#TeamTrainwreck 24: For the weirdos and the dreamers!

[rfisher]

Maybe the Georgian Fed offered more rubles for Gubanova

 

[Ka3sha]

Gubanova didn’t compete at all last season while Talalaikina was at Russian Nats last December.
According to the Rus Fed’s new rules, a skater who competed at Nationals needs to sit 1 year in order to get the release.

 

[Jeschke]

OMG the Sokolovskaya interview and the details about Mark's haircut for Oberstdorf.
Dying

 

[Jeschke]

I mean the entire hair story should qualify Mark for #ttw due to quality#12 alone

It was my request, not decision. Yet I wasn't even thinking of that Olympic spot, I just really wanted Mark to get known.

After 3-4 days he came to the rink. Holding flowers and wine...

If Samarin did this to humor, I party him even more

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Checking scores while I’m on my way to the dentist here so it looks like la Schott has done well and can get that score twice, just need to wait for the free program

 

[rfisher]

I mean the entire hair story should qualify Mark for #ttw due to quality#12 alone






If Samarin did this to humor, I party him even more

It's almost like she reads the #TTW thread.

 

[Wyliefan]

If only we still had rep levels, "So-and-so has the haircut of a Ukrainian peasant" would have been perfect.

 

[Jeschke]

I very rarely shout at all. But if I lose my mind everyone gets their share.

 

[Jeschke]

Cleavage and Backstreet Boys medley were obviously the good parts about US debut for @SmallFairy 's toyboy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mklfPDe_FDk

 

[Vagabond]

I mean the entire hair story should qualify Mark for #ttw due to quality#12 alone

That pesky Criterion #4 is standing in the way.

 

[SmallFairy]

Cleavage and Backstreet Boys medley were obviously the good parts about US debut for @SmallFairy 's toyboy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mklfPDe_FDk

Lost for words?

 

[SmallFairy]

The hair story…so epic. How can anything top it???

 

[Jeschke]

Lost for words?

How far we've come from:

HELL YEAH AND I TOLD YOU SO AND HE'S DAMN HOT AND SHE'S A STAR AND I'LL BE OVER THE MOON AND THEY'RE THE NEXT BIG THING AND HIS TOO LOOSE TOP HAS TO GO!!!!!

 

[Jeschke]

The hair story…so epic. How can anything top it???

I would kill for rink camera footage.

 

[mjb52]

His shirt is amazing, I love it.

 

[SmallFairy]

How far we've come from:

At least the too loose top went….

 

[Vagabond]

@Jeschke Danielian 3A for MESS long list, please.

 

[Vagabond]

Cave In.

 

[Jeschke]

OMG. Dying ???

https://instagram.com/stories/alexander.samarin/2710431209613257630?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&utm_medium=copy_link

 

[alchemy void]

OMG. Dying ???

https://instagram.com/stories/alexander.samarin/2710431209613257630?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&utm_medium=copy_link

The way this thread is on track to become a Samarin cheer thread within the next 6 months

 

[Vagabond]

The way this thread is on track to become a Samarin cheer thread within the next 6 months

If this thread is on track for that, then it needs to jump the rails.

 

[rfisher]

If this thread is on track for that, then it needs to jump the rails.

I thought that was the definition of a trainwreck.

 

[Jeschke]

GP ?? Day 1 recap (without pairs)
(as it happened)

• I am obsessed with Sinitsyna's SP; it is so damn good and everything Gleikhengauz choreo is not (movements holdings and fitting music highlights). Needless to say I am obsessed with the earrings too
• no way I will get out happy of KOR olympic selection, no ****ing way
• Just imagine the possibilities of Talalaikina skating to Mambo Italiano
• Chen's SP will burn the house down at nationals, watch it!
• awesome support by Janse van Rensburg, after olympic dreams came to an end by Steffan's fall
• obsessed with Morozov/Bagin look. His hoodie shirt, the pants, her transparent top. The first half of the RD is so damn good, so ****ing intense.
• Frangi's SP is just everything! So in it. So hot.
• Danielian SP so good. It's one of my favs this season. Beard!
• Mozalev: campaign ride
• Always our boy. I love him so much

Do-Hard: Morozov, Versluis, Frangi, Aliev
Best-Dressed: Morozov/Bagin (damn sure @alchemy void wishes as much as myself he could pull that hoodie shirt of Bagin off), Aliev

 

[Elisheba]

Lost for words?

