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Rika's black tights from her SP this season look so ugly I almost can't believe her team is allowing that as a costume.Do black tights always look terrible?(yes)
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I'm a firm believer in "Jumpsuit or Dress". You have to pick. No mashups. No dresses with matching color tights to pretend you had the nerve to wear a jumpsuit. Then there's Madison Hubbell, but that's a whole other problem.
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She didn't generate drama. People on this thread are generating drama.
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Hmmmm I gotta disagree with this one. Zhilina's FS costume is a glittered dress with matching glittered tights and it's really beautiful and fits the theme of her program so well.
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But that's what I meant though. The whole thing is setup to be Med vs Zag.
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Or we could say that people on this thread have reactions to her statements in a press conference. And that they have formed opinions based on their reaction to her words and have decided to discuss them here. And the people who do not like those reactions and opinions that are being expressed find them to be 'drama'. If you don't like participating in 'drama' then don't.
Just like I have nothing constructive to add to the discussion of black tights so I scroll right past those posts.
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We're moving away from the drama. Right now. By talking about tights.
Zhilina's are different, they're still nude just sparkly. I'm talking about Rika's and Kamila's and all of Sasha's costumes before this season. I saw some similar ones in the novice Russian competition too. Does that big costume designer in Russia think jumpsuits arent ladylike or something? And Rika is desperate to compete with the Russian ladies, so she thinks if she dresses up like one the judges will mix her up?
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I'm okay with tights under a dress but I hate when skaters wear sheer tights over their boots. I can't remember where I saw it, but someone literally wore fishnet tights over their boots. It makes their legs look weird.
Who started this trend anyway??
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No argument there. It definitely was. I was kind of wary of it but then it started and it was so fun and enjoyable. Until suddenly it wasn't.
What I meant was I hope that Alina doesn't participate in that type of thing in the future.
We will see.
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I also want to know which skate company started putting designs on the side of their boots. Was it Edea? Like Anna's boots look so sleek and nice, and Kamila's look so busy and clunky. Then with the tights stretched over the clunky boots, forget it.
I think everyone's looking too much into it, these are 2 media personalities, this gets them clicks which means fuel for higher payment and being brought back to do more events, so it works out for them.
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I think we will most likely have another edition of this Cup. It was a big success and most people's opinions that I've read agree that it was a fun and exciting event and the jump competition was really cool.
It would be interesting if they made it more international but there's already WTT and Japan Open so not sure that it would make it more special and Russia has enough depth in all the disciplines to do it with just russian skaters (and it's probably more exciting and tough that way 
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Maybe next edition could be team Plushenko vs team Yagudin
It would be interesting if they made it more international but there's already WTT and Japan Open so not sure that it would make it more special
and Russia has enough depth in all the disciplines to do it with just russian skaters (and it's probably more exciting and tough that way ).Maybe next edition could be team Plushenko vs team Yagudin
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Yes, I think you mean edea. I'm not a huge fan of their clunky boots either
I'm also very happy that both Anna and Sasha ditched their half over the boot tights. I'm so shallow about stuff like that Agree, the side designs have gotten really popular, and they are ugly
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Channel one in Russia sure got their money's worth. Tremendous competition with much support for skaters on both teams. That there was little tension in the final press conference
takes nothing away from this very unique exciting event. I think we will see it again in Russia. Sometimes we just have to let people be real and what you saw in the press conference was real whether you liked it or not. They are only human after all and they are under tremendous pressure and scrutiny for many years and I don't know if that's fair. But it's part of their life and they deal with it.
It was nice to see the hug at the end though.
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Putting aside the discussions about character, I actually don’t know if Aliona withdrew herself. She showed up to test skates, her cup stage, and Rostelecom in pretty poor form. The mention of doctors is pertinent here. Covid is very hard on conditioned lungs (it effects marathon runners worse, for example) and it put Zhenya in the hospital if I’m not mistaking. Her doctors may have prohibited skating to prevent long term scarring. Even if Kostornaia wanted to skate those are far different circumstances than say, Sasha skating on a stress fracture that will heal in the off season.
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You mentioned that she generated drama before Readernick said that people here generated drama, and it sounds like you don't like Medvedeva for generating drama, but you don't mind the 'drama' that people here are generating. What if they are the same drama? She can't generate all that drama by herself, so perhaps if the people here cease their contribution there will be no drama.
That said, if you like participating in 'drama', then by all means do so.
In all seriousness, everyone has equal rights to discuss their viewpoints. You have a right to say that Medvedeva is being rude and others have a right to say that she's being over/misinterpreted. But it sounds like you're telling people to stay out of the conversation because they have a different opinion from yours while simultaneously accusing them of the same thing. That said, I might be overinterpreting your words.
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Unlike the two team leaders this year who at worse said a few phrases slightly lacking in grace when exhausted, those two might really do or say things that might warrant true scrutiny. I would be worried anytime they opened their mouths. For me, the most troubling things said and done at this event ( other than a disregard for the existence of COVID) didn't come from the team captains but from Yagudin who was frankly insulting toward some of the male skaters when they were already obviously upset. Moskvina and Mishin would be wonderful team leaders imho.Maybe next edition could be team Plushenko vs team Yagudin
I think a more interesting international competition would be something like that have at the Youth Olympics where athletes from different countries are randomly assigned to different teams. I think someone mentioned this in the competition thread. It's a great idea. Such a competition is fun, but not too overly serious.
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I don't think it's so shallow. Skating is partly a visual art. Its supposed to look pretty and lines are important. There's a reason they dont show up to competitions in leggings and sweaters. While costumes and hairstyles shouldn't neccessarily affect scores, it affects the viewer's experience. Having an opinion on things you can see makes more sense to me than saying none of that matters because they all work hard and might be nice people.Yes, I think you mean edea. I'm not a huge fan of their clunky boots either
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(Gotta jump in to this tights chat to get away from the drama chat...)
I must say - I don't even mind Kamila's FS costume this season (though I prefer tights either fully cover boots or fully tucked in). At least it looks delicate, perhaps with some careful designs...And most importantly - those black tights aren't fully black but somewhat transparent - so you still get to see the leg lines a bit, and also distinguish the tights from the dress.
Rika on the other hand...oh Rika...those fully black tights looks like training leggings...The leggins blend into the top, but still leaves a bunch of black strips dangling (the skirt part)...
I saw somewhere that they designed it like that because she's doing a cartwheel? But I don't get the connection there. Her FS costume also looks junior-ish and a bit unfinished to me. Perhaps it has to do with lack of time.Speaking of costume taste, the Russian lady that came to my mind was Maria Sotskova. She always had unique yet fitting designs, starting with her Vivaldi Winter program, Breakfast at Tiffany's, R&J, the blue butterfly dress (forgot program name)...very bold and thoughtful costumes!
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