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I'm stunned hearing Meagan Duhamel words about Anna in TSL interview. This is pure body shaming and bullying cunningly dressed in false concern. :slink:
I suspect, if she said that about any North-American skater, nobody from fs community would've shaken her hand anymore, while humiliating 16yo Russian girl is completely cool there. :frown:

Must hold a grudge to successful singles skaters because she couldn't make it in singles and had to move to pairs.
 
Not surprising words from this person, as it's not the first time, Alina faced her insults as well before 2019 worlds. I hope Anna would give her similar answer as Alina did.
It's really disturbing how eager and harsh in judging she is, being so distant from Anya and her training environment. :oops:
And all of it from a grown-up woman, mother and a champion. 😔
 
I'm stunned hearing Meagan Duhamel words about Anna in TSL interview. This is pure body shaming and bullying cunningly dressed in false concern. :slink:
I suspect, if she said that about any North-American skater, nobody from fs community would've shaken her hand anymore, while humiliating 16yo Russian girl is completely cool there. :frown:

I'm disappointed to hear this. But TSL also creates this atmosphere and I'm sure they led her on, I wish she was more sensible. This is really rude and hurtful.

Not just anti-Anna, but also comes across anti-Russia because I don't see why a *foreign* specialist is necessary and is automatically better. Saying it should not be just Daniil is a completely different point.
 
I'm stunned hearing Meagan Duhamel words about Anna in TSL interview. This is pure body shaming and bullying cunningly dressed in false concern. :slink:
I suspect, if she said that about any North-American skater, nobody from fs community would've shaken her hand anymore, while humiliating 16yo Russian girl is completely cool there. :frown:


Thats just awful, hopefully Shcherbakova wins this competition now
 
Thats just awful, hopefully Shcherbakova wins this competition now

I can relate to not cheering Anna, everyone is allowed to have their favorites.

But she could say that she is not cheering her because of some real technical flaws or smth. Not a bunch of basic jelous bi*ch bs.
Not just anti-Anna, but also comes across anti-Russia because I don't see why a *foreign* specialist is necessary and is automatically better. Saying it should not be just Daniil is a completely different point.
Yea, because Shae Lynn Bourne worked out so well for Alyona, right?

Sasha makes her Rozanov/Plushy programs work very well in my opinion. I don't see why they would hire Bourne.
 
How? she won the worlds, that's always the best answer you can give, better than thousand words. ;)
Didn't Alina respond to someone, idk if Duhamel or Wagner, criticizing her layout and programm as immature or sth with "I kindly invite her to skate my program."
aka stating they would never be able to perform her layout. Or am I remembering wrong?


About the planned layouts here, obviously they are wrong. Anna would never accept to just jump 1 quad at worlds and thereby passively settling for bronze. She'll go 2-3 quads even if her life was hanging on by a thread (if you think that's positive or negative is your decision)
 
I can relate to not cheering Anna, everyone is allowed to have their favorites.

But she could say that she is not cheering her because of some real technical flaws or smth. Not a bunch of basic jelous bi*ch bs.


Yea, because Shae Lynn Bourne worked out so well for Alyona, right?

Sasha makes her Rozanov/Plushy programs work very well in my opinion. I don't see why they would hire Bourne.
That's it. It's differwent to say "I'm cheering for Sasha/Liza/whoever" and to practically say "I don't want this girl to win becasue bsbsbs."
 
Didn't Alina respond to someone, idk if Duhamel or Wagner, criticizing her layout and programm as immature or sth with "I kindly invite her to skate my program."
aka stating they would never be able to perform her layout. Or am I remembering wrong?


About the planned layouts here, obviously they are wrong. Anna would never accept to just jump 1 quad at worlds and thereby passively settling for bronze. She'll go 2-3 quads even if her life was hanging on by a thread (if you think that's positive or negative is your decision)
i think that was in response to Wagner, who IMO has never said anything close to what Megan has said. she's never been afraid to voice her opinion, but i've never gotten disrespectful, mean girl vibes from Ashley. i don't think she meant it as a jab to Alina at all, she recognized her layout was super hard, couldn't do it herself and congratulated her on her Olympic win. she just didn't agree with the rules.
 
People posted practice reports!

Sasha seems to be in amazing condition - she did her SP run-through and landed everything clean with a 3A! Outside of her run-through she apparently also landed 4Lz, 4T-Eu-3S, 4T and a 4S. So she really could be doing two 4Ts in the free. Overall she looks great.

Liza apparently landed her 3A several times today! I can't find any information outside of that, I don't even know what program she ran.

Anna did not have a great practice. She tried and fell on the 4F a few times, then did her FS run-through, but for some reason her music kept jamming. The post says they had her restart FIVE TIMES. Eventually she just did her run-through with all triples. But there's a clip of her doing a 3Lz where her 4Lz should be, which doesn't make sense in her layout, so it would indicate that she's planning to go for 4Lz and 4F at least, even though she didn't seem to try the 4Lz today. She landed one 4F after her run-through (or five run-throughs? Uncertain).

