I saw this interview as well--apparently Dasha almost lost her shoes in the pile of toys! Still, it would've been HILARIOUS if they had gotten stuck and had to wait for some people to come and pull them out. I feel like that is exactly the kind of thing that would happen to Aliona though!
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Some other stuff:
1) I forgot to mention it yesterday, but Aliona finally won the PCS battle in the FS, and she was the ONLY skater to score above 70 in PCS!
It's what she deserves! :yes2:
2) Selfie with Yuzu:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B51HKSKp5To/
(If you can't tell, Aliona is closest to the camera, with the grey sweater with the yellow stripe on the arm.)
3) Organizing a jump photo with Nathan:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B50r2OjJewx/ :luv17:
4) New video interview (translation is in the comments):
https://www.instagram.com/p/B50dyLiov1G/
I'm glad to hear that Aliona knows that she needs to learn a quad. She won this time around because Sasha and Anna made mistakes (like they did at JGPF last year), but Aliona can't always rely on others making mistakes. If she wants to keep winning, she will have to increase her technical content. :yes:
From what I could tell of the auto-translated Russian comments on the Channel 1 FS video, TAT suggested that Aliona should be able to learn how to do a quad flip because she gets so much height on her 3F. I still am a bit worried that trying a 4F will mess up her gorgeous 3F, but I also feel like her 3S is not that high, so a 4S might be hard. I don't know... :think: Realistically speaking, though, if she hasn't been actively working on a quad already, she probably won't have an opportunity to do so until after Worlds, or possibly between Euros and Worlds (of course, assuming she makes those teams). Personally, I think it might be better to stabilize her existing content and aim to do it completely clean this year and work on a quad over the summer...
I'm eagerly awaiting banquet photos but haven't seen any yet!
Well... I was asking myself if youtube subtitles got it right when tarasova was speaking ... she said the 3F easily could be turn in 4 F that had to much heigh and space ... well if you see that the other 2 of the 3A have a 4F ... I think at this stage kostornaia probably is training one or have one ... but I think Eteri is only going to put that on a program if she nails it 99% of the time ... because she could win most of time without one ...