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Tatiana Tarasova is 70!

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I wanna say BIG thank you, Tatiana Anatolyevna, for all what you did not only for Russian Figure Skating, but also for whole World Figure Skating.

I wish you be always healthy, young, strong and, of course, happy!

Congratulations! :)
 
:cheer: HAPPY 70[SUP]th[/SUP] BIRTHDAY TAT!!! :cheer:

:cheer: :clap: :rock: :party2: :hb: :points:

I hope you are having an enjoyable day, and that the next year is a good one for you!

And I hope you continue to entertain us for many more years to come. ;) :biggrin:

Here's a wee trip down memory lane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDeDqBWk0LY

CaroLiza_fan
 
alexei.yagudin: Dear!!! My beloved!!! Unequalled!!! Thank you for the door into life which you have opened for me! For your trust in me! Thank you, that you turned "the flying stool" into an Olympic champion! That I have two moms! That you exist!! I love you with all my heart and wish you many happy years, health and happiness!!
#the-best-coach-on-the-Earth
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQdCbg1FQj1/

Yagudin believes Tatiana Anatolievna is 18 years old
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQX0_fBF3c4/

alexei.yagudin: For you! For your parents!!! 🥂🥂🥂
#the-best-coach-on-the-Earth #thank-you-for everything
(On the video Tatiana Anatolievna says: "Let's drink for my dad and mom. For my dad who loved so much his work, who was an absolute genius...")
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQdmlC8l_96/

tatianatotmyanina: Dear and respected Tatiana Anatolievna, happy birthday! Thank you for EVERYTHING!!! Wish you many happy years, health and inspiration!!! Love you!!! ❤❤❤🌺🌺🌺🌺💤
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQdXKHJjr51/

Tatiana Tarasova and Alexei Yagudin - "I'll stand by you"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkvswbd0kDY

ilyaaverbukhofficial
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQcYCn-Bu-r/
 
They were going to have two shows, but there will be even three shows.

The skaters: Ekaterina Gordeeva, Ilya Kulik, Adelina Sotnikova, Evgenia Medvedeva, Elena Radionova, Maxim Kovtun, Bobrova and Soloviev, Stepanova and Bukin, Totmianina and Marinin, Navka and Kostomarov, Domnina and Shabalin, Petrova and Tikhonov, Drobyazko and Vanagas, Denkova and Staviski, Alexei Yagudin (who is also the host). Bestemianova and Bukin are mentioned too, but I am not sure, that they are going to skate.

Tatiana Anatolievna also had a press-conference on 13 February. Averbukh and Yagudin were with her. After the press-conference Yagudin, Totmianina and Marinin, Navka and Kostomarov, Petrova and Tikhonov were skating (Ilya Averbukh was the host). They were skating on the Red Square, by the way!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQdnLFPDwxm/
http://www.perm.kp.ru/photo/68352/1240862/
http://visualrian.ru/ru/images/zooms/RIAN_3028184.jpg

http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sh...rbukh-s-team&p=1630937&viewfull=1#post1630937
 
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xam_trankov: Tatiana Anatolievna Tarasova. The person whose role in my sportive life was nearly the most important. She still takes care about me, still teaches me (even out of sport). This is her seventieth anniversary. I don't have enough words to tell about all my feelings to this great woman and I am greateful to God, that I had a chance to be close to this legend. Happy birthday, Tatiana Anatolievna.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQcpIlIjM1_/

fire_bird: Happy Birthday, dear Tatiana Anatolievna!!! You are a legend!!! Many follow you, live like you!!! Be always so energetic, positive, inspiring!!! Wish you great health and endless happiness!!! ❤🌟🌹💐🌹🌸🌷😘
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQcrVKBBF-5/

mariapetrova1977: A great evening!!! Tatiana Anatolievna's anniversary!!! Happy Birthday!!! Congratulations from our team!!!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQe6wNNgZ2W/

maksim_pavlovich: Came to the Legend's bday. 😁😎
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQdT1uYFiCT/

maksim_pavlovich: With the hero of the occasion, the best one )
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQdsrzGlNtQ/

(we say not "the hero" in this case; the word, which he uses means, that this occasion is her fault)

Peter Tchernyshev
https://fotki.yandex.ru/next/users/evge-chesnokov/album/175114/view/982154?page=1

a book
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQhpMuHBZsm/

more photos
https://fotki.yandex.ru/users/natali-ya1/album/168318?&p=4
https://www.flickr.com/photos/evasileva/sets/72157676814807953
https://fotki.yandex.ru/users/evge-chesnokov/album/175114

The Icegladiator forum has a new "hat" again. (a new picture on the top) With TAT.
15 years ago they won the Olympics.
http://s018.radikal.ru/i509/1702/70/9fc9089b04a1.gif
 
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Tatiana Anatolievna and Yagudin
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQn5px1DeX_/

