Maria Sotskova

RemyRose said:

Maria in Tchernyshev's show "frog princess"!

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RemyRose said:

Maria with Polina and Anastasia (2)
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sunnystars said:

The main wholesome content I subscribed for [emoji7]

I never get why the camaraderie and friendship that blossomed in this group continues to be underappreciated by others.

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RemyRose said:

New pics of Maria and her mother Zhanna!

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- You didn’t go to the Russian Cup final in Veliky Novgorod, but to the Universiade?

- Yes, she has plans.

- That is, if Elizaveta Tuktamysheva or Stanislava Konstantinova withdraw, will you go?

- I'm getting ready, but we'll see. I was told to be in shape, and, of course, I want to speak there.

- The season is coming to an end anyway, you seem to be more likely to restart it. It turns out?

- Yes, the season was hard, a flop. But after the previous two or three years of stability, this was predictable. The Olympics took a lot of strength and emotion, it was hard to restructure. Plus, I changed the image, worked a lot on the components, and, as a result, suffered the technical part. It is also unknown what will happen to the Universiade, but I would like to show a decent result on it. But in general, you need to tune in to the next season, think about what to do, in which direction to work, so that there are no such failures. Bring yourself in shape, review everything.

- Just about the future and I would like to talk. First, how to pull up the technique? Your attitude to the quad is changing, will you teach them? Or you can win without them?

- Definitely it is impossible to say, this is an individual question, it depends on the person. Now all the girls are progressing very fast, triple axels, quadruple many jump already. Probably, it is possible without quadruple - but it is necessary to make complex combinations, insert them into the end. In this scenario, you can fight. I can say about my quadruple - it will be a feat if I jump him, with my dimensions. It is traumatic, especially in my case, and emotionally difficult to tune in, but nothing is impossible.

- Next season, competition will intensify after the arrival of juniors. Does it affect you?

- Competition has always been high, but I am more interested in their own form. Therefore ... not that what is happening with others does not concern me, but I still can't do anything about it, why bother?

- You are talking about problems with physical condition, maturation. With this you can fight, somehow slow down?

- Everybody goes through this period, every girl, not one has slipped through. Someone rebuffs, someone not quite. The body grows, everything changes, and it becomes very hard to work. I put a lot more power than before, but this is still not enough.

- Perhaps, on the contrary, take a pause?

- A break is not about me, I have a thirst to work. Need to endure these features of the human body. Then everything will work out, forever it will not.

- You said that growing up affects you and mentally, that you think more often. What about learning? Or is it just a reflection?

- No study during the competition and training that you are! ( Laughs. ) I'm disconnected. Just before I went out and rolled everything on the machine. With age, there are doubts in performance, and the realization of the scale of events around has come: what is the tournament, what is next for it, why am I doing this? I thought it was bad when I was in myself and did not hear the audience. However, it turned out that too close contact with them during the rental - even worse. Of course, figure skating is an art and interaction with the audience. But it takes time to put everything together - the elements and components.

- Do not you think that the rules of figure skating are not in your favor. You can forget a little about the image and just jump - and you will be high?

- I would not say that one of the skaters forgets about the image. Everyone is working on choreography, they come up with beautiful programs, I don’t keep silence about costumes and hair styles. The main thing - all in the same conditions. If you go out in a beautiful dress and just roll around without jumping, they will not put anything to you, and vice versa. Win those who possess a combination of all the skills.

- This year you didn’t have a chance at the Russian Championship. Apart from this season, it is usually on him that the fate of the vouchers for the national team is decided. Is the system fair, when one tournament decides everything or much?

- As far as I remember, in recent seasons, people who showed themselves well at the Grand Prix stages in the final, got into the national team. All of us are not robots, there are misfires, but, as a rule, the leaders of the Russian championship also show themselves, so the selection goes gradually, in stages. The federation, everyone follows this and takes it into account.

- Allow me to ask directly: who should go to the World Cup, in addition to Zagitova and Samodurova ?

- Listen, all girls are worthy and equally deserve it. They should skate the final of the Russian Cup, and let the judges decide.

“Will they recognize you on the streets?”

