Hi Arthur!
We've missed you. :-)
I was thinking of you during Maria and Alexei's free skate, and was wonderfing where you'd gone, and whether the list would - hopefully - spring back into life again. :-D
Yes; Maria adn Alexei skated beautifully, and I LOVE the "Princess of the Circus" music too.
It's a signature piece of my all-time favorite male skater, the '94 Olympic Champion, Alexei Urmanov, who has said in interviews that Alexei Tikhonov, by the way, is his best friend.
I thought, in a way, that Maria and Alexei are perennial runners-up,and I want them to win Gold again, as they did in '00 when Elena and Anton had their World Championship revoked because Elena had innocently taken a cold remedy that she didn't know was a banned substance.
But I'm glad that Maria and Alexei are still eligible. :-)
The Olympics are just around the corner now.
Do you think that they will hold out for the Olympics?
I certainly hope so!
After all, it's just one more season, and their coaching careers can wait.......
Yours sincerely,
Marti :-)
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