Anna Shcherbakova
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I can't stand this
this wonderful person who has given so many so much happiness feeling so sad with herself.I'm glad she has a good support system around her and was seen smiling and laughing not too longer after.
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Press Conference after the FS (no subtitles yet - I wonder if I dare to ask Alex, 'cause I really don't want to seem insatiable...)
I hope there will be subtitled version like the last year.
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Press Conference after the FS (no subtitles yet - I wonder if I dare to ask Alex, 'cause I really don't want to seem insatiable...)
No worries, I’ll ask him for you. haha
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It‘s sad, but how many times has she made her opponents feel the same way?
I'm glad she has a good support system around her and was seen smiling and laughing not too longer after.
Her run wasn’t going to last forever. And because she is who she is, with the standard of excellence she is associated with, this sadness was after a bronze medal trying to defend a threepeat.
Yes, it hurts now, but in the totality, it is an amazing achievement that time will be very good to.
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I don't disagree with anything you wrote here, but for me at least it's not about the victory or the (loss of) title, but the fact that she was understandably not happy with what she put out there. I don't believe she would have reacted this way if she still ended up in third but had skated the way she wanted to.
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Things didn't go the way Anna would have wanted today, but she got the job done and in such a difficult field! 
Let this experience be one of those moments that fire up skaters to do more extraordinary things later on.
Anyway, it's always a pleasure to watch Anna compete and I have so much respect for how she always maintains her grace and dignity and sportsmanship no matter what the result is.
Let this experience be one of those moments that fire up skaters to do more extraordinary things later on.
Anyway, it's always a pleasure to watch Anna compete and I have so much respect for how she always maintains her grace and dignity and sportsmanship no matter what the result is.
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Obviously she is not happy because she sets the bar high. She didn’t become the champion she is by settling.
But, she is human and she will have a bad day once every couple of years.
Anna has given everything she has and then some. She relinquishes her crown with her head held high.
We, as fans of Anna, tend to be like our skater: we congratulate those (and it’s a very short list) that are able to beat her.
I just hope that this doesn’t turn into a Anna v Kamila toxic fan battle. No reason that someone can’t be a fan of both.
Finally, this is Anna we are talking about. We haven’t heard the last of her. She will bounce back.
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I know it is probably too much messing about now but I think she should return to her SP from last year. It consistently scored well. I think the new program must be exhausting to practice and I just don’t think it’s bringing in the scores that they thought it would.
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I think if Anna herself felt that she would perform poorly at the Olympics, she would be able to give up her place in the team to another skater. She is a very decent person
It’s not her failure itself that upsets me more, but the fact that she declared only one quad. As if she had come to terms with the fact that she would no longer be the first - this is not at all like her. But we, of course, do not know everything ...
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I just felt like she wasn't feeling well or had some problem, just a gut feeling after watching her many times..
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Press Conference after the FS (no subtitles yet - I wonder if I dare to ask Alex, 'cause I really don't want to seem insatiable...)
translate:
Kamila: you over here, move the microphone over here (inaudible)
Sasha: Your microphone will [interfere]
Kamila: Can you sit here?
(someone in the hall says something unintelligible)
Kamila: (laughs) Even closer!
From the audience: girls, are you ready?
Kamila: now it will be my dog (not really sure if she said that)
(Sasha takes the dog to her)
From the audience: Good evening! We are starting the final press conference, the last at this Russian championship and the last at the women's part of the competition. I represent the champion of Russia in 2022 Kamila Valieva, the silver medalist - Alexander Trusova, and the bronze medalist - Anna Shcherbakova.
(applause)
(from the audience) Girls, since you have not been in the VIP-zone, please briefly comment on the performances, and then we will move on to the questions.
Kamila: There was very good support from the audience today. I am very pleased that I concentrated, I was shaking a little [before going on the ice], but I concentrated, I made my program almost to the maximum. Today there was such support from the audience - even when I was tired, this support gave me new strength. In addition, I want to congratulate all the girls on the successful selection for the Olympics and wish us all to keep our nerves healthy (laughs).
From the audience: Sasha?
Sasha: I am satisfied with my result. Of course, I would like to skate much better, both the short program and the free program. I will work and hope that by the European Championships I will become better in all components and skate well there.
Anna: I'm satisfied with how I did the short program, but I'm not satisfied with the FS. I have already calmed down [after this failure] and I want to learn a positive lesson from what happened. I know what I need to work on to fix these [mistakes] and be happy with my skating.
Question to Kamila Valieva: Kamila, now everyone notes that you are in unusually good shape. There is such a theory that it is very difficult to maintain your shape at such a high level. Ahead is the European Championship, the Olympics. How do you yourself assess your current condition and how do you want to maintain your shape [during the upcoming competition]?
