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Among the many doubts and few certainties is slowly shaping the framework of couples dancing that will be part of the next season.
Monday 7 April 2014 7 minutes reading time
At the moment, the main retreat among the athletes of the first band is that of the French Pechalat / Bourzat, which, except for a sudden change of "direction", will join the U.S. Davis / White and Canadians Virtue / Moir.
The situation appears rather intricate in Russia. The former continental champions Bobrova / Soloviev have denied rumors of retirement and, at present, are the only fixed point of the movement. For the rest, will be decisive in the next few days during which you should clarify the situation with regard to Ilinykh / Katsalapov and Sinitsina / Zhiganshin. The latest rumors tell of the birth of the new unions Ilinykh / Zhiganshin, ready to start training under the direction of Svetlana Alexeewa, and Sinitsina / Katslapov, which would seek to define the logistics for transfer to Hackensack, location New Jersey, where as of this spring will work Nikolai Morozov. To date, it seems that will continue career in a couple of Monko / Khaliavin and Stepanova / Bukin, while it is not clarify the situation concerning Riazanova / Tkachenko and Pushkash / Guerreiro, the latter accasatisi recently at the court of Morozov after changing more Sometimes technical guidance in the last period. It seems certain that the vice-champions championship junior Yanovskaya / Mozgov will not make the jump in class with the hope of conquering the world gold, failed to surprise in Sofia. The same fate also Popova / Vlasenko.
On the U.S., the Shibutani siblings have denied the rumors about the separation of the lot and will still be as Chock / Bates, Hubbell / Donohue and Aldridge / Eaton. The novelty should be represented Hawayek / Baker, Junior World Champions are ready to questioning upstairs. Continue, however, to compete at the junior level and his brothers Parsons McNamara / Carpenter. It seems, finally, that the nail shoes hang Kriengkrairut / Giulietti-Schmidt.
The battle-hardened Canadian movement will led by Weaver / Poje, Gilles / Paul Poirier and / Islam, couples and more shooting did not hide its intention to continue at least until 2018. The promising Edwards / Pang remain, however, in the junior category. Filed a disappointing season, will check the intentions of Ralph / Hill and Orford / Williams.
Moving in Ukraine, noted the withdrawal of Heekin-Canedy/Dun, is time choices for promising Nazarova / Nikitin, school Zhulin couple who could opt for the jump in class taking advantage of the lack of internal competition.
In Italy, there are no doubts about the continuation of the career of Cappellini / Lanotte and Guignard / Fabbri, but it remains to define the future of Alessandrini / Vaturi and Bernardi / Mior.
No doubt for the British Coomes / Buckland, who likely will be accompanied by interesting Smart / Buckland, able to close his career with a prestigious junior tenth place in the World Championships category.
In France, it will be challenge for the role of first pair of Carron / Jones and more young Papadakis / Cizeron, while in Germany, expect news about the intentions of the veterans Sinitsina / Zhiganshin, which could leave the field open to Kolbe / Caruso.
Meanwhile, new schools on the horizon and Korea will count on two pairs of international interest. In fact, students of Shpilband Min / Koleto, tenth in the latest edition of the Four Continents Championships, will join Kim / Minov, trained in Moscow by tandem Svinin / Zhuk and sixth in the Junior World Championships in Sofia gluing to the podium. ;
They look to the next four Olympic ambitions also couples room in Montreal at the emerging school of Dubreuil / Lauzon. In particular, will closely followed by the ascent of the Spanish Hurtado / Diaz, without the association Danish Fournier-Beaudry/Sorensen.
In any case, as it usually happens at the end of seasons Olympic, still remain many situations to be clarified and it is not except that in the coming weeks we can add other retreats and separation effect.
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