Medal ceremony of Younger Age (younger group) Russian Nationals with proud Plushy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB9P5BmffK0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB9P5BmffK0
2019-20 Russian Ladies' Figure Skating
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And always hug and kiss! Viva Corona!
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https://youtu.be/gnCFejUZxhY?t=117
Is that what it really is? Is there this <!>?
I am not an expert, so I ask.
I'm always shocked about how teeny tiny these girls are off the ice.
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At least he behaved normal here. In the actual competition, he made Titova jump up and down over excitedly in the K&C for his own camera crew and later promotional use.
Titova's parents, do they really know what they are dealing with? Having their girl a pawn in a petty game of power?
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Do you think the parents don't know what they are doing? Titova was 23rd in last year under Eteri and she didn't want to work with Sofia I believe. And she won not the first time in this year. Plus she has a very good sponsor thank to Plushenko. And about the videos. Those videos were made by the Russian fan club's leader for the fans!!!! She has some very special rights for long-long-long years. We adore those videos. Please, dont watch them if you don't understand. ( I hope this post won't be too harsh.
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oh no
i'm glad this is happening at this time of year, but 3 weeks off the ice is an extremely long time to a competitive athlete. i feel so terrible for everyone who can't train...this will only hurt preparations for next season. i wish everyone good health and lots of off ice.
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oh no
The situation for athletes preparing for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo is even worse.
Many qualifying events have been cancelled, training camps and stages cancelled, sports facilities closed, training by yourself outdoors is being discouraged. And IOC keeps its appearances up, hopes the Games will start as planned, with a full audience from all over the world ....
Winter sport season is finished, skaters can still do PE and jumps/spins etc on their own indoors.
No doubt, all sports organisations will lighten their restrictions as soon as possible, but now, everybody is afraid, not so much of falling ill, but of spreading the virus.
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I am just bringing this information over from Zhenya’s fan fest, so whoever posted it there I give credit to, but TCC is closed too
https://m.sport-express.ru/figure-s...hodyat-v-otpusk-bez-plana-trenirovok-1654569/
RIA News reports that all major Russian FS teams in Moscow sent all skaters to unlimited vacations without any training plan.
Russian FS with a history of 110+ years formally ended. If wasn't that bad during WWII.
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I didn't even think about that. You're right in wondering whether, even if things are cleared up by late July, will the athletes be well prepared? Will the national federations have an opportunity to fairly select the athletes to send, given that the athletes will have lost so much training time leading up to qualification events? Can the venues be prepared in time while also assuring that the workers will remain healthy? Hopefully the IOC will take everything into account before committing to a firm date to hold the Games (if they hold it at all).
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It isn't the end of the world, skaters can still exercise, jump and spin at home. #TeamTutberidzeForProgress would have given them home workout and training plans, just like all the other rinks ....
Most governments have different, worries, more pertinent than ice time for the elite few, they have to deal with disease and death and billions of economic loss and damage every day ....
From the governance, mass psychology, epidemiology, statistics and economics point of view, the different approaches between governments will provide interesting study material.
When exactly did she begin with Plushenko? I thought she had joined him pretty early of last season.
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Hopefully everybody will stay healthy.
https://sun6-14.userapi.com/c205720/v205720600/afdcf/xvqZHggrSpE.jpg
Wow, I've never heard Kamila speaking so fluently and calmly before. Charming girl! Turn on English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ4cncwAwR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ4cncwAwR4
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The power of Kamila Valiyeva - the future star of the Beijing Olympics
News PostSeven (Japan): With the appearance of brilliant girls from Russia in the world figure skating, Japanese women will not be able to win anymore?
Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, Japanese skaters Yuzuru Hanyu (25) and Rika Kihira (17) will not be able to compete in the World figure skating Championship, which was canceled. However, the junior world championship still took place at the beginning of this month (March 6-8). On it, from the Japanese team, only Yuma Kagiyama (16) rose to the podium, taking second place. The best of the female Japanese skaters was Mana Kawabe (15) remaining in the distant 11th position. Gold was won by the new Russian star Kamila Valiyeva.
Valieva’s trainer Eteri Tutberidze is the “locomotive” of modern female figure skating in Russia. In the final of the Grand Prix of the 2019-2020 season, her pupils - three “brilliant Russian girls” Alyona Kostornaya (16), Anna Scherbakova (15) and Aleksandra Trusova (15) - took the whole podium. However, the very young 13-year-old Valiyeva demonstrates skating, which even surpasses the skating of these wunderkinder.
The well-known figure skating expert and sports journalist Akiko Tsutida tells us about the highest technical and artistic level of Valiyeva.