Kamila: Well, I would not say that I am in the best shape, because the way I feel, I am somewhere between good shape and average. And that's why (girls laugh). I speak according to my feelings. We'll have a little rest now. Quite small. During this time, we can breathe a sigh of relief, gain strength. Then we will have a week before the European Championships, and there it will be easier to keep in shape, because it is easier than getting in shape again.
Next question: Girls, congratulations to everyone! It's a real delight to look at you (something unintelligible about how great they skated). I noticed that when Kamila talked about her shape, Sasha and Anya smiled. So I wanted to ask them: two years ago you started outplaying older skaters. Now Kamila has appeared. What should be done to keep up with her, to perform at the same level? She is now 35 points ahead of you. What do you need to do to reach?
Sasha: Well, if we are talking about shape, then I started to regain my form a little over a month ago and I can say that now I am not at all in the best shape. Now I will first strive for clean skating, and, of course, I will try to become better in all components, including jumping.
Anna: I have a simple secret: I never had a goal to beat any particular athlete. Therefore, when I started competing for adults, I just skated to the maximum that I had. Now I try to prepare for each start and show my maximum. It doesn't depend on my competitors in any way.
Next question: Sasha, I have a question about the short program (the beginning of the phrase is illegible, but the point is that Sasha did not succeed in triple axel). What will you do to make this element more stable, close to 100%?
Sasha: I will, as always, work in this direction. I can say that now my triple axel was really unstable. There were mistakes in training, and now already in the competition. At the beginning of the season, when performing this element, I was almost not mistaken, and then for some reason it stopped working. I will work and try to make everything work out in the next competitions.
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part 2:
The next question is very hard to hear, but the meaning is more or less clear: Anna is asked why she was given so many points, although she fell from a quadruple, and made other mistakes, as well as whether it is fair that she was selected for the Olympics, and not others skaters:
Anna: It's not me who decided who will go to the Olympics. My business is to go out on the ice and skate. I have not yet seen my gifts, nor those of other girls (I suspect that these are not gifts, but points for components). I have nothing to compare here and nothing to talk about. Thus, I see no point in commenting something here. I do my job, the judges do theirs, and it doesn't depend on me.
Next question: Kamila, you got twenty six tenths today ...
Sasha (to Kamila): What is twenty six tenths?
Kamila (to Sasha): I don't know ...
Anna (to Kamila): (explains something about the components)
Continuation of the question: What will Mark Kondratyuk say, whom you have not caught up with by just one point?
(girls laugh)
Kamila: I think he will survive. Well, first of all ... Something you stunned me ... (laughs). As Anya already said, my job is to go out on the ice and skate, and what the judges give me ... (laughs)
Press conference presenter: firstly, the line-up of the team has not yet been officially announced ...
Kamila: Yes, and it will ...
Presenter: It will be officially announced after the European Championship ...
Continuation of the question: Anything else?
Kamila: no, that's all. I do not even know what to say…
Presenter: about the level of refereeing ... Everyone should mind their own business. The girls do their job, the judges do theirs.
The next question: don't you think that Kamila is disingenuous when she says that she has not yet reached her peak?
Presenter: you are asking the question not to Kamila, but to Sasha. Dmitry, this is the second time you are asking an incorrect question. Kamila is here, and you ...
(Sasha's dog suddenly begins to squeak loudly, everyone flinches)
Kamila (to the dog): very cool!
Sasha (to the dog): Well done!
Presenter: this is the answer to Dmitry.
Next question: Kamila, you said "almost maximum". What would be the full maximum?
Kamila: Well, that is, there is always something to strive for. According to my feelings today, in the state in which I was today, I went out on the ice - yes, I did my best. But the way I skate in training [indicates] that I can do better. I will strive for this.
Next question: Sasha, you missed a lot of time (again it is hard to hear, but it is clear that we are talking about the possible impact of the injury)
Sasha: I didn't skate for three weeks, didn't go out on the ice at all, then (the dog squeaks again) more than a month ago I returned to the skating rink. I just skated for a while. Then she started jumping, gradually recovering.
Presenter: Let’s ask two more questions, otherwise it’s already quite late.
Next question: Congratulations on the successful completion of the competition! Your names are now known all over the world. They have become synonymous with talent, victories, pride, joy. Today you can say “absolutely perfect girl”, or you can replace this expression with “Anna Shcherbakova”, you can say “the first in the world”, or replace this expression with “Alexandra Trusova”, you can say (something about ballet), or replace on "Kamila Valieva". Therefore, I want to ask why you were given exactly such names. And also - do you know about the origin of your surnames. If you know about it - please share with us.
Kamila: After the free program, we are probably not ready to answer such questions ...
Sasha: my parents liked the name Alexander, and they called me Alexandra. I don’t know about the last name. It's all.
