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Yulia Lipnitskaya

sjid said:
http://vk.com/wall243068906_170 This will give you a notion of what I'm talking about. Eteri mirrors every movement on the ice, as if she is physically connected to Yulia. Like an exotic dance of two intensely focused partners. Eteri and Yulia are one. Notice Eteri analyzing the performance immediately after it ends, rubbing her nose. Exactly like Yulia, as when Yulia often glides off the final pose, already deep in thought about her performance, rubbing her nose!
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Here is a video link that someone posted of Eteri watching Yulia skating SL at the Sochi Team Event - do we call this Body Russian (instead of Body English)? Also, as some of the comments point out, Ksenia Stolbova (middle of top row directly behind Eteri) rises up with each of Yulia's jumps.
 
^ Thanks for a great, heart-warming video. Body Russian indeed! This is what can happen when two deeply compatible people have grown together over 6 years. I hope this lays to rest for all time the tabloid nonsense about Eteri and Yulia. Her dedication and belief in Yulia is inestimable.
 
Did you notice that Ashley Wagner and Jason Brown were applauding as much as anyone? I've seen this so many times and I can see the whole program in my head so I know what they are responding to as I am sure others here can too :laugh: but my favorite is when Plushy screams out to Yulia as she goes by and does her last spiral. :laugh:
 
Sam-Skwantch said:
Did you notice that Ashley Wagner and Jason Brown were applauding as much as anyone? I've seen this so many times and I can see the whole program in my head so I know what they are responding to as I am sure others here can too :laugh: but my favorite is when Plushy screams out to Yulia as she goes by and does her last spiral. :laugh:
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I had one eye on Ashley because she has always supported Yulia in interviews. She described Yulia's maturity as "A 40-year-old woman in the body of a 15-year-old girl." Watching this, it's clear she meant every word.
 
There was a piece on the Olympics in RT's 2014 retrospective today. Yulia was the only athlete mentioned, "Yulia Lipnitskaya leaped and pirouetted her way to figure skating gold. The performance won her millions of world-wide fans."
 
There was a pre New Year TV show about the Russian athletes who won gold in Sochi. The part on Lipnitskaia was very warm hearted. I do not think there is a concentrated wish to push her or Eteri out. She will overcome "her demons" this year and will be once again who she truly is: the brightest star on the bright sky of the Russian ladies' figure skating.
 
[email protected] said:
There was a pre New Year TV show about the Russian athletes who won gold in Sochi. The part on Lipnitskaia was very warm hearted. I do not think there is a concentrated wish to push her or Eteri out. She will overcome "her demons" this year and will be once again who she truly is: the brightest star on the bright sky of the Russian ladies' figure skating.
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Hear, hear. :cheer2:
 
Happy New Years to everyone~ Hopefully a new year, a new start! :rock:
 
[email protected] said:
There was a pre New Year TV show about the Russian athletes who won gold in Sochi. The part on Lipnitskaia was very warm hearted. I do not think there is a concentrated wish to push her or Eteri out. She will overcome "her demons" this year and will be once again who she truly is: the brightest star on the bright sky of the Russian ladies' figure skating.
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i would like to see them attempt to define how the demons work, or at least when they don't work. The demons have been specialized. They don't show up for SP and in practices, they appear only for R&J performance. The danger for the future is that she could skate her next program perfectly in practice for months, then fail in competition. Anything they can do to determine whether this is specific to R&J will help her overcome her "skater's block." For example, if she were to prepare a FP that she likes and wants to skate, say Mulan, reasonably well before the last competition of this season, then she could enter just to see if the same problems follow her when competing with a program other than R&J.
 
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