Europeans 2013,Zagreb

Mao2012 wrote:

C/L only third... Almost 35 PCS for I/K!
And, Pochinko, also Liza is an orphan...

Tell me about it, it shows that it's pre-olympic season, so the judges are holding I/K up.

About Liza: did you mean to say she's fatherless, or an orphan (lost both parents)?

zarinaballerina wrote:

Mao2012 wrote:

C/L only third... Almost 35 PCS for I/K!
And, Pochinko, also Liza is an orphan...

Tell me about it, it shows that it's pre-olympic season, so the judges are holding I/K up.

About Liza: did you mean to say she's fatherless, or an orphan (lost both parents)?

Liza lost her father last year, but her mother,thank God, is ok.

polosatik wrote:

zarinaballerina wrote:

Mao2012 wrote:

C/L only third... Almost 35 PCS for I/K!
And, Pochinko, also Liza is an orphan...

Tell me about it, it shows that it's pre-olympic season, so the judges are holding I/K up.

About Liza: did you mean to say she's fatherless, or an orphan (lost both parents)?

Liza lost her father last year, but her mother,thank God, is ok.

Thanx for clarifying polosatik. I thought it might be a misunderstanding on my part, but I wasn't sure. Hopefully her mom will live a long and healthy life.

Pairs SP will start in 20 minutes, does anyone have any links to streaming, that aren't geoblocked? I'd greatly appreciated.

polosatik wrote:

zarinaballerina wrote:

Mao2012 wrote:

C/L only third... Almost 35 PCS for I/K!
And, Pochinko, also Liza is an orphan...

Tell me about it, it shows that it's pre-olympic season, so the judges are holding I/K up.

About Liza: did you mean to say she's fatherless, or an orphan (lost both parents)?

Liza lost her father last year, but her mother,thank God, is ok.

That's terrible! I didn't know that at all...I understand now that Liza is not just having problems with growth period. Losing someone close to you like a parent, really makes you think what life is all about and stuff, I'm sure it's affecting her practices more or less. But she really had guts to go through this season like she did. I respect her much more than before now, and hope all the best for her and the rest of her family.

I hope she can medal in Sochi along with Mao too! Go Liza!

zarinaballerina wrote:

Pairs SP will start in 20 minutes, does anyone have any links to streaming, that aren't geoblocked? I'd greatly appreciated.

I have this link http://www.ltv7.lv/files/player-licensed.swf?file=ltv7_2_lv&streamer=rtmp://stream.ls.lv/ltv7_2_lv&type=rtmp&autostart=true and this http://itv.koya.lv/?id=jlxwje it's LTV, I'm not sure from what warm up they going to show it, but their broadcast should start in 18 minutes.

Right now I'm watching Russian channel Sport, and they're showing S/S warming up)) I missed SD But I'm so happy with results! Russian forum praising IK, hmm I should watch before saying anything about this matter.

polosatik wrote:

zarinaballerina wrote:

Pairs SP will start in 20 minutes, does anyone have any links to streaming, that aren't geoblocked? I'd greatly appreciated.

I have this link http://www.ltv7.lv/files/player-licensed.swf?file=ltv7_2_lv&streamer=rtmp://stream.ls.lv/ltv7_2_lv&type=rtmp&autostart=true and this http://itv.koya.lv/?id=jlxwje it's LTV, I'm not sure from what warm up they going to show it, but their broadcast should start in 18 minutes.

Thank you!!!! The second link isn't working but the first one works perfectly, hopefully it'll stay this way.
Go Volosozhar/Trankov, Kavaguchi/Smirnov and Stolbova/klimov!

Best of luck to S/S, S/K and M/T!
My condolences to Maxim and his family, I hope he feels OK and has a great skate today.

http://html-bin.appspot.com/aghodG1sLWJpbnIMCxIEUGFnZRixoUMM another link

Lynn Rutherford ‏@LynnRutherford
Reports from Euros indicate Plushenko cut his practice short and "hobbled" off of the ice. He had talked of a bad back in an earlier presser

Not a good skate for Kavaguti/Smirnov. Sasha fell on 3 toe and Yuko had a step out of throw triple loop.

I don't like their short program, one good thing from all this is : Sasha shaved.

SP score:56.20 CRAP. Hopefully they'll have an amazing free program.

Final warm-up is on the ice!!!!

Alyona and Robin Bravo!!!! The only thing I still don't like is the parallel spin, everything else was perfect!!!!!!!!!!

Maksim!!Tanya!!! Maksim you're a hero already.

throw 3 loop was just HUGE!!!

polosatik wrote:

throw 3 loop was just HUGE!!!

She was literally flying. They were awesome, deservingly in 1st place.
There wasn't any interaction between Max and Stanislav, hopefully it's just Maxim blocking everything and everyone out, and not something else...

The score for S/S was a bit low, IMO.

zarinaballerina wrote:

polosatik wrote:

throw 3 loop was just HUGE!!!

She was literally flying. They were awesome, deservingly in 1st place.
There wasn't any interaction between Max and Stanislav, hopefully it's just Maxim blocking everything and everyone out, and not something else...

