Recent content by Primorskaya

Actually @cholla , you can strike me off the list, I'm having to stay in Berlin because a project I'm leading has to be delivered at the end of that same week and so I'm f**ked. I'm so sad to be missing this indeed impressive roster and even more to not, in fact, be meeting you FSUers at long...

I just requested days off from work and am scrambling to organise a trip. I've been totally out of the skating loop all the off-season and had no idea until a few days ago that it was happening mid-October this year!

Ooooh, interesting. That should liven things up a fair bit in the ice dance field.

Lol actually if we are going to reheat that, I preferred Yagudin overall ;) Except for Plushenko's Nijinsky programme. They both look like death warmed up but I give the platinum medal to Plushenko because he looks like he's hasn't slept or shaved in days.

You haven't seen Plushenko I presume. And yes Dikizhi and Lutfulin seem like the likeliest options.

Kondratiuk just before his skate has the same face I had waking up after our company's Xmas party. Not sure I want to watch him anyway.

Yeah, I remember enjoying Gumennik way more than that in the past. That felt uninspired, like the art is contained in the outfit rather than in the skating.

Thought I'd watch a little bit of the men's and one hour later, im still there instead of finishing my Xmas shopping. Savosin's WTF-ery is just too entertaining. Really enjoyed Dikidzhi. Ignatov, Popov and Simonov also a good watch. There's a worrying trend towards terrible platinum dye jobs...

This is going to throw up endless complicated situations. It probably won't work for anyone, if the criteria are properly enforced. As sport is state-sponsored in Russia, indeed through a branch of the military, nobody can avoid the connection. Including athletes who don't support the war. I...

Finally got around to watching all of those programmes everyone here is talking about and while I agree that Boikova/Kozlowski have two awesome programmes, I also really liked Mishina/Galliamov's SP. Loved Frolova as well -the video I watched also had an awesome tracker that showed her planned...

Well now. Let's see how much of a response this gets.

Oh dear I had forgotten about Grassl. Kind of amazed to see him there actually.

Yes it's about time the shit hit the fan in this particular school. One badly handled incident is one thing, this is now a pattern. The fact that she was under the influence of her sleeping medication while being assaulted...It's making me think of the Gislèle Pélicot case many of you will...

I really wish that, in a few years, having had time to mull over all this, (and whatever comes next, which likely won't be pretty) the intelligent person everyone says she is will see the full picture, and SPILL.

Agree and disagree. At this stage in the proceedings, Valieva is clearly colluding, inventing/backing up crazy stories. She's probably willing to do this as no-one wants to be found guilty, but even if she wasn't, she'd have been persuaded it was in hers and everyone's interests. That doesn't...