Adelina Sotnikova uber thread

That may be true about people who do sport recreationally, but I would think that elite skaters want to win. Obviously, some have better chances than others, so for some of them it is a distant dream whereas for others it is something to really aim for, but I don't think that at this level (with the effort and money they had to invest into their career) they are competing for the pleasure of being the star and having everyone's attention.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bKFhS0cQLE8 I am gonna win, I am gonna win....

I personally think that those that hate to lose, like Henie, Witt, and Lipinski, make the best competitors. Ito always was excited to show what she could do. Kristi always wanted to do her best ... Kwan delivered ... Slutskaya was a star.

I hope I will get to learn more about Adelina this time around.
 
Google translated articles:
Sotnikova said that this season is not thinking about winning, but about the quality of skating

Olympic champion in 2014 Figure Skating Adelina Sotnikova said that this season it is important not to win the tournament, and the quality of driving.

Sotnikova Sunday became the second in the tournament "Mordovia ornament" in Saransk.

"It is not my task to skate to win and I want to get a good skate," - said Sotnikova at a press conference to a question about the tasks for the season.

According to the figure skater, it did not matter what place it takes. "Progress is still there," - she said.

This athlete believes that should participate in the tournament, despite the impact of injuries. "In this situation, you need to work and earn program, in order not to fall down," - added Sotnikova.

Figure skater Sotnikova was not upset that lost Pogorilaya tournament in Saransk

Olympic champion 2014 Russian figure skater Adelina Sotnikova admitted that not upset the second place in the tournament series "Challenger" "Mordovia ornament", which takes place in Saransk.

Sotnikova, going in the first place after the short program, was the second in a long program and took the final second place with a score of 203.89 points, losing the top spot compatriot Anna Pogorilaya (214.07).

"This rolling - a rough draft. Train strength. And there is nothing to be upset," - he said Sotnikova told reporters.

She noted that skated in Saransk lightweight long program. "Actually, I should have been the other stages, but we did everything right not to go to minus - continued skater. - But here we have tried to complicate the program (from the previous tournament - Japan Open), I was not so jammed. A lot of work, but it made no one died. "

After unsuccessful jump athlete, she admitted, "I was able to collect himself and go on, do not give up and fight."

Sotnikova, who because of injuries missed almost all of last season, and before the September controls swept back injury, said that physically feels "more or less". "Back pain has not gone away, but to talk about it, I do not want to, because the more you say, the more it bothers - explained the Olympic champion. - It's okay."

Some podium pics:
http://m.vk.com/wall-13866659_29211

http://m.vk.com/wall-13866659_29248

http://m.vk.com/wall-13866659_29193

Victory ceremony http://m.vk.com/video-13866659_171412684?list=e683bcf25e8169ae77&from=wall-13866659_29188
 
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Google translated articles:
Sotnikova said that this season is not thinking about winning, but about the quality of skating

Olympic champion in 2014 Figure Skating Adelina Sotnikova said that this season it is important not to win the tournament, and the quality of driving.

Sotnikova Sunday became the second in the tournament "Mordovia ornament" in Saransk.

"It is not my task to skate to win and I want to get a good skate," - said Sotnikova at a press conference to a question about the tasks for the season.

According to the figure skater, it did not matter what place it takes. "Progress is still there," - she said.

This athlete believes that should participate in the tournament, despite the impact of injuries. "In this situation, you need to work and earn program, in order not to fall down," - added Sotnikova.

Figure skater Sotnikova was not upset that lost Pogorilaya tournament in Saransk

Olympic champion 2014 Russian figure skater Adelina Sotnikova admitted that not upset the second place in the tournament series "Challenger" "Mordovia ornament", which takes place in Saransk.

Sotnikova, going in the first place after the short program, was the second in a long program and took the final second place with a score of 203.89 points, losing the top spot compatriot Anna Pogorilaya (214.07).

"This rolling - a rough draft. Train strength. And there is nothing to be upset," - he said Sotnikova told reporters.

She noted that skated in Saransk lightweight long program. "Actually, I should have been the other stages, but we did everything right not to go to minus - continued skater. - But here we have tried to complicate the program (from the previous tournament - Japan Open), I was not so jammed. A lot of work, but it made no one died. "

After unsuccessful jump athlete, she admitted, "I was able to collect himself and go on, do not give up and fight."

