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Post by Admin on Aug 29, 2017 20:04:52 GMT
Yulia Lipnitskaya has retired at the age of 19 following a battle with anorexia. Lipnitskaya's mother, Daniela, told Russia's Tass news agency on Monday that her daughter informed Russian skating officials of her retirement in April following three months of treatment for anorexia. Lipnitskaya won gold in the team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi when she was 15, becoming the youngest Olympic skating champion since 1936. However, she missed the medals in the individual competition, where she had been considered a potential champion. Lipnitskaya bounced back with silver at the world championships in April 2014, which was her last major event. She became a symbol of the Sochi Olympics for many Russians, especially after President Vladimir Putin praised her performances.
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Post by Admin on Aug 30, 2017 19:42:03 GMT
Russian figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya completed her sports career. This is reported by TASS with reference to the mother of a 19-year-old athlete. She clarified that the daughter had notified the leadership of the Russian Federation of figure skating about her desire to retire in April. Then the girl returned from Europe, where she was treated for anorexia. "We are grateful to the company Telesport that it helped Yulia at this difficult moment. I note that now she lives only for an Olympic scholarship. She does not receive a salary from the federation, although she is on the list of the team, the mother said of the youngest Olympic champion in the history of women's single figure skating. Julia Lipnitskaya is a Russian figure skater performing in women's singles skating, Olympic champion in 2014 in team competitions, European champion in 2014, the first Russian single-figure skater, who won the title of Olympic champion.
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2017 19:50:43 GMT
On the eve of her interview that appeared on the website of the Federation of figure skating of Russia. In it, the youngest Olympic champion figure skater confirmed her decision to leave professional sports, admitting, however, that this decision was given to her very hard. But it was the fruit of many months of thinking while in the clinic, where she was treated for anorexia. "The worst thing was for me to understand what's next? - Julia has shared. - I leave the clinic and what? Especially when I began to realize that 99.9 percent of everything tends to what I'm finishing with the sport. And then I began to panic from all this uncertainty, what will happen? It was just a nightmare! And when I returned home, I sat for the first week and thought: and then, but how to start, and what to do? Uncertainty is a terrible thing." Julia admitted that she had not fully realized her dreams in sports, but health problems would not allow her to do it. The only thing she regrets is that she has been trying to hide her problems for a long time. It did not lead to anything good. Her silence was the occasion for gossip and guesswork. "At first it was funny, until it took the sweep of some madness! - says Julia. - There was a lot of fake information, which I want to debunk. A serious reason for this was the program that appeared on Channel One, where absolutely everything was fake. When I asked the editors: "How did you allow her to go on the air?", They answered me: "But you did not refute all the information personally, so this may be true." Therefore, I will have to refute the speculation now. " She told me that the lies were the statements on TV by a certain person, who said that she was leaving the sport, since she entered the Moscow State University. It is also untrue that she quits the sport because of some young man. And most of all she is angered by the appearance on the screen in different programs of a man who calls herself her father and dares to tell stories about her. As for the future, now Julia is not going to participate in any shows, invitations to which she regularly receives, the girl does not like the publicity. She intends to get an education and find a place in life. "I have been actively engaged in the English language with tutors - said Julia. - In the near future I will focus on their studies, and we'll see. In parallel, of course, I will try myself in some other things and try to find something for myself. But I know for sure that I will not work as a coach. Linking your profession to sports is another matter. But without education anywhere." The new fad of Julia, to whom she dedicates her free time, is horse riding. On weekends she makes in the suburbs walks in the company of his favorite - a horse Trakehner named Dakota. At the end of the interview Julia thanked the people who were for a long time for her most of her life - a federation, her coach Alexei Urmanova and, of course, those who have suffered for it, experienced and continues to write her words of support on social networks.
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