Alina Zagitova

[lesnar001]

New prodigy in Eteri's group and future Olympic Champion in the canine category

And we thought Masaru had been at "Doggie Obiedience School"

She was taking skating lessons.

I want to see Masaru and Alexandra Trusova's chihuahua as a "pairs team"

 

[TheBallerina]

Your boss should realize that a happy worker is a productive worker!

And if you have a dog, you should be able to bring your dog to work ---- just like Alina does :cool2:

I would like to have a boss like you lesnar001, pharma industry needs more people like you
And after all...it's Alinka the one who is skating, I can't miss that

 

[zenskate]

New prodigy in Eteri's group and future Olympic Champion in the canine category

Masaru wanders onto the ice at Russian Nationals, and the judges give her straight +5 GOE and 10.0s in PCS for being adorable, sending her to the top of the standings. Unfortunately, she is disqualified from medaling because she is Japanese.

 

[IceBallerina]

I honestly plan to develop my work schedule around FS, including requesting off for major events like GPF, worlds, and most importantly Russian Nationals (although I won’t say that’s the reason). And if I can’t take off I’ll be secretly watching Alinka and everyone at work

 

[lesnar001]

zenskate -

I love your avatar.

 

[zenskate]

zenskate -

I love your avatar.

:2thumbs: It's my favorite picture of Masaru.

 

[Fluture]

Omg Masaru on ice!! :luv17:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnvp-XMjUOd/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=133cv4ppb7x3b

On another note I found this on Instagram. I don‘t speak any Russian but I translated it with the feature Instagram offers and thought it was very sweet. Let’s all support our Alina!

 

[EdRoz]

From the interview with Eteri: you have an Olympic champion Alina Zagitova in the team ,do you have idea that she can also make a quad? - We tried . We did this a year before the Olympics, but then we finished, because every jump is a risk. Even if the athlete knows how to do it, it's still a risk. "Does Alina know how?" - There was something close, it was possible to continue working. But now Alina has grown up, physiological changes have taken place, and we do not deal with them. She must grow stronger

 

[zenskate]

From the interview with Eteri: you have an Olympic champion Alina Zagitova in the team ,do you have idea that she can also make a quad? - We tried . We did this a year before the Olympics, but then we finished, because every jump is a risk. Even if the athlete knows how to do it, it's still a risk. "Does Alina know how?" - There was something close, it was possible to continue working. But now Alina has grown up, physiological changes have taken place, and we do not deal with them. She must grow stronger

What does this mean?

I hope Eteri is not giving up on Alina. She gave up on her once and took her back, and now Alina's the Olympic champion.

 

[flanker]

What does this mean?

I hope Eteri is not giving up on Alina. She gave up on her once and took her back, and now Alina's the Olympic champion.

Why giving up? There is absolutely nothing that would indicate such thing. I don't understand what is incomprehensible in that statement. Alina needs to get strength (means also to adapt on her new height), before, eventually, will start to train some quad. But there is any condition "train quad or I'm giving up on you."

By the way, be careful, with such note you can trigger an avalanche of false predictions immediately

 

[zenskate]

By the way, be careful, with such note you can trigger an avalanche of false predictions immediately

Will do.

 

[zenskate]

Does anyone know what Kamila Valieva said about Alina in her livestream? She talked about Sambo and her teammates at parts.

 

[lusk8]

I read this quickly and thought it said "jury duty".

GUILTY!!!! - now lets get back to the SP.

Hey if I could get jury duty on the judging panel of Ondrej Nepela I'll take!! "You get a medal, you get a medal, everybody gets a medal". Of course, there's only one gold medal and that's for Alina.

 

[lusk8]

From the interview with Eteri: you have an Olympic champion Alina Zagitova in the team ,do you have idea that she can also make a quad? - We tried . We did this a year before the Olympics, but then we finished, because every jump is a risk. Even if the athlete knows how to do it, it's still a risk. "Does Alina know how?" - There was something close, it was possible to continue working. But now Alina has grown up, physiological changes have taken place, and we do not deal with them. She must grow stronger

Kind of confirms my thoughts that yeah they probably all did train them, but as their career paths cleared up the team focused on what would get each one to where they needed to be.

In Alina's case as soon as she was a top junior and then a top senior contender it made no sense to continue working on something that would pay off in say two years versus working on something that would pay off in 3 months. She probably had a way to go on that goal (a quad) while she was already on top of what she needed to do to be a contender for gold as a senior.

Makes sense.

I think they have the right goal for her, get even stronger, get consistency and better GOEs in all her jumps and then work on something else after the season if over.

