2018 Tallinn Trophy: Ice Dance Pregame chat | Golden Skate

2018 Tallinn Trophy: Ice Dance Pregame chat

Who will win Gold?

  • Natalia KALISZEK / Maksym SPODYRIEV

    Votes: 1 4.3%
  • Sofia EVDOKIMOVA / Egor BAZIN

    Votes: 2 8.7%
  • Christina CARREIRA / Anthony PONOMARENKO

    Votes: 20 87.0%

  • Total voters
    23
  • Poll closed .

litenkyckling

Final Flight
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Jun 6, 2018
This will be interesting with last year's Silver (C/P) and Gold (S/A) Junior World medalists competing against each other for the first time as seniors!
 

Ice Dance

Record Breaker
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Jan 26, 2014
I think it would have been more interesting to have Shpilevaya & Smirnov go up against Carreira & Ponomarenko. (2017 Junior Worlds 3 & 4).

Skoptcova & Aleshin still look to be coming back from their injury. Their scores haven't been very close. I think the tango is coming along, and of course, the style suits them well. The free, though, isn't the strongest vehicle and still seems to need work. They could look better by Tallinn, and of course it will be closer to home for S&A so we'll see what happens; but it's not the battle thus far that we saw develop last season.

Kaliszek & Spodyriev have the higher score. And midway between S&A's SB and C&P's score from Finland (where they left several points on the table)
 

CaroLiza_fan

MINIOL ALATMI REKRIS. EZETTIE LATUASV IVAKMHA.
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I realise this thread is supposed to be about the Seniors, but I would like to talk about the Advanced Novice competition.

One of the skaters I adopted a few years ago when he was in Singles switched to Ice Dance last season, and he and his new partner for this season have been doing VERY well.

Maria MILIUKOVA / Nikita VITRYANYUK (CYP) won the Hallowe'en Cup, and finished 7[SUP]th[/SUP] in the Volvo Open (a low score in PD1 dragged them down in Riga).

The Pattern Dances for the Novice levels are being held before the Juniors and Seniors have their Short Dances on Monday. And the same will be the case for the Free Dances on Tuesday.

I really hope the livestream will be on air for the Novices. Because I really want to be able to cheer Maria and Nikita on LIVE for the first time.

:cheer: ALL THE BEST MARIA AND NIKITA!!! :cheer:

CaroLiza_fan
 

CaroLiza_fan

MINIOL ALATMI REKRIS. EZETTIE LATUASV IVAKMHA.
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Is it normal for things to run so late at these Challenger Events?!

We are supposed to be coming towards the end of the first group of the Advanced Novice Pattern Dance 1, and the Intermediate Novices have only just finished their Pattern Dance 1! :drama:

Advanced Novices currently doing their Warm-Up

EDIT: Seems like the first partnership in the Advanced Novices has withdrawn, so that'll help a bit in getting them get back on track.​

Here is the livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z98wyWZEFbg

Hope this helps

CaroLiza_fan
 
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