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- Feb 26, 2014
When Irina first came back after her illness she was on very heavy dosages of steroids and her skating was sluggish in the beginning. Her doctors gradually weaned her off the drugs and her skating got stronger, even better than before she became ill. But sometimes she would begin to have symptoms of her illness again and the dosage would have to increase again, and you'd see that in her performances. Her 2006 Olympic performance wasn't one of her best, and may have been affected by a higher dose of steroids than usual.
Yes, I remember that. Her performance in 2005 was very good though. Although you could see that by the end she was exhausted.
I might be wrong but I sometimes had the feeling that even the music choice of her programs didn't help.
I don't know but they were too heavy and she needed a lot of energy to follow those music and perform. :think: