And i hope that she will finally retire. Letting others get medals that they deserve.
Evgenia Medvedeva withdraws from Worlds 2018
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And i hope that she will finally retire. Letting others get medals that they deserve.
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do you really doubt Alina's podium finish? wow, the girl who was undefeated the whole season? i know, weird things can happen, but missing the podium?
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With a 62 but that unbeatable free still won her the competition.
Ice is slippery yes but the example that you brought up strengths the chances of her winning rather than makes us doubt it.
Zagitova has won every competition since the JGP Final 2016/17: 2017 JW, 2017 Lombardia Trophy, 2017 CoC, 2017 TDF, 2017-18 GPF, 2018 Russian Nationals, 2018 Europeans, 2018 Olympics. That's NINE competitions in a row. So she is not only undefeated this season, she has a long undefeated string reaching back into last season.
I doubt that even next season she can relax.
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to be correct after 2017 Russian Nationals.
Actually Matteo skated better at the Oly than at Junior Worlds, where he popped two jumps in the LP. And that, of course, impacted not only the TES, but the PCS too.
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Was Gubanova clean? yes. were her toe jumps still ridiculously ugly and in need of revamping? yes.
if people deserve their place simply by placing at the JGPF, then we wouldn't have had this discussion -- Anastasia Tarakanova would've gone (and would've medaled)
and they had no way of knowing about Evgenia. Making assumptions about this sort of thing is incredibly wrong.
She is not loved by Eteri and therefore by the Fed.
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This literally doesn't make any sense. Eteri has nothing to do with how RusFed works nor with the results at RusNats.
Excuse me, Sir. but the evidence of Stolbova's doping ?
Eteri is giving Russia medals on medals, and RusFed doesn't agree with her on how she ranks her own athletes ???!!!
And with that horrible FS Eteri gave Polina, even if she would have skated it perfectly, she couldn't ever arrive higher that 4th or 5th.
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Please. Polina scored 210 at NHK with those programs! She is not the one who ranks the athletes, those are called judges.
And yet if we look at how Gubanova and Stanislava skated at both Sr and Jr Nationals this season, we can clearly see how biased the national judges are. Gubanova would have beaten Stanislava on both occasions IMO if judged by international panel. There are many Jr ladies, not only Gubanova, who were more deserving based on their skating this season to go to Jr Worlds.
In Sr Worlds, I would literally die of laughter if Russia loses one spot because of their poor judgement. Elena R scored 196 and 205 on her two GP events. Polina was scored similar, with 210 and 195. Heck, even sending Serafima would make more sense because she at least scored 189 in Skate America.
Meanwhile, the girl they chose to send to Jr Worlds AND Sr Worlds managed to win in her career a single silver medal in the Jr Grand Prix circuit. That's it. I refuse to compare some scores she got on Senior B events this season with how the other girls scored on the GP circuit. I have absolutely nothing against her as a skater, I just do not understand why the federation pushes her up so much.
Meanwhile, wishing Evgenia a speedy recovery!
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Lol .... me too! I actually like Stasya but the federation getting caught playing favorites would be hilarious. Que’s up the TAT interview
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Agree. I'm sure Eteri does not like Stasya, yet Stasya gets high scores.
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I don't think Eteri cares about Stasya at all. She's pretty busy with her own skaters.
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Because of Konstantinova, Polina isn’t sent to WC. And possibly Anastasia Takaranova was robbed of a JWC spot as well.
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The 'evil' RusFed just can't do anything right - if they follow the rules and put on the team skaters who placed best at nationals - they are at fault if they chose by reputation/BoW -they are wrong too...
hwell:
I get it that people are surprised that an unknown girl is to go to Worlds when the Russian ladies field is so deep, but ironically at a closer look the senior eligible ladies are not doing so well so Stanislava is not that surprising choice after all. As already were said by other posters, Anna, Elena, Liza, Polina all have problems either with injuries or their form. Of course there might be some politicking involved in addition - like not letting Eteri to dominate totally but mainly I think the Fed sees in Stanislava a star quality and wants to give her a chance (and I hope she'll use it well). I am not a fan (yet) but there is no denying that her speed and ice coverage could rival that's of Caro in her best days. Stanislava is also very expressive she just needs a bit of polish and most of all more consistency. Wishing her good luck in Milan!
hwell:I get it that people are surprised that an unknown girl is to go to Worlds when the Russian ladies field is so deep, but ironically at a closer look the senior eligible ladies are not doing so well so Stanislava is not that surprising choice after all. As already were said by other posters, Anna, Elena, Liza, Polina all have problems either with injuries or their form. Of course there might be some politicking involved in addition - like not letting Eteri to dominate totally but mainly I think the Fed sees in Stanislava a star quality and wants to give her a chance (and I hope she'll use it well). I am not a fan (yet) but there is no denying that her speed and ice coverage could rival that's of Caro in her best days. Stanislava is also very expressive she just needs a bit of polish and most of all more consistency. Wishing her good luck in Milan!
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