Once again, Nikita & Victoria were a. injured & not even selected by the Russian Fed to compete at Worlds. And b. had already done enough skating prior to his pulling out of the FD at Nationals for it to be apparent that they were not going to make the Olympic team (and were unlikely to finish top 3 as they were down 3 points to Zahorski & Guerreiro after the RD & then mucked up a lift in the FD before Nikita bailed on the program).
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