#Popova and Mozgov

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Other Team Changes

Pairs

- Brooke McIntosh and Brandon Toste of Canada Split

- Alisa Efimova and Alexander Korovin of Russia Split

- Brooke McIntosh and Benjamin Mimar are now a pair

Ice Dance

- Ella Ales and Daniel Tsarik of the US Split

- Betina Popova and Sergei Mozgov of Russia retire.

[thefinersports]

Semi-Recent Developments in Ice Dance

Semi-Recent Developments in Ice Dance

CHELYABINSK, RUSSIA – SEPTEMBER 12: Katarina Wolfkostin and Jeffrey Chen of the United States compete in the Junior Ice Dance Rhythm Dance during day 1 of the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating at Traktor Arena on September 12, 2019 in Chelyabinsk, Russia. (Photo by Joosep Martinson – International Skating Union (ISU)/International Skating Union via Getty Images)

If you’re a devoted…

[beturass]

Utterly charming Cabaret program

[icedanceupstarts]

2018 Russian Test Skate Free Dances

Stepanova/Bukin

Sinitsina/Katsalapov

Popova/Mozgov

Shpilevaya/Smirnov

Evdokimova/Bazin

Morozov/Bagin

[theicedancekingdom]

Short Dance draw at Russian Nationals

[figureskatingcostumes]

Betina Popova and Sergey Mozgov's Cabaret costumes at the 2019 Russian Test Skates and 2019 Finlandia Trophy.

(Sources: zhem_chug and Antti Lehto)

[figure-skating-confessions]

“Wishing Betina and Sergey much much much happiness in the future! They were such an innovative, engaging, and charismatic team. No one‘s out there doin’ it quite like them.”

[salty-over-figureskating-costume]

Betina Popova and Sergey Mozgov's RD costumes 2019-2020

OK so I'm back

Let's start this off just by saying Wow this is a Look™.

I mean damn, it's great on both of them, very Cabaret if I do say so myself. It's interesting, it's fun, not something we often see in ice dance really.

The colours are great, Betina looks absolutely stunning in that shade of green, the yellow on Sergey also looks good on him (which is difficult 'cause yellow is a bitch of a color) and they complement each other.

The faux garter on Betina is just so sexy and it only gets better when you see that the skate coverings are like that so they look like thigh high boots, which just adds to the costume, it makes it very coherent and it looks like a complete set.

And Sergey, God, Sergey he just looks so good the pants are very well tailored, the suspenders and the bow tie make the whole thing very snazzy, yet combined with the mesh gloves it gives it a great touch, that really helps it match with their music.

Another thing that makes this great is Betina's headdress of course and Sergey's mustache.

I really like the two photos above 'cause I like how Betina looks with the black tights underneath the faux boot, there's not like an actual reason for it, I just think it's neat.

In short, these are amazing costumes, they look good by themselves and also look like they belong together.

There's nothing of the usual beautiful dress paired with a black shirt and pants, which I appreciate, they both look snazzy, they're both really well fitted and they really go a long way without having so many things related to like intricate detailing and stuff with the exception of the pinstripes on Betina's bodice.

And overall it really wouldn't be as great, without their great interpretation. They're just really cool costumes and really good skaters.

[swiftbejeweled]

BETINA AND SERGEY NOOOOO 😭😭😭

Stream the best Cabaret of the season as we say goodbye to one of the most interesting Russian teams 😭

[icedancearchive]

Betina POPOVA / Sergey MOZGOV

Free Dance || Skate Canada 2019

[figureskatingfanblog]

Betina Popova and Sergei Mozgov have withdrawn from this weeks Russian Nationals due to a back injury and will not be replaced.

Anastasia Tarakanova has withdrawn due to injury and will not be replaced.

[thefinersports]

It's the first week of the Grand Prix, and I'm already muting program music and replacing it with songs I can stand

[twistandtwizzles]

jgpf and russian sweeps | ice dance

2010 | 🥇Monko/Khaliavin 🥈Sinitsina/Zhiganshin 🥉Stepanova/Bukin

2011 | 🥇Sinitsina/Zhiganshin 🥈Yanovskaya/Mozgov 🥉Stepanova/Bukin

2014 | 🥇Yanovskaya/Mozgov 🥈Loboda/Drozd 🥉Popova/Vlasenko

2018 | 🥇Shevchenko/Eremenko 🥈 Ushakova/Nekrasov 🥉Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov

[icedanceupstarts]

Betina Popova and Sergey Mozgov, 2018 Russian Nationals FD

In all her 21 years of life, Betina Popova has never once even heard of the concept of phoning in a performance, and no one should ever tell her because she’d be absolutely crushed. She doesn’t just perform to the cheap seats, she performs to the people who didn’t even get seats and are straining to catch a glimpse through their binoculars across the street. Her partner, 23 year old Sergey Mozgov, doesn’t quite match her blazing fire so much as support it with a subtler, intense performance that allows him to hold his own while still letting it be her show, entirely appropriate for a Carmen program.

Due to injury, their first season together never quite got off the ground, but they came roaring back last season with two programs well suited to them, this FD in particular. Fiery, dramatic, and powerful, it’s no wonder their scores shot up this season. It’s not even structured like a typical Carmen program, with a long, quietly intense beginning that builds tension until they finally snap and hurtle headlong into a passionate step sequence. There are many things to appreciate about this program-- their speed, the solid lifts, the fast, secure twizzles, good choreography that includes difficult, unusual transitions and strong body shaping and comes together to form a cohesive whole that other programs of this type sometimes miss-- but really, the performance is what really made the judges sit up and take notice this season.

As a young team heading into their third season, they’ll be looking to build upon this season’s unexpected success with new coach Anjelika Krylova, who recently returned to Russia. They’ll be competing this fall at Grand Prix Finland and Internationaux de France, where they’ll attempt to prove themselves as being a team to take seriously for the future and set themselves up for a berth at Europeans or even Worlds.

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[rottinghaven]

why do people bother with boring exhibition programs this is what it’s all about