She also trashed Tarasova in the 90s telling all the truth about the politics in Ice Dance and how that influenced Grishuk/Platov's success, then over the years she became a friend of her. So just because she criticized Tutberidze doesn't mean she has a personal hate.
Judging from an outside perspective, Vait might be wrong on many things, but RusFed's approach into this isn't right either. Right now in Russia you're either:
- Pro Eteri = pro the sysyem
- Anti-Eteri = your job as journalist won't last long.
This is very Soviet thinking, only positive comments, criticism is shutted down. That's bad too, Eteri is not like some god of figure skating, she made mistakes too, for one success, we don't know everything that is behind the scenes. (which is true for any coaches, not just her) You should instead accept the negative feedbacks, cause there might be some truth behind, you can always use to improve.
I don't always like Vait's approach but one thing i've always noticed is that she is very open: if she doesn't like something, she tells it. Not all journalists do this.
She clearly said that she's not interested on being a fan of certain skaters, like some fan do following athletes as their idols, but rather being a fan of the sport in general.
. That's very far from "one hit wonder".* Just recently I wrote here about the multiple winners of the worlds from the last years (since Kwan's last WC title) and the only one who won worlds back to back was Zhenya Medvedeva. The others, incl. names like Yuna Kim and Mao Asada needed four years to win their second title. So saying that Alina is unable to repeat her success now, after just two completed senior seasons, is either uninformed or... the other option.
