What happened to Elena Sokolova?
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From what I heard she got married and earlier this year had a baby.
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Yep, and coaches kids. She was at some local Russian event with her students last season and looked happy
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Given her poor competition results during that last season and the way she was dumped by her federation and publicly called lazy, I have to assume she ate too many cupcakes.
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Now that's funny!!
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Here is Elena's most famous performance, winning the silver medal at 2003 Worlds. (Dick Button and Peggy Fleming weren't entirely thrilled, but the judges gave her a lot of 5.9's for both technical and presentation.)
She did 7 triples including an opening triple Lutz/ triple toe, with a great edge on the Lutz. She almost beat Michelle Kwan for the championship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbIKXBwb670
She did 7 triples including an opening triple Lutz/ triple toe, with a great edge on the Lutz. She almost beat Michelle Kwan for the championship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbIKXBwb670
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She was reborn in the form of a sassy young brunette girl named Anna Ovcharova. 
She's a mini-Sokolova, only better.
She's a mini-Sokolova, only better.
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*Underrotated Triple Toe on the end of that Triple Lutz (underrotated in the SP as well). I think Sokolova has executed a sufficiently rotated 3-3 only once in her whole competitive career (2004 Euros). The rest would have been downgraded.
She really wasn't close to winning. Her technical marks, with an extra triple over Kwan, averaged out to be the same (although she got more 5.9's) and her presentation marks were far lower. The performance was clearly not as artistic or emotionally inspired and the basic skating ability was clearly much lower. She basically just won the Russian judge.
If we are going to make threads for the russian ladies, can we also make one for Maria Butyrskaya pretty please
I vote yes also! I am especially fond of Irina. I love her sunny, straightforward personality and her splendid power on the ice. She always seemed to me to be someone who got the best out of each moment of life, in easy times and hard times. Ptichka, any news from the Russian papers or sites?
Agree. It wasn't close at all. I think Elena and her fed thought it was for some strange reason.
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If we are going to make threads for the russian ladies, can we also make one for Maria Butyrskaya pretty please
Again, they were reincarnated in the form of teenagers.
Irina Slutskaya --> Polina Shelepen
Maria Butyrskaya --> Ksenia Makarova
Again, they were reincarnated in the form of teenagers.
Irina Slutskaya --> Polina Shelepen
Maria Butyrskaya --> Ksenia Makarova
I'm hopeful that Russian will soon have Marias and Irinas.
But I hope that all those young Russian girls find the heart and soul that Maria and Irina came to have. Neither were perfect skaters but they both find their styles and stayed true to it.Here's Maria's exhibition performance at Nagano. So gorgeous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Y6HPCD0a8&feature=related
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I had read somewhere she (Irina) is expecting a second baby maybe?
There were rumours about that a while back, but I think she would have had the baby by now if it had been true.
I loved Sokolova in the 1997-1998 season. She got a lot of bad press in later years for having poor edgework (which was true) and for her triple-triples being underrotated, but at least she was trying them.
I'm very hopeful about the Russian youngsters.
