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2018-19 Russian Ladies' figure skating

With all the speculations about who to send to Worlds, here is how RusFed have acted in the past. It appears to me that GPF have had little or no effect for the selection to Worlds.
This is the results of the Russian Nationals and how they performed afterwards (GPF is before nationals).

1996: - RusNat: 1. Butyrskaya (GPF 7, EC 3, WC 4) - 2. Slutskaya (GPF 2, EC 1, WC 3) - 3. Markova (GPF 6, EC 11, no WC)
1997: - RusNat: 1. Butyrskaya (GPF 4, EC 4, WC 5) - 2. Markova (GPF 5, EC 8, WC 12) - 3. Slutskaya (GPF 3, EC 1, WC 4)
1998: - RusNat: 1. Butyrskaya (GPF 3, EC 1, OC 4, WC 3) - 2. Soldatova (no GBF, EC 7, no OC, no WC) - 3. Sokolova (GPF 5, no EC, OC 7, WC 8) - 4. Slutskaya (GPF 4, EC 2, OC 5, WC 2)
1999: - RusNat: 1. Butyrskaya (GPF 2, EC 1, WC 1) - 2. Soldatova (no GPF, EC 2, WC 3) - 3. Volchkova (no GPF, EC 3, WC 10) - 4. Slutskaya (GPF 3, no EC, no WC) - 5. Sokolova (GPF 4, no EC, no WC)
2000: - RusNat: 1. Slutskaya (GPF 1, EC 1, WC 2) - 2. Butyrskaya (GPF 3, EC 2, WC 3) - 3. Volchkova (GPF 6, EC 3, WC 6) - 4. Soldatova (GPF 4, no EC, no WC)
2001: - RusNat: 1. Slutskaya (GPF 1, EC 1, WC 2) - 2. Volchkova (no GPF, EC 3, WC 6) - 3. Butyrskaya (GPF 4, EC 2, WC 4) - 4. Sokolova (GPF 6, no EC, no WC)
2002: - RusNat: 1. Slutskaya (GPF 1, EC 2, OC 2, WC 1) - 2. Butyrskaya (GPF 4, EC 1, OC 6, WC wd) - 3. Volchkova (no GPF, EC 3, OC 9, WC 7)
2003: - RusNat: 1. Sokolova (no GPF, EC 2, WC 2) - 2. Slutskaya (GPF 2, EC 1, no WC) - 3. Basova (no GPF, no EC, no WC) - 4. Nelidina (no GPF, no EC, WC 13) - not present at RusNat: Volchkova (GPF 3, EC 8, WC 5)
2004: - RusNat: 1. Sokolova (no GPF, EC 3, WC 10) - 2. Soldatova (no GPF, no EC, no WC) - 3. Oblasova (no GPF, EC 16, no WC) - 5. Basova (no GPF, EC 18, no WC) - not present at RusNat: Slutskaya (no GPF, no EC, WC 9)
2005: - RusNat: 1. Slutskaya (GPF 1, EC 1, WC 1) - 2. Sokolova (no GPF, EC 5, WC 7)
2006: - RusNat: 1. Sokolova (GPF 5, EC 2, OC 14, WC 4) - 2. Volchkova (no GPF, EC 9, no OC, no WC) - 3. Biktagirova (no GPF, no EC, no OC, no WC) - 4. Naidenova (no GPF, no EC, no OC, no WC) - 5. Gerboldt (no GPF, no EC, no OC, WC 26) - 6. Martinova (no GPF, no EC, no OC, WC 19) - not present at RusNat: Slutskaya (GPF 2, EC 1, OC 3, no WC)
2007: - RusNat: 1. Doronina (no GPF, EC 28, no WC) - 2. Ievleva (no GPF, EC 11, no WC) - 3. Sokolova (no GPF, EC 7, WC 13) - 4. Martinova (no GPF, no EC, WC 16)
2008: - RusNat: 1. Doronina (no GPF, EC 9. WC 17) - 2. Petushkova (no GPF, EC 17, no WC)
2009: - RusNat: 3. Gerboldt (no GPF, EC 6, no WC) - 4. Petushkova (no GPF, no EC, no WC) - 5. Leonova (no GPF, EC 4, WC 7)
2010: - RusNat: 1. Makarova (no GPF, EC 9, OC 10, WC 8) - 2. Leonova (GPF 6, EC 7, OC 9, WC 13) - 6. Biryukova (no GPF, no EC, no OC, no WC) - 7. Gozeva (no GPF, EC 13, no OC, no WC)
2011: - RusNat: 2. Leonova (no GPF, EC 5, WC 4) - 5. Makarova (no GPF, EC 4, WC 7)
2012: - RusNat: 3. Leonova (GPF 3, EC 7, WC 2) - 4. Makarova (no GPF, EC 6, WC 9) - 6. Tuktamysheva (GPF 4, no EC, no WC) - 7. Korobeynikova (no GPF, EC 4, WC 19)
2013: - RusNat: 1. Tuktamysheva (GPF 5, EC 3, WC 10) - 3. Sotnikova (no GPF, EC 2, WC 9) - 6. Gosviani (no GPF, EC 6, no WC) - 7. Leonova (no GPF, no EC, WC 13)
2014: - RusNat: 1. Sotnikova (GPF 5, EC 2, OC 1. no WC) - 2. Lipnitskaya (GPF 2, EC 1, OC 5, WC 2) - 3. Radionova (GPF 4, no EC, no OC, no WC) - 5. Leonova (no GPF, EC 4, no OC, no WC) - 8. Pogorilaya (GPF 6, no EC, no OC, no WC)
2015: - RusNat: 1. Radionova (GPF 2, EC 2, WC 3) - 2. Tuktamysheva (GPF 1, EC 1, WC 1) - 4. Pogorilaya (GPF 4, EC 3, WC 13) - 9. Lipnitskaya (GPF 5, no EC, no WC)
2016: - RusNat: 1. Medvedeva (GPF 1, EC 1, WC 1) - 2. Radionova (GPF 3, EC 2, WC 6) - 3. Pogorilaya (no GPF, EC 3, WC 3)
2017: - RusNat: 1. Medvedeva (GPF 1, EC 1, WC 1) - 3. Sotskova (GPF 5, EC 4, WC 8) - 4. Pogorilaya (GPF 3, EC 2, WC 13) - 5. Radionova (GPF 6, no EC, no WC)
2018: - RusNat: 1. Zagitova (GPF 1, EC 1, OC 1, WC 5) - 2. Sotskova (GPF 2, EC 4, OC 8, WC 8) - 4. Konstantinova (no GPF, no EC, no OC, WC 19) - not present at RusNat: Medvedeva (no GPF, EC 2, OC 2. no WC)
2019: - RusNat: 4. Konstantinova (no GPF, EC 4) - 5. Zagitova (GPF 2, EC 2) - 6. Samodurova (GPF 5, EC 1)

