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Alina Zagitova

TheBallerina said:
Look into the past: sweet Alina during her junior years. If you click the right arrow you'll also find two photos with her and Nastya Gubanova. :love: Two huge talents, how different their careers proved to be until now:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsdH-hsBPC-/
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Very nice pictures thank you. Nastya feels the music as well as anybody and she's on a normal track for a 16 year old figure skater. Alina is the exception rather than the rule she skyrocketed to the top at age 15 with the most technically difficult and high-scoring program in Olympic ladies figure skating history. And Alina is having a very good follow-up season to her Olympic Championship season.
 
Don't kill me. :scard7: I know a lot of posters in this thread despise TSL. :mad: With good reason! They can be super obnoxious. :curse: But this is a really good second half of an interview with Kimmie Meissner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXWwBMRm5z0

I know it is long and it may seem :otopic: but I really think it is relevant to Alina's experience in so many ways.

Kimmie was 16 when she won Worlds and there is so much discussion about how that experience impacted her career. Not just the expectations and pressure but even how it changed her relationship with her coach.

-How it felt for the focus to be on the next generation of skaters coming up (Mirai, Ashley) when Kimmie was just 17.

-How it felt to have the media focusing intensely on her body when she was a teenager and maturing. (Thinking of Alina in the press conference being asked for 2335th time about how much she'd grown and finally saying - yes! I've grown! People grow! it happens!)

-How she had to adapt her technique and change everything including her timing as she got older. I also think she silences some of the argument about 'faulty' techniques that don't hold up. Different things work for different athletes with different body types. Sometimes that has to change if your body changes.

-Why she felt she needed to change coaches. Why she thinks its a good thing to experience different coaches and learn what they have to offer. (Granted in her case she made the WRONG choice of coach.)

-Multiple Mistakes at major competitions. Including not winning nats :(

- Dealing with the pressure of World's in Japan (!!!) skating against Mao, Miki and Yuna (!!!)

-How one injury, from one single jump, started the chain of events that ended her competitive career :(

I found it all fascinating and I think it is relevant to Alina's fan fest as it relates to Alina's experiences. Even though they are very different skaters in very different circumstances, their ages are so similar. I thought it was worth listening to for the insight.

Also Eteri training is mentioned once, briefly, and in a FAVORABLE context. (I couldn't believe it either!)
 
Hello lovely people!

I'm basically a lurker at this point, but I wanted to voice my support of Alina here because I'm getting a little bit fed up with the weird passive aggression she constantly gets, and say my thanks to the ones who defend her. You're all the MVPs.

Me, I became a fan at Cup of China '17, and have never looked back. I didn't dare to hope but she went ahead and won Olympic gold (my home country) and I was almost in tears with pride in her for the way she achieved it. I'm also of the opinion that they should put DQ in the MoMa, what a masterpiece and now there won't even be another all jumping passes in the second half program. We love an Influential Queen.:love:

Perhaps most of all, I love that Ms. Z seems to have stayed extremely grounded through all of this, and she doesn't seem particularly interested in fame and celebrity either:drama: and it amazes me every day that she's the age she is.

ANYWAY that's all from me for now, just wanted to say hi:dance3:
 
Fool said:
Hello lovely people!

I'm basically a lurker at this point, but I wanted to voice my support of Alina here because I'm getting a little bit fed up with the weird passive aggression she constantly gets, and say my thanks to the ones who defend her. You're all the MVPs.

Me, I became a fan at Cup of China '17, and have never looked back. I didn't dare to hope but she went ahead and won Olympic gold (my home country) and I was almost in tears with pride in her for the way she achieved it. I'm also of the opinion that they should put DQ in the MoMa, what a masterpiece and now there won't even be another all jumping passes in the second half program. We love an Influential Queen.:love:

Perhaps most of all, I love that Ms. Z seems to have stayed extremely grounded through all of this, and she doesn't seem particularly interested in fame and celebrity either:drama: and it amazes me every day that she's the age she is.

