Russian figure skating news in 2024

[caseyedwards]

My list of Russians I fangirled is long from Kulik and Yags (sigh) to DomShabs and Med.

Putin, him I hate.

No one could say something like “pies doesn’t miss Russians” if they were fans or didn’t hate

 

[PRlady]

Oh, Russian pairs are good in general. But I wasn’t a big fan of the current crop, and there are other good pairs in other places. Even without a war of aggression, the drugging and the badmouthing are reason enough to be glad they’re gone.

 

[On My Own]

Skating is so dead it’s like all marriage and baby news as people move on from a sport that doesn’t provide anything

IKR? Nobody cares about it anymore.

Med

low

But I wasn’t a big fan of the current crop,

to high

 

[mtnskater]

You obviously have an extreme hatred of Russians

Nope not at all.

All wars are not the same. Putin’s horrible and totally, absolutely unprovoked war against Ukraine, a fellow member of the ISU, shocked the conscience of most of the free world.

Most of the free world joined in the Iraq war because of the 9-11 attacks….right or wrong. Also, maybe ancillary, but was Iraq an ISU member at the time?

Not to mention, repeated systematic Russian State doping of athletes and use of athletes as political props for Putin’s continued dictatorship and power.

It all boils down to Putin bringing this on to his own people. Blaming the ISU, U.S. or IOC or anyone but Putin is severely misplaced. He is making his own people suffer for his own ego and power/reign of terror.
But they are not suffering anywhere close to the people of Ukraine. My thoughts are with the Ukrainians!

 

[caseyedwards]

Nope not at all.

All wars are not the same. Putin’s horrible and totally, absolutely unprovoked war against Ukraine, a fellow member of the ISU, shocked the conscience of most of the free world.

Most of the free world joined in the Iraq war because of the 9-11 attacks….right or wrong. Also, maybe ancillary, but was Iraq an ISU member at the time?

Not to mention, repeated systematic Russian State doping of athletes and use of athletes as political props for Putin’s continued dictatorship and power.

It all boils down to Putin bringing this on to his own people. Blaming the ISU, U.S. or IOC or anyone but Putin is severely misplaced. He is making his own people suffer for his own ego and power/reign of terror.
But they are not suffering anywhere close to the people of Ukraine. My thoughts are with the Ukrainians!

False. Almost the whole world opposed the Iraq war. It was US UK and Poland. It had nothing to do with 9/11

Who cares if Iraq was member of ISU.

Iraq was member of ioc but ioc didn’t care United States invaded Iraq

ioc didn’t care when ioc member Iraq invaded ioc member Kuwait

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Russia is banned for it's violation of the Olympic Truce. That is the action that resulted in the ban.

Please describe another country that violated the Olympic Truce and was not banned? The rest is false equivalency.

 

[caseyedwards]

Russia is banned for it's violation of the Olympic Truce. That is the action that resulted in the ban.

Please describe another country that violated the Olympic Truce and was not banned? The rest is false equivalency.

If Olympic truce means no war actions are ever done during an Olympics than violators include United States ifrom 1964 to 1976 and 2002 to 2016, Israel 2024, Soviet Union 1956 and 1968 and then 1980 to 1988. And of corpse Russia in 2008 and 2014.

So these are clear violations with no ban.

 

[ajingmarg]

All wars are not the same. Putin’s horrible and totally, absolutely unprovoked war against Ukraine, a fellow member of the ISU, shocked the conscience of most of the free world.

Most of the free world joined in the Iraq war because of the 9-11 attacks….right or wrong. Also, maybe ancillary, but was Iraq an ISU member at the time?

Not to mention, repeated systematic Russian State doping of athletes and use of athletes as political props for Putin’s continued dictatorship and power.

It all boils down to Putin bringing this on to his own people. Blaming the ISU, U.S. or IOC or anyone but Putin is severely misplaced. He is making his own people suffer for his own ego and power/reign of terror.
But they are not suffering anywhere close to the people of Ukraine. My thoughts are with the Ukrainians!

I

Nope not at all.

All wars are not the same. Putin’s horrible and totally, absolutely unprovoked war against Ukraine, a fellow member of the ISU, shocked the conscience of most of the free world.

Most of the free world joined in the Iraq war because of the 9-11 attacks….right or wrong. Also, maybe ancillary, but was Iraq an ISU member at the time?

