Well, now we all know, with 100% certainty, that you haven't watched ALL of the RDs from Russian Nats. I can assure you, they were NOT the worst or least polished, by a long stretch. Ermakova/Panteleev were miles away the winners of that dubious honor - like 1990s-era US ice dance outside of the top 2-3.
This is what happens when one already has an opinion formulated, and in this case, one that is because of nothing said team actually did. Seeing how the competition ended with 13 teams and one of which struggled through their entire free dance to finish 9th in that portion.... Also, they were 5th at Junior Worlds in 2020. Not last season. There was not much of a junior season last year for anyone.
Rules???????? Putin poisons his opposition. Animal urine was substituted for drug tests in Sochi. All that counts is winning. Eteri is getting pats on the head for her inhumanity.
OMG.A translated interview posted by Figure Skating Gossips:
Eteri Tutberidze: “I don’t control their diet. I weigh them. Not even me personally, I just ask to send me the numbers.”
Eteri Tutberidze about the importance of the diet and skaters' parents.fs-gossips.com
No, no, no and nyet! This is exactly how people develop the obsession that leads to an ED.
She really should have become a dominatrix instead of a coach.
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Are you misreading maybe?
when she's been following her daughter around, working closely with Igor, and even doing both of D/S makeup during Russian nationals is really something else.
That can't possibly be correct!?
Okay but it's not quite as extreme as height in cm - 127 cm because it says:No it is. It's the standard ballet schools and figure skating coaches use.
Here is a chart the Vaganova Academy uses:
Vaganova Ballet Academy height/weight requirement
For those of you, who ever wondered about this... This document is from VBA website. Top table is girls height/weigh requirement, the bottom one is boys. The column on the left indicates the height...melmoth.blog
Students who cannot make the weight are expelled.
What hypocrisy.. she is not coaching her daughter full time.?
Well neither was the mother who sat with her daughter in the lobby who skipped warm up because her legs get too tired
In fairness though she is a coach herself and a former ice dancer. It’s not the same as a parent who doesn’t know much about skating.
I wasn't referring to the warm-up story but to her story about forbidding Zagitova's mother from living in Moscow and the general notion of having no connection to the parents of her students. She is coaching minors and is responsible for their physical and mental well-being, her attitude is messed up and completely hypocritcal considering the level of her closeness and involvement in her own child's life and career.
I don’t agree with forbidding Zagitovas mother.
My 8th grade US History teacher didn't let me have water in class either. Pretty sure she was meaner. The extra water prevented me form memorizing the 50 state capitals you see. It happens everywhere. Nothing to see here.As for what Eteri says my guess is she is saying the skaters are weighed daily and she only allows for a weight fluctuation of 200-300 grams. Anything outside that and I guess the girls have to "stop drinking water" immediately
Pffffft... you mother clearly wasn't doing her job when you were in elementary school then if you didn't have the 50 states and their capitals memorized before fifth grade! /I might be a geography and history nerd, descended from two history/geography nerds, lol.My 8th grade US History teacher didn't let me have water in class either. Pretty sure she was meaner. The extra water prevented me form memorizing the 50 state capitals you see. It happens everywhere. Nothing to see here.