Dammit, I actually live near Alpharetta Ga, if I had realized this qualifier was happening I could be watching live!

 

[rfisher]

I have to when people complain about the Eteri girls and their choreography/music/costumes/pets/diet/what they watch on TV etc. and then say Sinitsyna is boring and bland. She's a complete 180. I like all of them.

And, I refuse to give up on Aliev. He's struggling and admits it. I just hope he doesn't give up and quit.

 

[mjb52]

Aliev is so sweet and so sincere, I really love him. I know he can do it.

 

[Vagabond]

Hell, there was discussion about it 3 weeks ago at Skate Canada when Keegan fell on a jump and he was bleeding from his CHIN when he got off the ice. So stupid.

I dunno... Maybe we fans are somewhat part of the problem. I know it's meant in jest and good fun but perhaps we should petition @Jeschke and @Vagabond to retire the MESS award from TTW.

I am just a lowly pressman. I don't make the decisions.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Frangi's SP is just everything! So in it. So hot.

I believe I claim dibs on this one about two years ago and I stick with it. I just love love love when the microphones are on in the kiss and cry because he’s so verbal and you can hear everything he says. I can’t believe he’s just up from juniors, he reminds me of like at least a 25-year-old man.

I think I need to make a trip to Italy soon

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

IdF notes:

Day 1
Women
*Bell- I almost always love a simple dress, not this one
*Serna- no hometurf inflation for her?
*Ryabova- Love her jumps and technique. This dress is very odd for mambo Italiano. Belongs to Mariah Bell glitter in the air!
*Wakaba- If she only did a double axle she’d be in contention
*Karen- I hope I don’t have to complain when she’s picked for the Olympic team and she’s only doing triple/doubles in the short program as she has been
*AK- much improved. This version of New York New York sounds like some girl on Broadway singing it. it’s a pass for me
*AS- As usual with Eteri students I don’t like them until they cross the maturity threshold and she seems to be!

RD - not my cup of tea the season
*LeMercier & Brissaud- Call me!!! BUT BE TOGETHER!!
*C&P- an improvement but this is where I feel like street dance doesn’t work for every team
*Stepanova/Sinitsina & Bukin- Will be my favorite Russian team still and I love that they love American culture. I would not mind for him to call me either!!!
*Team Glutes- every now and then we as human beings we need to help each other out. And I need you all to help me to get him to win PORNY so I can finally deliver the award to him, in person that is!
*P&C - Love it, I know it will win the Olympic gold. I love all the arm movements!

Mens
*Cave-in obviously still not ready, and a groin injury is serious
*Frangi- such a bulldozer, can’t believe he’s new to seniors. He seems like a 28-year-old man to me. I’d like to take him out for a drink
*Messing- his kiss and cry behavior is definitely reminding me of Michael Weiss, and not in a good way
*Aliev- he still does it for me, I wouldn’t mind a drink or two
*Velvet Boy- wasn’t his best but I still think he will sneak in for the final
*Deniss- If women can secure their ponytails why have the men not been able to do this all season?
*YK- I thought 100 points was a bit too high

Pairs
*G&A - I will look forward for them being Italy’s top pairs team next season.
*K&F- Well higher than skate America shame about the step out on the throw. I hate to say it but the choreography and program seems generic.
*J&R- I guess the dress is better than before but the music is still as bad. I like that they change the layout and did the throw and then did the jumps later on. That strategy seemed to pay off today.

 

[Jeschke]

GP ?? Pairs and CS ??:

• this must have been the most meh pairs GP line-up in quite a while. Thanks god, Nazarychev was there to save my day
• how he let that lift go in the end. He is so done with this partnership (again ), it really makes it hard rooting for him It's not like he is a master-of-skating himself!
• I could not check Liu/O'Shea skate. Preview shot showed them down and I checked pbp first - no way I am watching this. Hoping everything is 'fine' somehow for them ?
• P/P FS masterpiece I can watch over and over!
• Erokhov score No way this will get him a GP next season
• Yabolokov

Do-Hard: Balchenko
Best Dessed: Chtchetinina, Roscher/Schuster, Pepeleva