Sasha? Broken foot, withdrawn from NHK Sasha? At best she is working towards being healthy again, but until we see her busting out multiple quads at Nationals, she's on the injured list.
I wouldnt worry about since I cant imagine a world in which this change happened. But I think if they pushed off one year at a time for 2 years that would essentially mean just nobody new enters the senior scene for 2 years, because the one who are 15 now will continue to be at the youngest allowed age.
based on the lack of information on sasha's injury and recovery, and since we know she is training and planning to compete at nationals, i'm not counting her as actively injured. NHK will have been 6 weeks ago by nationals.
Sasha's withdrawal from the NHK was so "last minute" that even sport websides changed the story several times during the day of departure. It wasn't like she had a plaster on her leg, it was doctor's recommendation when she was packed for the flight already. And that was a month ago already. We know she's attending trainings and preparing for nationals and nothing about what wishful thinking rumors say.
I think, if the change would be accepted, the rule won’t come into effect immediately. Like you mention, they will probably lay out a plan on how and when exactly these changes will apply.
The only publicly available recovery plan for Sasha, from an unrelated trauma doctor, included an immediate surgery and 2-3 months of an off-ice recovery before going back to skating. In the world of Quads it efficiency means the career end.
Is Anna Frolova going to switch countries? She hasn't competed in a long time.
Kamila Maya Anna are all uninjured. Anna had the thing with her neck but she's fine now or as fine as any elite athlete can be.every single one of Eteri’s Olympic contenders is injured except Kamila. But sure jan
yes, I've noticed this many times too. And the strangest thing is that it is often not some charlatans who are engaged in this, but quite real professors.
No one knows, there are lots of rumors but nothing confirmed. Since she competed at nationals last year and was at junior test skates this year though it would take at least a year. Talalaikina transfer was denied this season because she competed at Rusnats 20-21, she will have to try again in summer 2022. Frolova probably the same.
It would probably make a big difference, in gymnastics the average age has shot way up more than one year since they upped the age to 16 (which is only 1/2 a year older because gymnastics cutoff day is Jan 1 not July 1). Of the 16 individual medalists in women's artistic + rhythmic gymnastics in Tokyo Olympics, 15/16 were at least 18 years old and 12/16 were over 20 years old.
Muravyeva is 15. Tsibinova if you count her as a junior because she did junior nationals last year is 16. Besides them the oldest juniors are 14 and 10 months - Zinina and Samodelkina. Petrosyan and Gorbacheva and Lagutova are 14 and a half. The rest of the 15/16 year. olds moved to seniors or switched to pairs/dance or retired except one - Sviridenko will get into nationals when Usacheva officially withdraws, she's 15 and arguably was snubbed of JGP spot since Kulikova and Zakharova didn't even compete at junior nationals last year. But she's not as good this season as last and she's not skating at junior nats this year.If it was 17 though, Zhilina and Akatieva would only debut in seniors in the Olympic year
Are there no more promising 15/16 year old juniors except for Frolova?
In a broad sense, the pandemic may have a lot to do with it. In sports medicine it’s well known that athletes who’ve taken a break are far more prone to injury. This is especially true in contact sports. Football players always see a spate of injuries at the beginning of the season as they return from just regular off season conditioning to actual contact sport because you lose muscle memory, your body isn’t used to the daily impacts anymore, etc.
I wish there was a "guy banging his head" like button....
Valieva is better than any of the 3A when they were 15. Trusova and Shcherbakova in their 17s are clearly better than Khromykh and Usacheva.
If it is not decided and Sasha and Liza are close I think what is most likely is that they send Sasha to Euros and then select Liza if Sasha splats. Maia also has a chance with Aliona out now, and if she lands her quads and presents the FS the way she does the SP could also overtake Liza.
Right? The Viner quote--oh GAWD. That woman literally curses at her athletes every two seconds...
Obviously, if she is recovered enough from her injury. She makes women’s skating exciting. I love Valieva too, and fully expect her to be the champion, but Trusova has the unique ability to liven the competition 
and her programs are bold and bright vs the usual. Dunno if it’s human nature, but it’s my nature to love and ‘get’ flawed and fighting tooth and nail more than perfect.the reason for doubts about Sasha is still the same - lack of stability. Perhaps she needs to remember the experience of last year, when she showed a clean performance in which there were only two quads, but which, nevertheless, could have brought gold in the European Championships.
