I cannot like this post enough. After this season and the ***show at the Olympics I am so glad that Aliona is hopefully done with TT for good. In an ideal world I’d love to see her with good programs again skating for herself with a smile but yeah, most of all I just want her to be healthy, happy, and with people who respect and value her the way she (the way ANY skater) deserves to be respected and valued.
legally an 18 year old has more rights than a 17 year old, but emotionally and mentally there is no difference.
literally no different than how they treated Kamila at the olympics. that poor girl had just experienced the most traumatic week and day of her entire life and all Eteri could say to her was she gave up. they really are nothing to them.
Yeah.... disposable products
we don't know that.
Also, frankly, having had injuries is almost certainly a large part of why she has a mental block around elements like 3a and quads. Many skaters have said that after serious injuries they were more scared about doing difficult jumps than before. They know firsthand how badly things can go wrong.
Not defect but transfer. I have a country in mind and alyona has missed the last 2 nationals so maybe it's not impossible. Everyone now knows if you transfer it's to continue your career and to get International starts it's not that you don't love your homeland anymore.
Why not? She's of no particular value as a medal contender.
I want more than that for her. I want her to rise like a phoenix and beat all of them, because she is the best and most beautiful of them all.
yes, evgenia mentioned that when you grow up your survival instincts are activated
Just two years ago aliona was the best lady skater in the world with the best skating skills by far and the most beautiful skater as well. But releasing her to compete for another country is highly unlikely this is not like the nastya situation who did not skate internationally for 3 years and releasing her was the right thing to do after screwing her career for years. Nastya can maybe score 215 points tops next season aliona can score 240 points if she ever gets her triple axle back and her skating skills scores back in the 9s. But because she's missed two national championships in a row maybe she can start the process of leaving especially call it emergency situation and since Russia is not competing at Worlds and maybe not next season it could be considered an emergency situation and she could transfer to a country like Georgia which would be perfect for her because she knows everybody there and would become #1 there easily. Unlikely to happen but why not give it a shot? I mean if KV was really given medicines by a doctor that caused this positive test that ruined her olympics and probably her career wouldn't she have and emergency situation to transfer countries? These girls have to learn to watch out for themselves and their parents have to help them with that and not let the coaches and doctors do everything. The coaches at TT are great at coaching but that's it.
