she was having stamina problems because of all the training time she missed this year with quarantine this spring, when she moved coaches, had boot problems and now being sick, that doesn't have anything to do with what her team is or isn't doing. this year has brought completely unprecedented circumstances. if this was another season as usual, she wouldn't be having the issues she's had.
Rusnats is the huge competition for the ladies this season. Aliona not being there really hurts.
If I may choose between Anna saying "I have a pneumonia" and your stubborn insinuations "it must have been covid" (because all the other diseases disappeared from the surface of the Earth, right), I choose to say "if it had been covid, Anna woud have said it was covid". No more "haha" in this direction, if I may ask.
There's two now out, but one extra in. Is Sultanmagomedova going to get in now as well?
I doubt you're the only one wondering that. But what's done is done and unfortunately this season is a loss for everybody. I think aliona was going through growth issues around Europeans in after Europeans last January so we don't know what would have happened if she had stayed with EG and TT. I think there's a chance she would have still been the great skater she was but when you're dealing with puberty and then with not skating for a few months because of the pandemic that messed everything up for her.
Exactly, I'm not talking about what her team is doing/not doing. Just that all her problems started when she decided to change coaches so last minute.
Well apparently she is healthy enough to skate at the galas no need to continue sounding the alarm. She is still standing, breathing and doing well. The skaters that caught the bug are fine. All the faux outrage and the calls to cancel Russians Nationals because Jenny from the other block caught a cold has been a non starter for a long time now. That's no longer enough reason to cancel events or people continuing their plans. It's good the Russian Fed are being sensible and pragmatic.
Actually, it's perfectly reasonable for Anna to have had pneumonia and still have her quads. She might be lying but I'm going to take her word for it, until proven otherwise. It's perfectly reasonable to have mild forms of both pneumonia or COVID and we don't know at what stage in the illness she let the public know. She might have been almost better by the that time. By pretty much all accounts, she wasn't off the ice for longer than 2 weeks which is about when you start to lose skills. Also by all accounts she already was planning 2-3 quads at nationals before getting sick so she was almost back to her previous peak (from last year). Remember we also haven't seen Anna in 2 months. Despite being sick, she lost less time than Alena and Liza and form before being sick was higher than the other two. Also, she usually delivers in competition. Hence why despite illnesses, most people expect her to do well, partially due to the difficulties/form of her peers.
I'm not mad. You are saying exactly what I was thinking...
It's not like that - we are all (including my wife) are officially clear off any quarantine. So I did not consider my personal risk to the society - I considered the risk to be infected myself, then my children.....if I correctly unerstood what you meant.
I hope that Anna didn't feel pressured to go because she's reigning champion. And I hope her first full runthrough wont be at a competition. Pneumonia really affects stamina too.
I am just going to say ‘yes’, though I am not sure when Scherbakova resumed training. Depending on the duration of her illness, she might be in a good shape/recovered state. If, however, she is not, that would be a bad decision by her coaching team.
Oh, gosh, no. But that must have been one of their 3-day tests, so hopefully
it is light/asymptomatic. One of my fav ladies since last year....