Alexei Nikolayevich Mishin :)
http://visualrian.ru/ru/site/gallery/index/id/3031626/context/{"feature":"541731"}/


The video (the show, February 17th)
It is not full, and it goes with pauses. Somebody writes, that The First Channel should show this performance, so we can expect a better video soon.
https://life.ru/streams/696
Tarasova: "I don't know who will come. It is surprise."

on this video:
Petrova and Tikhonov, Radionova, Domnina and Shabalin, Bestemianova and Bukin, Stepanova and Bukin, Kavaguti and Smirnov, Drobyazko and Vanagas, "Carmen" (Leonova and Khvalko), Sotnikova, Bobrova and Soloviev, Medvedeva

Spivakov is the most charming guest :coffee:
talking, talking...
Yagudin: You haven't seen each other for a long time, I guess.
Spivakov: We haven't seen each other for a long time, and we want to talk, don't disturb us.
Yagudin: Maybe the champion of Europe and World could skate while you are talking?
Spivakov: No, nobody should disturb us.
Yagudin: Well, yet I tried. I'll run to the kitchen to make tea.
Spivakov: OK. Don't forget about sugar. ...

It is said, that the guests (not the skaters, but the singers and the musicians) are different in the three shows, so shows are different.
 
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Tarasova is awarded an Order of Merit for Country of the IV Degree (she had a lll Degree in 1998).
http://rsport.ru/figure_skating/20170213/1116293686.html

There was a new documentary on the First Channel about Tatiana Anatolievna.

Tatiana Anatolievna also was at Urgant's evening show on the First Channel (15.02.2017). This is the moment, when she shows the book (about her friends, this is a present from Averbukh). She says about this photo, that these were the last Olympics for her father (ice-hockey) and the first Olympics for her (she was 25 y.o.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN33VVOS0lo&t=11m29s
She says about the shows, that she doesn't know, who will be there, what will be there... Urgant says, that this is the best invitation: who will be there, what will be there...
Kulik said to Tarasova, that older he gets - better he understands what Tarasova had done for him.
Urgant says: "You always cheer us, you make us better".

another Tarasova's visit to Urgant (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9f7pHIZa94&t=1m25s

Tarasova's anniversary - montage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhMgT1vIQFE
 
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Jhonny Weir
(http://rsport.ru/blogs/20170213/1116266407.html)
I started to work with Tatiana Anatolievna not at in the best times of my career. She succeeded to make me trust in myself so strongly, that in the first year, that we worked together, I won the USA Nationals. I am so grateful to her, because it was the first time, when I succeeded to trust in myself. I know, that it is thanks to her I became better as an athlete and as an artist.
At the 2006 Olympics I had the honour of performing a masterpiece, which Tatiana Anatolievna and me created during the last summer, that she worked in USA. I was skating "The Swan" and I felt, that I can show to all the world what I am. Tatiana Anatolievna helped me to believe, that it is absolutely wonderful to be unique.
My favourite memories about the work with Tatiana Anatolievna are ordinary, not connected with sport. I liked how intensively her group was working together. I liked, that she was like a mother to all of us. She always gave us all her heart on the trainings. I liked those moments, when we tried to understand her mood, when she arrived to the rink, and we could understand, whether the training was going to be hard or simple.
She is a wonderful teacher. She is strict, when it is necessary, and she is nurturing and loving, when it is necessary. Before the 2006 Olympic season we differed in opinion about the music for my free program. We were arguing with fervency, and the electricity switched off, we stayed in the darkness. It was horrible! Tatiana Anatolievna isn't afraid to demonstrate her emotions and to speak her mind, that is why she is a great coach.
I am so grateful to Tatiana Anatolievna for her work with me, that she trusted in me. She always supported me, and when a sport legend supports you, you can believe, that you have a chance. She also supported me later, when I worked with Galina Yakovlevna Zmievskaya, always praised me, was proud of me. She is the one who supported me from the very beginning in the high-level sport, I am really grateful, that such a person took an interest in me, it changed my life.
Unfortunately, I can't come to Russia now and to give Tatiana Anatolievna a bouquet of flowers. Yet I have a special present for her, which I'll send to her. I wish her health, love, happiness and "so much glamour"!

Evgeni Plushenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tCACY1ES24
Tatiana Anatolievna! Greetings! I want to greet you a happy anniversary with all my heart. 70 years! Sincerely I wish you... I really wish you with all my heart health, health and health once again. Be happy! I leave open the possibility, that you will give many other worthy athletes for Russian Federation. We respect you very much. Be happy!
 
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The press-conference with subtitles (13 February)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1XI2ycU5cg (10 minutes)

Alexei Yagudin:
I can speak for a length of time about the reasons why I am grateful to Tatiana Anatolievna, yet likely the main thing is that I have two moms in my life. Two real moms who never will betray me. /.../
The main thing, that you always listened and heard the people which surrounded you.
The doors of your home were always opened almost for everyone: for friends, for enemies, for some strangers.

