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Post by Admin on Jan 23, 2018 19:20:25 GMT
Applicants for the Olympic tours will perform at the European Championships in Moscow from 15 to 21 January For Russian figure skaters, the European Championship, which will be held in the Russian capital, will become a kind of dress rehearsal before the Olympic Games in South Korea. Depending on the results shown, athletes will be identified who will go to the Olympics in Pyeongchang. In the European competitions in Moscow in the women's singles skating, three Russian athletes will perform - Evgenia Medvedeva, Alina Zagitova and Maria Sotskova. Despite the fact that Medvedeva missed the intermediate competitions, as well as the Russian championship due to a leg injury received during the Grand Prix in Japan, the two-time world champion and the winner of the finals of the Grand Prix of 2017 were allowed to fight for the Olympic quota, selection. This decision is justified - it was Evgenia Medvedeva in recent months, when Russian sport was attacked, who became the pride of Russia, becoming the only athlete in the Russian delegation to the executive committee of the International Olympic Committee.
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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2018 19:09:26 GMT
Already then it was known that Medvedeva's injury was uncritical and it should not prevent her from going to Pyeongchang. "Evgenia is already completing recovery, but the doctors recommended not to force her, so this decision was made," Gorshkov said then to R-Sport. At the moment it is believed that as part of the Russian women's national team for the Games-2018 - of course, in addition to Medvedeva - all the same Zagitova and Sotskova will go, who turned out to be the best and the domestic championship. And especially on the eve of the competition in South Korea thwew seems to be a possible confrontation between Evgenia and 15-year-old Alina: both athletes right now are the obvious tops of world figure skating, leaving no rivals a chance, and the additional "pepper" of their "duel" is added by the fact that they work with the same coach - the famous Eteri Tutberidze, who earlier led to the great victories of Julia Lipnitskaya. Competitors themselves, of course, try not to aggravate an already piquant situation, warmly speaking about each other in the press.
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Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2018 19:08:02 GMT
Two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva conducted training before his performance at the Olympics in Pyeongchang . The 18-year-old Russian woman was engaged in the nocturne of Frederic Chopin performed by American violinist Joshua Bell. The training lasted half an hour. Medvedeva was in a good mood. She smiled and joked with Tutberidze. To look at the Russian came more than 30 journalists. Medvedeva will start performing at the Games on February 11 (beginning - 5.45 Moscow time) with a short program in the team tournament.
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2018 19:05:15 GMT
Russian figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva said that she will support Alina Zagitova, who will perform in a free program of the team tournament at the Olympic Games in South Korean Pyeongchang. The athlete won a short program in the team tournament with a world record (81.06). "I will be rooting for Alina in a free program," Medvedev told reporters. "Today she is my team-mate and tomorrow, I will support her tomorrow with all my might." According to the regulations, teams can replace skaters in two types of program. Thus, if Zagitova replaces Medvedeva, Mikhail Kolyada, who became the eighth in the short program, will continue the struggle for men, and in the competitions of dancing duets - Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Soloviev (third place in the short program). Medvedeva noted that she was able to cope with the excitement before the short program. "I was a little nervous, but I had to cope with this and it turned out. The emotions are calm, because a lot of work is ahead," said the figure skater. According to the sportswoman, she expected that the Olympic Village will consist of small houses. "I felt unusual in the village, I imagined it would be smaller, small houses, and here there are skyscrapers. This is something new in my life," she said. "We live with Ekaterina Bobrova in one apartment, she always supports me," - said Medvedeva, adding that she was used to early mornings.
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Post by Admin on Feb 15, 2018 19:13:36 GMT
This is very hard work. Sometimes I want to give up and leave. After all, girls are only 16-17 years old ... But they overcome themselves and their emotions and take first place. And we at the competitions in figure skating see their happy faces. What is the reverse side of success? Those who want to achieve something, have to come to terms with the limitations in nutrition, the lack of time, the constant danger of getting injured. Yes, and the coach always scolds you for mistakes. Is the game worth the candle? Russian champions Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova, friends in life and irreconcilable rivals in the favorite sport, believe that it's worth it. Emotions, inflaming the ice, is their life. http://instagr.am/p/BfEW1iklv7F
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