 

[lesnar001]

Kind of confirms my thoughts that yeah they probably all did train them, but as their career paths cleared up the team focused on what would get each one to where they needed to be.

In Alina's case as soon as she was a top junior and then a top senior contender it made no sense to continue working on something that would pay off in say two years versus working on something that would pay off in 3 months. She probably had a way to go on that goal (a quad) while she was already on top of what she needed to do to be a contender for gold as a senior.

Makes sense.

I think they have the right goal for her, get even stronger, get consistency and better GOEs in all her jumps and then work on something else after the season if over.

In addition, quads (or triple axels) are in another universe of difficulty altogether.

I don't follow juniors that closely, but aren't Sasha T. and Anna S. the only juniors attempting or landing quads?

Not counting the 2 above, I believe the only lady to land a quad was Miki Ando when she was a junior.

I believe that Surya Bonaly came close. I remember Sasha Cohen attempting one in a GP event in 2001, but falling (I don't think it was fully rotated).

I don't believe that Midori Ito ever attempted one.

Simply based on the # of successful attempts (or even the attempts) - I would say it is much more difficult than even the Triple Axel.

And even if it seems like we are on some sort of horizion because of Sasha T and Anna S this season....

At Skate America 2002, 2 ladies landed a triple axel. Yet - up until 2015, only Mao Asada succesfully landed any Triple Axels.

 

[Mawwerg]

In addition, quads (or triple axels) are in another universe of difficulty altogether.

I don't follow juniors that closely, but aren't Sasha T. and Anna S. the only juniors attempting or landing quads?

Not counting the 2 above, I believe the only lady to land a quad was Miki Ando when she was a junior.

I believe that Surya Bonaly came close. I remember Sasha Cohen attempting one in a GP event in 2001, but falling (I don't think it was fully rotated).

I don't believe that Midori Ito ever attempted one.

Simply based on the # of successful attempts (or even the attempts) - I would say it is much more difficult than even the Triple Axel.

And even if it seems like we are on some sort of horizion because of Sasha T and Anna S this season....

At Skate America 2002, 2 ladies landed a triple axel. Yet - up until 2015, only Mao Asada succesfully landed any Triple Axels.

At competitions only Sasha and Anna attempted quads but a lot of girls have tried them at practice. I believe almost all top junior girls made at least some attempts. Also there are rumors CSKA work on quads with their elite novice skaters.

 

[lesnar001]

At competitions only Sasha and Anna attempted quads but a lot of girls have tried them at practice. I believe almost all top junior girls made at least some attempts. Also there are rumors CSKA work on quads with their elite novice skaters.

Thank you for the information. I wasn't aware that many girls were at the very least attempting them!

I still think there will be a very small number that can actually land them.
And doing so in competition will be even harder obviously.

But I'm mainly making an assumption based on the similar path of the tripel axel.

I could be wrong though - especially if more and more girls start training them early.
I guess time will tell.

 

[EdRoz]

Does anyone know what Kamila Valieva said about Alina in her livestream? She talked about Sambo and her teammates at parts.

Do you often see Alina? Every day, in the locker room she sits in front of me , she does not often communicate with the children's group,
but if you ask anything - she always answers and helps

Can you teach Alina Tatar language? no, in Tatar, I only know two words

Does Alina study well at school? I dont know

Does Alina have a boyfriend ? No

Do you know that you are very similar to Alina? Yes , I know, people told me

 

[flanker]

In addition, quads (or triple axels) are in another universe of difficulty altogether.

I don't follow juniors that closely, but aren't Sasha T. and Anna S. the only juniors attempting or landing quads?

Not counting the 2 above, I believe the only lady to land a quad was Miki Ando when she was a junior.

I believe that Surya Bonaly came close. I remember Sasha Cohen attempting one in a GP event in 2001, but falling (I don't think it was fully rotated).

I don't believe that Midori Ito ever attempted one.

Simply based on the # of successful attempts (or even the attempts) - I would say it is much more difficult than even the Triple Axel.

And even if it seems like we are on some sort of horizion because of Sasha T and Anna S this season....

At Skate America 2002, 2 ladies landed a triple axel. Yet - up until 2015, only Mao Asada succesfully landed any Triple Axels.

Alëna Kostornaia tried quads too, probably with poor results so far. I presume she won't be trying it now during the season, she will probably try to have strong 3A in order to put it into her FS. I bet that after the end of the season she will try to train some quad again.

 

[EdRoz]

Alina and Tatjana Flade

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn4UAHpAZ5Q/?hl=ru&taken-by=azagitova_team