Alina Zagitova
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In other happier news - Vanessa James posted an IG stories showing the giant bear that Garrett gave her and Morgan after the SP in the car with her. She said they were on their way to the Children's hospital in Vancouver. She said the bear had made her very happy after a tough SP and now it would make some children at the hospital very happy. She personally delivered it to the hospital!
I know this is off topic, but it just made my whole day better!
I know this is off topic, but it just made my whole day better!
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Thank you for sharing this cool and special story!!! I loved it.
And, bonus points and extra love for writing RussiaNuts.....that's the best nickname ever (way better than the short version RusNats that we use).
RussiaNuts it is!!!
Everyone should follow this person on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/mishubrunelo
They are super nice and tweet a lot about Alina.
And here is a great video supporting Alina! "I am not done."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1WZxAWJVIk
https://twitter.com/mishubrunelo
They are super nice and tweet a lot about Alina.
And here is a great video supporting Alina! "I am not done."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1WZxAWJVIk
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What he hell? her compatriots are attacking her again. Nyet not Irina too. Doesn't she have a daughter she should be protective of Alina not critical of her. But Irina had two chances to win an Olympic gold and screwed it up both times while Alina had one chance for gold and got it that probably bothers Irina.
Who is kostomrov? I am assuming a pairs man or dance man from years ago.
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Hummmm....quite a few thoughts......
To me Alina is still the favorite in every competition she enters, so far we only saw one clean and awesome SP followed by one clean and awesome FP from her (her 238 season best total) and that same FS was better at Japan Open just as the SP was better at Rostelecom. She needs to marry the two when she is going against Rika. And only Rika.
For the rest, all Juniors included, she is heads above them in scoring and will remain so for this whole season.
Hard thing is, because Figure Skating is a judge dependent event, scores don't travel that well around different competitions. Some judges might be repeated but the whole panel will be different. What happened at GPFinal across all disciplines can be a great comparison of that pool of skaters with the performances they were able to give there.
That said....it's pretty clear now that it will take the equivalent of a "figure skating nuclear arsenal" to get above Alina at the podium. And by that I mean a 3A+combo by a competent jumper that also has skating skills and ok spins or a well executed Quad by a Senior. Rika can do quads by the way, and, she said so herself, she has her sights on Beijing and she wants to win an Olympic Gold Medal, she is really playing a 3 year game. If Rika only did a single 3A in either program that would still require a flawless execution of that and Alina making mistakes to win against her, with the 3A+combo she has the reserve she needs.
To me Alina should be playing a short term "holding pattern game", going for her goals to skate clean (she has so far, not a single fall this season guys) and deliver the best possible outing of each one of these programs (her SP and her FS). It is my only big dream for her this season, that she can achieve that, the podium placement of this combination of performances is really not important to me.
She should take this time (this season) to further develop her skating skills, her spins, her execution of the step-sequence and all the nook and crannies that make up her PCS to advance it still and build sustainable skills that I know she has (we've seen it at shows). Watching her skate (immaterial of the jumps results) has been a great experience this year, she never lets go of her PCS goals even when jumps don't go her way, as she keeps at it it will get amazing, it's already a whole lot of awesome, watching everyone skate at seniors she is the only one that brings me joy to watch and the only one I could re-watch for hours on end. I also really like Satoko's performance, she is currently the other one I could re-watch, but the overall thing is I just like Alina's package better.
I am a fairly new skating fan, watched on and off for a few years in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, mostly Olympics and a few competitions when I passed them by as I was channel surfing in between those years, so I'm the kind of person the ISU is looking forward to add to their rank of fans. I'm an uneducated newbie.
ISU I have news for you: if Alina wasn't competing I wouldn't watch a single competition this year. Not a single one. I wouldn't sit home for it on a rainy snowy Sunday afternoon and I certainly wouldn't get up at 3am for it. I'd be back to YouTube video watching Yuzuru and Nathan performances only (like them both for different reasons), and if Satoko came up as an automatic suggestion to either one of those I'd watch her video. Thanks to Alina I met other Ladies I now like to watch alongside her, key here is alongside her (not in her place or when she isn't in the mix).
Japanese Channels are getting my money so I can watch Alina, ISU you would get my money too if you sold a worldwide pass (I travel too much for geo-restricted websites), I bought International Figure Skating magazines because of Alina. Alina can sell me two popsicles, an ice gel pack and a bikini in a frozen park the middle of winter.
