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Sofía Muravieva’s tribute to Gordeeva & Grinkov. I have mixed feelings. https://www.reddit.com/r/FigureSkating/s/mPB1HZvA9E

P&B was a Zueva number. @Amy L is right -- that was post-Lillehammer. G&G skated it for Tour of Champions and Holiday Festival on Ice in 1994. Maria/West Side Story, Scheherazade, and Pagliacci were all TAT. I can't remember for sure but I think Jesus Christ Superstar was too. It's very :drama...

Thanks, @Sylvia. That makes sense. Would have been right after they got married. I laughed when she was asked what she thought about Edmonton and she just said, “Getting cold, getting cold...” 🤣

Sorry, I didn’t choose my words well. That is how I feel too, @bardtoob. You said them better than me. I get nostalgic for the past (especially when a meaningful anniversary marks the passage of time) but I don’t expect anyone to be as they were 25 years ago. People are far, far more interesting...

Well, if you look at the comments in this Instagram post https://www.instagram.com/p/CDElgtugY95/?igshid=x78pg4w2m209 from that same July weekend, you’ll see that Katia more or less confirms it with her reply to @tanya_nettles. I fell in love with G&G many, many, many moons ago so it will...

I don’t think this has been shared yet. Published on RT yesterday, here’s Elena Vaitsekhovskaya remembering Sergei: https://russian.rt.com/sport/article/804742-grinkov-smert-figurist

YAAAAAASSSS, that's it! Thanks, @Cherub721 :cheer2:

I will absolutely second this. B&B used to scare the crap out of me. They both looked half-crazed (proof) and often had the music to go with it. They scared me off ice dance for years and years.

@Amy L - thanks! That was still 39% more than what I got. ;) To my untrained American ears, Liza's Russian sounds much better than Daria's. I do wonder why she - Liza, that is - isn't competing this year. Platov has aged but hey, at least still has his hair and no pot belly!

There was a 2+ hour episode with :TT1: (and Yags, V&T, Navka, Platov, B&B, among others) on Channel 1 yesterday. Enjoyed watching it even if I couldn’t understand 99% of it. https://www.1tv.ru/-/dtkwj Can someone translate or point me to an existing translation?

Oh, right. Forgot about the timing of the little one. Thanks, seabm7.

Huh. No Charlie White? Is Meryl hosting or will she be skating with someone else? :confused:

This poll reminded me of one of my favorite old-timey clips: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ppAA8pY7wNU

The idiot's name is Kurt Gowdy. He's a Hall of Fame sportscaster although it's clear that he knew nothing about figure skating.

For another look at G&G's quad twist, here's footage from 1987 that just resurfaced. The quad is right at the halfway mark. I wish we had more of these old Soviet videos to watch!