Not to mention, repeated systematic Russian State doping of athletes and use of athletes as political props for Putin’s continued dictatorship and power.

It all boils down to Putin bringing this on to his own people. Blaming the ISU, U.S. or IOC or anyone but Putin is severely misplaced. He is making his own people suffer for his own ego and power/reign of terror.
But they are not suffering anywhere close to the people of Ukraine. My thoughts are with the Ukrainians!

Is this a political forum????

Shouldn't we be reading something about figure skating in each thread?

 

[On My Own]

People can still follow Russian skating, for the record, as @Ananas Astra seems to be able to do. That most people don't want to (including, apparently, Casey himself) on this particular forum doesn't indicate much of anything about skating within Russia.

The (well worn-out) conversation about Russian skating being banned currently on an international level has multiple different threads to be discussed, if people wanted to revisit that particular merry-go-round.

 

[TAHbKA]

Russian skating shitshow: Rudkovskaya suing a skater (or, rather, a skater's mom) for 1.8m rubles (no idea whether it's 5$ or 50000$ today) and winning the court case. Apparently the 12y.o mom (single mom) signed a contract and breached it. The skater went `back' to Tutberidze after 3 years with Pluschenko.

 

[caseyedwards]

I

Is this a political forum????

Shouldn't we be reading something about figure skating in each thread?

I was trying to but it was all news about births and weddings and now it’s like is that all Russian skaters are doing now? Getting married and having kids because there’s no future in skating because of ISU permanent ban.

 

[Ka3sha]

Speaking about Russian skating, here is the preliminary entries list of skaters who will take part in the test skates. Test skates are scheduled for next weekend, September 12-13

Федерация фигурного катания на коньках России

❗️❗️ПРЕДВАРИТЕЛЬНЫЙ список участников контрольных прокатов сборной команды России (взрослые) по фигурному катанию на коньках ❗️❗️ #контрольные_прокаты

t.me

 

[Frau Muller]

Speaking about Russian skating, here is the preliminary entries list of skaters who will take part in the test skates. Test skates are scheduled for next weekend, September 12-13

Федерация фигурного катания на коньках России

❗️❗️ПРЕДВАРИТЕЛЬНЫЙ список участников контрольных прокатов сборной команды России (взрослые) по фигурному катанию на коньках ❗️❗️ #контрольные_прокаты

t.me

More single men (10) than single women (9).

 

[Miezekatze]

I used to really like Russian skating , but as far as I‘m concerned Eteri destroyed it years before Russia was banned.

Even though i only realized how terrible womens had become when the Eteri Girls were gone and i could get excited again.

As for Dance and men , Russia was only mediocre before the ban.

The only skaters who reminded me of the old times were Liza T. and Kolyada, who also seem like nice people.

Worst thing about Russian skating for me seems to be that too many people involved dont see the skaters as humans.

 

[On My Own]

Worst thing about Russian skating for me seems to be that too many people involved dont see the skaters as humans.

Something tells me this isn't a feature exclusive to Russian skating...

 

[PRlady]

Something tells me this isn't a feature exclusive to Russian skating...

True, but the need to appear caring and responsible keeps some coaches in check, with obvious exceptions like Dalilah.

Russians aren’t hypocritical and the culture doesn’t care how they treat their charges so no guardrails.

 

[On My Own]

There's a lot of abuse in the sport that doesn't end with Russia or Dalilah Sappenfield.

 

[Nune]

Does somebody have a translation of the test skater names please?

 

[Amy L]

Does somebody have a translation of the test skater names please?

I can do it when I get home if no one else does it before then!

 

[Karen-W]

Does somebody have a translation of the test skater names please?

found this list over at Golden Skate - looks pretty accurate to me based on my cursory knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet.

