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2020-21 Russian Ladies' Figure Skating
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Because she's not doing 4 quads. She's doing 2, because her injury seems to be worse and was aggravated at Rostelecom.
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Oh agreed. I just wish they made that decision earlier. I'm just glad they're being smart now. Sasha is incredibly talented, gifted skater. And she's still only 16 and the Olympics aren't until next year.
EDIT: Especially in a meaningless competition, it was foolish to risk Sasha's health like they did. The facts are: 1. She was injured. 2. Her main rivals were gone. 3. It was a meaningless competition; it didn't count for SB or PB. 4. This year isn't the important year and it's a COVID year with less training time.
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The thing is they didn't need to at all. Anna had already withdrawn and Kamila is too young.
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Clean with 4 quads is 110 TES score accounting for GOE. All triples clean is 80TES score with good GOE. So she'd need 30PCS advantage. A clean Sasha will be too high for anybody to gain 30PCS more.
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You make a good point so who are you blaming to allow Sasha to do that when it was basically like a super Challenger event?
And what exactly was her injury? It was kept pretty quiet compared to other injuries.
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I think Plushenko is at fault for failing to persuade Sasha to do less quads, but I do have to say Sasha attempting 4 quads while injured was already a bad decision on her part. He should've told her not to though, that's the job of the coach. Sasha will probably want to attempt 4 quads at any competition she enters, even tiny domestic ones. The coach should be the one to think of battle strategies and long term planning.
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I hope Sasha is healthy and ready to go.
But if she had skated at that GP event with a leg trauma for her previous coach there would have been a lot more posts about it let's put it that way.
To try all those quads on a bad leg at an almost meaningless event is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen in figure skating. The elders in her life have to help Sasha with wise decision making. That means parents and coaches. Hoping she did not do permanent damage to her leg. That would be horrendous. We will find out how she is soon and if she's back to 100%.
As others have pointed out don't kill yourself this season it's an aberration of a season it's a short season it's a very sickly season. Just stay healthy do your competitions and get ready for next season when all the marbles are on the line unless coronavirus says otherwise.
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Agreed all the way around. Sasha is always going to want to go for it do the maximum it's in her DNA. I think one of the issues she had at TT is they wanted to control her quad attempts and reign her a little bit and she did not want that.
True. It's about time. It would be such a waste if she injures herself and misses Olympic season because of that.
I think that injury might have happened in the short at GP Rostelecom? That weird fall she had on the 3A looked scary to me. She kind of twisted both of her ankles.
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Her coaching staff and her parents. One or both should have stepped in and not allowed her to attempt 4 quads and a 3A when injured. She was already injured and clearly injured herself more.
How? Showing up on the ice with a stop sign? Sasha can agree to a layout and then do whatever she wants on the ice
I disagree with you that rostelcum cup was a meaningless competition. It has international tv coverage and good price money which is very rare this year. Sashas sponsor for sure demanded her to be there and go for the win.
The extra money from tv coverage via channel1 for the cups is going directly (allegedly) in the pockets of TAT and Co.
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For sure. Sometimes you learn lessons the hard.way.
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Sponsorship money isn't worth your health, first of all. Second of all, I doubt her sponsors would want her to jeopardize events which are more valuable (worlds, nationals, Olympics next year, etc). Nationals she has already put at risk a bit. Third of all, she DIDN'T win. And she could have won with a less risky skate. And finally, the idea that her sponsor's demanded her to skate her hardest skates ever while injured is frankly preposterous. Evgenia and Anna, also have sponsors, and they withdrew entirely. Anna, in particular, was one of the favourites to win. In fact her withdrawl meant it was even more likely that Sasha would win, even with a "watered-down" skate, if you can call it that with 2/3 quads.
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Omg. Sasha has shown she listens to authority even when she would prefer to skate a harder layout. She did with Eteri.How? Showing up on the ice with a stop sign? Sasha can agree to a layout and then do whatever she wants on the ice
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Yeah for sure. It's just a hard lesson to learn. The ones who should have made the call aren't the ones who had a difficult skate and injured themselves even more, particularly needlessly, not to mention the impact on her emotionally.
I just hope Sasha recovers quickly and completely and that they have learned that her safety and health is paramount.Anyway, on to the next one. I hope for good skates, from Sasha and the rest! <3
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