Alina Zagitova

[Finley]

Interesting to see another side of Alina. That‘s what she‘s gonna be once she‘s stopped skating: A coach! And I bet she‘ll be a great one! A bit softer than Eteri, I believe which isn‘t really a bad thing. Didn‘t she say somewhere that she wants to coach anyway, when her skating career is over?

I have never seen Sabina actually perform. How good is she? I‘m a bit worried for her, though. Having a bigger sister who‘s an OGM can‘t be easy, especially if you‘re in the same sports as she is. I mean, you‘ll always get compared to her, won‘t you? And people might expect great things and medals and stuff from Sabina because Alina got them and everything. I hope she continues to be happy with skating without additional pressure.

Here are some more quotes from the interview where Alina spoke about being a coach. Spoken like a coach's daughter. I'm happy she can see a future for herself after competitive skating. It sounds like she has a good perspective on it -

Zagitova disappeared in the locker room to go out for a few minutes on the ice as a coach. About forty children from the age of 5 to 8 years old - beginning figure skaters of a dozen Izhevsk sections and sports schools - gathered at the master class . Alina was assisted by Natalya Alekseevna Antipina and Larissa Gennadievna Sanina - her first coaches who gave her a strong start, taught her how to work at the limit of her strength, instilled the attitude to victories and defeats necessary for professional athletes.

Alina worked with children calmly and patiently, several times showing an ideal performance of the basic elements of the figure skating. With babies who could not cope with the change of legs, they worked individually. Constantly encouraged, let me believe that they are doing everything right.

- What is the main advice you give to all young athletes - not only those who came to your master class?

- The most important thing is to believe in yourself and love figure skating. It is generally to love one's business and not give up, if something is not right right now. In any success, the main thing is work. So you need to do more, train more. Make an effort, do not be disappointed if the task is not given easily.

- You very confidently held on as a coach.

"I was worried about how it would go." The work of the coach is very difficult (since my dad is a hockey coach, I knew this always). In our lesson, I focused on initial training, because correctly performing the basic movements is the most important for the starting athletes. If they make mistakes in the initial things, then they simply can not go to the next level.

- Do you see yourself as a coach after the completion (hopefully not soon) of a sports career?

- Yes, I want to become a coach in the to give his experience to athletes, to support, to inspire.

- You started the master class with the showing of your greeting from the trainer - an elegant "curtsey" with great, almost ballet, hand gestures. And they asked the children to finish their lesson with the same kind of gratitude and gratitude. For you, is the coach an absolute authority?

- Yes, otherwise there will be no result. The coach sees you from the side, critically marks your weaknesses - those that you will not turn to. The Olympics confirmed for me not only that you need to believe in yourself and continue to do your work.
I was convinced of another important things - you need to trust the coach. Do not argue with him, agree with everything
he offers. All the comments of my coach improved my skating, made the performance stronger.

- And what should be the relationship with the coach? You somehow said that at the beginning of the work with Eteri
Tutberidze they were afraid of her, and then relations became more friendly.

"It's not even fear." A coach can be a friend, a person you completely trust, but there must always be a distance. I spend
more time with the coach than with my relatives, to some extent she is like my mother, but this does not mean that I feel
treat myself with her as equals. This should not be. This is the correct subordination. Whatever success you as an athlete has achieved, the trader continues to educate you, form a champion of you.

 

[Fluture]

This is a small quote from an article in the newspaper www.udmpravda.ru about Alina's visit to Izhevsk, courtesy of Google translate -



Not quite sure what "under-trimming" is, clearly it is important to keep it 'up'!

Here are some more quotes from the interview where Alina spoke about being a coach. Spoken like a coach's daughter. I'm happy she can see a future for herself after competitive skating. It sounds like she has a good perspective on it -

Wow, haha, is she even 16 years old? She sounds incredibly mature, really. Quite extraordinary, I‘d say. She‘ll make a great coach.

 

[Scott512]

They are a lot to handle. If she was on her own I'd be really worried, but she has her grandmother. Her grandmother can help with things like vet appointments and trips to the groomers that have to be done during the week while Alina is training. (The amount of brushing that dog is going to require is no small thing!)

