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Some great news about Russian women!Veronika Zhilina, who was previously injured, plans to compete in the final of the Junior Grand Prix ("Match TV")
Вероника Жилина, ранее получившая травму, планирует выступить в финале юниорского Гран-при («Матч ТВ»)
Российская фигуристка Вероника Жилина планирует выступить в финале юниорского Гран-при в Осаке.
Great news!! I'm so happy that Veronika is recovering so well. One less athlete on the injured list is a good thing!
I thought it was just not skating internationally for 2 years. If you have to miss Nationals one time as well that's throwing a big monkey wrench into the whole transfer deal. But this should have been figured out in August when Maria went public with the transfer news.
This is an interesting idea. I still think we could have the traditional format but if I had money to burn I'd love to have an Open tournament with BIG cash prizes for top ten placements and an invitation for all to compete. And if Russian skaters fill every placement then good for them.
I think that's a flawed approach. Trusova is nothing if not inconsistent. She came out guns blazing at the test skates and then splatted all over Cranberry and watered down her program for SKAM. Yes, she won both competitions, but only because there was no serious competition for her there and she has not been seen since. She needs to show that she can hit it at consecutive competitions to prove that she is reliable.
now this will be interesting if Tuk does well in GPF but misses the Nationals podium but still goes to Euros anyways because one of the national medalist like say Akatieva is age ineligible for Euros, then Trusova is given a skate off with Tuk in Euros and ends up beating Tuk.
Why assume that Trusova will beat Tuk in a skateoff at Euros? If she is injured enough to not be ready, even with watered down content, at RusNats which is 8 weeks after SkAm, then I wouldn't bet on her being in the shape she needs to beat Tuk at Euros 3 weeks later.
They do this all the time. Only the winner of Nationals (assuming they are of eligible age) is guaranteed a spot to Euros/Worlds/Olympics. Otherwise they never name the Olympic or World team until after Europeans and/or the Russian Cup Final, assuming Europeans is held. And they were talking about Trusova missing the GPF, not Russian nationals. The GPF winner or participant is no guarantee of anything. See Tuk 2018. She missed nationals due to pneumonia, had a skate off with Medvedeva at the Russian cup and Med went to Worlds instead. It seemed like Worlds would be a lock for Liza all that season, except it wasn't. Mishin petitioned for her to get the spot and all they did was put her in a skate off (which I thought she won), but the judges didn't and Med went. And, that wasn't due to Tutberidze because she was with Orser at that point. If Nationals is a blow out like it was last year, then the top 3 will go. If not, then, it remains to be seen. Liza got lucky last year due to Valieva's age. That won't be the case this time.
If there are people out there who criticized Dasha, they shouldn't. However, such misplaced criticism, whereever it might be, shouldn't be used as an excuse to shield coaches from blame.Quote from the above article: "Honestly, I don’t understand when the same Dasha is strongly criticized, that she does not have quadruple jumps, triple axel, and then her coaches are attacked, that they overload someone, that they do not protect someone."
Just leaving that there...
ETA: Joking aside, the whole article is really worth reading, Stanislava has a lot of well thought-through opinions about her sport!
Sorry for being confusing. The point Simone is trying to make us that athletes are pushed by themselves and others, to compete when it is emotional and physically ill-advised.
Russian Fed is more interested in gold medals.
I don't think this will happen though. Only twice in history has RusFed sent someone to Euros that wasn't at Nationals. Volchkova in 2003 (had pneumonia during nationals) and Medvedeva in 2018.
Yes, Trusova is injured, but (a) there's no guarantee that she'll be fully healed by year end, and (b) she was all over the place last year too - was she injured there as well? And I say that as someone who is a big fan and would love to see her skate her Cruella program lights out and kick everyone's ass, but at the same time, can't ignore the patterns.
IIRC she was. Supposedly an ankle, but she also skated with a thigh very heavily taped most of the season, starting at Rostelecom and up until the Channel One cup event.
As Dai's Blues correctly supposed earlier, she's not talking about us
The article is (quite poorly) translated from Russian, and was intended primarily for domestic consumption. And the Russian public has Opinions. Most countries who aren't Russia would pay to have Daria on their NT.I didn't read Konstantinova as trying to "shield coaches from blame". She's pointing out the irony in saying that Usacheva should be expected to push herself and do 3As and quads during the Olympic season and that her coaches should also push her into doing that, but then shifting all the blame onto her coaches even though she wasn't attempting those jumps in the first place now that she's injured. You cannot have it both ways, where you are questioning why she didn't do any quads and was not pushing herself enough, and also blaming her coaches when she's injured for pushing herself. It's intended, I'm guessing, for the sports.ru troll fanbase. The translation is generally quite poor, as can be noticed in the sentence structure and unusual choice of words.
She announced her retirement a couple of months ago. It was discussed on FSU. (search or google it)
BOW? Reigning World bronze medalist. SkAm winner. ‘Nuf said.
Yes people are forgetting and they are holding the cranberry cup or whatever it was against her when Sasha had a broken freaking foot. It won't be broken by Europeans and she will be doing four quads by then and could even be a threat to the KaMissile by then.
