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Anna's today's vids. First is some childhood history about what she did with her hair on this picture, the other one is Anna watching the training of the second group.
Anna: By the way, about the photo that I posted yesterday. Even on Instagram, many wrote to me about this photo and discussed my cool hairstyle, or rather, bangs. I think that for many people, especially for girls, it is not a surprising story when you pick up scissors and decide to fix your hair yourself. But, as far as I know, people usually do it quite purposefully, with some idea in mind. And I was just minding my own business, I saw the scissors - and without a second's hesitation, took a lock of hair with my hand - and cut it off at the root. I didn’t even really interested what happened there in the end, I just continued to do my own thing.

The next morning, as usual, my mother braided my hair before training. And I think you can imagine what happened. But I chose a very interesting tactic - the tactic of denial. To all the questions “What is this? Why did you do that?" I answered that I knew nothing, did nothing and had no idea how it happened. That's such an interesting story (laughs).
 
And the captain on the way...
First video:

"Well, I'm on my way to the train! Sonya, where are you? We have, if anything, the first path. The train has already arrived."

Second video:

"Well, I'm already on the train. I'm going to the Cup of the first channel. So tomorrow at 7:05 I will already be there. Saransk is actually such a very figure skating city, I would say so. Because in Saransk I have already performed about eight times, I have even lost count. And when I was younger, it was stable, three or four times a year we went to competitions in Saransk. Therefore, the city itself and the skating rink have become familiar to me. But this time we will compete at a new ice rink, and there I will skate for the first time. Here are the news!"
 
I was going to post this earlier (meaning around the Olympics), but somehow forgot as everything else happened. Sharing it now. It's not that insightful perhaps, but I transcribed and translated the Norwegian commentary from Anna's SP at the Olympics.

The Norwegian commentators on Eurosport are:
Lise Røsto Jensen - ISU level judge
Espen Røtterud Runås - I’m sorry, I don’t know this man’s qualifications, but based on the way he speaks, he seems to have very good knowledge of ice dance in particular (could easily deconstruct the patterns, wow lol!) but basic skating too, down to the jumps.

Disclaimer: If the language is awkward it’s because of my translation, not the way they spoke.
Very interesting. On our TV, commentators have been silent lately during the skating. It seems that they are afraid to frighten off luck. The discussion usually takes place during the replay. When Tarasova commented, it was different.
 
Wake-up on the way to Saransk and Saransk:
in train:

"Well, good morning everyone. It's sunny in our compartment. Now I will share with you the morning news. First, I woke up at some stop, and therefore the first thing I thought was that I overslept, everyone had already left the train and I was left alone in it. But, as you can see, we are still going, everything is fine, everything worked out. The second news, very sad - I put the phone on charge at night, and the charger jumped out of the socket. Therefore, I have 7% of energy on my phone. This is very sad news. And from the good - look what a cute camping napkin holder I have ... no, not a napkin holder, but what is it called? Yes, cosmetic bag! I still have trouble thinking after waking up. Here's the news this morning!"

in hotel:

"Good morning everyone! I'm already in Saransk, checked into a hotel and unpacked my things. Here I have cosmetic bags, weight scales. And here I have my competition dresses hanging. This is for the short program, this is for the long play. And something else. Ta-dam! Haven't seen this dress in a long time? Here I have flowers, they were presented to me at the station. Many thanks! Here is a suitcase with skates. And me again!"
 
Just a reminder for what the World Championship is missing on right now. My new favorite program of all times. From the beginning until the end she uses her arms as much as her legs. Do you know another skater that is so dynamic? I am also glad that they gave her this peace instead of some soft lyrical music. Big music suits Anna
 
Just a reminder for what the World Championship is missing on right now. My new favorite program of all times. From the beginning until the end she uses her arms as much as her legs. Do you know another skater that is so dynamic? I am also glad that they gave her this peace instead of some soft lyrical music. Big music suits Anna
This entire season has been a huge challenge for Anna. She has been criticized in the past for her "too sad" lyrical programs. And so the first version of the short program turns out to be unsuccessful, and at first the new free program was received poorly. Anna changes her short program, learns new choreography in less than a week. Then these incomprehensible falls began. Plus, it seemed to me that Tutberidze lost interest in her. It must have been very unpleasant. Unsuccessful championship of Russia, insulting articles and comments - all this at once.

But Anna won again! And she created a new image, which hardly anyone could even think of last season. After Grenoble, I tried not to watch her performances live, it even began to seem to me that this was a bad sign. But in the Olympics, I still could not stand it and watched it in a live broadcast.

The short program is certainly a unique work of art. There are no pauses, every sound of the music works, and the pace is such that even Trusova would probably not be able to cope with it. Anna is the person who is able to exceed the most optimistic expectations, and exactly when it is needed most.

Eteri said in December that Anna needed to pass another test with copper pipes (that is, glory). But even now, after the Olympics, I do not see any signs of star fever - Anna remains the same.
 
Just a reminder for what the World Championship is missing on right now. My new favorite program of all times. From the beginning until the end she uses her arms as much as her legs. Do you know another skater that is so dynamic? I am also glad that they gave her this peace instead of some soft lyrical music. Big music suits Anna
Even a month after the skate I still have goose bumps of this program. :rock:
 
Just a reminder for what the World Championship is missing on right now. My new favorite program of all times. From the beginning until the end she uses her arms as much as her legs. Do you know another skater that is so dynamic? I am also glad that they gave her this peace instead of some soft lyrical music. Big music suits Anna
It was a staggering performance that only scored 80.20. This program has everything from Anna. Great artistry hitting the musical notes with the right timing speed power finesse transitions and some Fierce Attitude from this ange! whatever next season is I hope she keeps this short program for next season. Anna will go down as one of the goats of ladies figure skating it's just a matter of what opportunity she gets now and that's out of her control.
 
Just a reminder for what the World Championship is missing on right now. My new favorite program of all times. From the beginning until the end she uses her arms as much as her legs. Do you know another skater that is so dynamic? I am also glad that they gave her this peace instead of some soft lyrical music. Big music suits Anna
My favorite program of the season. My favorite Anna program ever. No one else could have done this, this well. The stamina, intricacy and interpretation is singular.

But hard for me to say if it's my favorite performance of the season as Anna such fantastic free skates too, especially at GP Italy and France, then Euros, and then of course at Olympics. I guess in sum: Anna had so many great performances this season, it's hard to choose!
 
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