Recent content by Quadjump

Just want to mention that Aljona became 40 years old yesterday. Who should had known that the level of pair skating has dropped so much since 2022. With the right partner she still would have been unbeatable this year. Never understood why she did not team up with Eric Radford after 2019. I...

Oh yes I know. The German criteria are higher and no single skater reached them so far. https://www.eislauf-union.de/files/users/1001/DEUNominierungskriterien2023_2024_Stand_01.12.2023.pdf?jsn_mobilize_preview=1 Even for Euros noone gained enough points so far. But the DEU ignored its own...

I think there might be no German man or woman at worlds this year.

They will be there and skate. But he was suffering from it the whole week. It the result of the tight schedule they have. Nikita needs to adopt to that new life.

Nikita had a flu. He is not at 100% for thursday.

Minvera´s and Nikita´s practice location is 100m next to the arena. So they ll come for sure to get the applause after the likely GPF medal. They are rising.

Hocke/Kunkel´s outing was disappointing this weekend. Like last season they skate worse and worse with every competition. But still. Getting two German pairs into GPF is very likely. Hase/Volodin only needs to become second in Espoo and Osaka. (I even think they can win both.) Then the Final...

Minerva and Nikita made my day. This free skate is phenomenal. Absoluty wonderful. What an outing.

In my book Hase/Volodin look incredibly promising. They have everything! Cannot wait. She even learned a back outside death spiral. Just remember that this element always was Aljona's superior element. Also Sui/Han saved the Gold in 2022 against the russians via the BoDs who only had lower...

Massot, Knierim and others have been under extreme pressure over years and still are. Some of them really suffered. But Ruben? After two years of practice in little Oberstdorf, one year of competition with some good results and much more to come you do break up. This decision you could have...

Yes. He should fight for it. Other pairs go through everything over years.

Maybe I am stubborn but in my book Ruben behaves kind of ruthless. Sorry. Investing so much over more than two years and now it is suddenly done like it was worthless.

There has not been a single clean SBS ever from them so far. This really makes me pessimistic about their comming career.

Competing with Aljona is super hard to bear without any doubt. Aljona can be furious. You saw it with Robin and Ingo through all the years. The relationship between Aljona und Bruno just seemed to be way more complex compared to what is written in that abstract. He decided to stay with her. Just...

3 spots for pairs (desperatly needed when Hase comes back) and 2 for women. (1 for men)