls on nothing the last two nationals. And he pops or mucks up the second half of his programs after hitting the difficult jumps at the beginning. Especially under pressure.
Fits right in with the rest of the men.
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