Oh God poor Anna.I hope it's nothing too bad and she can get back to training soon I'm the one hundred percent by Nationals. Everyone is just so beaten up by this year what a mess what a disaster what a tragedy. Sometimes I think some of these great athletes should just take two season off and then come back next year and see if things are better.
It could be worse for Anna this could have happened right before Nationals Europeans worlds or Olympics.
It's also unfathomable to think that no EG girls are at this Grand Prix. She could have really used Alina this season especially after the departures of Sasha and aliona.
Funny to think if Alina competed and skated like she did at GPF last December, she would be right in there.
I always find Liza's movement on ice fascinating. The way she carries herself (most noticably her arms) she sometimes looks like a beginner that just started, moving so carefully so she doesn't trip and fall. She always looks like she's concentrating real hard. It's why to me she never looks like she's "in the zone" regardless of how easy she sometimes makes her jumps look.
True about the illness.In theory, people are not supposed to go anywhere if they show any symptoms of YKW, so it could really be that she just has a minor cold, but because it's technically "symptoms" she's not allowed to attend - even though, under normal circumstances, a skater would probably skate unless the symptoms were very severe. I am not sure how strict the Russian fed is being though, given that Samodurova skated the SP at test skates with a temperature.
It is pretty wild that Eteri has no lady at Cup of RUSSIA. When I first read that I was like "no, she has Trus... I mean Kost... oh wow, she really doesn't."
Why is she third though? Elizaveta fell and had only 3-2 combination.
Trusova's 3A<< fall = 0.65 points.
So many people here talk about the great jump technique that Tuktamysheva has, but if her technique was so great, she wouldn’t have to constantly double her triples. I don’t remember when it was the last time I saw her skate a program with the full amount of triples - seven triples FS (in her case she could actually do eight triples FS because she has triple axel). There is always one of two jump that is doubled and we have six triples FS. Or is it lack of mathematical education (hers and Mishin’s) that they don’t understand that she needs to do all her triples?
If I remember correctly it was 2019 season she had some clean triples programs though? My mind is kind of a mess now. The whole thing seems like happened from a long time ago.
Her technique may look better, but it's not optimal physics wise. She doesn't use her arms enough. I would like to add I do not advocate the extreme arm usage that many of Eteri's students use. Additionally, she likely gets in her head a lot. I have seen skaters who have consistently perfect jumps and then **** up when they're competing. It's not very unusual, but sports are as much mental as they are physical. If you can't handle it, you shouldn't be regarded as the best.
Sure, but she makes the mistakes every competition.
She had clean triples programs, but how many triples there actually was? So either she is aiming at six triples programs, or she is doubling jumps. Doing six triples when she is allowed eight is stupid, so my only guess must be that she doubles it accidentally.
So then while she has the physical aspect down the mental aspect is not there! It never really has been that much. I remember her first jr GP season! Doing bad in short programs every time
At the last nationals, she had four jumps in the FS underrotated. Will you attribute that to her mental aspects too, or is it possible that while her jumps actually look pretty, her technique probably isn’t “the best in the world”, as some posters here think? I don’t deny that Mishin is very likely one of the best, if not the best, jump technician in the world. But that doesn’t mean that every student of his has the best jump technique. Look at Samodurova!
I don't really know. But it will be settled tomorrow and any one of the three can win it.
that Ladies can't do quads in the SP.
I'm certain the Russian fed. did petition the ISU to allow it a season or two ago although I don't see any indication it will happen any time soon. Maybe if Alysa Liu is able to keep hers after puberty and Rika unleashes her (she's still practicing it right?) the USFSA and Japanese will support it and then perhaps it will happen but I don't see the ISU changing the rule when only the Russians are petitioning for it.I'm no fan of Trusova's, but it makes me
That’s strange as she is really not an urer! I would have to watch that again and maybe get into some controversial topics
I don’t believe the judges marked four underrotations unfairly. She did try the quad toe and 3A, so there it is understandable that things may not have worked out and resulted in underrotating. But she also underrotated 3F and 3Lo. I know you will say things can go wrong, but for a skater with ‘the best technique in the world’, surely that shouldn’t happen? Or, maybe, she actually doesn’t have the best technique. It is her coach’s name that makes people believe she does...
The rules will change eventually. The more ladies can do quads, the more push will be to change it. Russia is doing their part, it would help if there were a few more from the USA and Japan.I'm no fan of Trusova's, but it makes me
The universe really kicking a girl while she's down.
Sorry for Zhenya. I was thinking the same thing about Anna. I hope she doesn't have covid-19 but if she does it's easier for athletes or so it seems to get over covid than it is to get over pneumonia or bronchitis.
The program is such a miss-fit for them, they don't have the attitude to sell that kind of dance. The token fast part was embarrassing and the slow part was dull. But maybe it's injuries but it just doesn't sit on them well, IMHO. Oh well.