Kamila: No, I'm not ready ... I can say something wrong, it's better not to say anything.
Anna: I don't even know ... I don't know ...
Next question: Congratulations on the completion of the Russian Championship, on the successful selection for the European Championship. The question is this: the first Olympic champion from the Tutberidze team, Yulia Lipnitskaya, climbed an impromptu podium for five years and imagined that she would receive a gold medal at the Olympics. How do you imagine the Olympics even before you came to this competition? I would like to hear the answer not only from the dog Alexandra Trusova.
Kamila: Let's do it this way: we live in this moment, in this second, and there is still no point in thinking about the Olympics even now, when it is so close. We will work and prepare - for now, for the European Championship. Well, that's it.
Presenter: Let's have one last question, because it's already quite late
Next question: Congratulations on your medals, Kamila on the first place. The question is very short: apparently, to Anna Shcherbakova - (again illegible, something about another bear).
Anna (didn't hear the question, Kamila tells her): I'll take it home, like the rest of the bears. Mom and I have already discussed how many new shelves I should hang in order to find a place for all the new bears that were thrown to me at this championship. So I want to use this opportunity to thank all my fans for always supporting me so much and for putting on such a teddy fall after each performance. Thanks to them!
Presenter: come on, radio of Russia, the last question, that's all
Next question: congratulations on your victory at the Russian Championship, as well as Happy New Year. The impressions from the championship are so vivid that you have to drink sedatives. All foreign athletes saw how long our bench is. Three years ago, in Saransk, when figure skaters were leaving the ice, passing through a crowd of fans, no one could have imagined that another young generation of athletes would grow up so quickly in our country. You are calm about the fact that those who are still competing for juniors are already breathing in the back of your head - after all, they will soon become competitors for you. And another festive question - where will you rest, how will you relieve yourself of emotions after this competition?
Kamila: Competition is always good in all sports. Probably, it even stimulates when you know that next season there will be new girls on the ice who have quads, triple axels. That is, my task is to continue working, to maintain myself at a high level. This year I will most likely be celebrating the New Year in Moscow. I wanted to visit my relatives in Kazan, but this year it is undesirable to travel somewhere once again, so I will stay in Moscow and walk with my dog (laughs). I will try to distract myself from figure skating as much as possible, but I really want to visit the open skating rink at VDNKh, or in Gorky Park.
Sasha: About new girls - I agree with Kamila. Most of the new promising girls are in our group, and I see that they even have a different attitude to quadruple jumps. For them it was just the norm, but for us it was something new. I will celebrate the New Year at home, with my family and with a huge number of dogs.
Anna: You remembered the Russian championship in Saransk and, as Sasha said, a lot has changed since then. At that moment, when we jumped quadruples, it seemed incredible, but now it has become normal. I would like to continue to be at the same level, to keep in good shape. I will try to spend the maximum amount of time practicing quadruple jumps, increasing the complexity of the elements. And I will celebrate the New Year as usual - at home, with my family. The elder sister has finally arrived, we have not seen her for a long time. So I will be with my family, with my parents, sisters, cats and dogs.
(the dog squeaks again, everyone laughs)
Presenter: girls, with a victory, with medals, Happy New Year!
The next question is very hard to hear, but the meaning is more or less clear: Anna is asked why she was given so many points, although she fell from a quadruple, and made other mistakes, as well as whether it is fair that she was selected for the Olympics, and not others skaters:
Anna: It's not me who decided who will go to the Olympics. My business is to go out on the ice and skate. I have not yet seen my gifts, nor those of other girls (I suspect that these are not gifts, but points for components). I have nothing to compare here and nothing to talk about. Thus, I see no point in commenting something here. I do my job, the judges do theirs, and it doesn't depend on me.
Next question: Kamila, you got twenty six tenths today ...
Sasha (to Kamila): What is twenty six tenths?
Kamila (to Sasha): I don't know ...
Anna (to Kamila): (explains something about the components)
Continuation of the question: What will Mark Kondratyuk say, whom you have not caught up with by just one point?
(girls laugh)
Kamila: I think he will survive. Well, first of all ... Something you stunned me ... (laughs). As Anya already said, my job is to go out on the ice and skate, and what the judges give me ... (laughs)
Press conference presenter: firstly, the line-up of the team has not yet been officially announced ...
Kamila: Yes, and it will ...
Presenter: It will be officially announced after the European Championship ...
Continuation of the question: Anything else?
Kamila: no, that's all. I do not even know what to say…
Presenter: about the level of refereeing ... Everyone should mind their own business. The girls do their job, the judges do theirs.
The next question: don't you think that Kamila is disingenuous when she says that she has not yet reached her peak?
Presenter: you are asking the question not to Kamila, but to Sasha. Dmitry, this is the second time you are asking an incorrect question. Kamila is here, and you ...
