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Post by Admin on Dec 29, 2014 20:59:12 GMT
Russia has left Olympic women's figure skating champion Adelina Sotnikova off its roster for next month's European championships.  Sotnikova missed this week's Russian nationals with an ankle injury, but there had been speculation her Olympic achievements could persuade the Russian Figure Skating Federation to give her a place. "The team roster was selected exclusively on the basis of the sporting principle, according to the results of the Russian championship," federation president Alexander Gorshkov said in a website statement. "The level of results displayed at the Russian championship was fairly high." The Russian women's team for the Jan. 26 to Feb. 1 event in Stockholm consists of Elena Radionova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Anna Pogorilaya, who finished first, second and fourth respectively at Russian nationals. Sotnikova, whose only competitive appearance this season came when she won a minor Russian event in October, was listed as the last of three reserves on the federation website. She hasn't skated in international competition since beating South Korea's Yuna Kim to Olympic gold at Sochi in February. Also missing out is Olympic team event gold medalist Yulia Lipnitskaya, who could only manage ninth at the Russian nationals after a troubled season. The third-place finisher at the nationals, 15-year-old Evgenia Medvedeva, does not meet the minimum age limit to compete internationally. Olympic pairs gold medalists Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov were listed by the federation as reserves despite not having competed this season as Trankov fights injury. Ksenia Stolbova and Fyodor Klimov, who won silver in pairs at February's Olympics, lead the Russian charge in that event in Stockholm.  Two-time Grand Prix winner and newly-crowned Russian champion Maxim Kovtun is the most prominent of the three Russian men's skaters entered for the European championships, alongside veteran Sergei Voronov and youngster Adnan Pitkeev. The Russian federation traditionally uses results from the European championships to select its team for March's world championships. That means that Sotnikova and the other absentees from the European championships might not skate competitively again this season. |
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Post by Admin on Dec 30, 2014 21:04:14 GMT
 Elena Radionova: I set myself the task to skate both programs clean. I execute it. Russian figure skater Elena Radionova after winning the national championship talked about progress and plans for the new year. - I'm very serious about his long program. And when I did perform, I put my heart and soul into it. I want to show awe, tenderness, especially in the first part. Something very, very gentle. I have the same program about world peace. And at the end of the world comes ... "  - How will you celebrate the New Year? - Outside the city, in the family circle. But, close friends of the family as yet come and visit, and will parade in uniform. I'll be in a beautiful dress. - That's it? In which today you were? - (Laughter) Of course not. I have other dresses! Recall that in the championship of Russia Elena Radionova won the gold medal. The silver medal was Elizaveta Tuktamysheva. Eugene Medvedev won bronze. In this case, the first two athletes secured their participation at the European Championships, which will take place from January 26 to February 1 in Stockholm, Sweden.  The last member of the European Championship will be determined on the basis of the coaching council, which, roughly, to go through Jan. 16. Note that this site claims Adelina Sotnikova, missed the championship of Russia due to an injury.  |
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Post by Admin on Dec 31, 2014 21:26:34 GMT
 It was a thrilling free skate competition today in the ladies' event to conclude the 2014-15 Japan Figure Skating Championships. And after missing the top of the leaderboard in the short program, Satoko Miyahara made sure she would vault herself up, overtaking Rika Hongo to win her first Japanese title. Satoko Miyahara - triple lutz-double toe-double loop, triple flip, triple loop, triple lutz, double axel-triple toe, triple salchow, double axel-triple toe - TES 66.88, PCS 64.24, FS SCORE 131.12, TOTAL SCORE 195.60  Junior champion Wakaba Higuchi had an early mistake, singling her opening lutz, but came back strong to win the bronze. Yuka Nagai was fourth, just a quarter-point ahead of four-time Japanese medalist Kanako Murakami, who moved up from ninth place to finish in fifth. Rika Hongo - triple flip-triple toe (underrotated), triple lutz (edge), triple loop, triple salchow, double axel-half loop-triple salchow, triple flip, double axel-double toe - TES 59.69, PCS 62.24, FS SCORE 121.93, TOTAL SCORE 188.63 Ladies' free (FINAL) 1. Satoko Miyahara - 195.60 2. Rika Hongo - 188.63 3. Wakaba Higuchi - 181.82 4. Yuka Nagai - 168.55 5. Kanako Murakami - 168.29 |
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2015 21:22:43 GMT
Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov is still considered the most beautiful and dramatic duet in figure skating. In parallel with the sporting success of the Soviet tandem, which has won four World Championships and two Olympic Games, the whole world was watching them novel, which originated before the 1988 Olympics. In April 1991, the guys were married in September 1992, had a daughter, Daria, and the couple moved to the United States. Three years later, in training Sergei suffered a heart attack and he was gone. But Kate learned to live without Sergei. She began performing as singles in the commercial project "Stars on Ice". Gordeeva's books "My Sergei" and then "Letter for Daria" became a bestseller in the United States. At one time in the United States have been very popular perfume "Kate-Sport". In 2008, Ilya Averbuch managed to convince Gordeeva return to Russia to participate in the TV show "Ice Age", which she won in a pair with the actor Egor Beroev. Together with the guys from the show she toured Europe, and then returned to America, where he continues to participate in various projects of ice. In 2012, together with her second husband, the Olympic champion Ilia Kulik 1998, under which Katie for 6 years, skater skating rink opened in California. Gordeeva really wanted to eldest daughter Daria walked in her footsteps, but did not work. And that's with a younger, 13-year-old Lisa, born in wedlock with Kulik, 43-year-old Catherine now riding in the family ice show.  The Stars on Ice figure skating show is set to debut its tour again in Lake Placid. The production has several big-name skaters this year, including Meryl Davis and Charlie White, who won gold medals for ice dancing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. They also took silver at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, and are two-time world champions and six-time U.S. champions. "It's so great to see that kind of talent here in Lake Placid," said Christie Sausa, a figure skater from Lake Placid. "Meryl and Charlie are so amazing to watch in person. I think it will be a great show."  Evan Lysacek, the 2010 Olympic gold medalist for men's singles, will perform, as will 1988 and 1994 Olympic gold medalist pairs skater Ekaterina Gordeeva, 2014 silver medal winner Patrick Chan, 2010 Olympic bronze medal winner Joannie Rochette, 2006 Olympic silver medalists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, 2006 World Champion Kimmie Meissner, two-time European Championship medalists Sinead and John Kerr and 2011 U.S. Champion Ryan Bradley.  Ilia Kulik and Ekaterina Gordeeva Family |
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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2015 21:22:19 GMT
 The participants and guests of the show were greeted with welcoming remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who arrived on a Saturday night in "Iceberg", together with their colleagues from Belarus and Kyrgyzstan Alexander Lukashenko and Almazbek Atambayev. It was attended by the Russian champions and winners of the Games. To the participants and guests of the show with welcoming remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who arrived on a Saturday night in "Iceberg", together with their colleagues from Belarus and Kyrgyzstan Alexander Lukashenko and Almazbek Atambayev. Along with the guests of honor also attended by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the head of the Russian Hockey Federation Vladislav Tretiak, sports minister Vitaly Mutko, the head of the ROC Alexander Zhukov, head of the Paralympic Committee, Vladimir Lukin, the governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev, the deputy of the State Duma, the triple Olympic champion Alexander Karelin Mayor of Sochi Pakhomov, head of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, Dmitry Chernyshenko, businessman Gennady Timchenko, the IOC members Jean-Claude Killy and Gilbert Fili, as well as president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, Rene Fasel.  Ice show began with a video telling about the preparation for the Games. After the countdown for the song "Time, Forward" Georgy Sviridov and shots chronicle the construction of ice left on the athlete with a torch, which is symbolically re-lit the fire of the Olympics. "We cheer for Russia, one country - one team", has highlighted the inscription on the ice. Member of "The Voice" and Dima Bilan fans sang the hymn of the Sochi Olympics - the song "Games that we have won the whole country." Then came the ice Russian biathlon athletes. From under the dome down to the stage with Bob bobsledders Alexei governor, Alexander Zubkov and Dmitry Trunenkovym. A few laps on the ice were made by Short Track Speed Skater headed by Viktor Ahn. Luger Albert Demchenko, then snowboarders, including Alain Zavarzin and Vic Wild pulled off the mountain in a makeshift room. Russian figure skaters, including Evgeny Plushenko performed a number of elements of figure skating. Skiers left on the ice with the Russian flag, closed by Adelina Sotnikova, the Olympic champion of the Sochi Games in the women's figure skating.  |
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