Russian figure skating news & updates in 2022

[Bigbird]

An awesome article by Panina about the figure skaters eating disorders. Panina moved to RIA a couple of months ago and so far... she's a star imho.

Always have a plan B I say. It's not worth it long term.

 

[Alli84]

It's because she knows that when you do sh*t like that, something like THIS can happen (from earlier today, apparently).

I can't tell who that is. The hair is a bit light to be Mark, I think? Please tell me that's not poor Semenenko again

 

[Bigbird]

I can't tell who that is. The hair is a bit light to be Mark, I think? Please tell me that's not poor Semenenko again

Clueless pawns. Used to entertain, soothe and distract the masses.

 

[Ananas Astra]

I can't tell who that is. The hair is a bit light to be Mark, I think? Please tell me that's not poor Semenenko again

I think it is Mark, he's had a haircut recently and maybe the lighing makes the hair look so light?

 

[antmanb]

I can't tell who that is. The hair is a bit light to be Mark, I think? Please tell me that's not poor Semenenko again

I'm almost certain it's Mark - the technique and rotational position (and truly awful euler) are all the same as the "successfully" landed one as well as placement on the rink, although the camera angle is from the other side here.

 

[Lilia A]

I can't tell who that is. The hair is a bit light to be Mark, I think? Please tell me that's not poor Semenenko again

It was Mark.

 

[Sylvia]

English version of a recent interview in Kislovodsk with Mikhail Kolyada, plus photos: http://www.figureskating-online.com/m-koljada.html

 

[Yuri]

The Russian skating websites are now reporting on The Skating Lesson's tweet that Diana & Gleb are no longer training with Igor Shpilband and that her mom Eteri Tutberidze has been seen at the Detroit Skating Club, where they previously worked with former USSR ice dancer Natalia Annenko.

Дэвис и Смолкин больше не тренируются у Шпильбанда (The Skating Lesson)

Российский танцевальный дуэт Диана Дэвис и Глеб Смолкин прекратил работу с тренером из США Игорем Шпильбандом.

www.sports.ru

No further word on whether they will continue to skate for Russia or switch to the United States or another country.

 

[Sylvia]

Муравьева, Петросян и Туктамышева вошли в основной состав сборной России, Косторная, Усачева и Хромых — в резерве - 15 июня 2022 - Sport24

На сайте Минспорта РФ опубликован состав сборной России по фигурному катанию на сезоне-2022/23.

sport24.ru

The composition of the Russian national figure skating team for the 2022/23 season has been published on the website of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation.

Women
Main cast: Kamila Valieva, Sofia Muravieva, Adelia Petrosian, Alexandra Trusova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Anna Shcherbakova.
Reserve: Alena Kostornaia, Daria Usacheva, Maiia Khromykh.

Men
Main cast: Petr Gumennik, Mikhail Kolyada, Mark Kondratiuk, Andrei Mozalev, Alexander Samarin, Evgeni Semenenko.
Reserve: Dmitri Aliev, Alexey Erokhov, Makar Ignatov.

Couples
Main cast: Aleksandra Boikova - Dmitrii Kozlovskii, Anastasia Mishina - Aleksandr Galliamov, Daria Pavliuchenko - Denis Khodykin, Evgenia Tarasova - Vladimir Morozov, Karina Akopova - Nikita Rakhmanin.
Reserve: Iasmina Kadyrova - Valerii Kolesov (new), Anastasia Mukhortova - Dmitry Evgenyev, Natalia Khabibullina - Ilya Knyazhuk.

Dancing on Ice
Main cast: Victoria Sinitsina - Nikita Katsalapov, Alexandra Stepanova - Ivan Bukin, Diana Davis - Gleb Smolkin, Annabelle Morozov - Devid Naryzhnyy (new), Irina Khavronina - Dario Cirisano, Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva - Egor Bazin.
Reserve: Sofya Tyutyunina - Andrei Bagin (new), Elizaveta Shanaeva - Alexander Shustitsky (new).

ETA - missing: Sofia Samodelkina placed 5th at Russian Nationals in Senior.

Also:

У Тутберидзе — большинство среди женщин, ученица Плющенко обставила сверстницу из ЦСКА. Опубликован состав сборной России

Что в нем самое интересное?

www.sport-express.ru

"The website of the Ministry of Sports published a list of figure skaters, coaches and specialists included in the Russian national team. Here are 40 uncut PDF sheets."

 

[Bigbird]

Муравьева, Петросян и Туктамышева вошли в основной состав сборной России, Косторная, Усачева и Хромых — в резерве - 15 июня 2022 - Sport24

На сайте Минспорта РФ опубликован состав сборной России по фигурному катанию на сезоне-2022/23.

sport24.ru

The composition of the Russian national figure skating team for the 2022/23 season has been published on the website of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation.

Women
Main cast: Kamila Valieva, Sofia Muravieva, Adelia Petrosian, Alexandra Trusova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Anna Shcherbakova.
Reserve: Alena Kostornaia, Daria Usacheva, Maiia Khromykh.

Men
Main cast: Petr Gumennik, Mikhail Kolyada, Mark Kondratiuk, Andrei Mozalev, Alexander Samarin, Evgeni Semenenko.
Reserve: Dmitri Aliev, Alexey Erokhov, Makar Ignatov.

Couples
Main cast: Aleksandra Boikova - Dmitrii Kozlovskii, Anastasia Mishina - Aleksandr Galliamov, Daria Pavliuchenko - Denis Khodykin, Evgenia Tarasova - Vladimir Morozov, Karina Akopova - Nikita Rakhmanin.
Reserve: Iasmina Kadyrova - Valerii Kolesov (new), Anastasia Mukhortova - Dmitry Evgenyev, Natalia Khabibullina - Ilya Knyazhuk.

Dancing on Ice
Main cast: Victoria Sinitsina - Nikita Katsalapov, Alexandra Stepanova - Ivan Bukin, Diana Davis - Gleb Smolkin, Annabelle Morozov - Devid Naryzhnyy (new), Irina Khavronina - Dario Cirisano, Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva - Egor Bazin.
Reserve: Sofya Tyutyunina - Andrei Bagin (new), Elizaveta Shanaeva - Alexander Shustitsky (new).

ETA - missing: Sofia Samodelkina placed 5th at Russian Nationals in Senior.

So Drozd? What happened?

 

[millyskate]

So it appears Pavliuchenko and Khokodin are still skating together.

 

[hanca]

ETA - missing: Sofia Samodelkina placed 5th at Russian Nationals in Senior.

Samodelkina is not missing. She has been placed on the junior team. I think they run out of spots on main senior team and on reserve and one could argue that the others had stronger reason to be included. The same with Sinitsina - she is also on junior team.

 

[Sylvia]

So it appears Pavliuchenko and Khokodin are still skating together.

P/K's coaches mentioned them as together back on May 7: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...s-updates-in-2022.109490/page-27#post-6255760

Samodelkina is not missing. She has been placed on the junior team.

Yes. thanks. I meant "missing from the senior/main team" - I couldn't open the 40-page PDF document to check.

 

[soogar]

«Тутберидзе преступно гениальна». Интервью американского журналиста, который раздражает нашу фигурку

Знакомьтесь, Дейв Лиз.

m.sports.ru

Dave Lease posted an interesting interview of himself with Sports RU. I was very dismayed to read about his experience with Galina Zmieskaya as a coach. I personally have not had great experiences with Russian coaches when I took skating lessons with them. Many of them are just plain unenthusiastic about working with an adult skater. For the amount of money they charge, they could at least feign enthusiam for someone achieving crossovers. I thought he had shown great improvement in his skating ability in his nationals skates.


Why did you leave Zmievskaya?

- Well, Galina is a pretty tough coach. She says to herself that she is an old school coach and adheres to the old principles of work. And at the end of winter I had a difficult period, a lot of work during the Olympics, in general, I was very stressed. And here the coach keeps repeating that “you are not a man”, “you want the coach to lie to you, or what?”, “Turn off your head” - and I realized that this hits my self-esteem a lot. I need support.

Yes, I want the coach to tell it like it is, but you can do it in different ways. And such aggressiveness did not help me. I realized that this does not work for me, before the competition (and I participate in competitions for adult amateurs) I do not believe in myself.

I tried to talk to her, ask her to communicate in a different tone. But Zmievskaya said that it was impossible. Yes, I learned a lot from her, she is a brilliant specialist, but it is difficult to motivate me with insults and shouting - I just start to get more nervous.

And you know, I've made a lot of progress since then. Yes, Galina is a cool coach in terms of technique, but I got something more by leaving her - I became more confident on the ice. And it is visible. Maybe such authoritarian methods are suitable for some, but it’s not in vain that they say that the older you are, the less you like it when they yell at you - the weaker this method works.

