2022 Russian junior & senior (Sept. 24-25) test skates

[Sylvia]

Livestreaming/replay videos of the junior test skates (singles short programs were yesterday & free skates earlier today) can be watched, for those interested, via this new YT channel that was created on August 11 for Russian figure skating: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLicsOApR4cWvJxmlhcNsKFk6d3J4uT4rn

Boys: Андрей Анисимов, Максим Белявский, Владислав Дикиджи, Федор Зонов, Лев Лазарев, Михаил Полянский, Иван Рамзенков, Кирилл Сарновский, Никита Сарновский/Марк Лукин, Михаил Тихонов, Николай Угожаев, Григорий Федоров, Арсений Федотов
Andrey Anisimov, Maxim Belyavsky, Vladislav Dikidzhi, Fedor Zonov, Lev Lazarev, Mikhail Polyansky, Ivan Ramzenkov, Kirill Sarnovsky, Nikita Sarnovsky/Mark Lukin, Mikhail Tikhonov, Nikolai Ugozhaev, Grigory Fedorov, Arseniy Fedotov

Girls: Алина Горбачева, Мария Гордеева, Алиса Двоеглазова, Вероника Жилина, Мария Захарова, Анастасия Зинина, Елизавета Куликова, Елизавета Лабутина, Надежда Понтелеенко, Любовь Рубцова, Дарья Садкова, Софья Титова, Таисия Щербинина, Вероника Яметова
Alina Gorbacheva, Maria Gordeeva, Alisa Dvoeglazova, Veronika Zhilina, Maria Zakharova, Anastasia Zinina, Elizaveta Kulikova, Elizaveta Labutina, Nadezhda Ponteleyenko, Lyubov Rubtsova, Daria Sadkova, Sofia Titova, Taisiya Shcherbinina, Veronika Yametova

Schedule of the Russian junior test skates in Novogorsk: https://fsrussia.ru/novosti-federat...lnye-prokaty-yuniorskoj-sbornoj-komandy-22-23
Aug. 15-19 Single skating
Aug. 21-25 Pair skating
Aug. 26-30 Ice Dancing

ETA - posted in the Russian news thread in GSD on August 12:

Sofya Akatyeva, Adelia Petrosyan and Sofya Samodelkina will perform at the test skates of the adult Russian figure skating team [September 24-25 in Moscow], RIA Novosti was told by the Russian Figure Skating Federation: https://rsport.ria.ru/20220811/figuristki-1808884547.html

 

[Sylvia]

Junior Pairs SP replay from earlier today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQY3tapPvfE

Machine translated from the comments:

3:35 warm-up group 1
9:50 Elizaveta Romanova/Valery Nazarov
14:41 Yulia Artemyeva/Alexey Bryukhanov
19:39 Anastasia Egorova / Rodion Marinsky
24:29 warm-up 2 groups
30:17 Varvara Cheremnykh/Daniil Butenko
34:49 Ekaterina Petushkova / Evgeny Malikov
39:45 Anastasia Chernyshova/Vladislav Antonyshev
44:27 pouring ice
57:28 warm-up 3 groups
1:04:06 Maria Dybkova/Aleksey Khvalko
1:08:48 Maya Shegay/Igor Shamshurov
1:13:23 Ekaterina Chikmareva / Matvey Yanchenkov
1:18:24 Alisa Rodionova/Alexey Karpov
1:23:37 end

 

[Sylvia]

Playlist of all the junior test skates by event and top individual performances (last updated on August 31): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLicsOApR4cWvJxmlhcNsKFk6d3J4uT4rn

Test skates of the Russian national team: basic information (Sept. 20):

Контрольные прокаты сборной России: основная информация

24 и 25 сентября в Москве в дворце спорта «Мегаспорт» пройдут контрольные прокаты сборной России по фигурному катанию.

www.sport-express.ru

Machine translated excerpts:

Live broadcasts will be shown by the official website of Channel One [VPN required, I assume].

Participants* (*The final composition of the participants will be known on the eve of the rentals.):

Men: Pyotr Gumennik, Mikhail Kolyada, Mark Kondratyuk, Andrey Mozalev, Alexander Samarin, Evgeny Semenenko

Women: Sofya Akatieva, Kamila Valieva, Sofya Muravieva, Adelia Petrosyan, Sofya Samodelkina, Alexandra Trusova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Anna Shcherbakova

Pair skating: Karina Akopova / Nikita Rakhmanin, Alexandra Boikova / Dmitry Kozlovsky, Anastasia Mishina / Alexander Gallyamov, Daria Pavlyuchenko / Denis Khodykin, Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov

Ice dancing: Annabel Morozov / David Narizhny, Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov, Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin, Irina Khavronina / Dario Chirizano, Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Egor Bazin.


