Colonel Green
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Ack, my eyes!
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Speaking of hair.Do not cry, Maxim. Your hair is a mess
NON!!We're using 'masterpiece' in the loosest sense of the word, no?![]()
The team from Junior Worlds has been kicked off their national team - something to do with the male skater's mother coaching them.Ukraine's another country that could use a renaissiance in pairs. They did have a team at Euros, but they finished last. They also had a team finish 12th at Jr. Worlds.
Who?The team from Junior Worlds has been kicked off their national team - something to do with the male skater's mother coaching them.
Stanislav Morozov is the epitome of the dump truck skater - we don't really have them anymore.
Of course you do!I kind of miss them.![]()
Kind of a mess. http://www.isuresults.com/results/owg2010/SEG006.HTMWhat happened to K/S in the FS? I know Pang/Tong had the skate of their career, but...?
Smirnov exteses so well.
That is a legend. I was i Stockholm when they win the EC. Just golden.He really does. Now I want to watch their Manfred program again.
Yes, Dzitsyuk/Pavlov - this was posted a few days ago in the Junior Worlds thread.Who?
Pavlov and chick?
You must have known what the Ukrainian Federation was going to do a week later when you were writing this! Expell Katerina Dzitsyuk - Ivan Pavlov from the national team. I did a translation from a couple of articles in Russian, sorry if I am placing it in the wrong place, just thought it was kinda appropriate after all your remarks.
Shocking news from the Ukrainian Federation of Figure Skating: a sports pair, current national champions, have been expelled from the federation.
Two days after the Junior World Championship ended, a decree on the expelling of the sports pair Katerina Dzitsyuk / Ivan Pavlov from the national team was signed. Katerina and Ivan started a new pair this season and have already become champions of Ukraine, twice took 7th place in Junior Grand Prix competitions and became twelfth in the Junior World Championship in Tallinn, Estonia - the highest place of all the representatives of the Ukrainian team in the championship.
Ivan Pavlov, who is a two-time Ukrainian champion in singles, in the previous years participated in World and European championships. Katerina is fifteen, and for her Junior World Championship was the first major competition. So, why was such a promising couple unexpectedly expelled from the national team?
An unpleasant incident concerning the couple occurred during the Junior World Cup, when the Ukrainian Federation refused to declare the actual coach of the couple. According to the ISU profile, the athletes have one official coach - Arina Kuznetsova. However, in fact the skaters’ coach is Ivan's mother - Alla Pavlova. She has been training Ivan for quite a long time and recently graduated from the National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport, receiving a diploma of a figure skating coach. The two coaches agreed to work together for the benefit of the pair.
Prior to the Junior World Cup, Alla Pavlova was given the coach’s accreditation when the pair took part in the Grand Prix competitions last autumn. However, when the athletes needed her help at the Junior World Championship and requested that she should be given accreditation and opportunity to attend the training, the Ukrainian Federation refused to do so. To avoid further conflicts like this, the pair was going to state Alla Pavlova as their only coach on their return to Ukraine, but before they had a chance to do it, the couple was officially expelled from the team, the Federation indicating the reason as “the violation of discipline at the Junior World Championship by the pair’s parents”.
As a result, having expelled Katerina Dzitsyuk and Ivan Pavlov from the Ukrainian Federation, Ukraine is left with no representatives in this kind who are of age to compete in seniors in the next season.