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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2019 2:31:49 GMT
The coach also hit out at men’s skater and Olympic champion Evgeny Plushenko who she accused of trying to lure Zagitova away from her camp and reminding him that he hasn’t brought up a single champion after opening his figure skating school.  Plushenko didn’t leave Tutberidze’s comments unnoticed slamming the coach for setting off a war in figure skating. “I understand that Alina’s retirement made an irreparable damage to your (sport manager’s) budget. I know you prefer to be called a coach, but I am aware that technical preparation in your team, including jumps has been supervised by Dudakov. So, I understand that Alina has brought essential profit to your team. “I don’t know why, probably due to lack of attention Alina asked me for advice during the show in Japan. Athletes are also people and should be treated as people, not as gold medal-winning machines,” Plushenko wrote. The social media spat between coaches sparked heated debates in Russian figure skating with numerous pundits commenting on the situation. Those supporting Tutberidze insisted that she is fed up with negative comments over her short-lived triumphs with teenage skaters. |
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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2019 22:50:07 GMT
Несравненная Алина Загитова приняла участие в шоу перед матчем СКА – ЦСКА на Газпром Арене. Игра собрала 61810 зрителей, и в своем инстаграм фигуристка призналась, что в ее практике выступлений это рекорд! Еще раз наслаждаемся блестящим прокатом чемпионки.
Алина, ❤!
Our incredible figure skating champion Alina Zagitova took part in the show before the Russian Classic hockey game SKA vs.CSKA at Gazprom Area. The game was attended by 61810 people. In her Instagram Alina told that it is the record audence in her practice.
We were very glad to see you, Alina ❤!
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Post by Admin on Dec 25, 2019 21:42:49 GMT
Russian athlete learned a new element to participate in pair skating in the New Year’s ice show in Moscow. Russian skater Alina Zagitova showed the new effort that she learned for pair skating in an ice show. She posted the video on her Instagram. Earlier, the champion announced a suspension of her career. He will not perform at the upcoming Russian championship and will miss the next world and European championships. “New support is ready,” Zagitova wrote under the video. http://instagram.com/p/B6dQKd2pHPF Zagitova will take part in the Tatiana Navka ice show "Sleeping Beauty. Legend of the Two Kingdoms". |
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Post by Admin on Dec 26, 2019 22:12:55 GMT
All the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the potential end of Alina Zagitova’s competitive career at age 17 has had enough time to die down that everyone can take a less emotional look at the situation.
And what better time to do that than just before the Russian National Championships? Had Zagitova, reigning Olympic and world champion, been competing in Krasnoyarsk this week, she would have been hard-pressed to improve on her startlingly poor fifth-place finish of a year ago, when three junior skaters swept the senior podium. Those three are likely to get all the medals again.
clarification Instagram post two days after announcing her plans that she is only taking a competitive break, while performing in ice shows and continuing to train. Wait until she sees how much better it feels not to be beating herself up and down – trying to contend with skaters in just her own Moscow club like the current top three in the world and the 11-year-old girl who just landed a quadruple toe loop.
Zagitova insisted in a clarification Instagram post two days after announcing her plans that she is only taking a competitive break, while performing in ice shows and continuing to train. Wait until she sees how much better it feels not to be beating herself up and down – trying to contend with skaters in just her own Moscow club like the current top three in the world and the 11-year-old girl who just landed a quadruple toe loop.
And this is a lot bigger story than whether one skating champion like Zagitova can no longer keep up with the competition.
That Zagitova is stepping away, at least temporarily, less than a year after winning worlds and less than two years after winning the Olympics seems singular on the surface, especially given how little time it took her to reach the top – from ninth at the Russian Junior Championships in 2015-16 to Olympic champion in 2018.
It is actually just a figure skating version of déjà vu all over again. Three previous examples of a seemingly early exit all predate — by 15 to 25 years — the jump revolution in women’s singles. Short careers are not unusual for Olympic champions.
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