 

[angi]

So Evgenia Tarasova and Fedor Klimov got married? They might be the most random couple we've heard of in a long time...

Evgeniya Tarasova on Instagram: "По моему не нужно слов😜"

27K likes, 604 comments - _tarasova_evg on June 17, 2022: "По моему не нужно слов😜".

www.instagram.com

 

[Bigbird]

So Evgenia Tarasova and Fedor Klimov got married? They might be the most random couple we've heard of in a long time...

Evgeniya Tarasova on Instagram: "По моему не нужно слов😜"

27K likes, 604 comments - _tarasova_evg on June 17, 2022: "По моему не нужно слов😜".

www.instagram.com

They look really happy! Maybe they kept it quiet so as to prevent any distractions and unnecessary chatter....Like what a lovely show/competitive couple you would make with Fedor, plus the chatterings from Trankov, Tarasova, Zhulin, Leonova, Besti, Rodnina....blah, blah, blah...who am I missing? LOL.

 

[Frau Muller]

What a sublime location for a wedding - the Pushkin Museum of fine arts!
Congratulations to Evgenia & Fedor!

 

[allezfred]

No congratulations for supporters of genocide.

 

[TAHbKA]

Russian figure skating news today:

• Alina Zagitova to participate a boxing show match
• Zhulin commenting on Zagitova boxing
• some others commenting
• some ideas who she should be boxing against
• the name of the boxer (Olympic champion whatever) who will be fighting against Zagitova is named
• the coach of the said athlete says he is injured and can't participate any boxing events, even less so a show.

Waiting for Zhulin to comment on that....

Guess the news are matching the level of journalism....
upd:
* Rodnina doesn't plan watching Zagitova's boxing match

 

[antmanb]

Maybe Tonya Harding can have a boxing match with Zagitova?

 

[jamesy]

Is she going to save all her punches for the second half of each round?

 

[Bigbird]

This is NOT a real place.

 

[Vagabond]

Maybe Tonya Harding can have a boxing match with Zagitova?

Zagitova would be hopelessly outmatched. Harding has better teknik.

 

[taz'smum]

Zagitova would be hopelessly outmatched. Harding has better teknik.

And a stronger track record....

 

[Frau Muller]

Russian figure skating news today:

• Alina Zagitova to participate a boxing show match
• Zhulin commenting on Zagitova boxing
• some others commenting
• some ideas who she should be boxing against
• the name of the boxer (Olympic champion whatever) who will be fighting against Zagitova is named
• the coach of the said athlete says he is injured and can't participate any boxing events, even less so a show.

Waiting for Zhulin to comment on that....

Guess the news are matching the level of journalism....
upd:
* Rodnina doesn't plan watching Zagitova's boxing match

I can almost guess the nature of Zhulin’s comments.

Of course, Tarasova has weighed in - no pun intended! Tarasova is not impressed, as per this article:

Russian Olympic figure skating champ teases boxing move (VIDEO)

Russia's 2018 Olympic figure skating champion Alina Zagitova is rumored to be taking part in an upcoming boxing exhibition match

www.rt.com

 

[Sylvia]

Russian figure skating news today:

Here are the latest figure skating headlines on Sport24.ru :

Smolkin's father denied rumors about watching Gleb and Diana Davis in the US team 11:18
"There is no smoke without fire." Zhulin - about the possible transition of Davis and Smolkin to the US team 11:10
The FFKKR called the news about the transition of Davis and Smolkin to the US team nonsense 10:53
Tutberidze's daughter married Gleb Smolkin in March 10:41
Choreographer Zheleznyakov: “Tutberidze is about to return. You can be sure that she will return.” 09:55
Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin to audition at US Figure Skating Federation 09:35

 

[Vagabond]

Any word on whether Diana Davis will have a sitdown interview with Christine Brennan?

 

[Karen-W]

Any word on whether Diana Davis will have a sitdown interview with Christine Brennan?

Lmao - I'm sure she's stalking the rink in Leesburg where they've been training the last 10 days just waiting for Gleb to offer to translate!

 

[starrynight]

If Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin are now married does that make visas/citizenship faster for him?

 

[Dobre]

If Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin are now married does that make visas/citizenship faster for him?

Yes.

Apparently it could still take quite a while, but it would give them a shot at competing for the U.S. at the next Olympics.

(They would still have to get released or get an exemption from a release from Russia. Khaliavin got a release with about the same credentials, but there are several reasons this isn't the same scenario so I still think we need confirmation on that).