Who will miss:
Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin - due to problems with documents

Anna Shcherbakova - underwent knee surgery in August.

Maya Khromykh - due to a hand injury

Alena Kostornaya - due to hip surgery

 

[Sylvia]

List of participants of the senior test skates in Moscow (from the federation's website):

Women (7): Sofya Akatieva, Kamila Valieva, Sofya Muravyova, Adelia Petrosyan, Sofya Samodelkina, Alexandra Trusova and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva

Men (12): Dmitry Aliev, Petr Gumennik, Artur Danielyan, Alexei Erokhov, Makar Ignatov, Artem Kovalev, Mikhail Kolyada, Mark Kondratyuk, Gleb Lutfullin, Andrey Mozalev, Alexander Samarin and Evgeny Semenenko

Pair skating (8): Karina Akopova/Nikita Rakhmanin, Yulia Artemyeva/Alexey Bryukhanov, Yasmina Kadyrova/Valery Kolesov, Anastasia Mishina/Alexander Gallyamov, Anastasia Mukhortova/Dmitry Evgeniev, Daria Pavlyuchenko/Denis Khodykin, Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov, Natalya Khabibulina/Ilya Knyazhuk .

Ice dancing (8): Vasilisa Kaganovskaya/Valery Angelopol, Ekaterina Mironova/Evgeny Ustenko, Annabel Morozova/David Narizhny, Elizaveta Pasechnik/Maxim Nekrasov, Sofia Tyutyunina/Andrey Bagin, Irina Khavronina/Dario Chirizano, Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva/Egor Bazin, Elizaveta Shanaeva/Pavel Thrush [= Drozd].

ETA:

On Thursday, Sinitsina and Katsalapov were not included in the test skates of the Russian national team, which will be held on September 24-25 in Moscow.

"For Vika and me, it is fundamentally important that you always learn all our main news from us, only 100% trust our words and posts. Friends, we had an amazing Olympic cycle. Incredible. We won the European and World Championships, for the Olympics prepared in very difficult conditions! It was our personal marathon for 8 years, which brought us a huge amount of emotions, impressions, happiness, medals, including the most important Olympic medals in the life of an athlete, "Katsalapov wrote in his Telegram channel.
“But at the same time, it took a huge amount of strength. We are constantly on the ice: training, ice shows. So we keep our form at 100%, but we felt that we want to reboot, both mentally and physically. Therefore, after consulting with each other, coaches and relatives, we decided to skip the first half of the season in order to relax and recover. Moreover, we soon have a long-awaited event in our lives, our wedding! And we want to concentrate on this as much as possible, enjoy every moment of preparation, of the day itself. Devote time to each other. We hope that You will be sympathetic to our decision and support it," he added.

Alexandra Boikova / Dmitry Kozlovsky will miss the test skates of the Russian national team due to a partner’s microtrauma, figure skaters coach Tamara Moskvina told RIA Novosti.
“Nothing happened, Dima is recovering from a microtrauma. Thank you very much for your attention, for the fact that you like our couples,” said Moskvina.

"The training camp of the junior Russian national team will be held from October 2 to October 6 in Novogorsk near Moscow, Olga Yermolina, press attaché of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR), told RIA Novosti.
In August, control skating of the country's junior national figure skaters took place in Novogorsk."

 

[Kateri]

Dima is recovering from a microtrauma.

Is this the result of a microaggression?

 

[Frau Muller]

In the context of what’s happening in Russia (the mobilization/forced conscription), the test skates are trivial. Who in Russia will care/watch? This is suddenly so out of touch.

p.s. According to the rules of who must join/rejoin the military, Eteri and other of our “favorite” coaches and older skaters must mobilize. Loopholes for the privileged? Time will tell.

 

[Frau Muller]

LIVESTREAM INFO BELOW:

Psst…just for folks who don’t mind peeking in at what’ll be going on in Moscow tomorrow & Sunday…I don’t care to watch but many do…and I respect it.

Link to tomorrow’s SPs livestream coverage on YouTube (starts 8:00 AM eastern…right after Nebelhorn Women’s finals end):

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

m.youtube.com

Link to Sunday’s LPs, begins 7:30 AM eastern US):

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

m.youtube.com

This is the same “official-unofficial” YouTube channel that had the Jr test skates last month…so the full streams will likely be available for full replays later.

Saturday order of start times, per disciplines (eastern US times):

Dance 8am
Women 9:15am
Pairs 10:45 am
Men 11:55 am

Sunday:

Dance 7:30 am
Women 9:00 am
Pairs 10:40 am
Men 12:10 pm

I don’t have the running order of skaters, although participants’ names are listed in post #4 above, thanks to @Sylvia .

