Russian women news & updates, 2021-22 season

[hanca]

Feels a bit racy for an under age girl.

Seriously? She will be 18 in two months. Do you feel those two months will make such a huge difference?

 

[PRlady]

They and all Mishin skaters are doing plushenko's show. They have to pay Bill's someway

Can’t blame them for that or for Plushenko being a turd. If they’re not used for propaganda, I won’t attack them for making a living.

 

[Cachoo]

Meanwhile….

https://twitter.com/fs_gossips/status/1512021029941567498?s=21&t=Hu2SVMxWQETFHS4UcnuPGg

What is this??

Kind of reminds me of "Flashdance"

 

[Frau Muller]

Meanwhile….

https://twitter.com/fs_gossips/status/1512021029941567498?s=21&t=Hu2SVMxWQETFHS4UcnuPGg

What is this??

Trusova in a NY State of Mind, LOL! Looks like a big Brooklyn Bridge on the wall. I hope that she can leave Russia, if that’s her choice.

 

[karmena]

Meanwhile….

https://twitter.com/fs_gossips/status/1512021029941567498?s=21&t=Hu2SVMxWQETFHS4UcnuPGg

What is this??

... Trusova's new workout routine; creativity

 

[soogar]

Not looking good for Aliona K. She seems like she is blacklisted.

“While the work is going on. For now I monitor. It doesn’t mean that I took her.” Buyanova about working with Alena Kostornaia

Elena Buyanova spoke about working with Alena Kostornaia.

fs-gossips.com

 

[Cachoo]

Not looking good for Aliona K. She seems like she is blacklisted.

“While the work is going on. For now I monitor. It doesn’t mean that I took her.” Buyanova about working with Alena Kostornaia

Elena Buyanova spoke about working with Alena Kostornaia.

fs-gossips.com

Orser! Orser! I think she might love Canada.

 

[rfisher]

Orser! Orser! I think she might love Canada.

She's too busy doing make up tutorials on tiktoc to move to Canada

 

[soogar]

She's too busy doing make up tutorials on tiktoc to move to Canada

She probably doesn't have enough money to go to Canada. That's why she's doing those tutorials- trying to keep followers and some sponsorship. I really feel for her. A few impulsive decisions as a teenager (and she is still one) and she's still paying for it.

 

[kwanfan1818]

She's too busy doing make up tutorials on tiktoc to move to Canada

We have the internet here, you know.

 

[hanca]

Not looking good for Aliona K. She seems like she is blacklisted.

“While the work is going on. For now I monitor. It doesn’t mean that I took her.” Buyanova about working with Alena Kostornaia

Elena Buyanova spoke about working with Alena Kostornaia.

fs-gossips.com

Kostornaya has been working with her for a few months. If she still doesn’t feel certain that she will take her on, it suggest to me that Kostornaya did not impress her, but Buyanova doesn’t want to give up on her yet. I don’t think Kostornaya is blacklisted. It is possible that there are some problems with her motivation.

 

[PRlady]

Aliona seems to want to be a star, not a skater. It does make me appreciate Anna, who all these years kept her head down and worked hard and showed up when it counted.

 

[skategal]

We have the internet here, you know.

Shhh don’t tell all our secrets.

Next everyone will want to come…

 

[Cachoo]

Aliona seems to want to be a star, not a skater. It does make me appreciate Anna, who all these years kept her head down and worked hard and showed up when it counted.

Happy for Anna....LOVE what Aliona has to offer if she wants to keep skating. She's one of the IT skaters to me and they don't appear that often.

 

[alj5]

What about Anna Levandi (Kondrashova) in Tallinn?
She's got both Eva-Lotta and her son Arlet, both of whom have had lovely programs from Benoit Richaud.
And Tallinn has got to be less expensive than Toronto (or Irvine if she came to Raf), and a lot more convenient for family.

 

[DreamSkates]

Kind of reminds me of "Flashdance"

Writhing on the floor like Zagitova in her after-Olympics exhibition program. In a tiger-striped onsie.

 

[starrynight]

Now that we have some more insight into what went on at Sambo 70 - drugging children and goodness knows what else, I don’t think it’s fair to point fingers or criticise at a skater who left and seems to be suffering from a lack of motivation. Who even knows what Kostornaya was faced with?

And with Russia likely out of international competition for years, there wouldn’t be much to be motivated to train for anyway.

 

[Wyliefan]

Exactly. Kids react in different ways to abuse. Some are compliant, some act out. It says nothing about their character, only about their way of coping.

 

[TAHbKA]

Samodelkina switched to Sokolovskaya (from Davydov) according to Samokhvalov

 

[Ananas Astra]

Sokolovskaya's group is getting quite crowded these days.
First Kolesnikov who left Eteri, now Samodelkina.
Mark's results this season must've been a huge boost.

 

[pointbleu]

Samodelkina switched to Sokolovskaya (from Davydov) according to Samokhvalov

Do we have a confirmation somewhere?

 

[ChelleC]

Do we have a confirmation somewhere?

There was confirmation in the Russian press.

