From an interview to Massimiliano Ambesi:
Alena Kostornaia is almost an ethereal figure.
She is the complete package like Yuzuru Hanyu, the skater who, without ifs and buts, changed the history of the discipline.
She is a girl with a rare smoothness, an innate elegance, an ability to identify with the music and the part that creates instant empathy.
Then there is the rest, because we are talking about a skater who has already landed in competition a jump like the triple axel, that is only for a select few, inserting perfectly the element in the choreography without any kind of pauses or downtime.
Usually, not much is said about the sequences of steps, but for Kostornaia it is necessary to emphasize the quality of the turns, characterized not only by the obvious edge of entry but also by the more and more rare edge of exit, denoting top class skating skills and attention to detail.
[interviewer]
Reading in the net and listening to your words, I get the impression that Kostornaia is considered something different from all the others. What did you think the first time you saw her compete in an international competition?
I thought about The Foreigner, an American band, popular in the late seventies and early eighties. The refrain of one of their main hits sounded like this: "I had been waiting for a girl like you to come into my life".
https://www.oasport.it/2019/10/ambesi-winter-corner-da-yuzuru-hanyu-ad-alena-kostornaia-tanti-buoni-motivi-per-seguire-il-grand-prix/
BUT, today is not that day! 
And when that day arrives, as it inevitably will, no one has to participate in it! :cool14:
