Yagudin: Wow! Well done. (when Dmitri had landed the first jump)
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Yagudin: No doubt, he deserves +3 for the combination he just has landed.
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Yagudin: Dima has nearly as much points for two quads as Adam Rippon had for all his short program (the first quad was done in a combination: 4Lz3T - and 4T after steps).
Zhurankov: Alexei, judges are shocked.
Yagudin: Not only judges are shocked. I'm shocked too, in our time we jumped only... stand! Well done. In our time 4S, 4T were maximum. So now for me seeing loaded programs of many top skaters is insanity, especially free programs. In times past we had 1 or maximum 2 quads. Now athletes have maximum 1 or 2 triples. And of course, 4Lz which many single skaters jump now, makes one look with sinking heart how easily they do it. 4Lz, 4F, 4Lo - this is kind of insanity. Soon we will see all those jumps, now let's continue enjoying Dima Aliev's skating.
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Yagudin: Now he needs only to hold out. Stand! We can see he is tired a bit, but he should stay in his image till the end, till last seconds, should stay concentrated. ... Well done!
Zhurankov: Yes! And here is the question, he almost shouted this question by his skating: maybe he is the one who should have been sent to the team event?
Yagudin: Do you know the saying? If grandma had moustache, she would be grandpa. Let's don't try to speculate what would be if Dima Aliev was skating in the team event. We have what we have. We have silver in the team. Yes, Misha Kolyada wasn't very successful...
Zhurankov: In the SP.
Yagudin: In the SP. The FP was a bit better, also not perfect. Yet what we can do? These guys - Dima Aliev and Mikhail Kolyada - participate in Olympics for the first time...
Zhurankov: Alexei, the guy is trembling, don't we see it?
Yagudin: I'm trembling as well now after this wonderful skate. Great! Well done. These are his first Olympics, and he was wonderful. We have goosebumps - as Tatiana Anatolievna Tarasova likes to say.
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Yagudin: You know, as for Zhenya Rukavicin and Dima Aliev, this is a team with a head, with a cool head. They think not only about their future skate, but also about skates which their competitors have shown. At the European Championship we could see, that Aliev didn't include 4Lz neither in his SP nor FP, he skated with 4 toeloops. And among those skates which his competitors had, he has got the silver. Now as far as I can see, the guys risked a little bit, I even can say they really risked...
Zhurankov: yes, really risked. Let's explain that. (tells about Aliev's injury)
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Yagudin: His score is very good and I think he can be among 6 strongest, now we can only see how his competitors will skate.
And many more things was advertised by him. The first was the Chupa Chups and that is undoubtable adorable.
and come to Prague, please, please, please!
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