Eteri Tutberidze’s message: past year, parents, skating.

hanca said:
How do you know that it started with Medvedeva’s departure? You don’t know what Tutberidze was doing to Medvedeva behind the scenes, so unless you were at the rink every day, you don’t really know when it started.
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Both you and I can only speak to what came out publicly. Speculations are just that, speculations.

We saw more than enough of speculations in the Mariah Bell vs. Eunsoo story.
 
Coquelicot14 said:
I thought it was evident, I guess not... it's cause and effect, if Medvedeva acted decently when she left, I would expect no negativity about her from Eteri following the fact. It started with her way of departure.
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Cause and effect can only be established when you have full facts of the "cause." All you have is your personal assumptions of guilt and innocence. Even if your worst accusations were true, there is there was no justification for disclosing a deeply personal conversation in order to publicly humiliate Medvedeva. None. The whole "she did it first" premise is very pre-kindergarden. But I digress...
 
Coquelicot14 said:
Both you and I can only speak to what came out publicly. Speculations are just that, speculations.

We saw more than enough of speculations in the Mariah Bell vs. Eunsoo story.
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But you are assigning blame to one oarty. You can’t do that without the knowledge of ALL the facts, not inly the ones that are known to public. You are speculating by believing that everything that happened between them is known to you. I doubt that you know everything.
 
hanca said:
But you are assigning blame to one oarty. You can’t do that without the knowledge of ALL the facts, not inly the ones that are known to public. You are speculating by believing that everything that happened between them is known to you. I doubt that you know everything.
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I am saying, we ALL can only speak with certainty to what is public.
I saw behavior on the part of Medvedeva that didn't sit well with me and am no longer her supporter, although I was at one time.

I am, also, appalled by the response of some posters to the Instagram posting discussing a personal struggle and tragedy.
 
Coquelicot14 said:
The insta post did none of that.

As for your earlier post, the insinuation of the conversation you are referring to was unsportsmanlike. Doesn't sound classy to me.
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You just proved my point. It was exactly as you said, the insinuation of "unsportsmanlike behavior"; thrown out there like it was nothing. Say the accusation is true. An18 year old girl lost her temper at the worst moment of her life, and said something stupid and petty. We all say dumb things in private, things that we regret. We just don't expect these things to be used it as a weapon against us. We fact that a 44 year old woman did use it as a weapon to retaliate against a teenage girl is petty, immature and utterly classless. No way to spin it otherwise.
 
Tinami Amori said:
No, she is different, she is much nicer and more helpful to her students than many coaches.
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:rofl::rofl::rofl::lol::lol::lol::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Tinami Amori said:
You heard wrong. Most students brought her flowers and said good bye properly. The media only covers those who “caused an issue”. To name one – Panenkova. There is foto and her own confirmation in an interview (in a video), available on request.
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I never said that he was the only one. I said that he was the only one about whom I'd heard, and he happened to be just the proof that even bringing flowers doesn't stop ET from flinging dirt to the back of the flower-bringer.

Tinami Amori said:
Eteri did not bad-mouth Pitkeev. As a coach she explained his issues, in defense of being accused of wrong-doing.
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And she was quite rightfully accused of wrong-doing. She pressed him to compete with the already injured back, and then tried to weasel out, saying that he had just being lazy.

Tinami Amori said:
You’re wrong.
Joint gift is given when the whole group completes the course/class/training. Mostly common in schools and kinder garten settings.
When it is one-on-one situation, the individual who leaves, says good-bye one-on-one.
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I'm not wrong, and you can't sell your lies to a person, who has finished school, graduated from a university and is now working at another university. Do I not know when and where students bring gifts to teachers? Yes, the most classical and traditional situation is giving a joint gift when finishing course/class/training. But a student transferring to another school/institute would hardly be running among his teachers giving them gifts)) He can, of course, give smth to a certain teacher to whom he feels special affection or respect, but, again, it's up to him, it's a goodwill gesture.
There can sometimes be some ugly situations - usually at schools, where teachers are more authoritative - when some b**ches purposefully press students to give them gifts, in return for decent treatment and marks, but come on... even when students and their parents put up with it, among themselves they would call it what it is - outright blackmailing. Have you brought up this point in order to show that Tutberidze is just of the same batch?

