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Post by Admin on May 16, 2020 20:13:17 GMT
After a week of silence following Alexandra Trusova’s break-up with famed coach Eteri Tutberidze, the skater has spoken publicly to explain her decision to abruptly end their seemingly flawless partnership. The 15-year-old quad-jumping prodigy admitted the decision was not an easy one, but she decided to make a U-turn in her sporting career to achieve greater results in figure skating. “Sometimes there is a moment in your life when you need to take an important step. You need to do that to move forward and conquer new peaks. It’s not always an easy decision, but if you’ve carefully weighed all the pros and cons, you need to move forward bravely, so than nothing can stop you,” Trusova wrote. http://instagram.com/p/CAQJgeSJolS "I’m grateful to all my coaches who have worked with me. I want to thank Olga Schevtsova, Larisa Melkova, Alexander Volkov and Anna Tsareva and of course Eteri Tutberidze who literally gave me the best and precious experience dedicating all her power to me. I’m sure I will have an opportunity to give my great coach a bouquet of her favorite flowers,” the skater added. Last week, the two-time world junior champion sensationally left Tutberidze’s group announcing her cooperation with renowned figure skater Evgeni Plushenko. http://instagram.com/p/B8eQcfaI_yD The move triggered uproar in the Russian figure skating community with some staff members in Tutberidze’s camp even calling Trusova a ‘traitor.’ Plushenko, who will now try to conquer new heights with Trusova, said that had been contacted by the skater’s parents long ago and the decision to leave Tutberidze was well-calculated. http://instagram.com/p/BzPS0XkoA8V Trusova’s fantastic results that she showed at a junior level suddenly nosedived last season with the athlete failing to win any major titles in the international arena.
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Post by Admin on May 26, 2020 23:17:05 GMT
Russian figure skating prodigy Alexandra Trusova has reacted to her latest inclusion in Guinness World Records, saying that she aims to break yet another quad record. On Sunday, Trusova was formally acknowledged as first female competitor to successfully execute a quadruple flip jump at an international event. http://instagram.com/p/CApcFngAfdz Flying high: Alexandra Trusova enters the Guinness Book of World Records for incredible quad-jumping skills She also holds records for the first quadruple Lutz and first quadruple toe loop. “My parents told me about my third world record,” Trusova said. “I’m very happy about it. I worked hard to learn how to do a quad flip, and for it to be recognized by Guinness World Records. Out of all the quads I just can’t do the loop, but I will aim to learn it and perform it at an international competition.” However, the skater, who is now coached by Evgeni Plushenko, said her first priority is to get back to full fitness rather than learning new tecnical elements. “We had a lengthy break from training. I haven’t had such a break since childhood. Yes, I worked at home but it’s enormously difficult to stay in shape without practicing on the ice.”
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Post by Admin on May 27, 2020 22:59:15 GMT
Russian figure skating trailblazer Alexandra Trusova has been included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first female skater to successfully land a quadruple flip jump at an international competition. “The first quadruple flip jump in a figure skating competition by a female was achieved by Alexandra Trusova (Russia) on 7 December 2019 at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Torino, Italy,” the statement said. http://instagram.com/p/B-ZgkCQIRyi Mind-blowing! Watch Russian 11-year-old figure skating prodigy Sofia Titova effortlessly landing QUADS on hard ground (VIDEO) “The quad flip was one of five quad jumps included in Trusova’s free skate routine in Torino. She landed three of them, earning herself a score of 161.73 points,” the entry continued. The 15-year-old has brought revolutionary changes to the sport, making quads an inseparable part of women’s skating. She was rewarded for her jaw-dropping skills with an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for the third time. In 2018, she was named the Guinness world record holder for being the first female skater to throw a quad toe loop and a quad Lutz. http://instagram.com/p/B-UDSaKIuWc Two weeks ago, the two-time world junior champion made a u-turn in her sporting career, ending her four-year partnership with famed coach Eteri Tutberidze.
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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2020 21:26:22 GMT
Coach Evgeni Plushenko can give a two-time world champion among juniors Alexandra Trusova a new direction in which she will begin to progress even better, says 2014 Olympic champion in team skate Dmitry Solovyov. http://instagram.com/p/CBQkmvMoGrP In May, 15-year-old Trusova left the group of Eteri Tutberidze and began working under the direction of Plushenko. “Sasha Trusova has great potential, it is quite possible that Zhenya and his team will give her a new impetus, thanks to which she will develop even better. In some program settings, ideas, emotions. Knowing Zhenya, knowing what he went through, the medals that he won, I can say that he knows his business, "said Soloviev on Instagram. "Now he is especially interested in the development of his school, in the promotion of his athletes, and this can give a very good impetus," the skater added. http://instagram.com/p/CA3AFXvo0sq Soloviev gave an example of a change of trainers from his experience. “I can say for myself. When we (with partner Ekaterina Bobrova) decided to go to Sasha Zhulin, we made a huge leap forward,” he said.