“ She has an incredible technical level for 13 years. First of all, it is her jumping. In the free program, she performed two quadruple jumps (“quads"). And although in the first she made a “step-out” - an error on the exit - the second jump was magnificent. She has a very direct rotation in the jump, which creates a high impression of the element and allows you to get extra points for it. Further, these are these spins on ice. As this girl herself says in an interview, she considers her spins to be her 'skating crown'. She has wonderful plasticity and originality in her spins. This also significantly adds points. And finally, the high expressiveness of her skating. If she hadn’t taken up figure skating. then probably would have achieved success in ballet. Her whole body is as if created for classical ballet. To this should be added her existing exceptional style and feminine appearance. And a great sense of rhythm. It seems that she was specially born for figure skating. ”
Of course, the three “princesses” mentioned above also have a high level in technique, for example, various “quads” (Shcherbakova, Trusova) or a very high-quality triple Axel (Kostornaya). In the last series of the Grand Prix, they demonstrated high psychological stability. And despite this, the performances of Valiyeva, who earned the love nickname of “Eteri’s latest weapon” (meaning trainer Eteri Tutberidze), are simply fascinating. By the way, Kamila Valiyeva will be 15 years old by the time of the Beijing Olympics. She will be at the same age at which Alina Zagitova won gold at the Olympics in Pyeongchang.
How does the Japanese team feel when the Russians have such a long line of champions?
At the junior world championships mentioned above, in addition to Mana Kawabe, who took 11th place, was also Kazutika Kawabata, who won bronze at the Japanese championship at the end of last year. Certain hopes were entrusted to her. But she remained only the 14th. Both of them in the free program were not even able to enter the final six contestants. By the way, in this final group there were three Russians (including Valiyeva), two Koreans and one American.
Akiko Tsuchida comments: “ Mana Kawabe, like Rika Kihira, is training under the guidance of renowned trainer Mie Hamada. With her, they trained their triple Axels. Apparently, under the influence of unsuccessful performances of Japanese skaters at the last junior championship, Mana wrecked her triple Axel in her free program. If she had completed it successfully, I think her position in the final results would have been much higher.
However, not only in the Russian team, but also in the team of South Korea, many good skaters appear. In comparison, some emptiness is felt among Japanese girls. Figure skating is now more popular in Japan than in many other countries. And these low results in Tallinn indicate that so far such high popularity does not lead to the appearance of decent reserves in women's single skating in Japan. ”
Once in the distant year 2016 at the Junior World Championship, our skater Marine Honda won gold (the next year she became the bronze medalist of the Grand Prix Finals). If we go even further back, we can recall that the pedestals of the junior championships among the girls was conquered by Miki Ando, Mao Asada, Kanako Murakami, and among the boys - Daisuke Takahashi, Nobunari Oda, Takahiko Kodzuka, Yuzuru Hanyu, Shoma Uno. They demonstrated that junior championships can become a springboard for victories in the senior category. Now it seems that something is missing from the junior team of Japan.
Akiko Tsuchida says again. “ Still, the most important thing is confident jumps. Valiyeva jumps quadruples, third place winner Aliysa Liu (USA 14 years old) also jumps quadruples and triple Axels. But in jumping, in the final analysis, the most important thing is not their complexity, but the height, quality and stability of the execution. You can win with this. Indeed, in the last championship the second place was taken by a Korean woman who does not jump “quads”.
But if we talk specifically about the Japanese team, then Marin Honda, who won in the youth category, having passed into the senior category, lost the stability of the jump. And this happens not only with her. Many girls' bodies change with age, and they can no longer jump as once in juniors. That is why it is important for juniors to master the “quads” and other high jumps in terms of complexity and quality even in juniors, in order to subsequently perform them confidently in the seniors. Of course, figure skating is not just about jumping. At the same time, they need to work on expressiveness, because then it is very difficult to “grind” it separately from jumps. It should be noted that many Japanese skaters who are successfully performing now - Rika Kihira, Kaori Sakamoto (19) and Wakaba Higuchi - all acquired good jumping skills even in juniors. ”
As for our young men, both Kagiyama and Sato have decent jumps. I would like the junior girls to also be pulled up behind them.
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From: https://www.news-postseven.com/archives/20200315_1548470.html
News PostSeven (Japan): With the appearance of brilliant girls from Russia in the world figure skating, Japanese women will not be able to win anymore?
Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, Japanese skaters Yuzuru Hanyu (25) and Rika Kihira (17) will not be able to compete in the World figure skating Championship, which was canceled. However, the junior world championship still took place at the beginning of this month (March 6-8). On it, from the Japanese team, only Yuma Kagiyama (16) rose to the podium, taking second place. The best of the female Japanese skaters was Mana Kawabe (15) remaining in the distant 11th position. Gold was won by the new Russian star Kamila Valiyeva.
