Adelina Sotnikova

Thanks for the article. I don't like that she told her coach she was leaving via text. This coach has been with her from a child, been with her through her struggles and her highs and lows. She helped her to be Olympic Champion. The least Adelina could have done is sit down with her and talk and tell her she is leaving.

I would like Adelina to return to professional skating but I doubt she will, she might as well just do shows.

I think it is great that despite everything Buyanova didn't say anything bad about Adelina, which some coaches might have done.

Google translated:
Plushenko: Sotnikova plan for the Olympic season will depend on its recovery

On Friday it became known that the skater was not included in the list of participants of the Grand Prix of the season-2017/18

Plans for the Olympic Games in Sochi champion in figure skating Adelina Sotnikova can be discussed only after the final restoration after injury sustained in training. This Tass coach athletes double Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko.

"Some time ago Adeline received microtrauma in training, and while making plans early, it is necessary to wait for its full recovery - said Plushenko -. In part, this situation has caused her non-participation in the Grand Prix Once it is restored, we will work on.".
According to Plushenko, while the main task for the skater this season - September Control rentals that Figure Skating Federation of Russia holds in Sochi. "First of all, it needs to return to its former shape, I think that by June it must recover Control rentals in Sochi -.. The number one task we have started to put the program".

Sotnikova started cooperation with Plushenko in April this year.

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RemyRose said:

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Plushenko: Sotnikova plan for the Olympic season will depend on its recovery

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eh they should stop talking about this Olympic season and start thinking about the next..if she continues.

The latest on Adelina:

http://fs-gossips.com/plushenko-abo...decide-about-our-plans-in-the-next-two-weeks/

Note: Personally, I don't find Adelina's post "depressing".

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVSLI7HB8aJ/?taken-by=adelinasotnikova_2014 Adelina

Interview with Plushenko http://rsport.ru/figure_skating/20170618/1121876231.html

Sotnikova skater is going to act on the control rental in Sochi - Plushenko.

Olympic Champion 2014 in the women's figure skating Adelina Sotnikova plans to demonstrate the program of the season-2017/18 on the control skaters skating Russian team, said the agency "F-Sport" coach athletes Evgeni Plushenko.

Control rentals will be held on September 9-10 in Sochi. Figure Skating Federation of Russia (FFKKR) Sotnikova included in the reserve team of the national team for the new season. In April it became known that the skater has moved from coach Elena Buyanova to Plushenko, announced the commencement of coaching.

"Adelina has started training after injury and is ready to move on. We plan to pilot rentals Russian national team, where we have to show that our work appreciated Federation and experts. This is a must. It is all want to have time to make a full recovery and to come to Sochi in September to fully demonstrate short and free program This is my plan, and Adelina "plan, -. Plushenko said by telephone.

The coach spoke about the trauma that received Sotnikova at the beginning of working with him. "She had a small fracture in his foot, unfortunately, in the beginning of our work it has suffered ankle ligament - told Plushenko -. We have hardly begun to train, as it happened now, we are ready to believe in ourselves, but it is important to understand how. injury will respond to load If it turns out that it's all right with health, it will return to the national team and will perform at the highest level Adeline -.. big fellow, a great athlete and very clever. "

"If the injury hurt our plans a little preparation, we will still work and strive to perform at the rental desk in Sochi", - he added.

Plushenko did not rule out that Sotnikova will act in the next Olympic cycle.

"I do not want to run ahead and brag about the fact that we have all the fun We have difficult moments, because after an injury is always very difficult to recover Adeline -. To win the Olympic Games and return to the big fighter - it is very difficult Especially as her first... return did not work the way it was expected, but the story does not end here, and maybe we build plans for preparing for the next Olympic cycle, which will begin after Pyeongchang ", -. Plushenko said by telephone.

"Naturally, we focus on the Olympic Games in 2018, but by the need to make a lot of serious effort," - drew the attention of the trainer.

On the programs of the new season Sotnikova working with the Canadian choreographer Emanuel Sandhu. "Programs we have started to put a half months ago, the director and the short and long programs made by Emanuel Sandhu Unfortunately, injury has occurred and the setting process has been suspended, but Emanuel soon returned to Russia, and he and Adeline will continue to work..", - he has told the expert .

