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Alina Zagitova

New Masaru pictures, new Masaru and Iriska video shots, Masaru at the Ice Rink....today was a great day in this fandom.

Alina got her new skates, that is super cool, hope they are a great fit and she is able to enjoy them. From what I gather it is hard to break in new skates, I'm glad she is getting them early so she can properly try them out.
 
TheBallerina said:
Iriska's thinking: "So I'm gonna go and sleep in MY bed and relax annnd.....Damn he conquered the bed, Mission Abort, repeat, Mission Abort"
*leaves the room and plots for revenge [emoji23]
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She just need a little time to accept Masaru))
 
lusk8 said:
New Masaru pictures, new Masaru and Iriska video shots, Masaru at the Ice Rink....today was a great day in this fandom.

Alina got her new skates, that is super cool, hope they are a great fit and she is able to enjoy them. From what I gather it is hard to break in new skates, I'm glad she is getting them early so she can properly try them out.
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Judging from the „Of Ice and Fame“ documentary, I‘d say getting new skates really is difficult. I remember a scene when Alina stepped out of her skates and the cameraman asked her:

„Do your feet always look like that?“

To which she replied, confusedly: „Like what?“

„Covered in green bruises!“

And she said something along the lines of: „Oh, no, that‘s just my new skates, they take some time to get used to.“

And her feet really looked shocking. So it‘s really better that she gets them now to get used to them. I never understood why it‘s such a catastrophe when a skater has problems with skates during competition. I always thought: „Well, use different ones then, what‘s the problem?“ But now I see it‘s... not that easy.
 
Fluture said:
Judging from the „Of Ice and Fame“ documentary, I‘d say getting new skates really is difficult. I remember a scene when Alina stepped out of her skates and the cameraman asked her:

„Do your feet always look like that?“

To which she replied, confusedly: „Like what?“

„Covered in green bruises!“

And she said something along the lines of: „Oh, no, that‘s just my new skates, they take some time to get used to.“

And her feet really looked shocking. So it‘s really better that she gets them now to get used to them. I never understood why it‘s such a catastrophe when a skater has problems with skates during competition. I always thought: „Well, use different ones then, what‘s the problem?“ But now I see it‘s... not that easy.
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I’m with you, I would have thought it was easier, but now, with all the documentaries and stuff, I see that it is hard.

In another interview somewhere Alina mentioned that she had to revert back to “old skates from her Junior season” during the Olympics. Couldn’t find the actual interview but if I do I’ll link it here.

I’m glad she is getting an early start with these new ones.

Edit to add: ok found the quote, it’s from an interview after WC2018

“Do you plan to change the boots for the next season?

– Yes. The fact is that I started the Olympic season in new boots, but then I started having problems with feet. So, I had to switch to old boots, in which I skated in the junior season. At the Olympic Games, I skated in them.

How difficult is for you the process of breaking into new boots?

– Usually it’s a long process. Now for the first time I got a chance to order boots by the mould of my feet. I hope this will greatly facilitate the process.”
 
Some really interesting quotes from Alina's first coach from an interview in http://www.izvestiaur.ru/sport/15442101.html (as always with the help of Google translate) -

The next championship of the planet in March 2019 will take Saitama, and there can be no doubt that on the Japanese ice there will be a hot spectacular sparring and character struggle.

- Of course, Alina will have a very difficult time, - Natalia Antipina, the first coach of Zagitova, says in an exclusive for "SI". - And it's not even about physiology, but the fact that it's not yet clear how her body will react to all the stresses that have fallen in the Olympic season. He turned out to be the hardest for Alina, by the spring Alina was, as they say, squeezed out, and numerous public events simply squeeze her. And yet I hope that she will cope with all the tests, and the family will help her. Alina is a strong girl!

