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Alina Zagitova

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Alina could agree. This is, in principle, in her spirit: not to argue with anyone and not to create conflicts from scratch. But she acted like a true Olympic champion, not allowing her own team's efforts to be devalued. Once they tried to do such a dishonest trick with her herself, when in 2018 they announced to the whole country that "both girls are golden". No, there is always one gold medal. And there is always one winner. And, as you know, they don't judge him. It is a pity that Medvedeva did not put up with this.
 
Can I just say... Alina‘s eyebrows need their own Fanpage, Oscar and a brand deal.
The way she raised it and took a pause. Queen! 🔥 That move spoke louder than any words against multiple interruptions, while she wasn’t allowed to finish a sentence.
It takes a good deal of restraint to know how to respond, be firm and yet polite, and she did it to a 100%.
 
Looks like we have a short interview to look forward to.
here you go (nothing much, Alina's just thanking 1TV & RusFed for the Cup event; but it's a small bit in the evening news, longer version will either be in the night edition or next morning):


p.s. and they all are back at the rink! :eek:
 
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My thoughts after re-watching it with the subtitles:

Alina was so positive and happy at the beginning. You could see her good mood slowly draining away. :(

Ermolina is directly to blame for half of this. Alina was doing a fine job of mostly ignoring everything and keeping a neutral expression throughout. She really kept it together. Just inches from a clean getaway. Then Ermolina opens her mouth and we all see how that turned out. :mad:

I like that Alina stuck up for Maya. :(

They should provide lip balm along with bottled water at these press conferences. I kept getting distracted by Zhenya biting her lips off. 😬

Did I misinterpret Zhenya saying 'too bad the Olympics aren't like that' to mean that there should be an audience vote for that too? If so can we retroactively give Michelle Kwan a Gold Medal?
 
news clip about the 1TV Cup (there are Eng subtitles, but there be dragons watermelons :palmf: there too)

Do you mean the YouTube translations? I'm not even going to bother. They will just confuse me. But if some lovely person here would like to translate or even just hit the highlights :thank:
 
Can I just say... Alina‘s eyebrows need their own Fanpage, Oscar and a brand deal.
The way she raised it and took a pause. Queen! 🔥 That move spoke louder than any words against multiple interruptions, while she wasn’t allowed to finish a sentence.
It takes a good deal of restraint to know how to respond, be firm and yet polite, and she did it to a 100%.
That moment was pure gold :devil::points:
 
I was amazed by the behavior of the Olympic figure skating champion Alina Zagitova. Without offending a single person, not a single athlete, not allowing a single ambiguous word, she firmly took the last word on herself and resolutely defended her wonderful team, and herself as a captain, and as the winner of Russian and international competitions. In fact, Zagitova said what the coaches were obliged to say after the Olympics in Korea: whoever has a cup, who has a gold medal, won. Zagitova said what they had to say after the World Figure Skating Championships in Japan: no gold tides, there are three medals of different denominations.

:cheer2:Say it louder for the people in the back! Back in 2018, that is.

 
Press conference with English Subtitles


I have to say that I saw 10 minutes and can't continue. Will need to divide it into several episodes, otherwise some glass could end on the floor smashed into pieces. :rolleye:

BTW THANK YOU ALINA FOR STANDING UP FOR MAIIA. THATS WHAT A TRUE TEAM LEADER IS EXPECTED TO DO.(y) :clap:

Edit: Instead of 24 minutes it took me nearly two hours to finish it...
 
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I have to say that I saw 10 minutes and can't continue. Will need to divide it into several episodes, otherwise some glass could end on the floor smashed into pieces. :rolleye:

BTW THANK YOU ALINA FOR STANDING UP FOR MAIIA. THATS WHAT A TRUE TEAM LEADER IS EXPECTED TO DO.(y) :clap:
I was reading sports.ru and someone mentioned in a comment that Maiia's pictures were getting a lot of love and likes in Team Tutberidze fan pages on VK and IG. I hope this ends up being a positive thing in the long run and she gets tons of fans (people love underdogs) and support. We will see.

I also hope someone reminds her that it is your defeats that make or break you more than your victories. As much as the 2018 WC in Milan SUCKED for Alina, (and all of us) I believe that experience led to Saitama. We may not even have gotten 2019 Saitama victory without the great Milan Meltdown of 2018. And that particular victory was worth all victories in my eyes.

Courage, Maiia!
 
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