The thing is one has nothing to do with the other. I am a person that does mourn for Kamila. I believe the adults in her life told her what to do and then threw her under the bus with that ridiculous lie about her grandfather. Zhulin should be condemning them. Why should Alysa even be part of this conversation? Also he was so slutty in the 90’s. Blech.Alexander Zhulin: “It’s hard to accept that Liu is an Olympic champion, but Valieva is not.”
Alexander Zhulin stated that he cannot call Alysa Liu the strongest figure skater in the world.fs-gossips.com
Maybe we should have two categories for gold: one with grandpa's backwash, one without!
I’ve been reading about the kindness of Urmanov and the fact that he has been working away from the most popular facilities. I also understand Mikhail got next to nothing from his own federation though they are certainly gifting him now. Urmanov apparently didn’t get paid at times and Mikhail was in broken down skates for extended periods of time. I’m happy for him now.
I think all of the Russian girls at Sambo70 were victims. Much like the East German swimmers.
I sincerely hope that figure skating has really moved away from being enamored with the Eteri-style of skating. There’s more to skating than tiny uber-rotated jumps and overheard arms and flailing legs, and watching the Russian national champ (sorry, can’t recall her name right now) made me grit my teeth. I also felt so bad for her as it was clear that she was skating with the weight of Russia on her shoulders.Oh, Alexander Viacheslavovich, go have yourself a Valieva cocktail and stop whining.
Alysa Liu won, and the reigning Russian National Champion finished off the podium.
I'll take the Alysa Liu of today over thirteen year-old Alysa. There's more to figure skating than those jumps. I doubt that Alysa cares one bit about what Zhulin thinks.
I watched a translated show about diet and Anna was the guest with a host who liked hearing his own voice too much. And Anna was forthright and mentioned she would weigh herself dozens of times everyday—I think she said 60–and pare down the calories based on her weight from hour to hour. What bothered me was that the panel didn’t seem that concerned and in the comments section there was praise. It was disheartening.
I feel like the very term "ultra C" plays into the Russian approach - like it's something above and beyond. It's just elements. Difficult, sure, but not in a category of their own!
I remember watching her live in Vegas at Skate America and being shocked at how painfully skinny she looked in person. Seeing her later on TV and in photos from that event she just looked slender, but to me there was nothing healthy about her appearance in the arena. She sure was hitting her quad jumps that week, though. Back home and reading the discussion here, I noted that other people said her parents were there in the audience, so presumably the family was aware of her status.
He was probably thinking of Kamila's Team Event FS. BTW, I just looked up that protocol and the revised version only has her elements listed now: https://results.isu.org/results/sea...------FNL-0002LD--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf
Her TE FS was indeed very strong, but I didn't get the impression he was talking about the TE as he said he doesn't consider Liu the strongest skater in the world. If he was including the TE he could have said it's hard to accept that Karen Chen is an Olympic gold medalist and Valieva isn't, and the sentiment would be quite understandable.