Sotnikova, who because of injuries missed almost all of last season, and before the September controls swept back injury, said that physically feels "more or less" despite of the risks of losing so called Champion's cushions. "Back pain has not gone away, but to talk about it, I do not want to, because the more you say, the more it bothers - explained the Olympic champion. - It's okay."

Some podium pics:
http://m.vk.com/wall-13866659_29211

http://m.vk.com/wall-13866659_29248

http://m.vk.com/wall-13866659_29193

Victory ceremony http://m.vk.com/video-13866659_171412684?list=e683bcf25e8169ae77&from=wall-13866659_29188
How thoughtful/determined she says "this season is not thinking about winning, but about the quality of skating" despite of the risks of losing so called Champion's cushions! I'm always liking skaters of this type who aim at his/her own greatest height.
 
It is very inspiring to see such maturity and love for her sport, that she is facing so many challenges and continuing to compete. Thoughtful and determined indeed. This generation is not hesitating to worry about "risking" titles.

So frustrating to me, though, how this is so embraced in singles, but thought to be the kiss of death in ice dance. Ridiculous.
 
"Hooray, I'm back!" http://www.newizv.ru/sport/2015-10-...-po-figurnomu-kataniju-adelina-sotnikova.html (Google translated)

- Adeline, the beginning of the season more pleased or upset?
- I'm going out to start with positive emotions - this is important. After his first performances in Samara (on the stage of the Cup of Russia Sotnikova skated a long program. - "NO") train is on the rise. I feel that I really missed the competition.

- How much worried, going on the ice after the break?
- I can not say I felt some fear. But I have a whole year not fully competed and skill correctly configure itself in competitive conditions, anyway, quickly leaves. In training since we all gorgeous ride, we make it difficult stages, and when it comes to ski, suddenly ceased to understand what's happening to you. I even euphoria - Hurrah, I'm back! That is now trying to hold back his emotions, to not overwhelmed. Actually, I believe it is the most difficult thing - try not to jump above the head. Because I want to show all at once. And it should be more easy to relate to their return.

- Sami came to this conclusion or ...
- I work with professionals. And I think that there is a positive trend.

- In Saransk tribune met you deafeningly. What took the Japanese public, in front of which you made a little earlier?
- Very good. And skaters too. Everyone congratulated the return. Even Ashley Wagner (American athlete was one of those who put the victory in the Olympic Sochi Sotnikova questioned. - "NO") came up and said: "Adelina, congratulations with the first serious competition." Although, of course, Japan was more of a show event.

- Fourth place in Japan, the second in Saransk. No regrets, that is not the first?
- No. I understand that will not be simple. While in Japan, had jumped triple loop and a sheepskin coat, maybe it would have been higher. But let things go as is. Now first of all I want to recapture the form that I had a year ago. So calmly I refer to the fact that initially not all will turn out. I'm ready for it and have a right to make mistakes.

- Beaten question, without which lately can not do, if you talk with a representative of women's figure skating ...
- About a triple axel? Let's see ... I do not get hung this element. I restored what she did before the injury, and there will be a coach to think. You can in fact show not only difficult jumps, but sliding, make complex approaches, a lot of things coming up really. Look back at this season not just me alone. For example, Tatiana Volosozhar Maxim Trankovym ... In pair skating, too, because now the competition has grown, many try quadruple emissions quadruple twist. But if we are afraid of such an opponent, then why even go out onto the ice?

- Famous Japanese Mao Asada also is trying to come back, what do you think about that?
- I saw Mao in competitions in Japan. She congratulated me back, and I - it. Mao I admired since childhood, looked at her with wide eyes, as she had the time, we have been training with CSKA and Novogorske. Now Mao remains for me a great man. Her career also had ups and downs, the death of a mother is worth, but she was able to come back and perform at a high level. What she is trying again to resume a career, my great spur. I look at her and think she could, then, and I still should have. We have it, and it turns out the competition, and at the same time friendly such support.