Ilya Averbukh:
... And all these people keep saying: "she is our strength", "our backbone", "icebreaker"... This is what she is. I think this is her main motivation: going and going on, and dragging all of us behind herself.
 
Those short videos which we have now:

Sotnikova ("I am a woman")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG3s-0idX_s

Sotnikova (and Orbakaite)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZFno845slM

Gordeeva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNIKgpKawAw&index=7

Kulik ("My way")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainXnK8b6x4

Kulik (and Matsuyev)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1hla-0Thik

(about Kulik)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7qnNYIc00
Tarasova: He asked to make a video of his skating. We did it. /.../ And he says: "Is that me?? Do I skate like this? I am a genius! We will win over everybody!" Yet I still didn't like something.
Tarasova: He had taught me to drive a car. He had been teaching me for 10 minutes. Since that I drive. Get away, when I go!

Bobrova - Soloviev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG9yxxlLcjQ

Kavaguti - Smirnov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvlnjZE6uWk

Bestemianova - Bukin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rd6gDkkIJ8

Stepanova - Bukin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2gSbyfsNtU

Kovtun ("I see trees of green")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3o4wo3X64

Medvedeva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhn-TB3KeMI

Navka - Kostomarov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0fzTEZgV7U

Totmianina - Marinin ("Let's pray for our parents")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS6aJ1ZsRH4

Radionova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViysdTsrXtE

Sinitsina - Katsalapov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RwLTRS9B9w

Domnina - Shabalin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3AuMUumNNk

Drobyazko - Vanagas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LcrBvtpTFc

Petrova - Tikhonov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVTDj7rzZsA

Denkova - Staviski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMmucBBCS8Y

It is said, that Pogorilaya also was in one show (or in 2 shows maybe).

Moskvina (skating!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvHGa8wmC1k
Yagudin expected, that maybe they were going to do a throw.
Tarasova reminds, that Kavaguti and Smirnov were the first pair who started to do 2 quad throws in a program.

Moroz - Tikhonov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIk3_jKl0Ak

Kirkorov makes all the audience sing "Happy birthday"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfFIScyYOa4

a cake with two hockey-players
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPjqIpQ8RhY
 
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Yagudin (and Kirkorov)
http://radikal.ru/video/jSo8xnUXeaR
They were telling, that when they started to work together, Yagudin said: "Do whatever you want to me".
Though Kulik warned Yagudin: "beware that you don't turn your toes up!" ("beware that she doesn't kill you!")
http://radikal.ru/video/xkImE0un7iQ
Tarasova: "You hear the music with every cell of your body. /.../ I didn't notice that at once, but after a month I saw it." /.../
Tarasova: "We lived in a forest, so that he wouldn't want to drive or to run anywhere..." /.../ We lived and worked there...
Yagudin: Happily!
Tarasova: He was running, all the paths in the forest and in the mountains were his.
Yagudin: Because I needed to socialize with somebody!
Tarasova: And we decided we would win!
Yagudin: Sure. We gathered all the animals, The Animal Council. "What will we do?" "We will win!"

Yagudin ("Winter")
Tarasova told, that she was glueing on the sparkles to this costume: taking with pincers, to the burner, to the glue, to the costume; taking with pincers, to the burner, to the glue, to the costume... Yagudin helped, but he says, that now only Tarasova's sparkles are still on the costume.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpHa6sTODec
Tarasova: We made it! We made it on the GPF! There were only 5 judges, and one of them was Russian!
(Tarasova even says what is the name of that Russian judge)
Yagudin: Oh, :) this is a tell-all night!
Tarasova: We won 3:2, the Russian judge was againt us.
 
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Kostomarov: The birthday of Tarasova T.A., 7.0 anniversary, gave an opportunity to meet the friends, whom I didn't see for a long time and with whom I wasn't skating for a long time!!!! Super!!!! Thank you, Ilukha, that you created this celebration, it's awesome. 6.0!!!! 👍👍👍💪😀
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQrD2Yfh5Ga/
(the girl is Kostomarov's daughter)

Bobrova: So many Olympic champions on one photo! 😱 @jmedvedevaj and me are charging from them. 💪 Thanks to Ilya Averbukh for the awesome show! And once again, with all my heart: Tatiana Anatolievna, happy birthday!!! 🎊🎉🎁🎂
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQqs_HUBLNq/

Trankov and Tatiana Anatolievna
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQsKMTmAPs2/?taken-by=xam_trankov

Michel Yagudina was there too.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQshovhghic/

Totmianina: We wish you happiness and health , Tatiana Anatolievna!!! Thanks to everybody who was with us during these 2 days!!! 😍 Thanks to Ilya Averbukh and to the team 😘
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQq_YSbgyBG/
 
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