If in world figure skating the season is close to completion - there is only the World Team Championship from April 15 to 18 in Japan - then the Russian season officially ends only in June. And there are at least a few more All-Russian competitions in it. But the main thing is taking place right now in Sochi - this is the last Russian championship of the year, of the younger age of the senior group.
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Just in case, we will restore the scheme: we are holding the national championship, the Russian championship among juniors and two junior championships - the junior group (this is the one where Alisa Dvoeglazova and Sofya Titova sorted out among themselves) and the senior group. Here is the last thing left to do. After three victories of Anna Shcherbakova, Sofya Akatieva and Dvoeglazova, Eteri Tutberidze's team had the right to count on a unique achievement - the "Grand Slam" of women's titles in all ages. But it didn’t happen.
16 people in 10 points
A very decent line-up has been awarded to Iceberg in Sochi. Yes, Akatieva and Samodelkina were not here, but there was Maria Dmitrieva from Mishin's "Star Ice" with a triple axel, the owner of the skating rink Stanislav Molchanova from the Russian Cup, the same Dvoeglazova and Daria Sadkova, who fought for medals in the junior group, are quite a star representative of Tatarstan Elizaveta Osokina, who joined Elena Buyanova at CSKA, Anastasia Zinina from Snow Leopards and Alina Gorbacheva, playing for the Tver region, but training in Khimki.
You had to present such a long list, because the density of Russian figure skaters at this age is amazing. Here, in 10 points, according to the results of the short program, 16 people fit! The first eight was in four points. This is not a world championship for you.
Therefore, the free program, which took place on Saturday, was a pure lottery. One element decided everything. And so it happened. After the first day, Gorbacheva took the lead a bit sensationally. She already has a certain reputation at the junior level - she took medals of the Russian Cup stages, but still it is unusual to see someone other than Moscow and St. Petersburg at the top in Russian figure skating.
Gorbacheva started last in the free program and could not keep the minimum advantage - although everyone made mistakes in hot and relaxing Sochi. The first five finished in 6 points, and the students of "Khrustalny" became only the third and the fifth. Sadkova slightly improved her score in comparison with Saransk, Dvoeglazova lost 9 points. And it cost her medals.
The referee team got tough and mercilessly put deductions and under- rotations on everyone. The first of the future medalists was Osokina, also in the penultimate warm-up. But she was the only one who was able to show a clean program with pluses in all elements. An absolutely justified move to Moscow from Tatarstan, for which she, by the way, continues to speak. 129.74 in the program and 193.82 at the end - it was an application for success. But interrupting her is real. Emotional coach Irina Tagaeva restrainedly hugged her ward.
The student of Tatyana Moiseeva and Svetlana Panova Zinina did not try the quad toe loop, but did not avoid losses. In general, only Dmitrieva went to the ultra-c - and caught two under-rotations, taking 24th place of the day. By the end of the season, keeping quads, apparently, became much more difficult. Zinina was also slapped with two obscure ribs on the lutz and q on the rittberger.
Tutberidze is more important than the show
Errors became even more diverse when Sadkovaya and Dvoeglazovaya reached the ice. Just think - at this tournament, Tutberidze's students were given vague ribs on a flip, which happens infrequently, even when there are reasons. Daria looks like lyrical images, she knows how to “suffer”. But this time it did not work out from the very beginning: after the second level of the track (only it cost one and a half points), an unexpected fall on the rittberger followed. To top it off, q on salchow in a cascade with lutz and oiler and an exclamation mark on the flip. The losses were very noticeable, and in terms of components, she lost to Osokina.
Dvoeglazova, in fact, finished the fight on the very first element, falling from a triple toe loop - although earlier she tried to conceive from a quadruple jump. After the skate, Sergei Dudakov actively gestured with his hands and explained something - and Dvoeglazova dropped to fifth place in the table.
To be fair, let's say that the Tutberidze team is probably now more interested in a tour with a show in the cities of Russia and Tashkent (other cities are also possible). It is important for Eteri Georgievna to promote the registered brand and sell tickets. The season is almost over, so this is understandable. In Sochi, as in Saransk, Dudakov was present in the singular.
As a result, Gorbachev's "Firebird" did not reach Osokina either. She was immediately found with two obscure ribs on a flip and an under-twist in a cascade with a sheepskin coat - as a result, tough refereeing closed the way to gold. The fourth national gold for women in the season is taken not by the Plushenko Angels or the Tver figure skating school, but by CSKA.