In the past season, Alina Zagitova allowed only one serious oversight. On the March planetary forum in Milan, in the image of Kitrina, music from the ballet Minkus "Don Quixote" she could not perform the first jump in an arbitrary program, and this provoked a cascade of mistakes. Authoritative and auto ritarnaya Tatiana Tarasova is explained by the fact that the figure skater in the past month after the Olympics in Korea grew by three centimeters, and this has affected the coordination of movements.

- In my opinion, the reason is different - Natalia Alekseevna did not agree with Tatyana Anatolyevna (at Games-2018 she clearly sympathized with Evgeniya Medvedeva). - At the warm-up Alina jumped all the elements. But, it seems to me, to the world championship in Italy, it was not completely restored after the illness. Immediately after the Olympics, Alina fell ill with a high fever, and then all these solemn meetings, honors and awards began ...

- The well-known international expert Arthur Werner recently predicted that Zagitova will ride another year or two, and Medvedev will soon complete his career. And how do you see the career prospects of both girls?

- Let it be as it will be, - Natalia Antipina diplomatically refused to comment. - I will repeat only one thing: it will be hard for both one and the other.

- Proceeding from the fact that very soon there will appear skaters in the women's elite who perform quadruple, whether their senior colleagues should put these jumps into the programs for successful competition?

- On the one hand, it would be very good. Again, with additional loads, there is a risk of injury, inevitable when learning new complex technical elements.

- In addition, with a rich international calendar, you can not find windows for working out new jumps.

- I totally agree. Now, when Alina had to rest and gradually start preparing for the next season, she could not afford it. Even on a short vacation in the Dominican Republic, Alina was preparing for the state final attestation, "Natalia Antipina sighed.
Immediately after the master class in Izhevsk 16-year-old Alina Zagitova flew to Moscow, where she was waiting for a real school quadruple - in the sense of four exams after the end of the ninth grade.

By the way, for the coming season coaches Etere Tutberidze, Sergey Dudakov and choreographer Daniil Gleichenhaus offered their new short program for the music of Andrew Lloyd Ueber "The Phantom of the Opera", but the soundtrack to the random rental is still kept secret ...
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dante said:
I can't remember this scene, but I'm sure it was not bruises, but brilliant green, an antiseptic.
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I‘m not exactly sure of course, since I don‘t understand Russian but I had subtitles on and it said bruises, so... Maybe they translated it wrongly, I don‘t know.
 
Immediately after the master class in Izhevsk 16-year-old Alina Zagitova flew to Moscow, where she was waiting for a real school quadruple - in the sense of four exams after the end of the ninth grade.
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:laugh:

By the way, as you were talking about skates and changes, if I remember right, korean lady Choi Da-bin couldn't skate FP at Worlds because her skates were stolen (edit: Katie0906 wrote they broke). She would be probably able to get new ones in Milan, but in completely new it would be probably impossible to compete immediately.
 
flanker said:
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By the way, as you were talking about skates and changes, if I remember right, korean lady Choi Da-bin couldn't skate FP at Worlds because her skates were stolen. She would be probably able to get new ones in Milan, but in completely new it would be probably impossible to compete immediately.
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It wasn't stolen,she withdraw because her right boots is broken.
 
flanker said:
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By the way, as you were talking about skates and changes, if I remember right, korean lady Choi Da-bin couldn't skate FP at Worlds because her skates were stolen. She would be probably able to get new ones in Milan, but in completely new it would be probably impossible to compete immediately.
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Wow that is super sad for her. And it shows how hard it truly is to break in new skates and be able to reliably use them, as it goes I'm glad Alina is getting an early start with her new ones that will allow her to work out any kinks that might come from this change.
 
Finley said:
Some really interesting quotes from Alina's first coach from an interview in http://www.izvestiaur.ru/sport/15442101.html (as always with the help of Google translate) -
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That was a hard interview to read (not because of Google Translate), but because I have a hard time with "voice of impending doom" interviews. I don't fault her former coach from saying anything, she is entitled to her assessment of things and has a wealth of knowledge to back up her opinions (same for all the others quoted there).

