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I am surprised not to see Medvedeva and/or Zagitova given assigments. Any word on what their future plans are?
Pretty much what they've been doing the past three seasons. Building a professional career outside of amateur skating. It's really no surprise to anyone who follows Russian ladies skating.
Medvedeva has just posted more photos from another Cosplay photoshoot with Kristian Kostov (Eurovision fans might remember him from 2017): https://www.instagram.com/p/CQwBmcVMQCF/
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Thank you! Most helpful! It seems Maiia has a good shot at a silver at Cup of China, right? So of course she'd get the TBD at Rostelecom. What are they saving it for? Med returning with a quad sal?
Maybe Nugu or Konstantinova or Samodurova....The Russians will see what happens in first events, the Russian cup events, and challengers since they have lots of time to decide.
Oh please, NO MORE Konstantinova! She has worn out all her brownie points. One thing I noticed with Russia's GP entrants is that Sinitsina is the only one from CSKA to get a GP. Is this CSKA's final hurrah in terms of their leadership in Russian Fed? We know Team Tut would take over, but maybe Sinitsina was helped politically by being the only woman from there? It made me stop and think.
Sinitsyna is represents Snow Leopards, not CSKA
Can you please explain this to me. So, it's only Buyanova and her students that are "CSKA"? What about the SnowLeopards? Same rink but different association? It seems the CSKA had a drastic fall from grace. They lost/slandered upcoming students like Gubanova, Tarakanova, and who knows how many more. Is Davydov consider CSKA or just "another' coach there? He is by far more successful than Buyanova or Sinitsina's coach whose name I know but can't think of. Skating experts: What exactly is CSKA? I'm totally ignorant and want to know what I'm talking about. Thx.
Because she has a high season best from 2019/20 season (215,58 points) that allows her to get 2 Senior GP events?
Compared to, say, Khromikh, who got only one event? Let’s see how they all skate and where the chips fall.
Khromykh's SB is 198,24 also from the same 19/20 season and her World ranking is also lower than Sinitsyna's.
I know but...c’mon...there’s also plain common sense. Whoever makes these decisions should just LOOK at current reality and not depend on historical numbers.
It is not the Russian federation who allocated the GP assignments though. The federation submits the names of the skaters, but then it is up to the host countries who they invite, and they are basing the selection on the season best and world ranking. Why would they skipping a skater who has better world ranking and higher season best for another skater who is lower but is Tutberidze’s skater?
Snow Leopards is a completely different rink/club, I believe in a different part of Moscow. Maria Sotskova spent her junior (and younger) career there, as did Alena Kanysheva. Anna Frolova is also originally from there but switched to CSKA around a year and a half ago.
We playfully make fun of Frolova's packaging. It's like she's been transported from 1945!! She could pass as a young Lauren Bacall. Yeah, her packaging is OLD!!! lol. (I love her skating and presentation too)
So true, it's not really interesting anymoreWell Medvedeva is making all sorts of waves by hinting a pairs career - either professionally or competitively. Even the idea of show pairs is very interesting to me.
Evgenia Medvedeva: “I realized that I want to push the limits of figure skating, and that I want to learn to skate in a pair”
Interview with Evgenia Medvedeva for goldapple Instagram account. Partly translated. About men's skating and skating in a pair with Alexandr Enbert in Anna Karenina ice show.fs-gossips.com
It’s so good the Russian skaters have options in retirement at the moment.
North American skaters just seem to have to resort to trying to be Instagram influencers. Which is a bit disheartening - particularly when really interesting athletes just end up as dime a dozen influencers, it sort of erodes the mystique and aura of their careers.