Not age eligible girls at RusNat not included here.
Injuries may have been a big part of the selection process - maybe some experts here on this thread may know the answer to some of the strange selections??:)
 
Alexz said:
Let's not forget how diverse Russia is. Oh well, Russians are indeed very diverse. There are a lot of them and a lot of them are very different. The only only other country which as diverse as Russia is US. Liza is your not typical "European Russian" and not a stereotypical blond-blue-eyes regular Slavic girl. She is a Tatar or Udmurt, iirc. So, yeah, there are probably some Asian/Middle Eastern culture in her. She was born somewhere close to St Petersburg, AFAIK, but that's her genes. That gives her flavor and different style. I'm all in for diversity in styles, cultures and choreography.
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Tuktamysheva is more slavic (russian) than tatar, comparing her with Zagitova, there is too much difference, since she is more tatar than Russian; instead, other girls like Shcherbakova are more balanced (50/50) russian-tatar.
 
My heart hurts Zagitova. I can't imagine the pressure of being Eteri's #1 knowing for a FACT that your time at the top is going to be short lived. I would follow Evgenia's lead and find a new coach next season because it's obvious that she is on her way out with the younger girls coming up next season.
 
KweenAsada said:
My heart hurts Zagitova. I can't imagine the pressure of being Eteri's #1 knowing for a FACT that your time at the top is going to be short lived. I would follow Evgenia's lead and find a new coach next season because it's obvious that she is on her way out with the younger girls coming up next season.
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:rolleye: it seems like you are more worried about alina's future than alina herself.
 
Just a heads up to people with suggestions for Alina.

I don't think she follows social media or other such things anymore.

So, unfortunately, she's probably not going to see any of it.
 
lesnar001 said:
Just a heads up to people with suggestions for Alina.

I don't think she follows social media or other such things anymore.

So, unfortunately, she's probably not going to see any of it.
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I'm not entirely sure Alina has been reading the Russian Ladies thread at Golden Skate to beginn with :)
 
fabienne1996 said:
Look at the trainings video she looks thinner than at RusNats. Way thinner but it could also be herclothing that makes her look so thin Why I start it again? Because it is a topic that for me is important cause such things ANd methods can easily lead to eating disorder. And I think that alina doesn't realize how dangerous it can be. Yulia also didn't know it before and look what happened. Anorexia and than retirement cause by injuries and her eating disorder. But yes let's all stay quite on this topic why not. I mean eating disorder aren't really dangerous right? Aren't often connected to such sport disciplines . Let's not talk about how there way seems to be eat less and loose weight so you can try to get your jumps back. Let's not talk how wrong it is to tell them that puberty is a myth and it doesn't exist and you just ignore it. Yes sorry but that saying doesn't really do alina any good right now right. And I know it happens to other skaters too that's why I said like Yulia and other skaters.

