Olivia Smart / Tim Dieck - new team?

[victorskid]

From Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnythingGOE/status/1608125025768411136

Sport1 state that Olivia Smart / Tim Dieck are a new ice dance team and that they’ll prepare for the 23/24 season in Montreal from April

Link to article in German: https://t.co/jsH7n5W1mv

 

[Karen-W]

From Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnythingGOE/status/1608125025768411136



Link to article in German: https://t.co/jsH7n5W1mv

Being discussed in the Dance Hall thread in the Trash Can.

 

[Vagabond]

They need to do a "Get Smart" program.

 

[FSWer]

Any photos of them?

 

[Sylvia]

"At the beginning of the year it will be announced which country they will represent":

Olivia Smart formará pareja con Tim Dieck | HIELO ESPAÑOL

www.hieloespanol.es

Machine translation:

Madrid, December 29, 2022 – Several German media yesterday brought to light what had been discussed in the skating world for months: Olivia Smart (25 years old) already has a new partner, the German Tim Dieck (26 years old). This was an open secret of such magnitude that, at the end of October, when Smart reported that he had "exciting news" to tell (that he was joining the television program "Dancing on Ice"), many of us assumed that he was going to announce his new couple.

The creation of this duo was intended to be managed away from public opinion because first it was necessary to decide which country they would represent (Spain or Germany). A key aspect that, as Olivia Smart explains to HIELO ESPAÑOL, has not yet been resolved. “We are going to skate together, but we still have to confirm and talk to both federations (Spanish and German) under which flag we will do it. The announcement will be made at the beginning of the year. We wanted to keep this matter low-key, but somehow it has leaked to the press."

The duo Smart & Dieck started working in the summer. Their training base will be the Ice Academy of Montreal (Canada) where they will travel in April with their sights set on debuting during the 2023-2024 season and reaching the 2026 Olympic Games. And it is because both have competed internationally by different nations would have to wait 1 year to do it officially.

Tim Dieck, who comes from a family linked to skating (his mother is a coach and his father a judge) has extensive international experience in the dance modality, which he has practiced since 2011 with different partners (Dana Wehner, Florence Clarke and Katharina Muller). Together with Müller, with whom he skated from 2014 to 2022, he reached 21st place in the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games, 12th in the 2022 European Championships and 18th in the 2021 World Championships.

The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper, which has published images of the new duo, reports that during these days Olivia and Tim are doing exhibitions in the Christmas ice rink installed in the Heumarkt (market square) in the city of Cologne. There they have shown a preview of their free dance under the chords of Donny Hathaway's song “A Song For You”. Although this headline refers to them as a “German couple” (and it is more likely that they will end up being so), this information is not yet confirmed, as we have explained. It should not be forgotten that Olivia Smart has Spanish nationality.

It so happens that Spain is waiting for a release request made to Germany, that of Asaf Kazimov (Sofía Val's new partner) and whose response could arrive in January. Interestingly Tim Dieck and Asaf Kazimov not only come from the same federation, but from the same track (ERC Westfalen in Dortmund). This closeness could explain the fact that Sofia and Asaf will also skate at the Heumarkt in Cologne. They will do it from January 1 to 6. We will have to wait to know the final destination of both couples.

 

[Sera]

This is the article from the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger that is mentioned above. It features pictures of Smart/Dieck on the Heumarkt:

https://www.ksta.de/koeln/koelner-i...nz-elite-zeigt-kueren-auf-dem-heumarkt-383975