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Minerva Fabienne Hase & Nikita Volodin (GER) Free Skate- The Four Seasons || Nebelhorn Trophy 2024

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minerva fabienne hase you are everything to me

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Nebelhorn Trophy 2024 - Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin at the medal ceremony

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Olympic level quality program

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I‘ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, Hase/Volodin are a match made in skating heaven

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Minerva Fabienne Hase & Nikita Volodin: Stay » 2024 World Championships

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Minerva Fabienne Hase & Nikita Volodin, Stay || 2023 Grand Prix Final

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Round 6: Pairs

The contenders are:

Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin

Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea

Barbora Kucianova and Martin Bidar

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps (free skate)

Lucrezia Beccari and Matteo Guarise

Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps (short program)

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara

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HASE VOLODIN I LOVE YOU!!!!

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Minerva and Nikita killed that, especially considering she got food poisoning before this

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nikita better get citizenship in time for milano istg

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Nebelhorn Trophy 2024 - FS Pairs - Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin (GER)

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Minerva and Nikita should be a mile ahead 😒

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If someone told me Hase/Volodin have been skating together for years and years, I would believe them in a heartbeat, they’re such a well matched team

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Favorite 2023/2024 Programs Pairs SP

Pairs event at Worlds was so fucking good even without the Russians. (You'll only see me saying this for pairs. This is the only discipline where Russians were legitimately above the rest). But this season did prove that the field can actually manage without them.

Have to say tho that most the programs aren't really good and we're desperately in need of some good Choreo which is too rare at this point (Cheng Peng save me!).

So here's list if my favourite programs from this season. Rankings are to be taken with a grain of salt.

Honorable mentions go to

Ghilardi/Ambrosini (The Ecstasy of Gold). Choreo did not left an imprint but I love the music choice the costumes and the general vibe. G/A had some great packaging this season.

Ariano Kent/Laliberté Laurent (500 miles). You just can't keep the Canadians away from Sadboi music and this baby pairs came out with the weepy ballad variant of 500 miles. It's an experience for sure.

7th - Yuna Nagaoka/Sumitada Moriguchi - Can’t Take My Eyes of You, by John Lloyd Young, choreo by Cathy Reed

Fun. Charming. Nice to watch. Nothing special but this is one of those feel good programs. The fact that YunaSumi for their first season together have better packaging than RikuRyu is nothing short of tragic.

6th - Anastasia Golubeva/Hektor Giotopoulos-Moore - Architect of the Mind, by Kerry Muzzey, choreo by Jonathan Guerreiro

Recycled from last year. I love the baby Australians so much and this routine show why. Ability to follow the relentless pace of the music. A sense of drama. Good unisson and well matched lines. I especially love the step sequence where their bodies unfurl to the swirls of the music a bit like an accordion. It scratches an itch. Love Nastya's lines and love Hektor's commitment to the performance.

5th - Minerva Fabienne Hase/Nikita Volodin - Stay, by Rihanna, choreo by Paul Bolle and Mark Pillay

Not the most original thing and Virtue/Moir did it better. But Hase/Volodin are not Tessa and Scott, nor do they need to be. It could be a bit bland and tbh if the team were only slightly less talented it would be.

But instead we have a nice, light, romantic program. It goes perfectly well with Minerva's softness. Volodin is very solid but non existent as a performer and that's ok ! They only have to move prettily to the music and it works for them.

4th - Ellie Kam/Danny O’Shea - East of Eden, choreo by Drew Meekins

What good skating skills does to a motherfucker !!!

Even with the tech shortcomings (that throw jump is not even close to ready), when I saw them live in Angers this seasons they blew everyone put of the water with this SP. Skating skills are so rare among pairs skaters and it's so good to see them being rewarded by the judges for it. The sheer ice coverage the breath the ease of their skating is wonderful to see live. And East of Eden, overused as it is, is a perfect match for their brand. The music is suitably intense. Definitely one of the highlights of the season.

3rd - Cheng Peng/Lei Wang - The Storm Driven Sea, by Christopher Tin, choreo by Lori Nichols

Definitely the best choreo of the bunch, gets bumped from first place because Peng/Wang are a new pair and it shows. We sadly did not get the performance that short program deserved. The drama the position, the intensity... Unmatched.

Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps - Oxygen, by Cirque du Soleil choreo by Julie Marcotte

I HATED the music at the start of the season. The loud breathing triggered my misophonia and the vocals were grating.

I love it ! It's unlike anything else in the current pairs' field. Cirque du Soleil doesn't get more Québécois than that. The step sequence is fun. The lift rocks.

1st - Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel - I Love Rock and Roll, by Joan Jett, choreo by Luca Lanotte

Speaking of rock... Best short of the season hands down. Gorgeous lifts with hard and creative dismount? Check! Massive throw jump? Check! Big twist? Check! Great step sequence with loads of attitude? Check! Music that will make the audience loose it? You bet! Performance levels? Unmatched!

Of fucking course they judges hated it and they were robbed blind at worlds.

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Worlds 2024 was amazing and who would have thought that the Pairs would be my other fave event?? Like it kind of felt like pairs was a bit empty for a long time after the well of Soviet-trained Russian skaters ran out, but it's so back now, in a big way!!!

So happy for Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps! They really worked their tails off, and they deserve all of their success. They're not even my faves, but the quality is there, and aside from Deanna making history as the oldest World title winner, she is truly revolutionary in redefining what's possible in the sport. Literally everyone has always believed skating careers should end in your thirties, that it's impossible to skate competitively beyond your mid thirties at all, let alone successfully, and here she is blasting a hole in that narrative. In a sport that's often been dominated by teenagers, it's just amazing to see someone at 40 at the top of her game, achieving so much, especially on home ice. She was crying, I was crying, the commentators were crying, it was a damn good freeskate!

And my faves, Hase & Volodin, making the podium after their semi-disaster at Europeans fills my heart with joy. I've been obsessed with them this whole season, I can't believe they're so good in their first season together! They look like mirror images of each other, they way they move, their body lines, all perfectly matched, and they have the technical content too! They look like they've skated together their whole lives! And they were smiling through almost their whole freeskate!! They radiate joy!! They land side by side triples!! How are they so perfect?! I don't know, but if this is them just starting out, I'm beyond excited to see what they do in the future when they have more experience together.

Miura & Kihara are also amazing and I'm glad they won the silver, I hope they are ok after not attending the medal ceremony!

Also Italy has so many good pair teams now! They've been great all season, and though they didn't do super well at Worlds, I'm sure they'll be back stronger than ever next year. And hopefully they'll have three spots by the Milan Olympics.

Honestly I'm just really glad to see there were so many pairs who did well, and who went for (and landed!) side by side triples, the future of pairs skating is bright and I'm excited for the next Olympics.