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice Dance
Dmitri Aliev	Sofia Akatieva	Alisa Blinnikova/Aleksei Karpov	Vasilisa Kaganovskaia/Maksim Nekrasov
Petr Gumennik	Alina Gorbacheva	Aleksandra Boikova/Dmitri Kozlovski	Anna Kolosmenskaya / Artem Frolov
Vladislav Dikidzhi	Sofia Muravieva	Alena Kostornaia/Georgy Kunitsa	Milana Kuzmina / Dmitry Studenikin
Makar Ignatov	Adeliia Petrosian	Anastasia Mishina/Aleksandr Galliamov	Sofia Leontieva/Daniil Gorelkin
Mark Kondratiuk	Daria Sadkova	Anastasia Mukhortova/Dmitri Evgeniev	Ekaterina Mironova/Evgeni Ustenko
Gleb Lutfullin	Ksenia Sinitsyna	Elizaveta Osokina/Artem Gritsaenko	Elizaveta Pasechnik/Dario Cirisano
Andrei Mozalev	Alexandra Trusova-Ignatova	Natalia Khabibullina/Ilya Knyazhuk	Ekaterina Rybakova/Ivan Makhnonosov
Roman Savosin	Anna Frolova		Aleksandra Stepanova/Ivan Bukin
Daniil Samsonov	Veronika Yametova		Irina Khavronina/Devid Narizhny
Evgeni Semenenko			Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva/Egor Bazin
			Anna Shcherbakova/Egor Goncharov

 

[Amy L]

Seven pairs is kind of a low amount for Russia isn't it? Most of their mid ranged skaters have gone to other countries by now.

 

[Karen-W]

Seven pairs is kind of a low amount for Russia isn't it? Most of their mid ranged skaters have gone to other countries by now.

Honestly, the singles lists are a bunch of skaters who've been around awhile now - not a lot of new or unfamiliar names. One has to wonder where the up-and-coming skaters are also. How will the Russian fed manage to fill another fake-GP series this fall with only 10 men and 9 women?

 

[Alilou]

Is that the Anna Shcherbakova now doing dance?

 

[Amy L]

Is that the Anna Shcherbakova now doing dance?

No, different girl with the same name.

 

[Alilou]

No, different girl with the same name.

thanks

 

[On My Own]

Is that the Anna Shcherbakova now doing dance?

The thought is rather hilarious, isn't it?

 

[Alilou]

The thought is rather hilarious, isn't it?

Indeed

 

[Amy L]

Scherbakova/Goncharov have been together for quite a while and they have medalled at the past 2 Junior Nationals. I think this will be their senior debut but don't hold me to it.

In case anyone is curious this is them from last year:

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youtu.be

 

[On My Own]

Scherbakova/Goncharov have been together for quite a while and they have medalled at the past 2 Junior Nationals. I think this will be their senior debut but don't hold me to it.

In case anyone is curious this is them from last year:

- YouTube

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

youtu.be

Huh, that didn't completely suck choreography-wise.

I'm going to pretend it's because they've not yet had the "feedback" from international "judges" who have about as much dance knowledge as Ashley Wagner does, and also because they aren't portraying the "musicality" that Marie-France (or whoever is doing the programs nowadays - don't @ me, I don't care) believes is some superior "vision".

 

[Samurina]

found this list over at Golden Skate - looks pretty accurate to me based on my cursory knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet.

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice Dance
Dmitri Aliev	Sofia Akatieva	Alisa Blinnikova/Aleksei Karpov	Vasilisa Kaganovskaia/Maksim Nekrasov
Petr Gumennik	Alina Gorbacheva	Aleksandra Boikova/Dmitri Kozlovski	Anna Kolosmenskaya / Artem Frolov
Vladislav Dikidzhi	Sofia Muravieva	Alena Kostornaia/Georgy Kunitsa	Milana Kuzmina / Dmitry Studenikin
Makar Ignatov	Adeliia Petrosian	Anastasia Mishina/Aleksandr Galliamov	Sofia Leontieva/Daniil Gorelkin
Mark Kondratiuk	Daria Sadkova	Anastasia Mukhortova/Dmitri Evgeniev	Ekaterina Mironova/Evgeni Ustenko
Gleb Lutfullin	Ksenia Sinitsyna	Elizaveta Osokina/Artem Gritsaenko	Elizaveta Pasechnik/Dario Cirisano
Andrei Mozalev	Alexandra Trusova-Ignatova	Natalia Khabibullina/Ilya Knyazhuk	Ekaterina Rybakova/Ivan Makhnonosov
Roman Savosin	Anna Frolova		Aleksandra Stepanova/Ivan Bukin
Daniil Samsonov	Veronika Yametova		Irina Khavronina/Devid Narizhny
Evgeni Semenenko			Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva/Egor Bazin
			Anna Shcherbakova/Egor Goncharov

so either Chikmareva / Yanchenkov, Artemeva / Briukhamov are injured, split, or changed nationalities