There will be another practice later today. Sasha will probably run her FS there and we'll see her layout.
 
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I think its because the Russian team (from what I've read on here) did an initial quarantine for the week prior to Worlds (which should please everyone that was railing on the Russians and saying they shouldn't be allowed to even go) and then the Fed chartered a flight so they weren't around anyone else on the flight. Additionally because this is the ONLY competition of the international season.
Who said Russia shouldn't be able to go to worlds? Lol. For real?

But I knew Russia would be on their best covid behavior when it came to worlds. :)
 
i think that was in response to Wagner, who IMO has never said anything close to what Megan has said. she's never been afraid to voice her opinion, but i've never gotten disrespectful, mean girl vibes from Ashley. i don't think she meant it as a jab to Alina at all, she recognized her layout was super hard, couldn't do it herself and congratulated her on her Olympic win. she just didn't agree with the rules.
The ISU didn't agree with the back loading rules either which is why they changed them. ;) But the rules were fine until the Eteri Russian revolution!

I remember what Ashley said about Alina and it pisses me off. What did Megan say if it was worse? That will be like a great doubles player in tennis criticizing Serena Williams or Roger Federer. Lol.
 
i think that was in response to Wagner, who IMO has never said anything close to what Megan has said. she's never been afraid to voice her opinion, but i've never gotten disrespectful, mean girl vibes from Ashley. i don't think she meant it as a jab to Alina at all, she recognized her layout was super hard, couldn't do it herself and congratulated her on her Olympic win. she just didn't agree with the rules.
No, I don't talk about Ashley's words at the olympics, also Ashley later gave her appreciation to Alina. This was a completely different thing, at the GPF and later Meghan made several very nasty coments about Alina in the sense "she's done" and all this, which was the more nasty because just before she made some vid with Alina, gave her (fake) smiles and so.
 
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People posted practice reports!

Sasha seems to be in amazing condition - she did her SP run-through and landed everything clean with a 3A! Outside of her run-through she apparently also landed 4Lz, 4T-Eu-3S, 4T and a 4S. So she really could be doing two 4Ts in the free. Overall she looks great.

Liza apparently landed her 3A several times today! I can't find any information outside of that, I don't even know what program she ran.

Anna did not have a great practice. She tried and fell on the 4F a few times, then did her FS run-through, but for some reason her music kept jamming. The post says they had her restart FIVE TIMES. Eventually she just did her run-through with all triples. But there's a clip of her doing a 3Lz where her 4Lz should be, whic doesn't make sense in her layout, so it would indicate that she's planning to go for 4Lz and 4F at least, even though she didn't seem to try the 4Lz today. She landed one 4F after her run-through (or five run-throughs? Uncertain).

There will be another practice later today. Sasha will probably run her FS there and we'll see her layout.
Do you know where we can find videos of the practices?
 
People posted practice reports!

Sasha seems to be in amazing condition - she did her SP run-through and landed everything clean with a 3A! Outside of her run-through she apparently also landed 4Lz, 4T-Eu-3S, 4T and a 4S. So she really could be doing two 4Ts in the free. Overall she looks great.

Liza apparently landed her 3A several times today! I can't find any information outside of that, I don't even know what program she ran.

Anna did not have a great practice. She tried and fell on the 4F a few times, then did her FS run-through, but for some reason her music kept jamming. The post says they had her restart FIVE TIMES. Eventually she just did her run-through with all triples. But there's a clip of her doing a 3Lz where her 4Lz should be, which doesn't make sense in her layout, so it would indicate that she's planning to go for 4Lz and 4F at least, even though she didn't seem to try the 4Lz today. She landed one 4F after her run-through (or five run-throughs? Uncertain).

There will be another practice later today. Sasha will probably run her FS there and we'll see her layout.
Let's hope it's usual "Anna's trainings before competitions are never very good" (like before Skate America 2019 Tara and co said she kept falling and falling all the week at quad attempts or the training before nationals). And at least it really means she will put 4Lz into the program.
 
I'm stunned hearing Meagan Duhamel words about Anna in TSL interview. This is pure body shaming and bullying cunningly dressed in false concern. :slink:
I suspect, if she said that about any North-American skater, nobody from fs community would've shaken her hand anymore, while humiliating 16yo Russian girl is completely cool there. :frown:

Brutal and pretty vicious words from the Canadian olympic champion. Duhamel is garbage. Someone should ask her how her compatriot Gabby has been doing and looking in recent years,.

I think Anna is beautiful and she has a gotten a little heavier in the last year. Just can't see hating on this girl but it happens.
 
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