 

[Sylvia]

Andrey Simonenko's April 13th article:

Трансфер, который не ждали: почему топ-фигуристка России сменила тренера

Корреспондент РИА Новости Спорт оценивает перспективы серебряной медалистки чемпионата России среди юниоров Софьи Самоделкиной после ее перехода в группу... РИА Новости Спорт, 13.04.2022

rsport.ria.ru

Machine translated excerpt:

So, the main transition of the Russian off-season that started after the First Channel Cup at the moment: Sofya Samodelkina, one of the most promising young figure skaters in Russia, without changing the capital's army club, leaves the group of Sergey Davydov for the group of Svetlana Sokolovskaya. In the near future, the transfer should be formalized.
At the moment, there have been no official confirmations from the parties, which is understandable: the change of coach becomes a fait accompli after approval by the executive committee of the federation. But Samodelkina has already begun cooperation with the new mentor, so you can speculate about the reason for such a step on the part of the 15-year-old figure skater. I emphasize: only speculate, because only the athlete herself knows the true motives for the desire to make this transition.
It’s worth noting right away: according to my information, Samodelkina has no conflict with Davydov. It can only be about sports motives. And they, it seems to me, are clear enough.

 

[TAHbKA]

An interview with Kostornaya
She has all her jumps back (nothing about the 3A though) she will increase the content every competition, perhaps something cool at the end.
She is not yet in the top shape. First she broke her right arm and was in a cast for 8 weeks, then the left and the same. Then switched to Buyanova, started working on things and getting the 3/3 combos back. It was not good or consistent, but worked. That was a Friday, on a Saturday she had a day off and on Monday she was not feeling well and got a positive соvid test. So she was out for 2 weeks with the fever and took all the allowed pill she could, but nothing helped. She felt bad.
The agreement with Buyanova is to try out and see whether they can work together or not. First of all the question is to Kostornaya - is she willing to really work.
The next season programmes: the SP is something she never skated to before - it's something old yet something new. A well known piece but a new one. The LP is her `usual' stuff, but not Vivaldi who she loves, but needs to move on.
Plan is to compete till the next Olympics. Her mom jokes that in 40 years from now she'll be a volunteer, run to the K&C and shout `Mom, I'm here!'
There were a lot of competitions where she was not ready, or with the new programmes but she went out there and skated. Though she was told `let's withdraw'. For example the Russian cup final, where the SP didn't really work, the LP more or less. Rudkovskaya told her she is not healthy enough for it and the Russian cup final is not worth it. Kostornaya didn't want to stop because she would not be overcome herself later, but should she compete now it would be easier later.
She is not reading what people write about her on the internet.
About the coaching switches: `Team Tutberidze and I parted our ways, it was a mutual decision. It's not that I was mean to someone and was kicked out. And it's not that I told the coaches they were not good enough and I didn't want to work with them anymore. Of course not. I think the athletes and the coaches deserve to be respected. It was our team work. But after thinking of the situation we decided we took all we could from the collaboration and it was time. We spoke calmly'
She didn't bring flowers, but she brought a basket of fruits.

https://www.sport-express.ru/figure...38289-vla1-3918-vla-l7-balancer-8080-BAL-3285

 

[rfisher]

I brought flowers to my hair stylist on my last appointment before I move away. He was delighted when I explained the Russian custom. He said he was going to tell everybody he knew about this.

 

[Sylvia]

TASS published an interview with Kostornaia on April 18: https://tass.ru/interviews/14399707
- Alena, you started working with Elena Germanovna Buyanova. But so far, you are not officially in her group. What are the official agreements at this stage?

- This is the agreement - I understand for myself whether I want to continue skating, training. Uncertainty in our business is meaningless. Now we are working to understand whether it is comfortable for us to cooperate, what we can do together, whether something good can come of it. Everything will be decided before the beginning of May.

 

[Spikefan]

Anna Shcherbakova was just in tonight’s ice show in Krasnoyarsk; therefore, not in quarantine. Not sure what this means but hopefully that she doesn’t have to meet with Putin.

 

[Lilia A]

Anna Shcherbakova was just in tonight’s ice show in Krasnoyarsk; therefore, not in quarantine. Not sure what this means but hopefully that she doesn’t have to meet with Putin.

She can't now since it's required to quarantine for 10 days because god forbid Putin catches a sniffle. I'm sure she must be totally devastated about not having the great honor to meet with his excellency /s
Seriously though, however she managed to get out of that meeting (agreement, refusal, emergency quarantine break, etc), good for her and more power to her.

 

[Ananas Astra]

I brought flowers to my hair stylist on my last appointment before I move away. He was delighted when I explained the Russian custom. He said he was going to tell everybody he knew about this.

We also brought flowers and chocolate to our coach (who is Polish, btw) when we quit skating. My Russian dad insisted on it because that's "come il faut" and I have to admit it was a nice way to say goodbye to competitive skating, although I returned as a coach later.

 

[Wyliefan]

Seriously though, however she managed to get out of that meeting (agreement, refusal, emergency quarantine break, etc), good for her and more power to her.

Amen!