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I am surprised Ukraine has fallen off the map in figure skating I have to success of oksana and Petrenko in the early nineties.
After our country collapsed, everyone and their coach left to America. Baiul, Petrenko, Zmievskaya, as well as TAT, Arutyunyan and then-unknown Eteri.

In the 2000s Russians started returning to Russia, at some point Eteri came back too, and here we are now.
 
Finally an interview with Maiia (this time with interviewer not being rude to her!)


Wow, what a great interview! She’s so open and funny! Very open about her goals, her past and how she trains. Also talks a lot about training with Tutberidze and how it is different from what she’s seen before, how it helped her to open up/discover herself. Questions about food, what she eats, what Eteri tells them to eat and her height came up as well. Fun fact: Alina’s and Maia’s dads seem to be friends

She’s also learning a 3A at the moment, so watch out everyone!
 
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Finally an interview with Maiia (this time with interviewer not being rude to her!)


Wow, what a great interview! She’s so open and funny! Very open about her goals, her past and how she trains. Also talks a lot about training with Tutberidze and how it is different from what she’s seen before, how it helped her to open up/discover herself. Questions about food, what she eats, what Eteri tells them to eat and her height came up as well. Fun fact: Alina’s and Maia’s dads seem to be friends

She’s also learning a 3A at the moment, so watch out everyone!
Did I catch an f in that interview? At least that’s what my Google Translate gave me... I wonder who said it. I couldn’t really tell if it was Maiia or Eteri....
 
From Maya's interview:
RT: Well, the Shcherbakova world championship, in fact, would have won with triples.
Maya: Maybe yes. But at the level of the Russian championship it is impossible to fight without quads.

Apparently the idea that it is more difficult to win at the domestic championship than at world competitions is a complete reality, and girls thinks similar. This joke that went too far.

I'm glad she's working on 3A. God, I wonder how many girls from Tutberidze will add new ultra-c elements next year. If everything continues to develop, then only quads without 3A will not be enough for the first place.
What a future season! I can't wait!

This will be the season of victories and broken hearts for skaters and fans.
 
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Finally an interview with Maiia (this time with interviewer not being rude to her!)


Wow, what a great interview! She’s so open and funny! Very open about her goals, her past and how she trains. Also talks a lot about training with Tutberidze and how it is different from what she’s seen before, how it helped her to open up/discover herself. Questions about food, what she eats, what Eteri tells them to eat and her height came up as well. Fun fact: Alina’s and Maia’s dads seem to be friends

She’s also learning a 3A at the moment, so watch out everyone!
Really great interview. You can again see how difficult it must be to overcome yourself, the nerves, and sometimes the hostile people on the internet But Maiia doesn't give up.
 
There was a very long dominance of the US ladies and about the quarter of the world gold medals were won by them. I take it the way that in tennis for instance Federer, Djokovic or Nadal have fans all around the world, in skating skaters could have the support all around the world too. After all I am not Russian and if those fantastic skaters were from a different country than Russia, I would be still supporting them although I admit particular similarities in slavic mentality or taste make it easier (even if many people in my country would rather die than admit that :devil: ).
Exacticly!

I couldn't have said it better myself and the American skaters had fans all over the world for decades and deservedly so. If Alysa can make it really big and be the number one American lady for a long time she will have fans everywhere.
 
After our country collapsed, everyone and their coach left to America. Baiul, Petrenko, Zmievskaya, as well as TAT, Arutyunyan and then-unknown Eteri.

In the 2000s Russians started returning to Russia, at some point Eteri came back too, and here we are now.
That's one of my favorite interviews. It's always nice to see EG smile. :) oh and she was right about her returning to Moscow changed everything in Russian ladies figure skating. It took many years for her to get to the top and there's no sign of her success as a coach slowing down.

I'm sorry so many of your skaters left for America Dante but I suppose it was a good business move for them because the money was there. I think I read where Oksana is worth something like 25 million dollars. Amazing.
 
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