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Alena Kostornaia

Doesn't the fox represent cunning? :biggrin:

:otopic: Yes but so much more... a super attractive young woman with joy and spirit is a “fox”;
they are survivors, great hunters, and look after their young with great tenderness and care.
We have a family of foxes on our farm that we see every day!! Thus my avatar..

https://youtu.be/D2SoGHFM18I

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Have seen it x times, but always worth seeing. Here from a different perspective.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE9lQmyJun4/?igshid=1u8ez1fkrs6cf

That's one of the highlights of last season and
any recent season. The evil angel just ate that up and so did Alina and Bell. Let's just hope we have some competitions this year but I don't know how they're going to award medals and certainly the presenters won't be kissing the skaters anytime soon again.

Test skates should be interesting but it's just the beginning of a new beginning for Aliona. I sure hope she has or will get all her jumps back if she doesn't have them all back already. These Gators really had a tough offseason.
 
That was a challenging piece of music for Aliona to skate to, and I think she pulled it off. Bit shaky in places, but considering how new the programme is to her, that's to be expected, and she'll polish it with more time. Ina Bauer into 2A is back and beautiful as ever, and the step sequence is on fire. She draws the eye when she skates, definitely has charisma as a performer, so when she has had a little more time with the programme, and we get to see it at the Russian Cup, I am going to be squeeing with excitement.

Also, I did love how she came out to support Sasha at the end. These girls are good sports and have really heartwarming camaraderie, especially considering the intense competition in their field.
 
https://rsport.ria.ru/amp/20200912/kostornaya-1577145219.html?__twitter_impression=true

MOSCOW, September 12 - RIA Novosti, Anatoly Samokhvalov. The 2020 European champion in women's single skating Alena Kostornaya said that she was offended by the publication on Instagram of the former coach Eteri Tutberidze after she left to Evgeni Plushenko.
Test skates of the Russian national team are held on September 12-13 in Moscow. Kostornaya moved from Tutberidze to Plushenko in the offseason. Tutberidze reported the incident by publishing a post on Instagram.
"Immediately after I called Eteri Georgievna, there were many calls. I believe that if a person left, then there were reasons. Posting on Instagram is a shame. If you want to say something, then express it in your eyes." Kostornaya told reporters.
“It was exciting at the skates,” the figure skater admitted. “Probably most of all, when I did my hair. But then everything came to naught. As if by hand, she walked and knew what to do. Everything is new, everything is different, we have never worked at competitions with Evgeny Viktorovich. This is the first time, it was somehow uncomfortable, unusual. I got used to tune in a different way. In myself, no one touches. And now they tell me that you do this, that, that ".
Kostornaya noted that Plushenko has "a radically different approach" than Tutberidze's. "A calmer approach in my new team. We did all the same, but even when after the general physical training I did not succeed, no one chased me, did not swear," - said the skater.
Speaking about working in the Tutberidze group, Kostornaya noted that "people like me, Anya Shcherbakova, Kamila Valieva cannot ride with children born in 2010". "The girls are adults. I told the coaches that there are already 8 of us, a crazy pace in training, and take children who are not used to it there (wrong). They went out and did not understand what to do. It annoyed me. I said , which is so very inconvenient. But there was no reaction. I decided to leave on July 17, before the second training session, "said Kostornaya.
"I called Sergei Aleksandrovich (Rozanov), asked if there was a possibility. He said that this was a very unexpected decision and asked me to think about it. A couple of days later I said that I had thought and decided, they began to organize a moment with the transition. Music (staged by Tutberidze ) I liked the free program, but in some places I didn’t like the short program. I didn’t like the short program, I said that I don’t feel it. My opinion was taken into account, but not always, ”concluded Kostornaya.- via google translate

Can anyone translate the article correctly?
 
definitely has charisma as a performer

I think Charisma is thw word I use the most talking of her.

The first thing I did coming back from my motorbike trip was searching for her performance.
I missed her skating so much I was really moved seeing here.
I wonder how the program will change to allow more difficulties: could she really do Inna bauer into 3A?

had to clean up myself and go out.
I will rewatch Aliona and watch some other supergirl when I'll be back home again.
 
https://rsport.ria.ru/amp/20200912/kostornaya-1577145219.html?__twitter_impression=true

MOSCOW, September 12 - RIA Novosti, Anatoly Samokhvalov. The 2020 European champion in women's single skating Alena Kostornaya said that she was offended by the publication on Instagram of the former coach Eteri Tutberidze after she left to Evgeni Plushenko.
Test skates of the Russian national team are held on September 12-13 in Moscow. Kostornaya moved from Tutberidze to Plushenko in the offseason. Tutberidze reported the incident by publishing a post on Instagram.
"Immediately after I called Eteri Georgievna, there were many calls. I believe that if a person left, then there were reasons. Posting on Instagram is a shame. If you want to say something, then express it in your eyes." Kostornaya told reporters.
“It was exciting at the skates,” the figure skater admitted. “Probably most of all, when I did my hair. But then everything came to naught. As if by hand, she walked and knew what to do. Everything is new, everything is different, we have never worked at competitions with Evgeny Viktorovich. This is the first time, it was somehow uncomfortable, unusual. I got used to tune in a different way. In myself, no one touches. And now they tell me that you do this, that, that ".
Kostornaya noted that Plushenko has "a radically different approach" than Tutberidze's. "A calmer approach in my new team. We did all the same, but even when after the general physical training I did not succeed, no one chased me, did not swear," - said the skater.
Speaking about working in the Tutberidze group, Kostornaya noted that "people like me, Anya Shcherbakova, Kamila Valieva cannot ride with children born in 2010". "The girls are adults. I told the coaches that there are already 8 of us, a crazy pace in training, and take children who are not used to it there (wrong). They went out and did not understand what to do. It annoyed me. I said , which is so very inconvenient. But there was no reaction. I decided to leave on July 17, before the second training session, "said Kostornaya.
"I called Sergei Aleksandrovich (Rozanov), asked if there was a possibility. He said that this was a very unexpected decision and asked me to think about it. A couple of days later I said that I had thought and decided, they began to organize a moment with the transition. Music (staged by Tutberidze ) I liked the free program, but in some places I didn’t like the short program. I didn’t like the short program, I said that I don’t feel it. My opinion was taken into account, but not always, ”concluded Kostornaya.- via google translate

Can anyone translate the article correctly?

Wow Aliona has some backbone. To speak her mind publicly and against you know who is very rare from an active figure skater. But it's something she probably wanted to get off her chest for a while. So she did.

TT has done amazing things in ladies figure skating in the last 10 years but it's such a popular Academy for young lady figure skaters that they might be taking on too many skaters for top Junior and seniors to be on the ice with who knows how many novice or younger kids must be frustrating. Eteri wants all the talent she can get but she may have too many skaters on the ice at the same time. Losing Aliona should be a wakeup call for EG. But She's a bit stubborn so perhaps not.

As for her skating Aliona is probably a few weeks away from being back into sufficient form by her standards.
 
Interview today, not that I understand a word (and not that it matters, she is so animated and bubbly): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od-KNA0TW3s

Auto-translate suggests that she grew a couple of centimetres (maybe three?), and that the programme is about a girl in hospital, whose soul leaves her body in the first half, and then returns in the second half, knowing how she wants to live. But auto-translate also said something about hair like mice, so ...
 
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