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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2019 18:30:38 GMT
Russian figure skating star Alina Zagitova has revealed the struggles she faced ahead of the recent world championships in Japan, saying she was on the verge of “quitting and leaving” as she struggled to find form. Zagitova claimed gold in Saitama earlier in March, adding a maiden world title to the Olympic gold medal she claimed in South Korea last year. The 16-year-old Russian was in dominant form in Japan, where she finished ahead of rising Kazakh star Elizabet Tursynbayeva, and Russia's Evgenia Medvedeva in third. But Zagitova revealed in a wide-ranging interview that she had struggled in the build-up to the event, which came around two months after she had finished second at the European championships in Belarus in January. “After the European championships, I changed my mind a lot, I wanted to work, to run, to train,” Zagitova said in the interview published on the Russian Figure Skating Federation website. “But the closer it got to the world championships, the more nervous I got. I thought all the time: the start is already soon, which last year I lost [came fifth]… “And with these nerves came problems with my jumps. My jumps weren’t working out, and I got even more nervous. “I didn’t know how to sort things out, and began to behave in the wrong way, my trainers said one thing, and I did the opposite. “In my head I understood that it wasn’t right, but I couldn’t do anything about it.” “No one, apart from me, my trainers and others close to me, knows how hard it was for me to prepare for this championship. “My trainers had to pull me out [of the situation], because nothing was working out in training. I was on the edge, and I even thought about quitting everything, leaving. “But my trainers really helped me. They didn’t force me, they found the right words. No psychologists worked with me. “The psychologists are my trainers, and they helped me prepare for this championship,”nshe added.
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2019 18:17:21 GMT
Two-time Olympic champion in figure skating Evgeni Plushenko commented on the words of Roman Kostomarov, who called on Alina Zagitova to end her career. “I do not follow those who say and write. I do not want to touch this dirt. There is a specific athlete who must make decisions, this is his career, his life. Zagitova has already won the Olympics. Maybe she wants to be a multiple Olympic champion. Who can forbid her? The simplest is to leave. This can be done at any time, especially since it is already in history. But to go out and prove that you can still, as Alina did at the World Championships, this is really cool. And if you learn to quadruple jumps, then it will be very cool in general. In her skating it is clear that she is capable of quadruple jumping, but I do not just say that. I believe that Zagitova can go to the next Olympiad and win it. Everything is possible, if properly trained and prepared. An athlete must have faith in the coach, and vice versa. I do not think that Zagitova need to finish a career. My opinion is that it is possible and necessary to skate for a long time, if you have strength and health.
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Post by Admin on May 18, 2019 18:56:23 GMT
On the day of the 74th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, the world champion in figure skating Alina Zagitova told about what trace the war left in her family.
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Post by Admin on May 22, 2019 18:18:47 GMT
Olympic champion Alina Zagitova faces an administrative fine in the amount of 5 to 15 thousand rubles ($77 - 231) for driving a car without a license. To recall, the athlete is only 16 years old, and the Russian law prohibits her from driving. Sports.RU reported that employees of the State Traffic Inspectorate are already conducting an inspection on the grounds of the violation of Article 12.7 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (Driving a Transport Vehicle by a Driver Who Has No Right to Drive the Transport Vehicle). The girl had previously published a video on her Instagram showing her driving a car in the countryside.
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Post by Admin on Jun 8, 2019 18:39:43 GMT
Last year’s Russian Olympic champ is prepared to win even more hearts with a technically complex programme in a new tournament season, featuring her trademark triple jumps. http://instagram.com/p/BybtA00laa5 Russian figure skating star Alina Zagitova has shared a video from her training session, where she is rehearsing her new programme to a hit song by Billie Eilish titled “Bag guy”. http://instagram.com/p/BydPvVeF9NB In the clip, which has been uploaded on her official Instagram account, the athlete demonstrates the impressive stunts she has mastered in the best possible way – a cascade, a triple lutz jump and a triple toe loop, to the cheers of her crowd of fans. “Will build up the programme bit by bit”, Zagitova’s team wrote in the caption, prompting many to express their delight at the figure skating star’s performance. http://instagram.com/p/BycqIzRl9nV
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