Kurokovas life for one is entirely in Poland and France. Thre is no Russia at all. It just doesn’t exist in her life anymore.
2026 Olympics: Women's Free Skate
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Alysa's joy before, during, and after her skate was so palpable and.... even across the board.
I honestly do think she would have been just as joyful if she skated well and landed in any position. Very refreshing to see + the Japanese girls seemed to have a great attitude as well. Just a feel good finale all around.
I honestly do think she would have been just as joyful if she skated well and landed in any position. Very refreshing to see + the Japanese girls seemed to have a great attitude as well. Just a feel good finale all around.
If Andrew can use it coming off the ice at another event, she can use it at this one. I'm for equal rights.
If all athletes can adopt Alysa's philosophy, then competitions would be more fun, less stressful, less heartbreaks, and the athletes would be perform better. In general, it seems that athletes who perform as if there was nothing to lose do better than when they have everything to lose.
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I've already realized that you haven't watched (and are basically clueless about Russian women's singles).
Let's assume that we have about 25 Novices who make successful attempts at quadruple jumps and 3A. Some more ultras players will join them in juniors a few years later. Assuming that between 15 and 18 years old many will lose their strengths and drop out, that still gives us about 5 to 10 extra high level players at the adult level. This is already enough to staff the national team with terminators.
If we're seeing a trend toward the return of ultras for women over 18, the adult generation has a good chance of breaking back into the game as well.
There is no stopping it anymore because it has become commonplace in mass competition.
I AM interested in what is happening in Russia, and I follow the Russian GP and Nationals. I have no interest in the jump competitions though, as I find them boring.
Valieva and Trusova were exceptional, but let's be honest, Trusova was never the best skater out there, she relied completely on her quads, and yet she never won anything big. Shcherbakova and/or Kostornaia was always ahead of her. And then came Valieva that outskated Trusova even without quads.
It's great that Trusova comes back, but I don't think she will ever be a top threat internationally as she totally relies on her quads and I don't think she will restore them all successfully.
Valieva is totally another case. She has HUGE potential to score high internationally, but unfortunately, I don't know how judges will judge her after what happened in 2022. It's unfair, I know, but she will probably have that working against her.
My point though, as I said above, I don't think even Trusova and Valieva will have the level of ultra-C that they used to have...
And as I said above, this year's Russian Nationals didn't have much ultra-C to shout about. Dvoeglazova a 4Lz(q) (still a junior), Zakharova two 4Ts. That's all.
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That would be awesome! It would mean Russia would have ceased its war with Ukraine in the next 12 months.
I wonder when that's happening!
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Yeah, but she was born in Moscow. Kurakova began learning to skate in 2006 at the age of four. She was coached first by Natalia Dubinskaya at the Moskvich Olympic Reserve School and later by Inna Goncharenko at CSKA Moscow. Representing Russia, she competed internationally in the advanced novice category for two seasons beginning in 2013–14 and then as a junior for two seasons.
After Orser she trained with Ekaterina Turenko - who is, you guessed it, Russian. During the Covid pandemic she decided to move to Egna since she had friends in Poland and Russia.
So, yeah. That's not ZERO connection to Russia even if now she doesn't associate with them. Her foundation of the skater who she is today was established in Russia.
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Oh, please.
Alyssa had just finished her last Olympic competition skate and her adrenaline was probably still pumping like crazy. Given the situation, I'm not about to blame her for an f-bomb.
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When I read such statements, I want to suggest to everyone to be consistent, to go further and go back to the 1900s, because development of sport is evil, and degradation and stagnation is good. But there is a problem: nowadays almost nobody knows how to make ice figures that would satisfy the judges from the 1900's
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Not at all. A huge embarrassment for the Olympics was 2022-- the doping of the women's leader going in, the women's silver medalist throwing a huge tantrum over her result, and the women's gold medalist all alone, ignored by coaches, hearing about her win but hardly taking it in. Now, that's embarrassing. And sad. Thank goodness for bronze medalist Kaori in that fiasco.
Today was gorgeous skating, and it's a new day for medalists and others being happy for themselves and their competitors.
Alysa Liu is an absolute revolution in figure skating. She skates for the love of it and has discovered that her reward is the skating and the joy.
But no one in Russia cares! If no one actually in Russia cares you are not Russian especially if you are actually polish now
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Sofia's is entirely in Kazakhstan and California.
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Oh come on. If clutching pearls was an Olympic sport, you'd win gold.
That was epic. There's adrenaline going through them, and they are on an emotional high. So what if they drop an expletive. These skaters are human, and athletes in general are human.
Also, I don't know if you know Alysa but she's not exactly the demure, coy, ice princess.
And if young girls/kids are watching - the takeaway isn't the f-bomb it's her performance. But you know what? Maybe young girls do need to know via the new woman's Olympic champion that it's totally okay to speak, feel, and act freely, and express their emotions (especially after a life-defining moment).
After all, now it's women's, not ladies.
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Correct me, but isn't that three times as much ultra C as was shown in the Olympics? Barring a dropped 4T Petrosyan, the stats would be 3-0 in favor of a national start.
I'm also not going to mention the RusNat competitors who successfully landed 1 or more 3As, since you don't mention them. But even here the stats are not in favor of the Olympics.
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And even Johnny Weir apologized to us viewers.
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I don't think lowball.
Only once in front of judges before olympics . They didn't have time to develop program before olympics.
.only twice both top 10 or 6 and have decent pcs.
No did quite well.
Needed more time to show development to medal or win .
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People in Russia don't care about a lot of things. Doesn't change facts like where people were born.
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If Trusova returns to the grand prix stages (and she has the opportunity to do so if Russia is allowed in neutral status or God knows how else) with all triple jumps and a stable quadlutz and possibly another quad, are you sure that won't be enough to win? In the current situation?
I'm not really sure about the seriousness of her plans, but I'm fascinated by the speed of her recovery. Mind you, she's 21 and she's post-op. There's a sense that the era of new adult female ultra-C athletes is coming. They have been trained in these jumps since childhood, as Kamila and Sasha's example shows, they have no trouble remembering how to do it.
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