Olympic channel video on Medvedeva's next chapter

[ChiquitaBanana]

https://youtu.be/uqKETRY4WdM

Enjoy!

 

[Rock2]

Mad respect to her English language skills.
She's going to be fully bilingual after a year or two of living in Toronto, no doubt.

I was similarly impressed with Luba. Her vocabularly is insane; in media I thought she showed more of a range in English than a lot of our own skaters. Evgenia is headed in this direction.

 

[aftershocks]

^^ Yes, young people who learn more than one language at young ages tend to easily pick up new languages they are exposed to on a regular basis. It's not unusual for Europeans to speak five languages.

It's cool to see Evgenia stoked about growing and blossoming further in her skating career. This video sure makes Toronto seem like an exciting place to be for a talented, determined and amibitious young lady. But I think we've already learned that from seeing after-the-fact how Meghan Markle's career took off in Toronto, which led directly to her being blessed with unexpected advantages and opportunities. Some have termed Markle's trajectory to becoming Duchess of Sussex a fairytale. In reality, success always takes guts, hard work, hard choices, luck, knowing what you want, meeting the right people at the right time, and above all: fearlessness. And we've already seen all of these qualities and circumstances play out for Evgenia.

I know Evgenia was so heartbroken in Pyeongchang, but I'm happy for her that she didn't win the OGM too soon. It's always the journey that matters more than the destination, because that's where the growth occurs and the possibilities manifest.

 

[Perky Shae Lynn]

I know Evgenia was so heartbroken in Pyeongchang, but I'm happy for her that she didn't win the OGM too soon. It's always the journey that matters more than the destination, because that's where the growth occurs and the possibilities manifest.

I feel exactly the same. Medvedeva will benefit tremendously from not winning that gold. It made her more sympathetic, exponentially more known to casual fans (it'd be much less of a story had she won), and took her in a really exciting new direction.

 

[DreamSkates]

Well yes journeys matter, but when you are a world class competitor, the gold medal is the goal whenever it is won, as early as the competitor comes to the level of having a win realistically possible.

 

[Perky Shae Lynn]

Well yes journeys matter, but when you are a world class competitor, the gold medal is the goal whenever it is won, as early as the competitor comes to the level of having a win realistically possible.

It's true of course. But we are looking at a bigger picture: personal development of a young woman. Which will ultimately matter much more than a gold medal.

 

[aftershocks]

Well yes journeys matter, but when you are a world class competitor, the gold medal is the goal whenever it is won, as early as the competitor comes to the level of having a win realistically possible.

The gold medal is actually the icing on the cake. Sure for skaters OGM is the ultimate goal, yet out of reach for most. It pays to realize that the gold medal is not possible without the journey coming first. If by chance the gold medal comes quickly ahead of substantive testing ups-and-downs on one's journey, then things are actually somewhat happening in reverse and may become more complicated. Just ask Oksana Baiul, Adelina Sotnikova, and the latest young phenom, Alina Zagitova.

Tara Lipinski was rather lucky in winning OGM in 1998. If she hadn't won in Nagano, her career likely would have ended with perhaps an Olympic silver rather than a gold because of her injuries which required hip replacement. Possibly with determination and grit Tara still might have continued forward after Nagano (had she not won OGM) and maybe she would have been able to mature in her skating, but the odds were against her continuing a competitive career, healthwise. Certainly, the journey is different for everyone. Witness Michelle Kwan and Aliona Savchenko.

 

[nimi]

Daleman on Med coming to train with her at TCC (the clip is from a longer YT Q&A she did): https://twitter.com/tegomass/status/1003040713746116608

Janny tweets in response:

Watched @gabby_daleman Q&A. I can say only one thing: blessed to train with persons, whom you respect and they are giving respect to you too, cuz respect, is the most important thing in our sport.

 

[moebius]

Med's journey may well be like MK's, never obtaining the elusive OGM.

 

[bardtoob]

Awww . . . Med seems very sweet.