great! it's one of the most memorable programs from 16-17.
Actually I disagree. While elegant, it does not scream Olympic program...
great! it's one of the most memorable programs from 16-17.
I don't think Adelina is coming back and while she is the reigining Oly champion it won't have a huge impact on Russia. they still have Evgenia nad if not Maria, Elena and or Anna not to mention the current new superstar Alina forget about if Tut, Lip, Leonova or Adelina come back with a vengeance. I guess Polina T isn't on the table even.
Polina T has better oly chances than Lip and Leonova, for sure.
Depending on what form she will be in. If she skate like she did at junior worlds, her chance are not biggr than Leonova and Lipnitskaya's chances.
While I agree with your opinion about Leonova, I strongly disagree with Lipnitskaya.Yes, but we don´t know that, because we cannot judge based on 1 bad competition.
Now, both Lipnitskaya and Leonova (and also Tuktamysheva to some extent) had a whole bunch of bad seasons. If they could have improved / fixed their issues, they would have already.
While I agree with your opinion about Leonova, I strongly disagree with Lipnitskaya.
Lipnitskaya was injured. If you are making allowances for injured Tsurskaya, you should be making allowances for injured Lipnitskaya. And Lipnitskaya did not have a whole bunch of bad seasons. I wouldn't count the ones where she trained under clearly strained atmosphere with Tutberidze. No one can really expect that anything would get sorted. And with Urmanov she had only a season and a half. In the half of the season she clearly made a hude progress, her SP at the nationals was brilliant, and they did admit that they didn't have time to work on the FS enough because at that time she was with him just a few weeks! The last season she was injured.
Before getting injured, Lipnitskaya had 2 bad seasons in a row, no matter what happened. Last time she scored over 200 was in 2014. Ok, she was injured in 2016. In 2015, she didnt make worlds or GPF. She has a 3 season story of bombing the FS pretty much every time.
Tsurskaya had one bad season (which was still better than last season for Yulia, as Polina made the Jr. Worlds team and got Gold at her both GPs).
I really dont get why people keep putting such high hopes on Lipnitskaya right now.
Is Polina Tsurkskaya moving to CSKA?
Yulia Lipnitskaya participated in 2014/15 GPF, placing close second (66.24) in SP to the later world champion Tuktamysheva.Before getting injured, Lipnitskaya had 2 bad seasons in a row, no matter what happened. Last time she scored over 200 was in 2014. Ok, she was injured in 2016. In 2015, she didnt make worlds or GPF.
Yes, but she was training in a group where she wasn't getting on with the coach, so that would affect her mentally. Jumps are a lot about the emotional side of things, not only the physical side. If she was angry, upset, unhappy, that would affect her confidence with jumps and her consistency. I wouldn't say I put such high hopes, but I wouldn't say that it is impossible for her to have a strong season. Look at Tuktamysheva suddenly having a strong season out of the blue, when most people already wrote her off.
Yulia Lipnitskaya participated in 2014/15 GPF, placing close second (66.24) in SP to the later world champion Tuktamysheva.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTKp0oBhPDY
Gubanova is not senior eligible yet. From the last season's juniors, Konstantinova, Tsurskaya, Feditchkina and Zagitova are age eligible.In general, i dunno... Everything is possible.
But, in current field, Lipnitskaya wouldnt stand a chance even in her prime.
Also, i agree that it would make sense, from russian's fed perspective, to rather give chance to new talents, since that would be an investment in the next cycle, and we don´t even know if Yulia will skate in 2017-18 season. So lets say, if Yulia is rougly tied with Polina T, Sotskova, Konstantinova or Gubanova, it makes all sense to send one of the younger ladies and not her. Basically because they have more skating time ahead of them, so its a sort of investment in the future. Also, its very likely that Medvedeva will be in the team, so there are no commercial / marketing reasons either, since Med and her medals will promote the sport well enough.
Gubanova is not senior eligible yet. From the last season's juniors, Konstantinova, Tsurskaya, Feditchkina and Zagitova are age eligible.
I think the Olympic contenders in Russia can be broken down into groups:
Group 1 (Locks)
Medvedeva
Group 2 (likely to comprise the last 2 spots)
Zagitova
Pogorilaya
Sotskova
Radionova
Group 3 (outsiders with a chance to make the team)
Tuktamysheva
Tsurskaya
Lipnitskaya
Sotnikova (if she comes back)
Group 4:
Everyone else
Is it a hearsay or you have some info? I am interested cos its something I've sort of expected to hear for some time based on Eteri & Polina's mother recent statements
I keep seeing posts with her and Masha hanging out, getting passports, and that type of thing.