Tinami Amori said:
I am still convinced, that part of support for Medvedeva comes from the sentiment "if Medvedeva did something wrong in Russians'/Eteri's opinion, then she must have done something right.... because we know how bad/wrong those always are".
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Not all Russians are crazy Medvedeva-haters, thank you. There is a certain vociferous gang, but not as many as they try to seem, and, as we've seen at the RusNats, the sane Russian fans don't care a damn about this gang's agenda.

PS: By the way, personally I'm not Medvedeva's fan at all, I'm neutral to her.
 
Tinami Amori said:
No it is not a) trashing, or b) too bad.
it is best to speak out openly, instead of doing many sneaky gestures, spreading rumors, and involving others to attack your former coach, which Medvedeva and Co. has done and been doing.
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Medvedeva told you she’s been doing that? Do you have a recording of her saying that to you? Or you got it off some Uber anti Med fan site. Unless you have taped recordings it’s hearsay
 
Perky Shae Lynn said:
You just proved my point. It was exactly as you said, the insinuation of "unsportsmanlike behavior"; thrown out there like it was nothing. Say the accusation is true. An18 year old girl lost her temper at the worst moment of her life, and said something stupid and petty. We all say dumb things in private, things that we regret. We just don't expect these things to be used it as a weapon against us. We fact that a 44 year old woman did use it as a weapon to retaliate against a teenage girl is petty, immature and utterly classless. No way to spin it otherwise.
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18 years old is old enough to be responsible for what you say. If you say something, why should others cover for you?
She could have easily done damage control and said that it was a stupid thing to say. End of story.
 
hanca said:
But you are assigning blame to one oarty. You can’t do that without the knowledge of ALL the facts, not inly the ones that are known to public. You are speculating by believing that everything that happened between them is known to you. I doubt that you know everything.
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All facts are on video and in the press, in Medvedeva's own words.

Which for the past 3 years up to the last day of the Olympics was pretty much this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HdCU9pH-pQ
verbatim:
- tell me what kind of person Eteri Georgievna is?
- she is a very good human being, if you ask her, she is always ready to help you, extremely supportive, and unquestionably a great coach, a wonderful woman, very feminine, and i am confirm she deserves great respect.

.... and that is how it was for years, interview after interview... ridiculing those who spoke badly about Tutberidze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Uv_Ub77GY

... until she lost Gold.. and then in Kiss and Cry she said to Eteri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1lymUbvbbo
accusation: "You did everything to give Alina the winning SP and FS"
sarcasm: "Congratulations. you do now have an Olympic champion" (Alina, not me).
 
zoe111 said:
Medvedeva told you she’s been doing that? Do you have a recording of her saying that to you? Or you got it off some Uber anti Med fan site. Unless you have taped recordings it’s hearsay
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no..... an American site is good enough, for example, TSL, who is fed "rumors from Medvedeva" from TCC/Canada... by Doug Haw for example... want a link? :rofl:
 
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Coquelicot14 said:
18 years old is old enough to be responsible for what you say. If you say something, why should others cover for you?
She could have easily done damage control and said that it was a stupid thing to say. End of story.
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Why are you assuming that Eteri spoke the truth? And what's there to cover for? Covering for someone means intentionally concealing information you are asked to provide. Did someone ask Eteri to provide the content of private conversations? Did Medvedeva commit a crime and ask Eteri to cover for her? As far as the damage control goes: Medvedeva could have gone on a national TV and thrown a few accusations at Eteri, no? If she is such a terrible human, why wouldn't she spin a couple of things, use a couple of private conversations to make Eteri look bad? Wait, maybe she chose not to stoop to that level.

