Can someone please translate this TAT's interview ?
https://rsport.ria.ru/20190822/1557800673.html
This was just an excerpt from another interview, but here is my take at it:
Tat'yana Tarasova: at the Olympic Games, Medvyedeva carried out her orders
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elena Vaitsekhovskaya visited Tat'yana Tarasova and found out from the legendary trainer why Eteri Tutberidze feels with strength and confidence that she is on the right path, what Kamila Valiyeva is capable of and why, about this crazy competition in Russian women's skating, wether Alina Zagitova and Yevgeniya Medvyedeva will be able to qualify for the national team.
Q: Your student, Ilya Kulik, was the first to win the Olympics with a quad jump. Alexei Yagudin in 2002 jumped two quadruples. In Pyeongchang, Nathan Chen did six such jumps. You don't feel that in comparison with modern times, the previous men's skating was somehow completely insignificant in terms of complexity?
A: At that time we were pioneers. After all, it doesn’t happen that today you only do triple jumps, and from tomorrow on all the quads. Yagudin and I tried a quadruple flip, there is even an American video of this jump. There simply wasn’t this necessity - to learn another jump. Two triple Axels, one in the cascade and two quadruples, one in the cascade, this was the maximum that allowed you to win. In terms of complexity each new generation adds something of its own. Now, from childhood on, complex elements are wound up. When was it that children at those very young ages even jumped all the triples?
Q: Is it good or bad?
A: I think this is good.
Q: But what about the endless talk of how very dangerous it is to overload a child?
A: The paradox is that for children, multi-turn jumps are not a load, but a kind of game. They are light. If you are trained with the proper technique there is no difference in twisting two turns, three, or four. Take Lisa Tuktamysheva. She learned her triple Axel in her childhood. Then for some time she lost this jump, then she found it again, successfully jumping it. But it is impossible to find back what you never learned.
Q: By the way, it seems to me somewhat illogical that the girls in the group of Alexei Mishin (which has no equal in the world) do not master the quadruple jumps, but they do in the group of Tutberidze where in many ways it seems like touch-and-go.
A: Eteri feels with strength and confidence in herself that she is on the right track. And besides, she has a very good selection and a very strong coaching staff. Parents from all over the country take their children to her group, as they once brought Yuliya Lipnitskaya - in this regard, in Moscow it is still somewhat easier than in Sankt Peterburg. And these children have a different threshold. I myself saw at recent skates how Kamila Valiyeva went out and delivered a quad Toeloop in her free program with the height of a quintuple. At such a height it allows her to add another turn to the jump. It really was something. Firstly, I was shocked by the child’s ability to jump like that. Secondly, I see behind this a properly delivered systematic approach. Any system, even if it is somewhere imperfect, still gives a result.
Q: Now they talk a lot about the fact that Alina Zagitova, who doesn't have a triple Axel or a quadruple jump in her arsenal, can fall into the position of a person for whom it will become problematic to get into the national team, competing with athletes of her own group.
A: I don't think so. Because Alina's level of skill, skating, interpretation of programs will not allow (the judges) to go low on the second assessment (GOE scores).
Q: The same, probably, can be said about Yevgeniya Medvyedeva? Indeed, in terms of skating, she doesn't loose to Zagitova?
A: Does not lose. I don’t know if she will learn the Lutz-Rittberger, but this is not too fundamental: she does a Salchow-Rittberger, and does it very well. It’s a pity that she didn’t jump this at the Olympics.
Q: She, as far as we know, wanted to.
A: Yes, I know that too. But she obeyed what was prescribed to her. Of course, on a sore leg, this would be a risk, perhaps unjustified. Plus, her spine was still very out of order, speaking between us. Such nonsense, right?
Now I see that Medvyedeva has become even better at sliding. I saw how she works with Brian Orser, how she worked alone when she came back to Moscow. But with those unguided performances in demonstration and exhibitions it is necessary to quit, in my opinion. I know that Zhenya stages these numbers for herself by herself, and that’s no good. Each exhibition number should open something new in you. After all, it should contain some surprises: a concept, new elements, new approaches, new choreography.
A full interview with Tat'yana Tarasova about why she continues to believe in Kseniya Stolbova, why Adelina Sotnikova and Yuliya Lipnitskaya failed to do what Alina Zagitova did, and why the coach must be fully responsible for each of her students, you can read on the rsport website. ria.ru on friday.
