WHO has visited the production labs, will get progress probably by October or November for accreditation.
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Diana and Gleb getting a medal at worlds this year lool!?!?
Its not about liking them, This comment wont age well unfortunately.Diana and Gleb getting a medal at worlds this year lool!?!?
It would be depressing if she got the medal this year. But in the future…why? How do you know how much she will improve within the next few years? I watched the test skates this year and was quite impressed, they have done a huge progress. I thought they have been invited to the test skates because of her mother, but it seems that their invitation was deserved.
Well, then I guess if the WHO does receive the data it needs on these visits and gives accreditation it will be a step forward for travel for Russian athetes & we'll have to see then what happens with the EU accreditation. Might be too late for this year's GP, but we'll just have to see there.
Aren't they not already better than Step/Buk?
That means neither deserves a world medal...
Well the prediction was for this year, so that's what I was reacting to.
I have no idea at this point - haven't seen either team skate, but we'll see where they are at by Russian Nationals - I was responding to the prediction that Davis/Smolkin would win a medal this season's World Championships.
D/S were very good at US Classic but I feel that Morozova has better material...esp the Scheherazade FD.
ok......I felt nothing after 1st vaccine but was hungry after the the 2nd. I will be 70 next month with a serious autoimmune disease. I was hospitalized from March 17th to March 30th & rec'd first shot April 1st and 2nd shot June 16th. Both were Pfizer. Is there anyway they could get Pfizer in their travels.
Sorry but who are Nepo?
No, they are not.
It's yet another ridiculous nickname that @love_skate2011 thinks is cute way to dismiss a Russian team/skater whom it has a low opinion of, in a similar vein to what it has coined for Maia Khromyk and Daria Usacheva and that the rest of us in this thread have called out for being rude and unfair to the skaters. The term I've seen used I'm the Russian Test Skates and other live play by play discussions is Daughter 1 for Morozov/Bagin and Daughter 2 for Davis/Smolkin. Those are more likely to catch on around here, similar to how Eliska Brezinova is referred to as Lil Sis 1 and Loena Hendrickx is referred to as Lil Sis 2. Which begs the question, should we start referring to Wolfkostin/Chen as Lil Bro since Jeffrey Chen is Karen Chen's younger brother?
Nah. Too much sentiment. Too many good teams retiring this season. Give them two more seasons.
I think there has been a belief that both of them have gotten further due to their family connections than their talent alone would have taken them. But it's interesting to note that the nicknaming (which is only slightly less dismissive than outright calling either team "Nepo Couple") has been limited to the teams with the female having the family connection and that similar partnerships with the male who has the family connection aren't given nicknames like Son 1, Son 2, or Son 3, etc.
I'd think we'd be more upset with Morozov and partner. The couple S/S got swept aside for them even more blatantly, when they could barely skate. I think most of this is ET related. D/S literally have genuine merits. If Daddy Morozov only gave D/S a decent FD.
D/S aren't with Morozov. They're with Shpilband.
Except they completely abandoned Mishina/Galliamov after they finished 4th at Russian Nationals in 2019, and only came back after they won the 2021 World Championships.
Davis & Morozov's parents are just at a higher profile within the sport than Guerreiro's mother, and neither of Bukin's or Ponomarenko's parents are as involved in skating at this point to the same extent as the former. Particularly in the case of Diana Davis you can't really have a parent that has a higher profile in the sport at this moment, so it creates an interesting narrative even if it is not a particularly fair one.
Ponomarenko's dad was a technical specialist and he stepped back from that once Anthony hit the junior ranks. I know that isn't as high profile to outsiders but it certainly has the potential to be just as influential (maybe moreso if he had advanced to serving on various ISU committees and subcommittees) as either coaching or choreographing skaters who are winning and competing for medal positions routinely. And, let's be real, both Ponomarenko and Bukin's fathers,, as well as Ponomarenko's mother,, are certainly high enough profile due to their own career successes. There are different types of influence and power, and Anthony & Ivan have both benefited from those family connections.
