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EUROPEAN CHAMPION ANASTASIIA GUBANOVA

Kinda wish Wakaba (when fully healthy, of course) would do a Black Panther program, so that then she would be “Wakanda Higuchi”

For new fans, the GPF is something that usually happens every year

Samodelkina leaning away from Maxim Trankov the entire post-skate interview. How strong was this man’s cologne?

Great to see Anna Frolova make her triumphant return to competitive ice this weekend after 15 months off. She wasn’t perfect (especially in the free), was probably underscored (probably the perils of skating the same competition as Sasha), and it’s maybe a toss-up whether she deserved the bronze over Ksenia Gushchina, but she was in second after the short, and good to at least see her get her feet under her after all that time off. She’s always been a good PCS skater, and I’ve always liked her.

Is RusFed trying to set up a rivalry between Sasha and Samodelkina, or are they merely trying to do Sokolovskaya a solid by scheduling all her students at the same competitions?