For me, from where we currently stand, I can't say if it will be harder, easier or about the same. Having a few Ice Shows to go from and seeing her in them (she did her full SP in Ice Fantasia), and seeing her in that Japanese TV Show doing that incredibly hard one foot slalom, it doesn't look like it will be harder. Will it be a piece of cake? Nothing ever is a piece of cake, like ever, to no one. Success is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration, as the saying goes. I feel that Alina is willing to make the effort and work hard, she has the motivation, all she has to do is look at her accomplishments from just one, her first, senior season (and all the dreams she already made true).

The only variable she can control in all of this is herself, she has to do her best and let the chips fall where they may.
 
lusk8 said:
That was a hard interview to read (not because of Google Translate), but because I have a hard time with "voice of impending doom" interviews. I don't fault her former coach from saying anything, she is entitled to her assessment of things and has a wealth of knowledge to back up her opinions (same for all the others quoted there).

For me, from where we currently stand, I can't say if it will be harder, easier or about the same. Having a few Ice Shows to go from and seeing her in them (she did her full SP in Ice Fantasia), and seeing her in that Japanese TV Show doing that incredibly hard one foot slalom, it doesn't look like it will be harder. Will it be a piece of cake? Nothing ever is a piece of cake, like ever, to no one. Success is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration, as the saying goes. I feel that Alina is willing to make the effort and work hard, she has the motivation, all she has to do is look at her accomplishments from just one, her first, senior season (and all the dreams she already made true).

The only variable she can control in all of this is herself, she has to do her best and let the chips fall where they may.
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I agree with you. Alina‘s willing to work she has the determination and she‘ll give it her everything. Maybe she grew but I don‘t see that as the reason why she bombed at Worlds. She did her jumps just fine before, she was just mentally tired. She’ll rock next season and she’ll either medal at Worlds or get the title! I‘m sure of that! And seriously, she‘s not done yet. She‘s just started. And even if quad girls turn senior: We don‘t know yet whether their jumps will even survive puberty and Alina‘s still the technically strongest lady after them. She‘s in the midst of puberty right now and constantly skates so difficult programs. As soon as puberty‘s finished, she‘ll be even stronger!

And Zhenya being on the verge of retiring... Well, I know this is not her fanfest but that‘s an example of how ... strange I find this interview to be. She just changed country and coach, which she will need to pay personally to just retire? No way.

Back to Alina again: We shouldn‘t worry about her. She‘ll charm us with her new programs and her lovely personality next season and the season after that, too!!
 
RusFed - Alina Zagitova became a candidate for the Russian national team for the season 2018/2019

Full list of candidates:

Main team -
Alina Zagitova,Stanislava Konstantinova , Evgeniya Medvedeva, Maria Sotskova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Polina Tsurskaya.

Reserve- Anna Pogorilaya, Elena Radionova, Serafima Sakhanovich.

Juniors- A.Kostornaya, A. Gubanova, A.Trusova, D.Panenkova ,S.Samodurova, V.Vasiljeva
 
EdRoz said:
RusFed - Alina Zagitova became a candidate for the Russian national team for the season 2018/2019

Full list of candidates:

Main team -
Alina Zagitova,Stanislava Konstantinova , Evgeniya Medvedeva, Maria Sotskova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Polina Tsurskaya.

Reserve- Anna Pogorilaya, Elena Radionova, Serafima Sakhanovich.

Juniors- A.Kostornaya, A. Gubanova, A.Trusova, D.Panenkova ,S.Samodurova, V.Vasiljeva
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Edited to add: Russian Ladies thread answered some of my questions.

Candidate as in meaning they have to compete at something to get confirmed on the team or are they on the team already? It’s the team placements to receive funding (not the people to use Russia’s 3 spots as I had thought.

Daria is a Senior now, right? How will that work, do you know? I thought it was confirmed she’d be a senior, I was wrong. Don’t know how this works in competitions.
 
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