"Also, with Adelina operates another very good choreographer, whose name I do not mention, but which will affect the future adjustment programs - said Plushenko -. We are also for the job will invite specialists from classical ballet and modern dance, because it should not participate in the production of programs only skaters. "

Well at least she can train now. Hopefully she can go to Sochi in September.

Happy Birthday to Adelina, can't believe she is 21 already.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, Adelina! Don't listen to the nay-sayers - you just go out there and do your best! Good luck with the next season!

Maybe old news? But I just noticed Adelina is in the cast list for Mao's show "The Ice"

29-31 July in Osaka, 4-6 August in Nagoya...

She flied in Japan https://www.instagram.com/p/BW-aYP9hjem/?

https://twitter.com/00LT/status/890199399447511040

Broadcast of the Osaka show will air here https://mov3.co/en/fujitv/
Date July 29 at 4:00-5:25 pm JST which is about 3 am EST.

Adelina 'Scheherazade' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__SE5GITMq8

Pics
https://twitter.com/sn_figure/status/891225804742434816
https://twitter.com/sn_figure/status/891192409110978560
https://twitter.com/sn_figure/status/891209051886858240

So much wasn't shown. Hopefully we get the full show sometime soon.

RemyRose said:

Adelina 'Scheherazade' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__SE5GITMq8

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still remains the gold standard of spins and spirals :cool2:

RemyRose said:

Adelina 'Scheherazade' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__SE5GITMq8

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Thanks for the link. It's nice to see that she is skating and enjoying and making money.

Sotnikova will star in "Snow White on Ice" - a fairy tale on ice, staged by Peter Tchernyshev
October 29th
https://vk.com/wall-101976102_47781

New (really long) interview from Elena Buyanova:
"Sotnikova and I had to stop deceiving ourselves"
http://www.sport-express.ru/se-vele...nuzhno-bylo-perestat-sebya-obmanyvat-1297646/

Snippet, translated by TAHbKA on FSU:

EV: When the athlete makes a decision to switch coaches it is always preceded with the chill in the previous relationship, the drifting apart. Your pupil's move to Pluschenko was something you didn't expect, or deep down you know that's where things were going?
EB: Everything happens for a reason. I guess the first moment that hit me as a coach was Adelina's injury in 2015. Previously she never had any serious injuries. Ever. Sotnikova was always not only well disciplined and hard working, but well shaped - not a single weak spot in her body. The problems began after a pause in the training. Adelina was being invited to various events, I didn't mind but always repeated: you have to decide yourself what do you want. She always replied she wanted to skate.
As a coach I saw clearly what and how I can do with Adelina in the future. But a year later I noticed there things that were not really annoying me but...

EV: You wanted more clarity?
EB: First of all. You know what kind of regime an athlete has to keep to remain competitive. We, on the other hand, had a kind of a chaos. We decided together we needed to start competing at least in the B competitions, we created great programmes. Of course it was hard for Adelina. She gained weight. Not much, but it gave her back pains once she was training. Still, she was really working hard and wanted to compete. The `Ice Age' theme was not out of blue. I knew Sotnikova was offered to participate all the time and was offered a lot of money. More than that, we discussed it and I thought the decision was made. Remember you and I were talking about how hard it is for an Olympic champion to find the new motivation? I was thinking about it all the time back then. I was so happy when we submitted the plans for the new season after the September test skates: it was not me, but Adelina who voiced her will to skate and compete.
So we submitted the plans and literally a couple of days later, when we got back to Moscow from Sochi Adelina said she is joining the `Ice Age'. For me it was... the last stroke, I guess. You know, the limit of trust is a limit, because it has it's well, limits.

EV: Have you considered there was your fault as well? Perhaps you were not near your pupil at the moment when she needed you, didn't say the right words, were not harsh enough even?
EB: I did. That I probably should had pressed harder and be harsher. Yet I allowed the athlete do whatever she did and it was, of course, my fault. But I couldn't do it any differently - I saw how much Adelina was loving all that. For so many years she was deprived of the normal life or doing what she wanted. She is a good girl, so kind, compassionate. As once one of our coaches said - you can apply Sotnikova on the injuries and they will heal. Just you know how it happens: you set the goal, get there and then release a bit. It seems like nothing: you'll make a step back and you'll be back to the previous life. Just that it's not true.

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Full translated interview here Vaytsekhovskaya's interview with Buyanova `Sotnikova and I had to stop deceiving ourselves'