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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 :-)
Hi, Marti,
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 :-)
Hi, Marti,
I bet you thought that my smoking habit croaked me and I was dead, but that hasn`t happened yet. I was thinking of you when the San Diego area had the terrrible forest fires. That must have been really scary for you. I hope they have better forest management now so that is less likely to happen again.
A year or more ago when P/T first used "Princess of the Circus", I researched it and found IIRC that it was a ballet by a popular Hungarian composer from early in this century who eventually became a U.S. citizen. I`m afraid to leave this window to go and re-research it, because I might not get back to this page that`s half typed. I don`t know if you`re using YouSendIt files from FSU`s Video Vault(you should), but the other day I found a "Princess of the Circus" by Klimova/Ponomarenko but it was a different song from the ballet.I`ve been saving the video clips in my computer.Maybe you`ve been doing the same. I really needed those clips after watching the World ODs last night because I found them so disappointing. I had to go to the clips to watch some Bestiamiavova/Bukin and Pasha ODs.Don`t get me wrong though. Although I found the top 4 teams disappointing, the YouSendIt clips of the other 26 dance teams were quite entertaining.
BTW, I think that P/T would be wise to go for another season.Turin is only about 10 months away and they`re the reigning World silver medalists.Going to a second Olys can add to their resume when they start coaching.
Best regards,
Arthur
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