Valieva’s trainer Eteri Tutberidze is the “locomotive” of modern female figure skating in Russia. In the final of the Grand Prix of the 2019-2020 season, her pupils - three “brilliant Russian girls” Alyona Kostornaya (16), Anna Scherbakova (15) and Aleksandra Trusova (15) - took the whole podium. However, the very young 13-year-old Valiyeva demonstrates skating, which even surpasses the skating of these wunderkinder.
The well-known figure skating expert and sports journalist Akiko Tsutida tells us about the highest technical and artistic level of Valiyeva.
“ She has an incredible technical level for 13 years. First of all, it is her jumping. In the free program, she performed two quadruple jumps (“quads"). And although in the first she made a “step-out” - an error on the exit - the second jump was magnificent. She has a very direct rotation in the jump, which creates a high impression of the element and allows you to get extra points for it. Further, these are these spins on ice. As this girl herself says in an interview, she considers her spins to be her 'skating crown'. She has wonderful plasticity and originality in her spins. This also significantly adds points. And finally, the high expressiveness of her skating. If she hadn’t taken up figure skating. then probably would have achieved success in ballet. Her whole body is as if created for classical ballet. To this should be added her existing exceptional style and feminine appearance. And a great sense of rhythm. It seems that she was specially born for figure skating. ”
Of course, the three “princesses” mentioned above also have a high level in technique, for example, various “quads” (Shcherbakova, Trusova) or a very high-quality triple Axel (Kostornaya). In the last series of the Grand Prix, they demonstrated high psychological stability. And despite this, the performances of Valiyeva, who earned the love nickname of “Eteri’s latest weapon” (meaning trainer Eteri Tutberidze), are simply fascinating. By the way, Kamila Valiyeva will be 15 years old by the time of the Beijing Olympics. She will be at the same age at which Alina Zagitova won gold at the Olympics in Pyeongchang.
How does the Japanese team feel when the Russians have such a long line of champions?
At the junior world championships mentioned above, in addition to Mana Kawabe, who took 11th place, was also Kazutika Kawabata, who won bronze at the Japanese championship at the end of last year. Certain hopes were entrusted to her. But she remained only the 14th. Both of them in the free program were not even able to enter the final six contestants. By the way, in this final group there were three Russians (including Valiyeva), two Koreans and one American.
Akiko Tsuchida comments: “ Mana Kawabe, like Rika Kihira, is training under the guidance of renowned trainer Mie Hamada. With her, they trained their triple Axels. Apparently, under the influence of unsuccessful performances of Japanese skaters at the last junior championship, Mana wrecked her triple Axel in her free program. If she had completed it successfully, I think her position in the final results would have been much higher.
However, not only in the Russian team, but also in the team of South Korea, many good skaters appear. In comparison, some emptiness is felt among Japanese girls. Figure skating is now more popular in Japan than in many other countries. And these low results in Tallinn indicate that so far such high popularity does not lead to the appearance of decent reserves in women's single skating in Japan. ”
Once in the distant year 2016 at the Junior World Championship, our skater Marine Honda won gold (the next year she became the bronze medalist of the Grand Prix Finals). If we go even further back, we can recall that the pedestals of the junior championships among the girls was conquered by Miki Ando, Mao Asada, Kanako Murakami, and among the boys - Daisuke Takahashi, Nobunari Oda, Takahiko Kodzuka, Yuzuru Hanyu, Shoma Uno. They demonstrated that junior championships can become a springboard for victories in the senior category. Now it seems that something is missing from the junior team of Japan.
Akiko Tsuchida says again. “ Still, the most important thing is confident jumps. Valiyeva jumps quadruples, third place winner Aliysa Liu (USA 14 years old) also jumps quadruples and triple Axels. But in jumping, in the final analysis, the most important thing is not their complexity, but the height, quality and stability of the execution. You can win with this. Indeed, in the last championship the second place was taken by a Korean woman who does not jump “quads”.
But if we talk specifically about the Japanese team, then Marin Honda, who won in the youth category, having passed into the senior category, lost the stability of the jump. And this happens not only with her. Many girls' bodies change with age, and they can no longer jump as once in juniors. That is why it is important for juniors to master the “quads” and other high jumps in terms of complexity and quality even in juniors, in order to subsequently perform them confidently in the seniors. Of course, figure skating is not just about jumping. At the same time, they need to work on expressiveness, because then it is very difficult to “grind” it separately from jumps. It should be noted that many Japanese skaters who are successfully performing now - Rika Kihira, Kaori Sakamoto (19) and Wakaba Higuchi - all acquired good jumping skills even in juniors. ”
As for our young men, both Kagiyama and Sato have decent jumps. I would like the junior girls to also be pulled up behind them.
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From: https://www.news-postseven.com/archives/20200315_1548470.html
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Unfortunately blocked already, here it's on the official 1TV channel, but without subs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiYdw2yFmGA
