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Roman helped young skaters in Saskatchewan

Adorable. I remember when I watched this competition and I saw boobskirt for the first time. The shock It became one of my favourite costumes a bit later.

I'm sad he's retiring, I will miss him from competitions. Maxim was such a talented skater, but the pressure was often so high on him and sadly he had many injuries in the past years too. It is a bit crazy that he won four Nationals title and he was a three-time Europeans medalist but he never went to the Olympic Games. I wish him all the best in his civil life. I hope so too that they can still meet in the future. He's been really supportive of Yuzu, perhaps because Max also came back many times after injuries. And they're from the same generation of skaters.

Oh it turned it it was not real. I thought it was weird that they chose two extremely similar warhorse pieces.

Kostornaya's programs for next season.

Yuzu's speech with English subs: Pino uploaded TV clips:

Not yet. She's working on it and it'll be up soon

@ElenaC will add English subtitles soon. I'm curious what he says, I enjoyed reading his interview about Worlds Men competition.

Wakaba's Scheherazade and Gypsy Dance? I loved both programs.

Yes It's a great cover. I'd love to know what Chiddy says about Sochi now.

Annika Hocke and Ruben Blommaert ended their partnership:

Very retro She was known here as well, back in the 1980s. The pictures of her are so pretty. I hope there'll be videos of the performance.

Cover of Sports Graphic Number 977: [x] ETA:

Averbukh will choreograph Samodurova's new FS, and Liza T's short program: https://nevasport.ru/65327-averbuh-postavit-tuktamyshevoj-sleduyushhuyu-korotkuyu-programmu/ It seems that Scali choreographed Wakaba's SP or FS: I totally forgot about this. It suited Roman's softer style, but I don't know if David could choreograph something really powerful for Medvedeva.

Thank you so much for the hard work and translating it, Fay It's fantastic. And many thanks to Julia for the analysis!

Another beautiful spread eagle from Jonathan: cr. figure skaters online

Well the last Europeans in the UK was also in Sheffield. It could be an option imo. Minsk could organize Europeans smoothly but that can be said about Budapest ('14) and Bratislava ('16) too. The city would be better for Russian fans but for others Central Europe would be a better option maybe. I think flight tickets are more expensive to Belarus for example, or Belarus requires visa for most countries while Slovakia or Hungary not. But overall ticket prices would be cheaper in Belarus than in EU countries.

Helsinki/Espoo or Tallinn would be close for Russian fans, the UK hasn't organized Europeans since 2012...or Bulgaria since 1996. Ostrava had Europeans two years ago so I find it a bit unlikely that they'd organize it again. Worlds '22 will be interesting. I would be surprised if Italy organizes it after 2010 and 2018. France also organised Worlds seven years ago. Bratislava has the Nepela Arena, which is big and very comfortable, I think they could organize the event. The city is also easy to access. Minsk could be another option maybe. Budapest doesn't have a big arena yet - they're building a new ice rink complex but it will only be ready in 2022, most likely later in the year. My vote would go to Slovakia.

If we only consider choreographies in the past 15 years then I do agree that Lori Nichol and David Wilson have probably the best body of works. Sasha's Romeo and Juliet, or anything that David choreographed for Yuna (and yes, especially Homage to Korea and The Lark Ascending + Dance Macabre) are amongst the best ladies programs created in the CoP system. Even if his works in the past couple of years seem less creative and innovative, many of his works that he created in the first decade of the new judging system are beautiful and he could really adapt to the new system very well. Lori choreographed fantastic programs, amongst others my favourites are her works for Mao (if I have to choose only a few, then her SP from 2013/14 or her latest programs, both Ritual Fire Dance programs or her Madame Butterfly). She also choreographed beautiful programs for Carolina, like her programs for the 2013/14 season especially Bolero. I also loved many of her programs for Sui/Han or Denis Ten (The Artist, or his 2014/15 LP come to my mind now). It's really hard to compare their works with the newer talents, maybe in a few years it'd be easier to do. But for me, Shae-Lynn or Jeff made such great programs that I'd put them already in Top 5 probably, if not Top 3 There are other choreographers that worked in both system like @anski mentioned Zoueva or Tarasova as well. Tom Dickson is also one of my favourites, or some of Camerlengo's programs are also amongst the bests.

All he said that he might try it out in practice and he also said in his latest blog entry that the focus will be on other jumps. I wouldn't take the quint talk seriously at all, since it doesn't even have a base value now.

Timothy Dolensky has retired from competitive skating http://timdolensky.figureskatersonline.com/2019/04/17/stepping-away/

Interview with Plushenko: "Boys train differently, they feel sorry for themselves" (I post it here because it is mainly about Team Russia, not himself) This part But I agree what he said about training little children, that they don't need to train 4-6 hours/day.

It could be, too but maybe this time they chose another choreographer. Shae-Lynn and Zhenya are at Ice Fantasia, so if it's her then they could work on the choreo now. Or if it's Jeff then Zhenya can work with him when she's back in Canada.