Alina Zagitova

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Another high-quality fancam of the new exquisite and elegant program by Alina. The music and backstory were taken from an immensely popular in ex-USSR romantic film A Hunting Accident (1978).



Right after the program Alina took the microphone and very touchingly dedicated her performance to her grandmother who had been dreaming that Alina would perform that role on ice for a long-long time. Alina said that nana had stayed with her through thick and thin and deserved all the credit in the world, and her love and dedication were unconditional. For context, Alina moved to Moscow with nana at the age of 12 or 13. Nana stayed with her in their rental studio for at least 2-3 years and obviously helped Alina lots and lots. You can see her in this Japanese documentary about Alina shot right after Pyeongchang Olympics.



Funny how Alina was just a little sassy with nana in that segment, acting out like most teenagers do. But Alina always, always thanked her grandmother in kiss-and-cry. Very touching indeed.

 

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Alina met with her official fan group TeamZagitova, as is the annual tradition.



Alina says "My birthday already passed but I am still getting presents, thank you".

 

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Another milestone for Alina - she has just defended her thesis getting an A grade.



Bonus content Alina in Kazan a few days ago.

 

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As I mentioned above, Alina actually achieved an unheard-of feat - she will soon graduate from an accredited university, a rarity for such a famous sportswoman in Russia. The vast majority of her peers get a diploma from the special ed. sporting university, where such famous students do not even have to show up until the very end. Alina's success attracted a lot of attention (and jealousy ). So much that the Dean of her department gave a long interview about Alina's time at her university.



The bullet-point translation follows. 1) Alina did not have an easy life at the University because she spent most of her childhood training for the Olympics and did not get a great education in high school. 2) However, Alina was very motivated to do well, did not ask for special treatment and worked well with her profs. 3) Alina's thesis was on "Promotion of sports and journalism" and she was able to incorporate her actual experience with covering recent figure skating competitions on Russian TV. 4) Alina is considering going for a master's degree but that is still not decided.

 

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Alina has started her summer tour with her tried and true role of Ludmila, this time with Alexander Enbert as her partner.



This is a limited run as Alina is also working on her own show that should premier end of August. Here is a little vid from the first rehearsal of her own show.

 

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Alina gave a longish interview describing her plans and current projects, along with showing the contents of her bag.



Interesting to see how Alina changed from a similar "what's in my bag" video from about two years ago. Still as charming and bashful.