And yes I am being quite sarcastic right now cause at least for me it seems that this forum likes to overlook such an important topic and put it under the rug so to speak.Its not bodyshaming so in my eyes I am not going against any rules when I say that I am worried about alina because she looks thinner than before. And now you can begin to hate on me cause I started on this topic as you put it again.
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She seemed very weak and fatigued, and I did wonder if she is on some sort of crazy diet. This is not a comment on Eteri, etc. etc., often this is a normal dangerous teenage thing and it has nothing to do with coaching staff, parents, pressure or anything else. I didn't notice whether she looks thinner or not (she always looks spectacular to me), but she seemed, well, physically weak, barely getting the jumps off even in the practice. It could also be lack of sleep, or an illness or any number of things, but, I do hope when she returns someone is paying attention to her exhaustion level, diet, and so on. (It also occurred to me that maybe she just didn't get any sleep the night before the long program-something as simple as that)
 
So, next to Rika Kihira, is Alysa Liu now the biggest longer-term threat to Sasha, Anna, Alena, and Kamila? This is really good, and I'm an American who feels like he hasn't been able to say that for a U.S. skater in some time...

https://youtu.be/eaL9BBe9LIc

Sure, there are areas of her presentation that can use some polish, but keep in mind that she's younger than all but Kamila.

BTW, watching 3As from Rika, Liza, and now Alysa makes me really appreciate how amazing Alena's 3A is in the rare moments that we've seen it. I really hope it becomes a regular part of her programs. Sure, her body is changing, but if Liza can do it, why not Alena? Throwing in Mirai, too, I'm curious how folks would rank their 3As, along with any other contemporary ladies skaters I'm forgetting.
 
Alexz said:
I thought Glazov is somewhere next to St Petersburg. So she is Udmurt. I was guessing either Tatar or Udmurt. Bottom line is she is not your totally typical Slavic girl per her parents and upbringing. Russian culture is not only Slavic-based and not only European-centric, but Russian culture generally is very diverse and has few parts of a lot Asian/Mid-Eastern influence and flavor too.
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both Alina and Liza were born in Udmurtia, their hometowns are 145 km apart in a straight line
 
KweenAsada said:
My heart hurts Zagitova. I can't imagine the pressure of being Eteri's #1 knowing for a FACT that your time at the top is going to be short lived. I would follow Evgenia's lead and find a new coach next season because it's obvious that she is on her way out with the younger girls coming up next season.
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Sorry but I think switching coaches will have a worse effect. She has too much on her plate right now (psychological, physical) and adjusting to a new environment is just going to add to her problems. Maybe they should consider taking out some transitions so she can conserve energy for the jumps.
 
DougDorsey said:
So, next to Rika Kihira, is Alysa Liu now the biggest longer-term threat to Sasha, Anna, Alena, and Kamila? This is really good, and I'm an American who feels like he hasn't been able to say that for a U.S. skater in some time...

https://youtu.be/eaL9BBe9LIc

Sure, there are areas of her presentation that can use some polish, but keep in mind that she's younger than all but Kamila.

BTW, watching 3As from Rika, Liza, and now Alysa makes me really appreciate how amazing Alena's 3A is in the rare moments that we've seen it. I really hope it becomes a regular part of her programs. Sure, her body is changing, but if Liza can do it, why not Alena? Throwing in Mirai, too, I'm curious how folks would rank their 3As, along with any other contemporary ladies skaters I'm forgetting.
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Has Alysa ever competed against 3a?

Let's let her become the best American lady before she is ready to challenge and beat the Russians.
 
Scott512 said:
Has Alysa ever competed against 3a?

Let's let her become the best American lady before she is ready to challenge and beat the Russians.
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She just won US Nationals. Some would say that means she is the best American lady.

P.S. I have my reservations about this.
 
I'd love to see less transitions too. I am not even sure they helped her scores this season. Now Alina is much taller, so could try some minimalist modern style as Kostner. The crazy amount of transitions are more demanding for skaters with longer arms and legs.

GoodMorningGrapeseed said:
Sorry but I think switching coaches will have a worse effect. She has too much on her plate right now (psychological, physical) and adjusting to a new environment is just going to add to her problems. Maybe they should consider taking out some transitions so she can conserve energy for the jumps.
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Scott512 said:
Has Alysa ever competed against 3a?

Let's let her become the best American lady before she is ready to challenge and beat the Russians.
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Nope...Alysa was still too young to compete on the JGP this season. Next year she’ll be old enough though but we gotta give the girl credit....she did just win US nats but it’s sort of because Mariah and Brady oof’d too much. It really looked like the judges were ready to put either of those two in first place over her if they went clean. She’s just a baby though. It will be fun to watch her next year and it was super fun to watch her Win US Nats.

Is she much fun as Tarakanova?? I’m not so sure yet but IMO that is a tall order to ask of anyone ;)
 
Sam-Skwantch said:
Nope...Alysa was still too young to compete on the JGP this season. Next year she’ll be old enough though but we gotta give the girl credit....she did just win US nats but it’s sort of because Mariah and Brady oof’d too much. It really looked like the judges were ready to put either of those two in first place over her if they went clean. She’s just a baby though. It will be fun to watch her next year and it was super fun to watch her Win US Nats.

Is she much fun as Tarakanova?? I’m not so sure yet but IMO that is a tall order to ask of anyone ;)
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She's a little more than a year younger than Sasha and a little less than a year older than Kamila, so not all that different than our Russian girls.

This is cute...https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl2PinTFq8M.
 
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