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Sport here is either professional - football, cricket, golf, tennis etc or amateur.  If amateur it’s funding depends on success- success means funding, so cycling, swimming, gymnastics, athletics get rewarded - the more success, the more funding.  If results are poor, funding is withdrawn - fencing for example.  What would our skating be like if this system had been in place when John Curry and Robin Cousins won back to back Olympics?

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22 hours ago, FueledbyKass said:

If anybody is looking for some figure skating to watch, the Hungarian test skates are on the 21st I believe. They normally broadcast them on YouTube and that’s how I watch them.

 

Not sure if we get a stream this time but we'll see. Senior ice dancers won't participate at the test event, I think they are stuck in USA/Russia. I am curious about Ivett and her programs, plus Júlia Láng.

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2 hours ago, sallycinnamon said:

 

I am sure she is. But she was born in Moscow and grew up there.

 

I am sceptical about her going back to competitions. She was very injured a year ago.

Agree. Plus, 'Institute of Foreign Relations'? That sounds like a very serious and heavy course of study. She might not have time to continue competing.

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1 hour ago, rockstaryuzu said:

Agree. Plus, 'Institute of Foreign Relations'? That sounds like a very serious and heavy course of study. She might not have time to continue competing.

 

By all accounts it's an extremely prestigious and rigorous school. I think we can safely say that unless she's deferring, we have probably seen the last of her in competition.

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5 hours ago, fyere0 said:

 

 

By all accounts it's an extremely prestigious and rigorous school. I think we can safely say that unless she's deferring, we have probably seen the last of her in competition.

I am not so sure about rigorous, I had a colleague working there for a while and she was “meh” about the curriculum, but it’s sure prestigious. An upper class educational institution, only for a select few. 
I am not sure she made it there, but she did take her exams. 
Alina Zagitova was admitted to another “prestigious” university. 

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1 hour ago, Fay said:

I am not so sure about rigorous, I had a colleague working there for a while and she was “meh” about the curriculum, but it’s sure prestigious. An upper class educational institution, only for a select few. 
I am not sure she made it there, but she did take her exams. 
Alina Zagitova was admitted to another “prestigious” university. 

 

I heard it is very prestigious, in my country some of the chosen ones were sent to study to IMO (including one of my ex-bosses) during communism.

 

Good luck to Lilbet and Alina!

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