The Moscow Grand Prix doubles tournament is exorbitant in terms of level of competition. Not a single duet passed, all athletes performed at the same level with a minimum of interruptions. Boykova/Kozlovsky have the best short of the season, and Kostornaya/Kunitsa are only seventh after the first day of competition. Let’s look at the “Championship” and why this happened.
Victoria Vasilyeva/Roman Zaporozhets opened the pairs competition. They managed the triple parallel loop and turned in one of the best performances of the season. Artur Dmitriev’s students are gradually acquiring good physical condition, the disadvantages are the drop in levels in the todes and a discrepancy in parallel rotation. A good performance was a birthday gift for Vika: on November 25 she turned 20 years old. Vasilyeva/Zaporozhets received 65.39 points.
Fresh Breath: Short Program by Anastasia Mukhortova and Dmitry Evgeniev. A very interesting performance with Woodkid allowed the skaters to score 70.42 points. Along with Philip Tarasov, Eteri Tutberidze and her assistants were at the side; in the off-season, Nastya and Dima moved to Khrustalny.
We lost Mukhortova/Evgeniev for small things, mainly item bonuses: the jump was not performed with enough confidence, there was some discrepancy in the rotation.
Daria Boyarintseva/Roman Pleshkov lost for the same thing: the lack of rotation in the sheepskin coat affected the bonuses, the rotation and track levels fell. They have not yet managed to overcome the barrier of 70 points, only 68.50 points and sixth place.
Alexandra Boykova/Dmitry Kozlovsky gave the highest quality performance of the current season. Name of the fourth level rental: this is how the current “Bohemia” can be characterized in “Megasport”.
A parallel Rittberger for a nice plus, the fourth level in Twist and Todes, where before the difficulty could have been lowered, the path, the support with a difficult exit in reverse: all the elements sounded perfect.
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Before the screening, Eteri Georgievna Tutberidze honed Sasha for a long time; This could have been the last missing link to a good rental. 81.20 points – this is what Sasha and Dima received from the judges.
Immediately behind the favorites were Natalya Khabibullina and Ilya Knyazhuk. The tango choreographed by Ilya Averbukh was very exciting and very complex: what a triple lutz, perfect in its parallelism, is worth!
Natasha and Ilya lost in small things, in levels on the court and in effects, and lost to more experienced opponents in components. 76.40 points – Khabibullina/Knyazhuk result, this is the current third place after the short.
The Perm representatives were ahead of the Moscow pair by only 11 hundredths of a point. Ekaterina Chikmareva/Matvey Yanchenkov had a difficult time starting the season due to health problems, but for the second consecutive stage they are putting in a great short performance. The skaters left Experience from last season and you can see how every move in the production is perfected, Katya and Matvey doing every detail in sync. His result is 76.51 points, this is the current second place, but tomorrow there is still a battle for silver.
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Yulia Artemyeva/Alexei Bryukhanov, another representative of Perm, made more mistakes at the box office: they lost a lot due to the performance, which was performed only at the second level. Artemyeva/Bryukhanov received 73.94 points.
The first day Alena Kostornaya and Georgy Kunitsa closed the pairs competition. During the warm-up, the skaters were greeted almost louder than the others. “The incredible begins with them,” read the title on a huge fan banner.
What did Alena and Gosha show this time? The triple flip was ideal from the same difficult approach Alena used in single skating.
There is also progress in weak areas: everyone is no longer at the second level, but at the third level. There are still issues with turning; This time it was negative. From beginning to end, the production itself begins to play with new colors, some beautiful little movements appear that make the production brighter.
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67.74 points is less than Omsk, which currently occupies seventh place. But in the case of the Kostornaya/Kunitsa couple, for now they don’t need to compare themselves with others, but with themselves. Pairs skating is a marathon, not a sprint, and it’s very important to remember that. The levels have increased compared to the performance in Omsk: in both the turn and the todes, the overall technical score is only 0.3 less, and Alena and Gosha lost one point in the components. We will see in what mood Kostornaya and Kunitsa enter tomorrow’s free skate: they can recover several places in the table.
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