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Men entries are impressive! Ladies and Ice Dance are not bad either But only one Japanese couple? They should be able to send three since they're host, right?
I think Dmitri Aliev is better than any of them, when he's on. But of course, anything can happen.
Chemistry66, I did not thought they might not even have two...
Isn't Aliev an alternate? And why would Russia send him to consecutive events?
That was Junior Worlds.
It will be held close to Tokyo and Marin Honda has made an entry, who is believed to be Japan's next top skater. Russia's Alisa Fedichkina is also listed as a substitute. She sprained her leg after leading the short at the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final, which was won by Honda.
Haley (Beavers) got a JGP!! Haley got a JGP!!! :hap93:
I think the don't want to compete in back to back JGPs, so since they're competing in JGP France, Ostrava is out of question. Maybe they will be reassigned from here to different JGP?Looking at the ice dance field.... Wouldn't be surprise to see the French team going to Ostrava instead of Japan.... This is a stronger field. They won't come before Parsons and at least 1 or maybe 2 Russian team....
Looking at the ice dance field.... Wouldn't be surprise to see the French team going to Ostrava instead of Japan.... This is a stronger field. They won't come before Parsons and at least 1 or maybe 2 Russian team....
I wasn't thrilled to see Carreira / Ponomarenko get their second assignment in Russia. They have a decent shot at a medal in Gervais, but their chances to get on the podium in Russia against three strong Russian teams seem pretty remote. I wish the US had picked one of the younger teams for this assignment---the rest of the field is quite weak, so a 6th-8th placement would have been OK for a team starting out.
However, Fedichkina, Lozko, Gubanova, Nugumanova are all multiple tiers above Samudurova. I expect her to get replaced.