- Yes, it happens, the metro is asked to take a picture, on the street. It's nice when people are interested, they know our sport, because we do everything for the audience.

- You recently on Instagram asked friends to drop numbers because of problems with the phone. How many times more numbers come than you have friends?

- ( Laughs .) I also thought that the rush would start and be overwhelmed with the left numbers, but everything went fine. The couple who excelled, of course, was, with phrases like "call me", but no more.

- Recently, biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova published a tough post on Instagram with a general idea: “Fans, let us run the race, and I will eat potato chips, look at you.” He caused a heated discussion. Athletes have the right to maintain social networks, as they like? Or is it not their personal business?

- Very fine line. It doesn't matter to what extent, but we, sportsmen, are media personalities, we have a large audience. For example, our footballers and so dick, and then they expose themselves with a hookah in some kind of karaoke. Of course, people immediately negative. The biathlete you are talking about may have boiled over. She must have written a lot of things, she was also worried about a person, so she exploded. Athletes have the right to relax, to express themselves as they want, but it is not always worth exposing for everyone to see. It is necessary to do it in doses. As I was convinced after one interview, any word we use can be used against us.

- This is not the one in which you say that in Elena Buyanova’s group there is no such pressure as Eteri Tutberidze?

- Yes. I did not want to offend anyone and did not say anything bad there. But people inflated a massive scandal, argued that I did not have the right to say something I did not know about. But I just expressed my opinion, answered the question.

- And faced with h*terism?

- Yes, the h*ters attacked me. Initially, it was under the video "Vkontakte", then moved to other social networks, news, and as a result in Instagram began to come endless messages with the message that I had no right to speak. I kept silent, for the clever gone. These are the unponipoints that have occurred.

- Should we fight this at all? You probably notice the hysteria around Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva this season.

- Big excitement around girls, yes. I don’t think that it somehow affects, they don’t care what they write. They go out on the ice every day and work, all of us. Why all these comments - is unclear. Apparently, people are bored. Of course, I also read what they write about me, because I'm interested. But if I encounter a negative, I have it on a level: “Oh, it seems, there are problems here,” then I close the window and do not think.

- In the summer you entered GITIS. How do you study, what is it like to combine?

- Nothing, I closed the first session, I really like it, while it turns out to combine, I plan further. There are no indulgences, they still close their eyes for passes, but I rent all the items on full-time grounds. In general, in the 11th grade I was so shook up, oh, this difficult life choice ... At first I wanted for medicine, then I realized that it would be hard to study and that working with people was not easy. Then I thought to the Higher School of Economics, maybe I’ll become an entrepreneur. Just in RGUFK really did not want to go.

But in the end I chose GITIS, I set myself the goal of doing something, I was preparing for a long time, I taught the history of the theater and ballet. The exams were hard, stayed two days from 11 am to 9 pm. I turned gray there, I guess. She came as an athlete without experience, and there are people from the Bolshoi Theater, dance troupes. I thought, without a chance, the competition more than five people in place. But I had all this so interesting, and I wanted to do so, that in the end I passed, I achieved my goal. Hopefully, with the closest goals in figure skating will be the same.

-DMITRY KUZNETSOV

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DenissVFan said:

Good news. I thought from the start that she deserved that spot, since she physically goes to university during the week at the cost of the training hours.

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starla16 said:

but the chances of a medal are slim, Gubanova should have been better alternate.

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starla16 said:

but the chances of a medal are slim, Gubanova should have been better alternate.

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RemyRose said:

There are actually requirements for Universiade and Gubanova as DenissVFan has stated, meets none of them as do most of the Russian ladies. Only 4 I think meet the requirement and Tukt and Med aren't going. Only option left was Maria and Stanislava.

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DenissVFan said:

I only counted 4 too (Maria, Stasya, Liza, Zhenya). Alena L. has aged out and Anna P. and Lena are not currently competing.

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RemyRose said:

Maria is no longer going to Universiade.

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Medvedeva vs. Zagitova, Medvedeva vs. Tuktamysheva, Medvedeva ... It’s time to take a break before Saitama and get accustomed to Masha and Stas. Universiade without war!

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