Moscow time is 7 hours ahead of eastern USA, as calculated above.

Again, just FYI. Watch or ignore, as you wish. Wink-wink.

 

[Karen-W]

It's being reported that Alexander Samarin has received a summons from the draft board, and he's not the only one to receive one.

The 2019 European silver medalist Alexander Samarin received a summons from the military registration to the war in Ukraine. And he’s not the only one.

First news about Russian figure skaters receiving a summons to the draft board.

fs-gossips.com

I put this in here because I don't really consider it skating news, but if it needs to be moved to the appropriate thread then please do so.

Sokolovskaya is denying the report, so who knows.

So, now, the pressing question about the test skates is whether or not Samarin will show up...

 

[Sylvia]

Machine translation - "Mishin called problems before the test skates of Tuktamysheva and Semenenko":

Мишин назвал проблемы перед контрольными прокатами Туктамышевой и Семененко

Фигуристы Елизавета Туктамышева и Евгений Семененко выступят на контрольных прокатах сборной России с облегченным контентом из-за проблем со здоровьем, сообщил... РИА Новости Спорт, 23.09.2022

rsport.ria.ru

The first is Lisa Tuktamysheva’s illness, she felt bad a few days before Novogorsk, she didn’t skate for a week. And the second moment is Zhenya Semenenko’s injury, which he received at the skates in Courchevel - video "Unpleasant fall spread on the Internet. The dynamics are positive, but the pain still persists. Due to these circumstances, Zhenya and Lisa will perform at the Megasport rentals with simplified content," Mishin said.
"Liza will skate without a triple axel, and Zhenya without quads. But they will try to show the programs the way the choreographer intended and how we worked on them in order to convey the meaning to the audience and earn their sympathy," the specialist specified.

 

[Dobre]

So I gather the last list we got of the Russian team members was already out of date and the previous news we had received on FSU that Shanaeva & Drozd were teamed up was actually more current.

 

[rfisher]

Annabelle was injured in practice this morning and didn't compete. Khuda was on fire.

Trusova I adore her. The program is OTT, her hair is wild and she's wearing green sequins. But she looks fantastic and more buff than ever. Being in love must agree with her.

And, for those who said nobody would watch: over 8,000 viewers on you tube and the arena is packed. Just sayin....

I know it's fashionable on FSU to hate Valieva, but her new SP is simply stunning.

 

[Lilia A]

Trusova I adore her. The program is OTT, her hair is wild and she's wearing green sequins. But she looks fantastic and more buff than ever. Being in love must agree with her.

Messy and OTT but I liked it . Unfortunately, she just now said that she has a back injury and was out for a while until about a week ago. She looks happy and relaxed though, so that's good.
Liza went the 3A despite being sick earlier this week and planning a watered down routine. The flip didn't work, but who cares, this isn't a competition anyway. I hope her free is better than her short, however. Not my favorite piece from her.

 

[Karen-W]

And, for those who said nobody would watch: over 8,000 viewers on you tube and the arena is packed. Just sayin....

Ever heard of the term hate-watching? But, I don't think there was a belief that "nobody will watch," just that a lot of people chose to not watch and will continue to not watch.

And a packed arena only means that there are about 10k people who still have the means to buy tickets for this bit of escapism in the face of a very uncertain future.

I know it's fashionable on FSU to hate Valieva, but her new SP is simply stunning.

Countless people on FSU have, repeatedly, said they appreciate her skating skills and natural talent, but they are skeptical of how clean she is as a competitor. No one hates her. They hate the fact that she was doping.

 

[muffinplus]

Doping or not, Valieva's skating still has a special quality. She could do no jumps and it still would be...

 

[rfisher]

Messy and OTT but I liked it . Unfortunately, she just now said that she has a back injury and was out for a while until about a week ago. She looks happy and relaxed though, so that's good.
Liza went the 3A despite being sick earlier this week and planning a watered down routine. The flip didn't work, but who cares, this isn't a competition anyway. I hope her free is better than her short, however. Not my favorite piece from her.

I don't know what all she'll do in the free, but I think the program is the best she's ever had based on the SPB test skates. I look forward to seeing it later in the season.

I was smiling and laughing during Sasha's skate. She was just having a good time and that is so different for her. She's relaxed and her skating shows it.

 

[rfisher]

Ever heard of the term hate-watching? But, I don't think there was a belief that "nobody will watch," just that a lot of people chose to not watch and will continue to not watch.

And a packed arena only means that there are about 10k people who still have the means to buy tickets for this bit of escapism in the face of a very uncertain future.

