My favourite thing in figure skating comps is when the audience claps/cheers for non-jump elements. An iconic example of this is when the crowd would cheer for yuzuru’s hydroblade and/or Ina Bauer, and I absolutely love it when they cheer for spins too!!!
The IIHF confirms that due to the position and restrictions formally communicated by the Canadian Government, the Russian U20 national team is unable to participate in the World Junior Championship.
#IIHF
Collaborative database of national championships 🧵
Since finding information about national championships can be extremely difficult, I’ve had an idea to create a comprehensive database that we can compile together.
https://t.co/5ui6Lw08ei
The pressure to land your jumps so that you’ll win/podium at a competition is OUT
The pressure to land your jumps so that your teammates who helped you with your makeup won’t be mad at you is IN
@Prometheusofxs maybe so, however it gives the effect of preparing the public that this will be a somewhat underwhelming skate when for so many viewers quads are not the most exciting part anyway
I must admit that them stating that as a crime at nearly every deniss and jason program beginning that didn’t have a quad planned over the years has been a bit soul crushing. can we switch to so and so doesn’t have a spiral planned, but he WILL give his best still or something
Russia demands Finland leave NATO and the alliance abandon bases in the Baltic states
These “conditions” were put forward by the Russian delegation during recent trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, BILD reports.
Moscow proposes keeping occupied Ukrainian territories and taking all of Donbas, including Kyiv-controlled parts of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The plan also requires NATO to drop military bases in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Finland to leave the military alliance.
Ukraine would get non-aligned status and renounce NATO membership, though EU membership is not ruled out. Odesa and Mykolaiv ports would be demilitarized. Agreements on free navigation in the Black and Baltic Seas are also envisaged.
Russia also wants Moldova turned into a federal republic including Moldova, Gagauzia and Transnistria. If Moldova joins the EU, Transnistria and Gagauzia could hold independence referendums.
In exchange, Moscow offers to withdraw nuclear weapons from Belarus, abandon intermediate-range missiles there, and pull troops from Transnistria.