#and sara and niccolo

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HASE & VOLODIN GPF CHAMPIONS

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Sara Conti / Niccolo Macii Cinema Paradiso • 2023 European Championships

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Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii's short program costumes at the 2024 World Championships.

(Sources: Skates U.S. and Wilma Alberti)

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Sara Conti & Niccolò Macii, “Cavalleria Rusticana” SP || GP Finals 2023

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I’ll put aside my one sided beef with the Cats program and celebrate them not letting M/B get gold.

The moment of the event was Rebecca and Filippo for sure though.

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They're just so good

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Pairs Result 

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genuinely considering getting tickets for the 2026 winter olympics over the italian skaters

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Italy sending Beccari/Guarise and Conti/Macii to Challenge Cup seems like they haven't yet decided who will go to Worlds. I hope B/G get to go. It would be weird if the reigning European Champions wouldn't be there.

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che bambola you will always be famous

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Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii of Italy won the gold at the Lombardia Trophy. Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan took the silver. Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko of Hungary won the free skate, coming up from fourth to take the bronze.

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GPF qualifications so far

In 100%

Isabeau Levito (2 silvers and 26 points)

Kao Miura (2 silvers and 26 points)

Alexa Knierim/Brandon Frazier (2 golds and 30 pts)

Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps (1 gold and 1 silver and 28 pts

Most likely in

Daniel Grassl (1 gold one fourth place and 24 pts)

Sara Conti/Niccolo Macii (one silver and one bronze and 24 pts)

On the cusp but unlikely

Young You (one bronze and one fourth place 20 pts)

Not qualifying

Haein Lee

Ekaterina Kurakova

Deniss Vasiljevs

Roman Sadovsky

Roscher/Schuster

Laurin/Ethier

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I was too tired yesterday to do a recap but then again, I have so. many. thoughts., so let's do this.

I didn't watch the jr men free, I bailed as soon as I heard Michael Buble. I like Adam Hagara the most of this batch of boys, something about his fundamentals gives me hope that he can only go up from here. The rest will probably get lost in their nations' deep fields, which is a shame.

The jr women were a veritable jewelry box full of the most precious gems and I can't wait to see them sparkle over the next decade or so. They were hands down the highlight of the weekend for me. And overall they had age-appropriate material, which I really appreciated.

The jr dance FD event was way messier than the RD and far less inspired. Kiliakov Jr. is a very good skater but his parental units belong in jail for this Duchesnay knockoff, I've only ever heard that stupid flute against my will. The winning Americans moved and skated really well, but it was to the melody and not the beat, which defeats the whole purpose of ice dance. Another egregious example of this elsewhere is Gauthier/Thieren's Woodkid. Nevertheless, it was nice to see skaters from different schools all do so well and have good basics. Btw, who knew the Canadian jr field was held together only by the strength of Noah's knee ligaments? Poor kid, I hope he can recover because Jordyn is so phenomenal.

Ava and Yohnatan are such diamonds, their skating makes me so happy and I hope they have a smooth transition into senior in a few years. Jaz and Kiki have amazing chemistry, but Oakville has been sending out these jr pairs that lack half the elements and it's been so nerve-wracking to watch. Idk, maybe send them to Milton a couple of times a week to get jumps? Also, ouch, what a rough skate for the little Flores sis, it all looked so painful. But omfg, the Georgians. I didn't think anything could be worse than their short, but I've seen their FS and their exhibition now and all I can say is WTF. Russia will round up its gay people but then send skaters out with the gayest programs imaginable with sense of zero irony. She can sort of pull off the theatrical dress but his outfit would blend in nicely behind a set of prison bars, which is where it belongs. That silly collar will haunt my dreams. And the little tiara? What if she flies head-first into the boards? Truly no sense of self-preservation whatsoever. Just a hot mess. And their ridiculous exhibition really took me out. Why was she dressed as an elf card dealer and why were her boobs around her neck? Did we really need to see this boy in his unmentionables? So many choices, so little sense. I loathe a gimmicky exhibition or program in general - if you're not H/B or Kurt or somebody like that, stay home.

Speaking of the exhibitions, I didn't bother with most of them, but the only ones who were able to pull off being playful without being cringe were Sara and Niccolo. G/F's exhibition looks like something C/B would do as a competitive program. And if I hadn't cancelled G/P already over their other material, this country-ass Woody and Bo Peep exhibition would've been it for me. But this is the same team that skated to Evita during an economic downturn when Paul comes from LatAm colonial money, so my expectations of them are so low as to be subterranean. And Ilia tripping on that stupid hat tells me that he needs to learn the first rule of ice dance: NO HATS!!! None - no elaborate headgear, no easily detachable hair accessories, no hair pieces heavier than the skater's head, nothing! Rules #2 and #3 are, naturally, keep your ass off the ice and don't mess up the twizzles. That's it. You'd think there'd be more to it than that, but no. A skater might think they're being innovative by putting excessive shit in their hair, but they're actually being dumb (as an example, watch Bobrova/Solovyev's OD in Vancouver and how their sailor hats kept sliding into their eyeballs). Btw, Ted saying that Kevin had an uncharacteristic meltdown in the free had me cackling - Theodore, that was exactly on-brand for Kevin, where the hell have you been? If anything, his recent consistency has been the anomaly. Smfh.

I guess the senior events will have to be a separate message lol.

I'm going to take your word on all of this, Fashionista Nonny, because I didn't watch any of the juniors, and I rarely, if ever, watch any of the gala. So I am going to defer to you and just say I agree with you across the board because I trust you implicitly.

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Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii's short program costumes at the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo and 2023 Grand Prix de France. And a ruffleless shirt at the 2024 Europeans:

(Sources: 1, 2, 3 and 4)

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Sara Conti & Niccolo Macii, “Cinema Paradiso” at European Championships 2023

bonus:

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Sara and Niccolo redemption!