Countless people on FSU have, repeatedly, said they appreciate her skating skills and natural talent, but they are skeptical of how clean she is as a competitor. No one hates her. They hate the fact that she was doping.

I'm not going to comment any more on the doping issue or the Political issue in Russia.

 

[Lilia A]

Maybe I'm just biased against Feeling Good lol. Love Liza though, always have and always will. Speaking of 3A attempts, all three Sofias went for it without much success. One fall, one hand down, and one very underrotated. It's early in the season and as with Liza's 2F, it's not a competition so it doesn't matter (except maybe the almost half turn under). I like Muravieva the most out of the three and out of all the new seniors tbh.

 

[rfisher]

Maybe I'm just biased against Feeling Good lol. Love Liza though, always have and always will. Speaking of 3A attempts, all three Sofias went for it without much success. One fall, one hand down, and one very underrotated. It's early in the season and as with Liza's 2F, it's not a competition so it doesn't matter (except maybe the almost half turn under). I like Muravieva the most out of the three and out of all the new seniors tbh.
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I'm an Adelia fan. There's just something about her. She's tiny, but fierce.

Moskvina is the energizer bunny. She just keeps going and going and going...I thought she was stepping back.

Must be interesting conversations at home with Fedor coaching a rival team to his wife.

 

[rfisher]

Holy cow. P/K's program. The exit out of the twist! That's the best SP they've ever had.

Stunning from Tar/Mor. Pairs is my favorite discipline and nobody does it better than the Russians.

 

[rfisher]

Not sure about some of the partner shuffles, but we'll see.

the height on Galliamov's throws is amazing. Even more amazing is Mishina's ability to land them.

 

[rfisher]

Nice program by Danelian and makes me question Buyanova's interview.

It was good to see Semenenko back on the ice. I feared the head injury could have been career ending. Aliev is injured, again, but this SP looked really good in SPB, so hopefully it will later.

Most of the Russian skaters are trying something new (except Kolyada). Now, is certainly the time to experiment.

I was at the camera shots of Sasha and Kamila while Mark was skating. Sasha was cringing and Kamila was trying to be a good friend and not laugh.

 

[Amy L]

Just starting to watch this. I don't get the point of T/M's spooky version of Ave Maria but the odd choice tracks for them and the whole team. Max's hair is a normal human color again and it took me a few secs to recognize him.

 

[TAHbKA]

Not sure about some of the partner shuffles, but we'll see.

the height on Galliamov's throws is amazing. Even more amazing is Mishina's ability to land them.

When live the most enormous throws and split twists are by Tarasova/Morozov. Volosozhar/Trankov used to have them as well.

 

[TAHbKA]

Absolutely loved Valieva.
I couldn't tell which one is Medvedeva, Scherbakova, Usacheva and Akatieva if my life depended on that. They all look the same at the age of 15. Then they change hair.
Tarasova/Morozov finally found their style and holy cow that programme by Pavluchenko/Khodykin. Glad Popova divorced him off ice only.
The men - I kind of liked Mozalev, but not necessarily related to his programme. The rest of the men were totally meh....

 

[rfisher]

When live the most enormous throws and split twists are by Tarasova/Morozov. Volosozhar/Trankov used to have them as well.

Indeed. Max's throws were so high, Volo really had to work at landing them. And Max had to hustle to catch up to her. That was a difference between them and Smirnov. His were small and short and that allowed Kaviguti to have more control.

 

[rfisher]

Absolutely loved Valieva.
I couldn't tell which one is Medvedeva, Scherbakova, Usacheva and Akatieva if my life depended on that. They all look the same at the age of 15. Then they change hair.
Tarasova/Morozov finally found their style and holy cow that programme by Pavluchenko/Khodykin. Glad Popova divorced him off ice only.
The men - I kind of liked Mozalev, but not necessarily related to his programme. The rest of the men were totally meh....

I think that is the best SP P/K have had. So fast, the twist exit, pretty much everything. I will say Aliev's SP looked really good at SPB, but then he injured himself. Again. Sigh.

The extension Valieva gets on pretty much everything is just gorgeous. Her legs look much longer than they are because of her toe point. She and Trusova have injuries and are not likely to do quads in the free skate this time.

 

[Ananas Astra]

The music in the arena .
Eurovision voids!

 

[Ananas Astra]

Stavisky's hair
Who knew it was so difficult to take a shower?

 

[Ananas Astra]

Angelopol is an extremely handsome dude.
I liked their program. The music is the "Alexander" OST.

 

[Ananas Astra]

Khuda is absolutely killing the introductory video
My Queen.