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I want to pick that quote, because I think it shows how distorted the reality can be for an athlete / famous person.
Evgenia isn't polarizing at all. She's a nice, dedicated young lady. I think she has loads of support, very few haters and the majority of the fans "only" like her. And that's quite normal imo.
She was asked about social media comments (she reads them). 50% is probably to high but "very few haters" is also not true.
The fact is she is not really "coming back", because she did not disappear or was really defeated. Olympic silver is nothing but glory, and she did not disappear for a season or two.
She can state she needs improvement but she could appear a little more confident. When Wagner switched coaches, it was all about reinventing her jumps and improvement, but somehow she managed to make everything appear so positive for her and made the impression she was getting even better, from an already pretty good herself. Evegnia, on the other hand, made the impression she needs to learn from scratch... Judges awarded her with huge PCS and very good technical scores in the past three years, now she is hinting they were not good, or not good enough... If I were a judge, how would I feel?
Now you said you need some serous work yourself (and no particular goal of getting gold or anything like that) I really need to think hard before giving out those huge PCS.
She is coming back from an injury what took her four month of the ice. As mentioned in the interview, they are working on the lutz and on the axel, which should be the first step if she wants to have a chanche in the future and to upgrade her BV.
PCS judging has nothing to do with an interview and it´s true, she needs to work on herself. (strengthening her body after an injury+ more muscle, working on her jump technique).