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What I really meant here is that psychologically Anna's coach seems to be from a different world. You know, Anna is only 18 years old, but she has always been so so hard on herself in competitions. Technique is very important at the icerink, but any decent use of wisdom also plays a key role in your final results. To win the competitions or make the national team pushing yourself too hard can only be counter-productive most of the time, and besides, a sad and discontented look always on the face of a teenage girl in the K & C area just bores me to death!
You know what really bugs me about the discussion of Tsareva generally is that if she acted exactly how she acts now, but instead of being a relatively young, very attractive woman, she was an old man like most of the coaches, no one would say anything. And I know this because many of the older male coaches pretty much act exactly as she does- quite stoic in the K&C, don't touch their skaters, actually speak to their skaters less than Tsareva seems to speak to Anna in K&C, don't smile unless something truly amazing has happened and sometimes not even then- and no one ever comments about that. I actually think this is the largest example of unconscious sexism on this board by far. Compare her demeanor with Mishin's- it's really very similar but because he's an old man and a legend in the sport everyone just fawns over him (myself included, I love Mishin so much I made a fan fest for him, so this is no dig at him but just about how people talk about coaches demeanor). I mean for goodness sakes, just look at Mishin in the K&C after her 2015 WC short where Elizaveta landed a 3A- his expression is largely stone cold, he sits far from Elizaveta, doesn't talk to her, and shakes her hand when the score comes out https://youtu.be/BEyZ9rFYiFc?t=5m16s. If Tsareva acts the exact some way though she's somehow psychologically 'from a different world'? Give me a break.
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