Personally, I think it was a good decision because I doubt worlds will even happen, as you said. But I honestly think there's a possibility that the 2022 olympics won't even happen. So there's no point to hustle to qualify to Rnats to qualify for worlds that won't happen to gain spots for the olympics that may not even happen
RusNats Podium prediction game:
It's Valieva. She's supposed to be portraying a snake in her LP.When I see snake, I think Madison Chock, but I don't think she's skating at RusNats
Trusova's got a nice free leg on her axel too. You can really see her step up in the slow-mo of her 3A attempt at the last cup. I think her problem might be the opposite, not snapping in fast enough at the start. But it's nice because it makes the jump big and when she does land it (e.g. in practice) it gives it that 'wow' factor like Kostornaia's 3A (although Kostornaia has the transitions and speed going in). Maybe Trusova's axel technique base is from Volkov, because I noticed Artem Kovalev has a nice big 3A.
Your desire to create an alternative reality cannot refute the facts and eyewitness testimony. Polina Tsurskaya, who was at that time in the Tutberidze group, directly said in her interview: https://www.sovsport.ru/figure/articles/2:910333
What happened to Sinitsina?
This better happen because the force these great skaters to get out there and compete at these Russian cup stages like their menu Nationals is crazy when nobody had a normal offseason of training and skating. This is not what they need 15 months before the next Winter Olympics.
I don't know which commenters you're talking about because as far as I know, Tara and Johnny didn't comment like that, nor did Tarasova. I mean Sasha was the first to land two quads, first to really push off this quad revolution (at least that's how it looks). You shouldn't take that away just because Anna was injured. That's not only unfair towards both of them, but also really pulling at strings to try to pull down objective accomplishments to throw "what-ifs" and "could haves" on another skater's resume.
Okay but that's just Tara. Have you heard the way she talked about Maria Sotskova in the 2016-17 season? Those comments were really infuriating I have to say. But the thing is, who landed the first quad in recent years? Sasha. Whether or not her 4S and 4T at Jr Worlds were the real thing that topped off the revolution or if it was the addition of Anna will probably never be answered. But we think of the first action as the defining moment. To give her the credit for everything that follows is obviously way too naive, but she did manage to go from one barely rotated quad with a literal 10% success rate to a very consistent 4T and an arsenal of 5 quads and the want to do a 5 quad program + 3A. That change is very revolutionary for me. (Again, I'm not saying Anna is worse in any way, as the matter of fact I do disagree with any statement that says Sasha pushed the quad revolution more than Anya because that can't be proven, but it is an interpretation and one that can be backed up by the Wikipedia page for quad).
