I don’t think so, when she has the right program she can compete with the top ten in the world, especially when she has more domestic competition and not everything always on her shoulders. Also, 2022/23 was also when she started balancing school and skating.
I'm not so sure. She's repeating her free skate again next season and she does have domestic competition - Sara-Maude was ahead of her at Four Continents. And ETA- she was also ahead of her at 2023 4CC.
She plateaued and then did better last year. But her basics and posture are really behind. Her 11th last year was an excellent result for her. She could make top 10 if many women with better skills crashed and burned (like the SP this year) or don’t show up at a post-Olympics worlds, but I personally don’t like seeing that.
It’s really hard to get the PCS for top 10 with the posture issues. She gives away a lot of points in between the elements.
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Ah that explains why she's started showing up on Amber Glenn's social media.
Unfortunately, I think Lia isn't internationally junior eligible until 26/27
Awesome jumps… but she needs to relate to the music and has some projection! I am confident her coaches will teach her in times. How long has she been with Orser?
Due to Victoria's Russian citizenship, I assume she has limited JGP choices due to visa issues. It may be easier for her to go to Baku or Abu Dhabi.
Bangkok should also be pretty easy for her. Same with Ankara.
She still can travel under her Canadian passport, no?
Is she also Canadian or a Russian import? I'd love to have someone share some more information about her since she came out of nowhere, as far as I'm aware, at NextGen.
From what I understand, she moved from Russia last year and has been training with Orser for the past year. So she has the residency requirement to compete for Canada and she received her release from Russia, given her participation in NextGen. But given her Russian passport, she may have troubles getting visas to certain places like Latvia or Italy. So I'm assuming she will get Bangkok as a tester to see if she scores high enough to get Abu Dhabi
I screwed up, my bad. Was talking about Volkova…
My sources have confirmed that she is no longer skating and has moved back to B.C. This happened shortly after Junior Worlds.
Thanks for the information. She skated quite well in the short program at junior worlds so it must have been disheartening not to qualify for the free there. She was one of the top Canadians on the JGP during her career so I hope she feels good about what she accomplished.
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Her first option was to keep her very well-received Lion King SP from this past season, but she was quoted in June saying that the cost for those rights from Disney was too much for her team, so she was going with something else.
I still don't understand why she could use it one season and not the next. Did Disney just change the rules or something?
Yes that may have been first option, but she had already said that wasn’t going to be possible because of the huge fee requested. She was quoted saying she had other choices that were also waiting to be cleared and she then said she had a back up if they didn’t clear. And I have to assume that Black Swan was the backup.