So I hope Alina is also playing a "long term attack plan", and I'm sure from all evidence we have seen that she is playing it, this plan will include tackling harder tech. I feel crazy looking at someone doing two (count them, two) 3Lz combos in her FS and saying: hey, let's tackle harder tech. But "in it to win it" means that you have to keep pushing yourself to get as far into the tech as you can. Alina did that already, she is going to do it again. Sadly no rest for the weary.
And this weary choose to keep going. With a Gold Olympic medal already around her neck (the dream of everyone else in the field and what is pushing them, she already has), right on from an incredible season of daring feats and intense preparation she called upon herself to rise up to the plate again. ISU thank your lucky stars that she did because I'm sure there are many others like me out there that are watching, not even blinking, just for her.
Alina is Yuzuru material guys....in the making before our very eyes.
To me Alina is still the favorite in every competition she enters, so far we only saw one clean and awesome SP followed by one clean and awesome FP from her (her 238 season best total) and that same FS was better at Japan Open just as the SP was better at Rostelecom. She needs to marry the two when she is going against Rika. And only Rika.
For the rest, all Juniors included, she is heads above them in scoring and will remain so for this whole season.
Hard thing is, because Figure Skating is a judge dependent event, scores don't travel that well around different competitions. Some judges might be repeated but the whole panel will be different. What happened at GPFinal across all disciplines can be a great comparison of that pool of skaters with the performances they were able to give there.
That said....it's pretty clear now that it will take the equivalent of a "figure skating nuclear arsenal" to get above Alina at the podium. And by that I mean a 3A+combo by a competent jumper that also has skating skills and ok spins or a well executed Quad by a Senior. Rika can do quads by the way, and, she said so herself, she has her sights on Beijing and she wants to win an Olympic Gold Medal, she is really playing a 3 year game. If Rika only did a single 3A in either program that would still require a flawless execution of that and Alina making mistakes to win against her, with the 3A+combo she has the reserve she needs.
To me Alina should be playing a short term "holding pattern game", going for her goals to skate clean (she has so far, not a single fall this season guys) and deliver the best possible outing of each one of these programs (her SP and her FS). It is my only big dream for her this season, that she can achieve that, the podium placement of this combination of performances is really not important to me.
She should take this time (this season) to further develop her skating skills, her spins, her execution of the step-sequence and all the nook and crannies that make up her PCS to advance it still and build sustainable skills that I know she has (we've seen it at shows). Watching her skate (immaterial of the jumps results) has been a great experience this year, she never lets go of her PCS goals even when jumps don't go her way, as she keeps at it it will get amazing, it's already a whole lot of awesome, watching everyone skate at seniors she is the only one that brings me joy to watch and the only one I could re-watch for hours on end. I also really like Satoko's performance, she is currently the other one I could re-watch, but the overall thing is I just like Alina's package better.
I am a fairly new skating fan, watched on and off for a few years in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, mostly Olympics and a few competitions when I passed them by as I was channel surfing in between those years, so I'm the kind of person the ISU is looking forward to add to their rank of fans. I'm an uneducated newbie.
ISU I have news for you: if Alina wasn't competing I wouldn't watch a single competition this year. Not a single one. I wouldn't sit home for it on a rainy snowy Sunday afternoon and I certainly wouldn't get up at 3am for it. I'd be back to YouTube video watching Yuzuru and Nathan performances only (like them both for different reasons), and if Satoko came up as an automatic suggestion to either one of those I'd watch her video. Thanks to Alina I met other Ladies I now like to watch alongside her, key here is alongside her (not in her place or when she isn't in the mix).
Japanese Channels are getting my money so I can watch Alina, ISU you would get my money too if you sold a worldwide pass (I travel too much for geo-restricted websites), I bought International Figure Skating magazines because of Alina. Alina can sell me two popsicles, an ice gel pack and a bikini in a frozen park the middle of winter.
So I hope Alina is also playing a "long term attack plan", and I'm sure from all evidence we have seen that she is playing it, this plan will include tackling harder tech. I feel crazy looking at someone doing two (count them, two) 3Lz combos in her FS and saying: hey, let's tackle harder tech. But "in it to win it" means that you have to keep pushing yourself to get as far into the tech as you can. Alina did that already, she is going to do it again. Sadly no rest for the weary.
And this weary choose to keep going. With a Gold Olympic medal already around her neck (the dream of everyone else in the field and what is pushing them, she already has), right on from an incredible season of daring feats and intense preparation she called upon herself to rise up to the plate again. ISU thank your lucky stars that she did because I'm sure there are many others like me out there that are watching, not even blinking, just for her.