PS. 44 years old is old enough to be responsible for what you say. Eteri is only being judged on her own actions.
 
Tinami Amori said:
All facts are on video and in the press, in Medvedeva's own words.

Which for the past 3 years up to the last day of the Olympics was pretty much this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HdCU9pH-pQ
verbatim:
- tell me what kind of person Eteri Georgievna is?
- she is a very good human being, if you ask her, she is always ready to help you, extremely supportive, and unquestionably a great coach, a wonderful woman, very feminine, and i am confirm she deserves great respect.

.... and that is how it was for years, interview after interview... ridiculing those who spoke badly about Tutberidze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Uv_Ub77GY

... until she lost Gold.. and then in Kiss and Cry she said to Eteri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1lymUbvbbo
accusation: "You did everything to give Alina the winning SP and FS"
sarcasm: "Congratulations. you do now have an Olympic champion" (Alina, not me).
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I thought we already agreed that saying something nice about a person does not mean that the person didn’t emotionally abuse her. Especially when the person was in position of power towards her, so you wouldn’t really expect her to say anything bad about Tutberidze, would you? So what exactly do you think posting those links prove? Nothing.
 
hanca said:
I thought we already agreed that saying something nice about a person does not mean that the person didn’t emotionally abuse her.
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I never agreed. 11 years is a long time to be saying "how great my coach is".
Med did not accuse her of emotional abuse, EVER before or after.

Med had a capricious temper tantrum that Eteri gave 100% opportunity to win gold to both girls.

Medvedeva expected to be Eteri's priority and to hold Alina back, because she felt entitled.

If Alina, after messing up the first combo in FS, did not tack on the 2nd jump later in the programme, she would not have won, with that mistake.

Medvedeva would have won, and would be perfectly happy, even if she won because Alina made a mistake, and not because both skated their best and Medvedeva was better.

It was all about winning. The circumstances did not matter. She did not win - she got pissed and decided to kick the whole card house down.
 
Perky Shae Lynn said:
Why are you assuming that Eteri spoke the truth? And what's there to cover for? Covering for someone means intentionally concealing information you are asked to provide. Did someone ask Eteri to provide the content of private conversations? Did Medvedeva commit a crime and ask Eteri to cover for her? As far as the damage control goes: Medvedeva could have gone on a national TV and thrown a few accusations at Eteri, no? If she is such a terrible human, why wouldn't she spin a couple of things, use a couple of private conversations to make Eteri look bad? Wait, maybe she chose not to stoop to that level.

PS. 44 years old is old enough to be responsible for what you say. Eteri is only being judged on her own actions.
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Where do I say that Medvedeva is a horrible human being? I just don't like her behavior and am no longer her fan.
And, if you read this thread, there are plenty of examples of how her team certainly tried to make Eteri look bad.
 
Nobody knows Medvedeva for sure said any of that stuff about Alina. The video of the supposed you gave Alina enough to win does not show her saying those words. So why keep spreading the rumors when false. And why are grown adults hating on a child? Seems unhealthy from Coach and obsessed fans. I hope Medvedeva has body guards
 
Tinami Amori said:
I never agreed. 11 years is a long time to be saying "how great my coach is".
Med did not accuse her of emotional abuse, EVER before or after.

Med had a capricious temper tantrum that Eteri gave 100% opportunity to win gold to both girls.

Medvedeva expected to be Eteri's priority and to hold Alina back, because she felt entitled.

If Alina, after messing up the first combo in FS, did not tack on the 2nd jump later in the programme, she would not have won, with that mistake.

Medvedeva would have won, and would be perfectly happy, even if she won because Alina made a mistake, and not because both skated their best and Medvedeva was better.

It was all about winning. The circumstances did not matter. She did not win - she got pissed and decided to kick the whole card house down.
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Imaginative.
 
Coquelicot14 said:
The insta post did none of that.

