ADELINA Sotnikova: "I do not agree with Wagner." ZAGITOVOY PROGRAM - BEST "
- How do you generally speak of the Russians at the Olympic team tournament?
- At the moment, everyone has shown the best that they can do now. But further there will be personal competitions, there there will be absolutely other history, - has told Сотникова. - The most interesting is ahead!
- The Russian team had a chance for gold, if Mikhail Kolyada showed his maximum on the first day of the competition?
- Oh sure. Then we would be the first, but it turned out as it turned out. We took silver, and this is also an excellent result considering that our team is very young, all skaters are debutants of the Olympics, except for Bobrova and Solovyov. Now we just need to rejoice for the team and not to single out anybody.
- American figure skater Ashley Wagner accused Alina Zagitova of "killing time at the beginning of the program, and then chaotic jumping at the end." What do you say to that?
- I do not agree. I think that Alina has the most complicated program, all the elements are collected at the end. She jumps a lot with her hands up, which complicates the performance. She is so much better, she wants to do her own way, and not like everyone else. And she gets points also not like everyone else. I can only thank her for her excellent work. This is the best free program that I saw at the Games-2018. I thought there would be a world record, but the judges decided otherwise.
- Zagitova said that she became friends with Medvedeva. Can there be friendship between competitors?
- Everything is possible, people come together during the team competitions, but then everyone will close from each other, because personal rentals are completely different. Now all the fellows, all at the same time, but then competition will begin.
- What were your relations with Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Yulia Lipnitskaya when you were competitors in the Russian team?
- Personally, I always had good relations with everyone, I'm such a person. Why fight outside the site, if the most important thing happens on the ice. There we are competitors, and outside the site this is not.
Source:
https://www.sport-express.ru/olympi...vagner-programma-zagitovoy-luchshaya-1370831/
Pic with 12 year old (?) Zagitova
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