Alina is Yuzuru material guys....in the making before our very eyes.
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Alina about h..aters comments
What angers you the most in these comments?
- Angry, when I skate is not as good as everyone expects from me, and many begin to write -she is done, she cannot anymore. These are critics from home sofas. They just do not know who the athlete is. This is the same ,as I will comment on another sport without knowing it. They were not in my place, they are not involved in any sport, they do not know how hard it is to be a professional athlete, how difficult everything is at this level. I repeat: they have never been in my place and never will bedevil:
). And when I realize this, I thereby calm myself.
- Did not try to treat this hype with irony?
- I tried. Anyway, these things are sometimes angry me.But everyone in the world will not like you
She doesnt pull any punches. Lol Alinka brought her verbal hammer to the sofa idiots!
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2006 OG medalist in Ice Dance.
She seems like such a lovely lady full of sunshine. I was so happy to see her do so well in the free skate. Got to watch it in person, and the energy in the arena was incredible—absolutely the skate of the whole GPF and the only one I ended up rewatching later.
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Alina Zagitova along with Yuzuru Hanyu have been nominated for USSA Sports Awards!
You can vote multiple times. Vote!
http://ussa.edu/aomballot/
You can vote multiple times. Vote!
http://ussa.edu/aomballot/
No. It was after she got her gold. After the regular ceremony (with flags, anthem..) they have to prepare themselves for a media ceremony. It is like a photoshoot that they make that is known as ''official pictures of the medals ceremony'' They must be all in coats of their respective federations and must be caring their medals and it takes around 15/20 minutes to end. After that, they go directly to another kind of ceremony where they sings their signatures in a book, and after it they take more photos with some official members of the olympic committees, which takes around more 30 minutes...I think that the whole thing takes over 2 hours..In the middle of all that they have a press conference as well. It's crazy, believe me. So when she asked about the bathroom she was wearing a coat, so I truely believe that one of these ceremonies was about to start. I don't remember which one specifically but If i am not wrong the photoshoot session for the media.. I was like the babysitter of the bathroom that day. Really. I could't watch Alina's FS performance because one of the skaters asked me to take her as well. (I won't giver her name because I really hate that girl for that).
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Thank you.
A Japanese and Russian are hopefully on their way to winning a USSA Sports Award!
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I will show it to my daughter and ask her to vote. I always say that it is kind of a game and she votes constantly over hours
She is probably the guilty for all the VMA'S that Taylor Swift got in the past.
Swifties are the best fans ever! Second only to Alina fans!
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Maybe we can all chip in and buy her a "golden blade pin" to go with her win here - I already forgot the name of the pin (from Helsinki Press conf pin conspiracy).
Let's vote her into a US Awards!!! It is our mission and we choose to accept it.
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Swifties are the best fans ever! Second only to Alina fans!
The only "Swifty" I ever heard of was the mechanical rabbit at the Wonderland dog track.
....And there goes swifffffffteeee!
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from TeamZagitova....
Today on TBS channel there will be a program with Alina Zagitova! The broadcast starts at 13.00 by Moscow time.
link http://mov3.co/en/tbs/
twitter post....
https://twitter.com/teamzagitova/status/1072322418214092800
I wonder if this program will show the footage of her attempting the triple axel on the floor?
I think so.
It is on at 5:00am my time, so I'm going to hope it is posted to youtube afterwards.
Today on TBS channel there will be a program with Alina Zagitova! The broadcast starts at 13.00 by Moscow time.
link http://mov3.co/en/tbs/
twitter post....
https://twitter.com/teamzagitova/status/1072322418214092800
I wonder if this program will show the footage of her attempting the triple axel on the floor?
I think so.
It is on at 5:00am my time, so I'm going to hope it is posted to youtube afterwards.
I see a lot of crap Interviews about Alina here again so I thought I'd share a decent one my russian friend read today about Alina at GPF:
https://tass.ru/sport/5891725
(sry no translation, it would be worse than google
)
https://tass.ru/sport/5891725
(sry no translation, it would be worse than google
)
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Alina warm-up before the FS......jump rope power machine
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrNLLK7hCDc/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1gyo8vsvzoiwg
To quote lesnar001 from a post above: there goes swiiiiiifeeeeeeeee
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrNLLK7hCDc/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1gyo8vsvzoiwg
To quote lesnar001 from a post above: there goes swiiiiiifeeeeeeeee
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