As for your earlier post, the insinuation of the conversation you are referring to was unsportsmanlike. Doesn't sound classy to me.
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Are you referring to the alleged Zagitova quote? Because Med denied that a long time ago. Keep up and all that :rolleyes:

I am continuously amazed that people insist they know what went on behind closed doors.
 
Tinami Amori said:
All facts are on video and in the press, in Medvedeva's own words.

Which for the past 3 years up to the last day of the Olympics was pretty much this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HdCU9pH-pQ
verbatim:
- tell me what kind of person Eteri Georgievna is?
- she is a very good human being, if you ask her, she is always ready to help you, extremely supportive, and unquestionably a great coach, a wonderful woman, very feminine, and i am confirm she deserves great respect.

.... and that is how it was for years, interview after interview... ridiculing those who spoke badly about Tutberidze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Uv_Ub77GY

... until she lost Gold.. and then in Kiss and Cry she said to Eteri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1lymUbvbbo
accusation: "You did everything to give Alina the winning SP and FS"
sarcasm: "Congratulations. you do now have an Olympic champion" (Alina, not me).
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Oh, did she really say these? It's nothing..According to the bunch of experts of child abusing here Med didn't know what she was saying about (as the other pupils, too). She didn't know that she was abused then thus she defended Eteri. These intelligent! words just a 16 y.o. abused child's dream about that person who didn't gave her water, and gave her to eat powder. Eteri could do it because Dudakov and Daniil abused the younger girls in the group. Dudakov forced Trusova and Scherbakova to land quads he didn't care about their healthy despite they didn't want to do quads. During these Daniil made the awful choreographies and laughed at the children.

Eteri doesn't deserve a little sympathy at all because of her tragedies. The sarcasm and the laugh is welcomed at her story.
 
:argue: Probably both Evgenia and Eteri both had sharp colorful and inappropriate words for each other, both being apparently hot blooded and competitive :argue:
 
Tinami Amori said:
no..... an American site is good enough, for example, TSL, who is fed "rumors from Medvedeva" from TCC/Canada... by Doug Haw for example... want a link? :rofl:
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My point exactly!! LOL. Trash talk shows and sites, sources who told someone who told someone else who told someone else. Right up there with The National Enquirer. I have no dog in the discussion on Eteri to be honest as I don’t know her so no opinion. I liked Med with Eteri, I’m fine with where she is now. I like Kostornaia and Trusova and they skate with Eteri. Where Med trains and why she chooses where she trains is none of my business. Or yours for that matter. You’ve absolutely no idea what went down in the final months with Eteri except what Eteri has publicly said. Yet apparently for you a bunch of gossip sites saying stuff about someone they’ve never spoken to in person are true and what Eteri said ‘in public’ is irrelevant. You quote gossip sites and make up interpretations from video that Med has denied and other Russian speakers say is incorrect. Seriously, your picking on the personalities of these kids (one of whom is still with Eteri) with clearly hours and hours of internet trolling is quite frankly bizarre
 
Is the whole conversation just one person parroting the same argument over and over again and the others trying to reason with that person? Pathetic.
 
bardtoob said:
because TSL is the video blog version of a clown car.
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it's good enough for TCC's staff to leak them info, for Duhamel to join them and "rag on russians", and for other top skaters and coaches to participate in live-casts.

bardtoob said:
:argue: Probably both Evgenia and Eteri both had sharp colorful and inappropriate words for each other, both being apparently hot blooded and competitive :argue:
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That conversation will never be known... i am sure.

On the other hand, "hard core profanities" for skating kids as young as 6-7 years old, at russian rinks, are all over their own IG "stories", and other live videos they post about themselves, with out shame... Like we say in Russia - "my ears are welting" when i hear how they talk in those videos.
 
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zoe111 said:
That is actually quite funny!😁
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I don't think David Lease, Brian Orser, Megan Duhamel, Dave Haw, Jenny Kirk, Richaud, Arytunyan, Misha Ge, Meissner, and many other top names in skating, would find it funny to be contributing to and members of the "clown car"..:rofl:
 
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