The score for S/S was a bit low, IMO.

Our girls who's in Zagreb arena now said that Maxim mostly stayed alone before the warm-up,didn't talk much to Tanya either. Then after the SP they showed close up of Maxim face,he was so pale and his eyes were black.
Alyona and Robin got only 2nd level on footwork and Tanya and Maxim 1st level on death spiral. But I think maksim and Tanya got better GOE which is deserved. Italians were great too!!! They're in the third place!
Here is the standing after the Pairs SP
1 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 73.23
2 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 70.21
3 Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK ITA 64.28
4 Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES FRA 59.27
5 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV RUS 56.20
6 Mari VARTMANN / Aaron VAN CLEAVE GER 55.14
7 Daria POPOVA / Bruno MASSOT FRA 53.75
8 Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV RUS 53.70
9 Nicole DELLA MONICA / Matteo GUARISE ITA 47.26

polosatik wrote:

zarinaballerina wrote:

polosatik wrote:

throw 3 loop was just HUGE!!!

She was literally flying. They were awesome, deservingly in 1st place.
There wasn't any interaction between Max and Stanislav, hopefully it's just Maxim blocking everything and everyone out, and not something else...

The score for S/S was a bit low, IMO.

Our girls who's in Zagreb arena now said that Maxim mostly stayed alone before the warm-up,didn't talk much to Tanya either. Then after the SP they showed close up of Maxim face,he was so pale and his eyes were black.
Alyona and Robin got only 2nd level on footwork and Tanya and Maxim 1st level on death spiral. But I think maksim and Tanya got better GOE which is deserved. Italians were great too!!! They're in the third place!
Here is the standing after the Pairs SP
1 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 73.23
2 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 70.21
3 Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK ITA 64.28
4 Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES FRA 59.27
5 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV RUS 56.20
6 Mari VARTMANN / Aaron VAN CLEAVE GER 55.14
7 Daria POPOVA / Bruno MASSOT FRA 53.75
8 Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV RUS 53.70
9 Nicole DELLA MONICA / Matteo GUARISE ITA 47.26

It must be really hard for Maxim , and with tomorrow's LP theme it's going to be so emotional. Hopefully, he'll be able to pull it through. If the standings remain the same after the LP, I'll be very happy.

I am a huge fan of S/S, this is the first pair I love who isn't Russian
I loved T/M to death even though most found them boring, I found their style breathtaking and their Ave Maria SP is one of my favorite SP ever. Russian pairs have a special quality which always makes them stand out, however, S/S captured me with their originality and I started to cheer for them ever since they appeared on the international stage so V/T coming out of nowhere and almost beating them in their first worlds, I knew I was going to be pissed. I found V/T sometimes massively over-scored and the tiny differences they lost some titles to the Germans could have been bigger. It bugged me to see the judges overlooking their 2footing throw 3S and rewording them for sub par programs. HOWEVER I love their LP this season. I find it very very demanding technically, they set the bar very high which is respectable since the judges reworded them anyway. And after the glorious Pina of last season the Germans have a very mediocre LP for their standards. So I found myself yesterday not only in awe to how Trankov kept himself together but how he sold the program like there was no tomorrow. Yes, the GOE was a bit generous but the Germans skated very reserved and focused while V/T went out there and gave their all. So I am ok with the result even though I am still a big fan of S/S. I hope both skate their best tonight and the judging to be fair. V/T had problems with their LP all season except RN so I hope they can keep it together if that is at least a minimum comfort for Maxim

What happened in the men's SP? I couldn't watch it because the whole area was without internet.
Why is Amodio in first, and what the heck happened to Plushy? At least Javi will go into the LP pressure free, since he's not in the lead.

Edit: I see the protocol is already posted. Too bad about Javi's 3-2 instead of 3-3, but hopefully he'll rock on saturday.

Protocol:

http://www.isuresults.com/results/ec2013/ec2013_Men_SP_Scores.pdf

I missed it too! I hope videos will be uploaded soon...
Whoa and Plushy...

klarification wrote:

I missed it too! I hope videos will be uploaded soon...
Whoa and Plushy...

Amodio succeeded a 4S! Wow!

Plush...what happened??????


ETA:Seems that Plush has a back injury...he said to the press on Tuesday "I have a little problem with my back, but I will try my best. I have seven (European) titles and I'll try to get another one, but it will be hard" / "The organization is great, everything is great". When asked whom he considers to be his toughest opponent,he answered: "Myself. I really want to compete with myself. I have a lot of experience, I have been competing for 20 years in the sport. There are many strong skaters here and good luck to them and good luck to myself".

Plushenko withdrew due to injury...

http://en.rsport.ru/other_sports/20130124/641538040.html

I hope he will be okay!!


But I'm very happy to see that the European boys are in good shape... Never expected this from Florent and Brain...!

Guys it looks like Plushy withdrew.
http://www.isuresults.com/results/ec2013/ec2013_Men_FS_TimeSchedule.pdf

I see josling beat me to it. get well soon Plushy!!!