(Sasha's dog suddenly begins to squeak loudly, everyone flinches)
Kamila (to the dog): very cool!
Sasha (to the dog): Well done!
Presenter: this is the answer to Dmitry.
Next question: Kamila, you said "almost maximum". What would be the full maximum?
Kamila: Well, that is, there is always something to strive for. According to my feelings today, in the state in which I was today, I went out on the ice - yes, I did my best. But the way I skate in training [indicates] that I can do better. I will strive for this.
Next question: Sasha, you missed a lot of time (again it is hard to hear, but it is clear that we are talking about the possible impact of the injury)
Sasha: I didn't skate for three weeks, didn't go out on the ice at all, then (the dog squeaks again) more than a month ago I returned to the skating rink. I just skated for a while. Then she started jumping, gradually recovering.
Presenter: Let’s ask two more questions, otherwise it’s already quite late.
Next question: Congratulations on the successful completion of the competition! Your names are now known all over the world. They have become synonymous with talent, victories, pride, joy. Today you can say “absolutely perfect girl”, or you can replace this expression with “Anna Shcherbakova”, you can say “the first in the world”, or replace this expression with “Alexandra Trusova”, you can say (something about ballet), or replace on "Kamila Valieva". Therefore, I want to ask why you were given exactly such names. And also - do you know about the origin of your surnames. If you know about it - please share with us.
Kamila: After the free program, we are probably not ready to answer such questions ...
Sasha: my parents liked the name Alexander, and they called me Alexandra. I don’t know about the last name. It's all.
Kamila: No, I'm not ready ... I can say something wrong, it's better not to say anything.
Anna: I don't even know ... I don't know ...
Next question: Congratulations on the completion of the Russian Championship, on the successful selection for the European Championship. The question is this: the first Olympic champion from the Tutberidze team, Yulia Lipnitskaya, climbed an impromptu podium for five years and imagined that she would receive a gold medal at the Olympics. How do you imagine the Olympics even before you came to this competition? I would like to hear the answer not only from the dog Alexandra Trusova.
Kamila: Let's do it this way: we live in this moment, in this second, and there is still no point in thinking about the Olympics even now, when it is so close. We will work and prepare - for now, for the European Championship. Well, that's it.
Presenter: Let's have one last question, because it's already quite late
Next question: Congratulations on your medals, Kamila on the first place. The question is very short: apparently, to Anna Shcherbakova - (again illegible, something about another bear).
Anna (didn't hear the question, Kamila tells her): I'll take it home, like the rest of the bears. Mom and I have already discussed how many new shelves I should hang in order to find a place for all the new bears that were thrown to me at this championship. So I want to use this opportunity to thank all my fans for always supporting me so much and for putting on such a teddy fall after each performance. Thanks to them!
Presenter: come on, radio of Russia, the last question, that's all
Next question: congratulations on your victory at the Russian Championship, as well as Happy New Year. The impressions from the championship are so vivid that you have to drink sedatives. All foreign athletes saw how long our bench is. Three years ago, in Saransk, when figure skaters were leaving the ice, passing through a crowd of fans, no one could have imagined that another young generation of athletes would grow up so quickly in our country. You are calm about the fact that those who are still competing for juniors are already breathing in the back of your head - after all, they will soon become competitors for you. And another festive question - where will you rest, how will you relieve yourself of emotions after this competition?
Kamila: Competition is always good in all sports. Probably, it even stimulates when you know that next season there will be new girls on the ice who have quads, triple axels. That is, my task is to continue working, to maintain myself at a high level. This year I will most likely be celebrating the New Year in Moscow. I wanted to visit my relatives in Kazan, but this year it is undesirable to travel somewhere once again, so I will stay in Moscow and walk with my dog (laughs). I will try to distract myself from figure skating as much as possible, but I really want to visit the open skating rink at VDNKh, or in Gorky Park.
Sasha: About new girls - I agree with Kamila. Most of the new promising girls are in our group, and I see that they even have a different attitude to quadruple jumps. For them it was just the norm, but for us it was something new. I will celebrate the New Year at home, with my family and with a huge number of dogs.
Anna: You remembered the Russian championship in Saransk and, as Sasha said, a lot has changed since then. At that moment, when we jumped quadruples, it seemed incredible, but now it has become normal. I would like to continue to be at the same level, to keep in good shape. I will try to spend the maximum amount of time practicing quadruple jumps, increasing the complexity of the elements. And I will celebrate the New Year as usual - at home, with my family. The elder sister has finally arrived, we have not seen her for a long time. So I will be with my family, with my parents, sisters, cats and dogs.
(the dog squeaks again, everyone laughs)
Presenter: girls, with a victory, with medals, Happy New Year!
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the sound was just disgusting unfortunately
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