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Post by Admin on Sept 10, 2018 18:32:02 GMT
On Sunday, skaters of the Russian team showed in public new free programs for the first time. The show was held in the Moscow "Megasport" in the presence of several thousand spectators. After seeing the performances of the figurine-rocking beau monde, a special correspondent of RIA Novosti Elena Vaitsekhovskaya explains in the blog of the editorial board why Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva are far better than the rest of the world and why this rest of the world does not need to worry.  The biggest oddity of the event was that the Russian figure skating federation decided to make short program rentals closed. In Novogorsk on Saturday, it was strictly ordered not to allow the object of journalists and photographers, but this was extremely poor, if not ridiculous. Already half an hour after the end of the ball, the Internet was packed with videos of all the skaters and pairs who had been eliminated from the floor.  However, on Sunday, the athletes were compensated for: on the stands of the "Megasport", so many people did not even gather at the Grand Prix stage. "Extra tickets" were sold at ticket counters, and it was easy to guess where the general excitement grow: for the first time after the Olympics in Pyeongchang, on one ice, the release of the two main stars of the Russian (and, in fact, world) women's single skating, the Olympic champion Alina Zagitova and the owner of the Olympic silver, two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva.  |
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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2018 18:54:50 GMT
 The essence of figure skating is always the same: show the judges and the public new programs, listen to the comments and wishes of technical experts, make adjustments to the program before the first entry to the competitive ice, and at the same time understand for yourself what you should work on first.  In other words, this working event is not at all designed to be evaluated either in terms of quality or in terms of productions. As the program rolls in, it sometimes undergoes quite noticeable changes. And yet some moments deserved to be said about them especially. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 15, 2018 20:26:33 GMT
The beginning of autumn is not too time-consuming for skaters. New suits are not ready for everyone, but this is definitely not an excuse to go out on the ice in shabby appearance. Not even because this can be seen as a lack of respect for the audience. In any artistic sport every appearance in public is the athlete's stroke to his own portrait. Come out, say, Natalia Zabiyako and Alexander Enbert with impeccable make-up and in elegant black robes - and somehow automatically postponed that the couple, not officially being the first, looks on the ice no worse than the leaders, but outwardly and surpasses them. And you can be sure: this was postponed not only in the minds of the audience, but also in the judges. So, their first "plus" Zabiyako and Enbert got already at "Megasport".  The first program is also a foretaste of unexpected impressions. Surprising - this is also a way to attract attention. However, it was possible to units. For example, Sergei Voronov, who showed in a short program a quadruple toe loop and proved that it is better and more interesting to become on the ice even in 30 years. On Saturday she broke her compliments and Maria Sotskova : thanks to the light and sudden in the Latin-American rhythms of the short program, the figure skater forced to see herself completely differently than a year ago. Masha herself remarked in the interview shortly before the interviews that the choice of "Latina" became her own initiative, her desire to appear before the public in a new style, to show a new choreography, and at the same time to prove to her own coach that she was able to cope with the task. The experiment was a success.  An interesting "short" production "by Stefan Lambiel" was brought to Moscow by Mikhail Kolyada, but he made in it a double "butterfly" instead of a quadruple jump. From the point of view of hire, a mistake in jumping is a total nonsense. But this nonsense reminded that the weak spot of the strongest Russian figure skater is not in skating and not in jumping. "Butterfly" - it's not a mistake, it's nerves. If the athlete does not cope with them, then it does not matter how good his performances are. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 17, 2018 18:56:25 GMT
Another unexpected flash is the triple axel of Elizabeth Tuktamysheva. Lisa was not going to include the jump in the program - on Saturday she performed it only in training and warm-up, but the decision to risky, having performed an axel in public on Sunday, looked absolutely right. And it became the same stroke to the portrait, veiled in the words: "I'm ready to fight and I'm not afraid of anyone!"  "Alina, we believe in you!" - read the banner stretched along the rostrum of "Megasport". A similar banner, on which the name was listed, was hanging a little further away: the opposite part of the stands believed in Medvedeva. At such times you begin to understand how happy it is for a country when there are two such sportswomen in it, capable not only of assembling a full hall, but of making themselves admired even by those who are not ill for you.  It is not excluded that Zagitova and Medvedeva should stand apart from the rest for another year and not two. Of course, both of them are already much more difficult now than the others: each time, appearing in the same space, even at an event that does not mean anything, they are compelled to compete among themselves and thereby conduct an unceasing dispute for world domination. Not only that it is not easy physically (after all, at the sight of an opponent, any normal athlete begins to try to jump higher than his head), so psychologically, not everyone will stand every second's attention. Stumbled on the landing? Probably too worried! And somehow, the fact that the start of the season is not right at the beginning of the season is somehow not the time to be at the peak of the form, that hire is inherently the same training where mistakes and falls are permissible, and that " |
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Post by Admin on Sept 19, 2018 19:41:19 GMT
The main thing about Alina and Eugene was that they continue to perform. For several summer months, Zagitova has grown significantly. Perhaps the trainers of the figure skater went the most reasonable way, choosing for an arbitrary composition the ballet-classical "Carmen". Adapting to the changed body and the shifting center of gravity, Alina, most likely, will have throughout the season, and it's always better to do it in a familiar style frame.  Medvedeva, on the contrary, gave all her strength to appear in front of the fans in the new season to a stranger: with new coaches, unexpected performances, a new arrangement of jumps, a new style of riding, a new hairstyle and make-up. It was quite possible to make a sensation. In the skating of the two-time world champion appeared quite a different meaning, skating, jumping improved, internal freedom appeared. It was noticeable that Zhenya was not quite ready to physically cope with the tasks of an arbitrary program, but on this score her current coach Brian Orcher philosophically noted that the beginning of September was not the most suitable time for a skater to be in shape. Now with regard to these two skaters, you should expect rapid progress. Neither Zagitova nor Medvedeva has any other way out: although at the rentals they swam in the rays of spectator adoration much more than other women's category participants, there will not be an easy road to the main starts for either one or the other. |
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