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2020 20:10:54 GMT
The Olympic champion gained official status in the structure of Russian sports for the first time since his career in 2017. The information that Evgeni Plushenko was on the Russian national team’s list as a personal coach of Alexandra Trusova greatly excited some of the fans, although a lot of inaccurate information surfaced during the discussion of this event. “SE” clarifies the situation and discusses the significance of this “appointment” both for Plushenko personally and for Russian figure skating. But first, about the reaction to the news of the Olympic champion and his colleagues.
“If I am included in the team as a coach, it’s great, flattering, I’m very happy,” Plushenko said in an interview with TASS. - But my main task now is to make a result, completely restore Sasha, learn her new jumps, including a decent triple axel, and change the choreography of her skating.
“I think that you need to be patient and observe the process of mastery,” the famous coach Tatyana Tarasova reacted to Plushenko in a conversation with “Moscow Says”.
- What nonsense. There are 50 coaches of the national team, including Plushenko, - such a reaction to the assertion that Plushenko headed the national team is attributed to Eteri Tutberidze , the most successful Russian coach in recent years . She appeared on Telegram and Instagram on super.ru.
“Eugene is an outstanding athlete, but a very young coach,” Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin told SE. - Therefore, there is no single answer to this question. Everything will show time. He had a brilliant skater career, but now he is engaged in a completely different profession. There are many examples when skaters with average results in sports achieved great victories after completing a career in coaching: Eteri Tutberidze, Tatyana Tarasova, Rafael Harutyunyan, Nikolai Morozov.
Such as Brian Orser, having two Olympic medals as an athlete, and gold medals in the status of a coach, units. This is a common practice not only in figure skating, but also in other sports. For example, in football, remember Maradona, who shone on the football field and became a very mediocre coach. And there is Mourinho, who changed the work of a translator to a coaching one and won a huge number of titles.
But I sincerely wish Eugene good luck, because he entered the coaching staff of my native country, for which I worry and root. How many medals the Russian team will have will depend on his work. He has all the opportunities for training Alexandra Trusova and other athletes, ”said Yagudin.
There was no “appointment” of Plushenko to the national team. He was automatically included in the list of personal trainers of candidates for the national team after Alexandra Trusova joined the Angel Plushenko Academy in early May. The list of candidates for the national team and their mentors was approved by the Ministry of Sports on May 28. By the way, the 37-year-old specialist also appears in it as the junior coach Veronika Zhilina, so that Eugene would have been in the coveted short list without Trusova. Another conversation is that Plushenko is indicated in the document of the Ministry of Sports as the only mentor of Alexandra, while it is known that she moved to the Academy with her personal trainer Sergei Rozanov.
In the list of 64 specialists mentioned in the list of the Ministry of Sports, Rozanov, unlike Plushenko, does not appear. Moreover, opposite the name of the Olympic champion in the document, it is noted that his place of work is not the Plushenko Academy, but the Sports Training Center. This means that he can qualify for a bet in this government agency. The money, however, is small there, and it is unlikely that they will affect the welfare of the star, especially given the scale of his investment in the academy. Plushenko, of course, is neither the head nor the head coach of the national team. In our figure skating, this is generally a very conditional concept.
According to the documents of the Ministry of Sports, the head coach of the national team is Alexander Gorshkov, head of the figure skating federation. But the specificity of the sport is such that the key person after the athlete here is a personal trainer or the head of the training group. And the national team for major tournaments based on the results of the qualifying starts is formed by the coaching council and the federation. In general, there is no special need for a head coach, and out of 64 specialists from the list of the Ministry of Sports, more than ten are unlikely to go to the World and European Championships. Another question is that the trainer of the CSP is still an official status, which may be important, including for Plushenko.
After the official completion of the skater's career in 2017, Eugene did not hold positions in the structure of domestic sports. A week after announcing his retirement, Plushenko opened his Academy in Moscow. Last season, the wards of the Olympic champion had some success at the junior level, but the star mentor is still perceived by colleagues as a beginner. His appearance on the list of the Ministry of Sports is an important step towards recognition. Although the main criterion here, of course, will be the results. If Trusova will go to the European Championship next January with Plushenko, this will be the best evidence of the coach’s success and the favorable situation in Russian figure skating for adapting champions to life after sports.
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