I always want to ask if somebody knows something about her.Because i didn't see her since 2007 wolds and no news since then!:|
From what I heard she got married and earlier this year had a baby.
Here is Elena's most famous performance, winning the silver medal at 2003 Worlds. (Dick Button and Peggy Fleming weren't entirely thrilled, but the judges gave her a lot of 5.9's for both technical and presentation.)
She did 7 triples including an opening triple Lutz/ triple toe, with a great edge on the Lutz. She almost beat Michelle Kwan for the championship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbIKXBwb670
If we are going to make threads for the russian ladies, can we also make one for Maria Butyrskaya pretty please And Irina also. I wanna learn how their nourriture is going.
*Underrotated Triple Toe on the end of that Triple Lutz (underrotated in the SP as well). I think Sokolova has executed a sufficiently rotated 3-3 only once in her whole competitive career (2004 Euros). The rest would have been downgraded.
She really wasn't close to winning. Her technical marks, with an extra triple over Kwan, averaged out to be the same (although she got more 5.9's) and her presentation marks were far lower. The performance was clearly not as artistic or emotionally inspired and the basic skating ability was clearly much lower. She basically just won the Russian judge.
If we are going to make threads for the russian ladies, can we also make one for Maria Butyrskaya pretty please And Irina also. I wanna learn how their nourriture is going.
Again, they were reincarnated in the form of teenagers.
Irina Slutskaya --> Polina Shelepen
Maria Butyrskaya --> Ksenia Makarova
I had read somewhere she (Irina) is expecting a second baby maybe?