2026 Europeans - Women Free Skate - "You Can Leave Your Splat On"

[delayedaxel]

Seniuk looks quite young, like a junior skater.

 

[Hedwig]

Maria Seniuk
2a
3f near stand still 2toe
3sal step out
slight wobble even in the choreo seq
3l first good jump
1z
3z ur 2toe
3flip 1a1a
she hardly gets any distance in the steps and stays center ice the whole time
only level 2 and neg GOE very right for that

 

[skatingguy]

Mariia Seniuk
Rank after SP: 20
Coach: Polina Tsurskaia
Music: Stranger Things

2A
3F+2T - no speed/flow on landing
3S - stumbled out
Choreo Sequence
3Lo
Change Foot Combo Spin 4
1Lze
3Lze+2T
3F+1A+1A+SEQ
Flying Camel Spin 3
Step Sequence 2
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 4

Nervy skate for Mariia and that really showed in the stiffness of her landings, and the popped Lutz in the second half of the program.

-1.00 = Time Violation
96.11 = 2nd Place
148.51 = 2nd Place

 

[MacMadame]

If you are going to do a Stranger Things program and you are someone with that coloring, I think a more traditional Stranger Things costume would be more flattering. I feel like this dress is wearing her.

 

[Hedwig]

It seems to me like very few skaters really feel and understand music. Some are in the sport for the athletic component and muscial interpretation doesn't interest them. Others try to work on that aspect but it clearly doesn't come naturally to them. It makes it all the more special when you get a skater who really does feel and interpret the music, no matter what their level of jumping ability may be.

totally!

and it would be great if that would be rewarded in a component.

 

[terisa]

It seems to me like very few skaters really feel and understand music. Some are in the sport for the athletic component and muscial interpretation doesn't interest them. Others try to work on that aspect but it clearly doesn't come naturally to them. It makes it all the more special when you get a skater who really does feel and interpret the music, no matter what their level of jumping ability may be.

Truth. I had a whole conversation about this, and how the crowd can feel it when the skater really feels the music, with Bekker/Hernandez' coach. Nice lady...

 

[Hanna]

It seems to me like very few skaters really feel and understand music. Some are in the sport for the athletic component and muscial interpretation doesn't interest them. Others try to work on that aspect but it clearly doesn't come naturally to them. It makes it all the more special when you get a skater who really does feel and interpret the music, no matter what their level of jumping ability may be.

Yeah I agree with you, it's roughly those three categories. The ones who don't even try, the ones who try to work on it but just aren't naturally gifted performers.... and then those few for whom the music just flows through the soul and watching them perform their art is a real gift.

 

[Debbie S]

The uncertainty over her passport can't be helping Mariia. Unfortunately, I fear her probable placement here isn't going to motivate anyone to push the passport through. I hope i'm wrong and she is able to compete in Milan.

 

[Hedwig]

Vanessa Selmekova
3flip
3loop little ur and stumble
3l nice 2a
does she have an injury on her upper leg? very red there.
2flip
2z2t2l
3sal2t
2a very ur and fall
I think JOsephine continues to slay big time!

oh she is in tears, poor girl

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

The uncertainty over her passport can't be helping Mariia. Unfortunately, I fear her probable placement here isn't going to motivate anyone to push the passport through. I hope i'm wrong and she is able to compete in Milan.

I missed that - what's her passport situation?

 

[skatingguy]

Vanessa Selmekova
Rank after SP: 19
Coach: Vladimir Voynikov, Rastislav Vrlak
Music: Roses by J.M. Blais, Maison by E. Piano

3F
3Lo - turned out
3Lo+2A+SEQ
Flying Camel Spin 4
Choreo Sequence
2F
2Lz+2T+2Lo - sloppy landings
Layback Spin 4
3S+2T
2A< - fall
Step Sequence 2
Change Foot Combo Spin 4

Had trouble finding the timing, and spacing on some of her jumps, and just didn't quite relax into the program. Non-jump elements were better, but the overall impression of the performance was lacking.

-1.00 = Falls
98.81 = 2nd Place
151.31 = 2nd Place

 

[Nadin]

These interviews are awful, just leave them alone already

 

[victorskid]

I'm just back from a physio appointment - I was watching the results on the ISU app and will have to go back and see Josefin's skate - I was cheering for her!!!

Belatedly: PANEL OF JUDGES:
Referee Ms. Leena LAAKSONEN ISU
Technical Controller Ms. Lise Rosto JENSEN ISU
Technical Specialist Mr. Kelly CRUICKSHANK ISU
Technical Specialist Ms. Vanessa GUSMEROLI ISU

Judge No.1 Ms. Zanna KULIK ISU
Judge No.2 Ms. Laimute KRAUZIENE ISU
Judge No.3 Mr. Matjaz KRUSEC ISU
Judge No.4 Ms. Florence VUYLSTEKER ISU
Judge No.5 Ms. Birgit FOELL ISU
Judge No.6 Ms. Salome CHIGOGIDZE ISU
Judge No.7 Ms. Marina BESCHEA ISU
Judge No.8 Ms. Irina KOMARNICKA ISU
Judge No.9 Ms. Magdalena RUSIECKA ISU

Data Operator Mr. Martin PAULMICHL ISU
Replay Operator Mr. Xander GIJTENBEEK ISU

 

[Sylvia]

what is Kristen's injury

Spours had spinal surgery for a herniated disc (!) last June - I've been posting about her unbelievable comeback in the British News thread in GSD, including 2 articles today: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...s-2022-and-beyond.109770/page-14#post-6872147

 

[Hedwig]

she is like "okay, how bad was the rest" and nearly laughing around her misery

 

[Hanna]

Well, in group 1 there was Josefin and then there were others.

 

[Hedwig]

I'm just back from a physio appointment - I was watching the results on the ISU app and will have to go back and see Josefin's skate - I was cheering for her!!!

it was a treat - including a partial SO from the crowd

 

[terisa]

does she have an injury on her upper leg? very red there....

oh she is in tears, poor girl

Looks like some kind of tape on both sides, and that fall can't have helped

 

[Hanna]

OK Mikutina's hypermobility looks painful.

 

[Debbie S]

I missed that - what's her passport situation?

She doesn't yet have it. She has citizenship but getting the passport is an additional layer of bureaucracy.

 

[Hanna]

Sauter's lutz is such a beauty when it's on.

 

[tony]

I love Julia Sauter. HUGE jumps. So pleasant.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

She doesn't yet have it. She has citizenship but getting the passport is an additional layer of bureaucracy.

Thanks. I hope she can get it in time - it would be a shame to miss on the Olympics simply due to bureaucratic issues.

 

[Citlali]

Julia

 

[Hanna]

Wheeeee one of Sauter's better days, she can be so good when she's on! Fantastic old school skating skills with great flow, great teknik. LOVE IT! Only wish she had started performing a bit earlier as it was a VERY focused skate until the jumps were done. But I guess it paid off technically.

 

[skatingguy]

Julia Sauter
Rank after SP: 18
Coach: Roxana Hartmann, Christopher Boyadji
Music: That Home, Rain in Your Black Eyes

3Lz
3Lo+2T
3T+2T+2Lo
3S+2A+SEQ
Step Sequence 3
3Lo
Change Foot Combo Spin 4
3S - hand down
2A
Flying Sit Spin 3 (4 after review)
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 4 (3 after review)
Choreo Sequence

Very nice skate for Julia. Joyous skating to watch, and her emotions coming out at the end.

121.84 = 1st Place
174.37 = 1st Place

 

[Hedwig]

Sauter
wonderful 3z - very deep outside edge going in
3l2toe very good too
3teo2toe2l
3sal2axel
wow, her jumps are so high, never noticed before (or forgot Maybe I raphsodize about it every time)

3l wonderful
3sal hand down maybe ur
2a nice

I like her nice tidy style, very different to Josephine, a bit more understated but very charismatic nonetheless


that put at least a lion among the pidgeons!!

 

[susieB129]

Good for Julia! Old school lovely skating!

 

[JoannaLouise]

Julia Sauter is another sentimental favourite of mine, who doesn't quite have the technical difficulty to be a medal threat, but the jumps she completed today were beautiful and her skating was so joyful.

 

[delayedaxel]

Sauter has the skate of her life! I absolutely love her jumping technique; she really is lifting herself up into the air!