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She looked really strong this week. I hope she can maintain this form because it will make for an exciting season.
2018-19 Russian Ladies' figure skating
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She looked really strong this week. I hope she can maintain this form because it will make for an exciting season.
Actually, one of my grandma's cousins is. "baba Shura".
Its rare but happens
I would say last name is fine (it is fairly common to refer to people by last name in Russia).
First name is also fine, because the girls are much younger than we are.
The regular short forms, such as Sasha or Zhenya are also fine, because we love them.
Whatever pet names skaters released for fans also ok (for example Lenok for Radionova).
Stuff like Alinka, Zhenechka and so on, or using patronimics is tricky, so better to avoid just in case unless the skater made 100% clear it is fine.
yep, and its actually visible how much she changed.
Last year, she was a teenage girl. This year, she looks like a young woman already.
I can think of a female Shura in the older generation too.
Perhaps it fell out of usage, or is regional.
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My ex-mother-in-law is also Shura, everyone calls her like that..it’s not a rare.
Ovechkin is Shura as well
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Yes. Earlier it was more common. It can be seen often in movies 30-40 years of the last century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlWv2qrUGI4
Not only her growth, but full on puberty, and yet, she looks stronger than ever. Very impressive.
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Recap of the season so far:
6 gold medals, 5 silver medals, 2 bronze medals - 13 medals total
Highest Scores:
238.43 Alina Zagitova
221.44 Alexandra Trusova
206.07 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
205.39 Anna Shcherbakova
204.89 Evgenia Medvedeva
203.50 Alena Kostornaya
191.84 Alena Kanysheva
190.69 Anastasia Tarakanova
187.91 Ksenia Sinitsyna
186.68 Anna Tarusina
184.82 Sofia Samodurova
180.02 Stanislava Konstantinova
154.61 Polina Tsurskaya
6 gold medals, 5 silver medals, 2 bronze medals - 13 medals total
Highest Scores:
238.43 Alina Zagitova
221.44 Alexandra Trusova
206.07 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
205.39 Anna Shcherbakova
204.89 Evgenia Medvedeva
203.50 Alena Kostornaya
191.84 Alena Kanysheva
190.69 Anastasia Tarakanova
187.91 Ksenia Sinitsyna
186.68 Anna Tarusina
184.82 Sofia Samodurova
180.02 Stanislava Konstantinova
154.61 Polina Tsurskaya
Evgenia decided to change her way, to change her style. Lets wait some years and see what she will be able to achieve. But currently Evgenia obviously is not at the same level as Alina is.
In some years, Trusova, Shcherbakova and Kostornaia will be senior.
All 3 are better than Zhenya, and there are only 3 spots for worlds and euros. Sad but true.
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She probably feels the physical differences but is making it work with her skating.
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Right now I think Anna is still a question mark, and we don't know for sure whether the other three will be in their best shape by the time of the next Olympics.
Sasha's technical content is unbeatable, but Alena needs to have a 3A to have an advantage over Alina.
Sasha's technical content is unbeatable, but Alena needs to have a 3A to have an advantage over Alina.
Out of those 5, Zhenya is the most debatable so far.
Alina is a question mark (that holds the current WR), but clean Alina beats clean Zhenya.
The other 3, even if lose the quads, still have all the goods to beat a clean Zhenya.
if one of them fails, that still leaves 3 competing for the top spots.
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Idk. I except Alena will be the next Kostner. As we've seen this weekend, no matter how badly she skates those PC's are going to go above and beyond what anybody else can produce. And despite a popped 2A she is far more consistent than any of the others. She will be a right place, right time skater. She will win because the others will mess up. Not every competition but they will mess up somewhere along the line and she will be right there ready to take gold when that happens. And I think that is where her value to RUS Fed will come from. She will be their plan B for a lot of competitions. If Sasha or Alina screw up we know Alena will be there to take gold.
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It would be her coaches who decide not Alina. I wouldn't be surprised if Eteri decided to increase Alina's chances of getting a win on her first outing to build her confidence after her bad skate at worlds and rocky test skates. It could have been a strategy, but we will never know though!
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I agree. I was dubious of the “paperwork” argument and think her coaches wanted to assure a win for her confidence starting out the season. And it paid off. She just demonstrated her dominance and what’s she’s capable of without question. I’m so happy for Alina and I hope this positive momentum carries her through the season.
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It would be a very dumb strategy and a waste of Alina's training time to have her get all dressed up with her bags only to take an Instagram photo posting a sarcastic comment about not making it to competition instead of claiming she was not feeling well or boot issues. And also to have a random custom's officer's name released. And I'm sure Diana would be been very happy to have her mother decide to move Alina's event to one that coincides with JGP Ostrava so that she couldn't attend with her daughter. But hey, whatever conspiracy floats your boat.
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