Like I said about Trusova yesterday, she had no intention of competing in the final. She never had any intention of competing in the Russian Nationals either. I guess she held the thermometer under her armpit and sent the team doctor a photo.
I mean, you just had to look at that photo where she's holding the thermometer with her enormous fingernails that looked like talons. What serious skater would go out in a national championship with those fingernails? But that could be seen in how she had performed in previous skates where she was gassed and sweaty after performing relatively simple programs that there was no way she would go out there. Maybe a short program at most then withdraw.
Getting back to the GP final, I think it's really terrible the way she's led her fans along first with the Russian Nationals and now the GP final. She's also inconvenienced skaters like Adelia who could have prepared themselves better for the final.
Please, don't tell me she wasn't sure because she was off on a Dubai vacation last month. Who prepares in the middle of the season, a season where you have struggled for form and have no fitness, by being lazy in Dubai?
Disrespectful to her fans, disrespectful to her colleagues. This is a person who organised an impromptu autograph session while her colleagues were in the building skating their free programs, so what can one expect I suppose.
It's going to be a great final and even better now with the addition of Adelia.