But as long as Masaru gets enough exercise and playtime to drain her excess 'puppy' energy things will be fine. Being an Olympic athlete at the highest level of fitness will come in very handy for Alina when it comes to tiring Masaru out

Alina did have an amazing debut season. None of us know what next season holds. We all want more and we all want to see her grow and realize her full potential. She is literally just getting started.

The most important thing is for her to stay injury free and physically and emotionally healthy. I think Masaru can actually help with that. She was lonely in Moscow living away from her family. Now she has an unending source of unconditional love and joy to take care of and love. Whatever down side comes with dog ownership will be outweighed by all the happiness a million times over.

All true.

 

[dante]

Zhenya is more popular in Russia, because of all her TV appearances. And she is definitely one of the most popular athletes in Russia. She can't challenge Sharapova, of course, but she's still a huge star, I would say. This month is a first time when the press started to pay attention to Alina.

Google search results:

                     Russian  English  Japanese
Yulia Lipnitskaya    885,000  335,000  162,000
Evgenia Medvedeva  1,600,000  741,000  192,000
Alina Zagitova     1,640,000  576,000  489,000

All queries were enclosed in quotes.

 

[Finley]

Google search results:

                   Russian    English
Yulia Lipnitskaya    885,000  335,000
Evgenia Medvedeva  1,600,000  741,000
Alina Zagitova     1,640,000  576,000

Wow. Her popularity is really growing in her home country. Overseas it still needs some work. I wonder about Japan?

 

[dante]

Added Japanese. The result is very strange, I guess state-level promotion has a much greater impact on media than national-wide love.

 

[lesnar001]

peek-a-boo

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjcwxHgjYE9/?hl=en&tagged=teamzagitova

 

[lesnar001]

very nice fan-art of Alina & Masaru :luv17:

https://twitter.com/BlueLion30739/status/1002208714240049153

 

[lesnar001]

Here are some more quotes from the interview where Alina spoke about being a coach. Spoken like a coach's daughter. I'm happy she can see a future for herself after competitive skating. It sounds like she has a good perspective on it -

Zagitova disappeared in the locker room to go out for a few minutes on the ice as a coach. About forty children from the age of 5 to 8 years old - beginning figure skaters of a dozen Izhevsk sections and sports schools - gathered at the master class . Alina was assisted by Natalya Alekseevna Antipina and Larissa Gennadievna Sanina - her first coaches who gave her a strong start, taught her how to work at the limit of her strength, instilled the attitude to victories and defeats necessary for professional athletes.

Alina worked with children calmly and patiently, several times showing an ideal performance of the basic elements of the figure skating. With babies who could not cope with the change of legs, they worked individually. Constantly encouraged, let me believe that they are doing everything right.

- What is the main advice you give to all young athletes - not only those who came to your master class?

- The most important thing is to believe in yourself and love figure skating. It is generally to love one's business and not give up, if something is not right right now. In any success, the main thing is work. So you need to do more, train more. Make an effort, do not be disappointed if the task is not given easily.

- You very confidently held on as a coach.

"I was worried about how it would go." The work of the coach is very difficult (since my dad is a hockey coach, I knew this always). In our lesson, I focused on initial training, because correctly performing the basic movements is the most important for the starting athletes. If they make mistakes in the initial things, then they simply can not go to the next level.

- Do you see yourself as a coach after the completion (hopefully not soon) of a sports career?

- Yes, I want to become a coach in the to give his experience to athletes, to support, to inspire.

- You started the master class with the showing of your greeting from the trainer - an elegant "curtsey" with great, almost ballet, hand gestures. And they asked the children to finish their lesson with the same kind of gratitude and gratitude. For you, is the coach an absolute authority?

- Yes, otherwise there will be no result. The coach sees you from the side, critically marks your weaknesses - those that you will not turn to. The Olympics confirmed for me not only that you need to believe in yourself and continue to do your work.
I was convinced of another important things - you need to trust the coach. Do not argue with him, agree with everything
he offers. All the comments of my coach improved my skating, made the performance stronger.