- I saw how you were left in Samara surrounded you young skaters autographs right on boots with skates. Parents and then wrote in networks that now their children sleep with them in an embrace ...
- You know, I, too, are preserved autographs skating. I remember very well how to approach Plushenko, Yagudin, to Ira Slutskaya ... Perhaps that is why, when is now coming up to me, I try to pay attention to everything, not to offend anyone. At the same time I am experiencing an incredible feeling - looking at you with enthusiasm, eager to imitate you in everything, and most importantly, because they want to work, and on the ice. Creeps, to be honest.

- Time spent outside of the sport, you changed much?
- I feel very grown up. Outlook on life have changed, but so, probably, all with time going on.

- This is your life was in fact no less eventful than sport?
- When I realized that because of the injury will miss the season, it was very disappointing. In public, I, of course, his mood did not show, but in the evenings at home often gave way to tears. I was very supported by my family, and then coach. Elena Germanovna (Buyanova. - "NO") said, but, Adeline, you have a rare chance to just be themselves, to understand what you really need. And I realized that I was not a bit like the kind of life - on the couch. Even when I was completely captured "Dancing with the Stars", it is still drawn to the ice. Still, this is my world, and I really missed him.

- And the Olympics, this auspicious day of victory is still in memory?
- As if it was just yesterday. Until now, sometimes I am reviewing his performance in Sochi. I would like to remember those emotions. Here I think: I Was it all? ..

- You are completely abandoned social events?
- For me, the main thing now - sport. I try to visit only where the most interesting. Movie premieres, fashion shows, hair, makeup ... Everything that concerns the care of their appearance, and now, we can say, and I am interested from a professional standpoint. Not so long ago I opened a nail salon in Moscow. Initially, there were thoughts and desire to start another project - interior sports clothing, for example. But decided that the time is not yet.

- It is a foundation for the future?
- Of course. Why, when you have a name that does not promote the fact that you're interested and benefit others. Sport is not eternal, and your own business can be a source of income for the whole family. I do not exclude that in the future there will be work my mother or my sister, and I will be quiet for her. I wish that all who come to our salon, feel at home and went on the positive. Hence the name Be happy. We have a bright, cozy, very good master ... I do not want to brag, but we have it really good.

- All say that you are very cool ice was added to the slide and in artistic terms. Thanks to "Dancing With the Stars?"
- I myself feel it added. In Japan, I was approached and technical controller and the judge said that I really grew up in these components and programs they liked. I am, of course, it's great. I think there has developed together. And television projects played a role, and trainers, and my growing up ... It's a kid you coach and choreographer suggest: a hand here, a leg there, here faster, there slower. You do, but nothing if it does not feel. And when you have a girl, you have a young man, and the very perception of the world is already different. I even began to hear the music quite differently, learned to feel the rhythm. Maybe that's why every movement on the ice do with the soul. And, of course, it is very important when you are helping people. For example, Peter (Chernyshov. - "NO") brought a variety of music related to the rumba, samba and other incendiary Latina. Although when I thought about the future topics of the short program, at first very much wanted to take tango and even found a great song. But there were doubts: the theme is quite worn out, and seems to be arbitrary. Then Peter said: "Tango, if anything, we'll put in two days. Let's try the rumba and samba. " And somehow all at once I am gone, I liked it. The music is very catchy, sexy, passionate. But I did not want it to look like: pulled his shoulders - that's all the rumba. It was necessary to try to move the dance moves on the ice, which is not so easy, and that really helped Peter, who was present at our training Gleb Savchenko during "Dancing with the Stars."

- Skating have remained the same?
- Yes, I immediately decided that an arbitrary change, which we prepared for the last season, I will not. She has not been seen since. Only in the demonstrations, but it's not really something. I really like my current productions. In short I will try to make room, and in any want to the contrary, the audience watched her with bated breath.

- And if you try to formulate the problem in the current season, which I would like most of all - to win the national championship, the world of Europe?
- Return old Adeline ! It is most important.
 
Someone on FSO spoke with Buyanova and she said Adelina has a fever and is sick. So no injury.
 