ANYWAY that's all from me for now, just wanted to say hi:dance3:
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Welcome, Fool! I think I love your username most of all! :luv17:

So glad I get to be the first to welcome you here!
 
Fool said:
Hello lovely people!

I'm basically a lurker at this point, but I wanted to voice my support of Alina here because I'm getting a little bit fed up with the weird passive aggression she constantly gets, and say my thanks to the ones who defend her. You're all the MVPs.

Me, I became a fan at Cup of China '17, and have never looked back. I didn't dare to hope but she went ahead and won Olympic gold (my home country) and I was almost in tears with pride in her for the way she achieved it. I'm also of the opinion that they should put DQ in the MoMa, what a masterpiece and now there won't even be another all jumping passes in the second half program. We love an Influential Queen.:love:

Perhaps most of all, I love that Ms. Z seems to have stayed extremely grounded through all of this, and she doesn't seem particularly interested in fame and celebrity either:drama: and it amazes me every day that she's the age she is.

ANYWAY that's all from me for now, just wanted to say hi:dance3:
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Welcome. Great first comment here, I hope there will be many more :agree:
 
Finley said:
Don't kill me. :scard7: I know a lot of posters in this thread despise TSL. :mad: With good reason! They can be super obnoxious. :curse: But this is a really good second half of an interview with Kimmie Meissner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXWwBMRm5z0

I know it is long and it may seem :otopic: but I really think it is relevant to Alina's experience in so many ways.

Kimmie was 16 when she won Worlds and there is so much discussion about how that experience impacted her career. Not just the expectations and pressure but even how it changed her relationship with her coach.

-How it felt for the focus to be on the next generation of skaters coming up (Mirai, Ashley) when Kimmie was just 17.

-How it felt to have the media focusing intensely on her body when she was a teenager and maturing. (Thinking of Alina in the press conference being asked for 2335th time about how much she'd grown and finally saying - yes! I've grown! People grow! it happens!)

-How she had to adapt her technique and change everything including her timing as she got older. I also think she silences some of the argument about 'faulty' techniques that don't hold up. Different things work for different athletes with different body types. Sometimes that has to change if your body changes.

-Why she felt she needed to change coaches. Why she thinks its a good thing to experience different coaches and learn what they have to offer. (Granted in her case she made the WRONG choice of coach.)

-Multiple Mistakes at major competitions. Including not winning nats :(

- Dealing with the pressure of World's in Japan (!!!) skating against Mao, Miki and Yuna (!!!)

-How one injury, from one single jump, started the chain of events that ended her competitive career :(

I found it all fascinating and I think it is relevant to Alina's fan fest as it relates to Alina's experiences. Even though they are very different skaters in very different circumstances, their ages are so similar. I thought it was worth listening to for the insight.

Also Eteri training is mentioned once, briefly, and in a FAVORABLE context. (I couldn't believe it either!)
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Thank you, Finley.

I plan to watch this.

Kimmie is one of my all time faves.

Like Alina, Kimmie really seems to be an awesome human being.

I was heartbroken during her 2008 Nationals LP.

This is one reason Alina's 2018 Worlds LP bothered me so much.
It reminded me too much of Kimmie. Including the audience cheering her on to support her.

I know those programs happened for different reasons, but it was just too similar for me.
 
lesnar001 said:
Thank you, Finley.

I plan to watch this.

Kimmie is one of my all time faves.

Like Alina, Kimmie really seems to be an awesome human being.

I was heartbroken during her 2008 Nationals LP.

This is one reason Alina's 2018 Worlds LP bothered me so much.
It reminded me too much of Kimmie. Including the audience cheering her on to support her.

I know those programs happened for different reasons, but it was just too similar for me.
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Thanks. lesnar. I really wasn't a huge fan of Kimmie but after this interview I have so much respect for her. You might want to listen to part one as well.
 
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