What she did with Sotskova and Tsurskaya is also a wonder of a kind...
Really sad, I miss Tsurskaya...
What she did with Sotskova and Tsurskaya is also a wonder of a kind...
Yeah it kind of makes you go hmmm. I doubt there will be problems as we know Brian is her secondary coach now.
Why cancel the season that starts in October and ends in early December in July? It's possible but perhaps on likely that things will improve significantly with covid-19 in the next 2 months.Well, as it is likely that the season will never happen. Maybe this is a GOOD thing that we will have more Russian internal competitions. Think of the possibilities. Moscow championships, Sankt Petersburg Championships, Samara championships, Vladivostok championships, Novosibirsk championships etc...
Maybe we will see all our Russian girls competing more
We might see a lot more of Shcherbakova, Zagitova, Kostornaia, Trusova, Sinitsyna, Nugumanova, Gubanova, Tuktamysheva, Tsibinova, Talalaykina, Sakhanovich, Konstantinova, Medvedeva, Tarakanova, Gulyakova, Leonova, Samodurova, Gracheva, Shulskaya, Sidorova, Kolomiets, Deyneko, Mikryukova, Shevchenko, Tumanova, Sheveleva, Belousova, Starodubtseva, Monich, Budzko, Mostenets etc etc... and maybe the juniors will turn up too!! Valieva, Usacheva, Khromykh, Frolova and so on...
Bring it on RusFed!!!:luv17: If anyone can turn this strange season into a golden RusFest it is you!!!
And as someone said, watching the Russian ladies is like watching the GPs, Euros and Worlds anyway...
And I forgot Sotskova - shame on me!
World champion is a world champion, that is his/her title, not the country he/she is coming from. Being that a big or a small country is not important, because that someone doesn't represent the country in first place, but the world (championship competition). So that is not one more quota place for some country, but only for an individual who is the current World Champion.for the most part that's going to put yet another skater from a big skating country at the competition, and the chances of a skater from a smaller skating country getting into the top 5 or medaling would be much less likely.
Buyonova said Brian is her primary coach. Please stop spreading misinformation.
I was talking specifically about Alina, as a current World Champion. She is not hurt by the age limit rule, but you can claim she is hurt by the other rules, like for not being 'allowed' to defend her title by being a current world champion or by some other rules which are not part of ISU, but they exist in majority of other sports in the world. So you can claim with a lot of reasonable arguments she is 'hurt' by some other things which exist or don't exist in 'ISU rules'.
World champion is a world champion, that is his/her title, not the country he/she is coming from. Being that a big or a small country is not important, because that someone doesn't represent the country in first place, but the world (championship competition).
Something tells me that Alina wouldn't want a "free pass" to Worlds either.
She wasn't hurt.
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All this hand-wringing about how the ISU is picking on Eteri skaters -- I don't see it.
I agree with what Mathman is saying.
I'm a huge fan of Alina, and I don't want to see her getting some sort of "bye" to the world championships.
If she skates well enough during the regular season, then she can earn her way onto the world team by whatever criteria Russia uses.
Something tells me that Alina wouldn't want a "free pass" to Worlds either.
Guess you must have missed the 'Zagitova rule'... Or are you seriously saying that it was not specifically designed to curb and restrain Alina and other Eteri skaters that could backload their programmes?
It was deigned to curb backloading, certainly, but could Alina's fans take a leaf out of her book and stop whining that "tain't faaaaiir"? As I understand it, she only did the backloading because of a previous ruling giving a bonus for it that was designed to stop the then problematic frontloading and supposedly to encourage a balanced program. That Eteri found a way to legitimately exploit it is all credit to her, but when she did... it no longer served the purpose for which it was designed. It certainly was never some god-given right engraved in the annals of posterity.
What the ISU (who are currently in my all-level-of-hells-and-I-hope-they-fry-there black book, so I cannot believe I am saying this) giveth, the ISU then tooketh away. No one has banned backloading, they've just stopped rewarding it so much.
While I agree that Alina wouldn't have wanted a free pass, last year the situation in the Russian ladies field was so insane, that I was hoping for some recognition from ISU of these extraordinary circumstances. We had three spectacular World Champions - Alina, Evgenia and Liza - all of them young and in top form, who had no chance of qualifying because of three spectacular debutants. So, I was hoping that ISU would recognise the benefit for the Championship of having these ladies on the ice and would invite at least the reigning World Champion. Of course, this rule would apply to all disciplines and years, so other skaters and countries could benefit from it. One additional skater wouldn't break the system, but the value would be tremendous. The situation was extraordinary. Alina, being the elegant person she is, chose the solution of the elegant retreat.
For me, backloading all the jumps was like a fair but not elegant way of getting points. It’s like getting all the free samples you find at a store multiple times and ask for more - it’s allowed, but it’s not the most beautiful way of getting points. I mean, it was a hole they found in the rules, but mostly because the ISU never thought someone would fully backload a program.
It was deigned to curb backloading, certainly, but could Alina's fans take a leaf out of her book and stop whining that "tain't faaaaiir"?
And backloading doesn't make the task easier in my opinion.