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Practice and off ice pics, Rostelecom!!!

http://vk.com/feed?w=wall-13866659_29671
http://vk.com/adelina_sotnikova?w=wall-13866659_29668
http://vk.com/feed?w=wall-893193_57193
http://vk.com/adelina_sotnikova?w=wall-13866659_29667 (with Rippon/Radionova)
http://vk.com/feed?w=wall-24972370_129529 (Russian skaters group photo)

Russian video documentary
http://vk.com/adelina_sotnikova?w=wall-13866659_29656
Transmission channel "Match TV" tells the story of how Princess of Biryulёvo Adelina Sotnikova won the world figure skating.Which way the future champion had to go from the first step on the ice before the gold medals the highest standard; who helped her to stay on the road and no easy thanks to whom she went forward, even when he wanted to stop - this in the next forty minutes! The film contains footage from the family archive Sotnikova family. SUCH Adeline you have not seen)

Instagram vid (Rostelecom; just beginning of JSM)
http://vk.com/adelina_sotnikova?w=wall-13866659_29645

Official Rostelecom flyers
http://vk.com/adelina_sotnikova?w=wall-13866659_29621
http://vk.com/feed?z=photo-106595162_387349600/wall-893193_57038 (Russian skaters signed Adelina flyers)
http://vk.com/feed?w=wall-34659612_7239 9 (Radionova doing Adelina's pose in front of flyer)

Rostelecom preview vid (Adelina is at 3:46)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=235&v=8Fx6cJB3pDg


Good luck this weekend Adelina. Best wishes :cheer2::saint::cheer2:
 
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I love Adelina and have since the tiny 12 yo won her first Russian nationals. She's grown into a beautiful young woman. I think her stint on DWTS has really given her a sense of performance she didn't have before. It is my hope she can continue to overcome the back injury and go forward as, like Kostner before her, I think her best performances are yet to come as a mature adult skater.
 
I really like Sotnikova's skating but I must say she does not deserve to medal ahead of Polina Edmunds this weekend.
 
I really like Sotnikova's skating but I must say she does not deserve to medal ahead of Polina Edmunds this weekend.

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I completely disagree. Adelina is much faster, more polished, has better skating skills and is far more expressive. Polina's program is a snooze, she is slow and awkward, and underrotated a ton of jumps. If Polina had landed her jumps cleanly, I'd get your point, but she did not.
 
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I completely disagree. Adelina is much faster, more polished, has better skating skills and is far more expressive. Polina's program is a snooze, she is slow and awkward, and underrotated a ton of jumps. If Polina had landed her jumps cleanly, I'd get your point, but she did not.

Sotnikova had 2 downgrades, 1 pop and 1 fall - all VERY costly errors. Edmunds also had some URs but honestly I think many of them were overly harsh calls. Sotnikova deserved to be ahead on PCS, just like Edmunds deserved to be ahead on TES. It's a matter of how much better (you think) Sotnikova was. I gave her benefit of the doubt in the short, but felt overall Edmunds should be ahead.
 
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I completely disagree. Adelina is much faster, more polished, has better skating skills and is far more expressive. Polina's program is a snooze, she is slow and awkward, and underrotated a ton of jumps. If Polina had landed her jumps cleanly, I'd get your point, but she did not.

I thought it was judged fairly. Polina had higher TES, deservedly so, and Adelina had higher PCS, deservedly so. The FS scores among them were very close.
 
Olympic champion figure skater Adelina Sotnikova complicated program for the championship of Russia http://tass.ru/sport/2496582

Sochi Olympic champion figure skater Adelina Sotnikova complicated its program for the championship of Russia, and will test them in the tournament "Golden Spin", held in Zagreb.

"At the tournament in Zagreb Adeline will present the program, updated for the championship of Russia. While we try different options to be more difficult, because the competition is large, and therefore, it is necessary to reach up and do not be afraid to do something new - told Buyanova. -" Golden Spin" for us - the interim between the start of the main competitions of the season. So a tournament in Croatia for us - the stage of preparation for the championship of Russia."

How to tell the coach, to compete in Zagreb her ward came in a great fighting mood: "The mood is perfect - fighting. Let Adeline like taking the first steps, because it had not acted and it is difficult. Those who missed the season, or at least part of it knows what I mean. But every athlete, if he is essentially a true athlete, aims to show the best result. And the audience and judges see what they see. No one should worry about how much work is behind the result. There are no objective reasons or the possibility of failure."
 

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