2024-25 Pairs General Discussion - Who Wants to Skate Forever (in Junior Pairs)?

[Sylvia]

I looked at the results from Spanish Nats and I think it's doable for Yudin/Rossi Lopez also - their TES there was higher than Moudden/Garcia.

From the Spanish Nationals thread in Kiss & Cry:

I’m so impressed that Spain has 4 jr pairs. That’s almost the same as Canada! (5). Javi’s success translation into some phenomenal grassroots participation

Canada technically has 6 Junior pairs this season - Jazmine Desrochers/Kieran Thrasher [JGPF bronze in Grenoble] are making their Senior national debut next week.

JUNIOR PAREJAS
Result
FPl. Name Club Nation Points SP FS
1 Claudia SCOTTI / Noah QUESADA CH Txuri Berri/CH Txuri Berri EUS 129.13 2 1
2 Megan YUDIN [from CAN] / Patricio Romano ROSSI CH Txuri Berri/CH Txuri Berri EUS 124.19 3 2
3 Inés MOUDDEN ROCA de TOGORES / Alejandro LÁZARO GARCÍA Madrid Dreams/Madrid Dreams MAD 123.48 1 3
4 Carolina Shan CAMPILLO ÁLVAREZ / Pau VILELLA SIRVENT Madrid Dreams/Madrid Dreams MAD 97.37 4 4

SP protocols: https://www.rfedh.es/wp-content/upl...OR----QUAL000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf
FS protocols: https://www.rfedh.es/wp-content/upl...OR----FNL-000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

 

[Sylvia]

Cross-posting from the OES News thread in GSD] New Pair Alert! Italy's Anna Valesi and Martin Bidar will represent Czechia:

Anna Valesi on Instagram: "🇬🇧 We are excited to announce the start of our new partnership representing Czechia!🎉 A big thank you to everyone who helped us make this possible!🙏 Let’s gooo!🔥💪🏼 🇨🇿 Konečně můžeme oznámit novou spolupráci! Budeme rep

239 likes, 9 comments - _annavalesi_ on January 13, 2025: "🇬🇧 We are excited to announce the start of our new partnership representing Czechia!🎉 A big thank you to everyone who helped us make this possible!🙏 Let’s gooo!🔥💪🏼 🇨🇿 Konečně můžeme oznámit novou spolupráci! Budeme reprezentovat...

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[farahfan]

Cross-posting from the OES News thread in GSD] New Pair Alert! Italy's Anna Valesi and Martin Bidar will represent Czechia:

Anna Valesi on Instagram: "🇬🇧 We are excited to announce the start of our new partnership representing Czechia!🎉 A big thank you to everyone who helped us make this possible!🙏 Let’s gooo!🔥💪🏼 🇨🇿 Konečně můžeme oznámit novou spolupráci! Budeme rep

239 likes, 9 comments - _annavalesi_ on January 13, 2025: "🇬🇧 We are excited to announce the start of our new partnership representing Czechia!🎉 A big thank you to everyone who helped us make this possible!🙏 Let’s gooo!🔥💪🏼 🇨🇿 Konečně můžeme oznámit novou spolupráci! Budeme reprezentovat...

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Yay! Excited for them and for Czech skating.
looking back, was there ever an explanation for why she split with Piazza? On Instagram, the announcement just says "Some things are not meant to be." And now both are skating for smaller federations.

 

[Amy L]

I've long lost hope for any pairing that involves Martin Bidar... but good luck I guess! I'd love to be proved wrong, Duskova/Bidar had so much potential it'd be great if Martin could go back to that level and not be such a grouchy dude with his partners

 

[farahfan]

I've long lost hope for any pairing that involves Martin Bidar... but good luck I guess! I'd love to be proved wrong, Duskova/Bidar had so much potential it'd be great if Martin could go back to that level and not be such a grouchy dude with his partners

Hopefully he can make it work with Anna because it's kinda his last chance for an Olympics. It's improbable they'll qualify for the 2026, plus Anna needs citizenship. So I guess they're going for 2030, by which Martin will be 32 years old.

 

[Amy L]

Hopefully he can make it work with Anna because it's kinda his last chance for an Olympics. It's improbable they'll qualify for the 2026, plus Anna needs citizenship. So I guess they're going for 2030, by which Martin will be 32 years old.

He went to the Olympics in 2022 so it's not really a last chance type of thing. And the idea of a partnership lasting an entire four years is unimaginable to me at the moment. Who knows what his ultimate goals are but I thought the same thing of Kransnopolski as well.

 

[Karen-W]

Yay! Excited for them and for Czech skating.
looking back, was there ever an explanation for why she split with Piazza? On Instagram, the announcement just says "Some things are not meant to be." And now both are skating for smaller federations.

Valesi/Piazza were destined for 4th best in Italy with the arrival of Beccari/Guarise - and they really struggled last season to improve on their scores from the previous season. A split was unsurprising to me.

 

[Karen-W]

Cross-posting -

Just saw this -

https://twitter.com/x/status/1879269798779179177

I was wondering why Scotti/Quesada weren't entered at Bavarian Open to try & get the Jr Worlds CTES mins along with the other two Spanish jr teams - this explains it.

 

[Sylvia]

Phil Hersh's article on Audrey Shin/Balazs Nagy's first year partnership (Jan. 16):

Audrey Shin, Balazs Nagy forge unique pairs' figure skating partnership

Audrey Shin and Balazs Nagy make their U.S. Figure Skating Championships debut as a pairs' team later this month.

www.nbcsports.com

Excerpt:

Shin is Nagy’s fourth pairs’ partner at the senior level. (Multiple partners in a long career is not unusual; Duhamel, for example, had three as a senior.) He might still be with his second partner, Maria Pavlova, but for Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Hungarian skating federation asked Nagy to skate with Pavlova, a native Russian who switched to Hungary. She and Nagy competed together in the 2021-22 season, when they split training between Budapest and (mainly) Sochi, Russia.
He found it untenable and uncomfortable to keep going to Russia and returned to the United States. Nagy has spent more than half his life in the United States after first moving with his family at age 2.
(Pavlova has gone on to skate for Hungary with another native Russian, Aleksei Sviatchenko. They finished fourth at last season’s World Championships.)
Training in another country has become a different issue for Nagy now. He needs a job to pay for skating, and he can’t currently get a Canadian work permit.
That means he and Shin bounce back and forth between Toronto and Colorado Springs, Shin’s old training base, where they work with Drew Meekins.