- And what should be the relationship with the coach? You somehow said that at the beginning of the work with Eteri
Tutberidze they were afraid of her, and then relations became more friendly.

"It's not even fear." A coach can be a friend, a person you completely trust, but there must always be a distance. I spend
more time with the coach than with my relatives, to some extent she is like my mother, but this does not mean that I feel
treat myself with her as equals. This should not be. This is the correct subordination. Whatever success you as an athlete has achieved, the trader continues to educate you, form a champion of you.

I remember being very impressed when right after her Olympic Gold Alina thanked the training facility in Japan that they used, and thanked her coaches for all they have done for her to be able to perform so well at the Olympics.

 

[lusk8]

Another blast from the past photo of Alina as Santa’s little helper (her Dad is Santa)

https://instagram.com/p/BiMvA-fjK1r/

 

[lusk8]

Here are some more quotes from the interview where Alina spoke about being a coach. Spoken like a coach's daughter. I'm happy she can see a future for herself after competitive skating. It sounds like she has a good perspective on it -

Finley thank you for the interview quotes [emoji772][emoji1319][emoji1319]

Alina’s wise beyond her years and I find the fact that she believes in hard work as the only way to be successful to be very inspiring. Having discipline is a major asset in any career.

 

[johnlawyer999]

Google search results:

                     Russian  English  Japanese
Yulia Lipnitskaya    885,000  335,000  162,000
Evgenia Medvedeva  1,600,000  741,000  192,000
Alina Zagitova     1,640,000  576,000  489,000

All queries were enclosed in quotes.

Great stuff, thanks. Alina is clear driving more flow.

 

[Fruitpie]

Google search results:

                     Russian  English  Japanese
Yulia Lipnitskaya    885,000  335,000  162,000
Evgenia Medvedeva  1,600,000  741,000  192,000
Alina Zagitova     1,640,000  576,000  489,000

All queries were enclosed in quotes.

Hmm, but Googletrends says otherwise, that the only Russian region where Alina is more popular than Zhenya is Udmurtia.
Either way, I'm glad that girls are popular, they deserved it. And Russia finally noticed her Olympic champion.

 

[dante]

Hmm, but Googletrends says otherwise, that the only Russian region where Alina is more popular than Zhenya is Udmurtia.

Not at all, here are the trends for the last 3 months in the world and in Russia (both are more or less even). Note that Zhenya shares her surname with the Prime Minister of Russia, so you should include her first name in the query.

 

[TheBallerina]

Alina at school [emoji3]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjeLJOPhYzx/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=2jxv4na5oafd

 

[loquinn]

Wow. Her popularity is really growing in her home country. Overseas it still needs some work. I wonder about Japan?

Added Japanese. The result is very strange, I guess state-level promotion has a much greater impact on media than national-wide love.

I checked the trends and the overseas trend is actually quite impressive. What was reflected here was only in English and when you look at the comparison per country (world) it would look like there's more red (Alina) than blue (Evgenia) granted she had Canada and Russia lol.
Not surprised about the Japan result at all.

 

[flanker]

Another blast from the past photo of Alina as Santa’s little helper (her Dad is Santa)

https://instagram.com/p/BiMvA-fjK1r/

That's not Santa, that's Ded Moroz (Father Frost)

 

[flanker]

Alina at school [emoji3]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjeLJOPhYzx/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=2jxv4na5oafd

By the way, is there any info how Alina managed school exams?

 

[TheBallerina]

By the way, is there any info how Alina managed school eaxams?

I've read that the results will be known only on 9-12 June. So we'll have to wait a little bit. But Alina said that she's prepared for the exams, so I trust her and I think she'll receive great marks

 

[hollyho]

I've read that the results will be known only on 9-12 June. So we'll have to wait a little bit. But Alina said that she's prepared for the exams, so I trust her and I think she'll receive great marks

She looks quite happy/relaxed in the photo so no stress!

Is her school right there in the same compound as the skating rink? I didn't realize!