You see a lot of this IMHO, is backlash from the affair with Morozov and her interest in acting in the future, forays into modeling, her poetry etc. A girl having so much talent is to dedicate her life to her sport only, seemingly with these other distractions she can't possibly be giving of her best and as such she doesn't deserve the successes she has gained. That is just the culture. So their is a great deal of angst and jealousy directed at her in these Russian forums. It's like she isn't even a Russian athlete, but some alien. The rub is that Lena appears to need these outlets to thrive, but these are allowances typically made for men and not assertive women. Thankfully however she seems to have a more supportive and respectful team so I hope that she and Ruslan are able to realize their dreams.
I think it's not because of her other talents and side interests. Sotnikova has expressed an interest in acting after fs, and Lipnitskaya said the same when she was asked if she'd be interested. Yagudin, Tikhonov and Zhulin have acted in the theater and/or in TV shows. Elena hasn't participated in any side project so far, she was only talking about her future after sport, so there can be no objections to that, and personally I haven't seen any. Also adult figure skaters aren't expected to have no private life. True, Elena was hounded relentlessly over the affair with Morozov, both on the forums and in tabloids, but I think it's just a pretext. For instance, when Soloviev left his wife and baby son to pursue an affair with Stolbova, they found plenty of defenders on that same forum.
I think the real reason is that Elena is extremely attractive, and most fs fans are women, and among them naturally there can be found a few who envy her a lot. The fact that she's also supremely talented at her job adds to that envy. And then when her partner left her, and her haters thought she'd be finished, the partnership with Ruslan proved brilliant from the start, and to make it even worse for the haters, he thinks a world of her and really cares about her (as a person). Envy that had been hot before turned to a boiling point. To be sure, these women are very few in number, but they're very active - it's like this hatred consumes them and is one of their raison d'etres. Moreover, it must be not particularly pleasant for them to be consumed by so much hate, but communicating with like-minded souls on the web must help alleviate it somewhat.
I think her attractiveness is the key, and everything else adds to it. But again, these people are really very few in number. Even on that forum whenever somebody posts a nice picture of Elena, the post gets a huge amount of "likes." Also they had a Ms and Mr FS vote there this summer, and Elena and Ruslan both won by a landslide, so much so that the haters complained that IZ have an army of fans who overhauled the vote, and they organized another vote without Elena and Ruslan on the lists, lol. Also, seeing IZ skate in Russia, it's easy to see the support they get. It's just that most people don't see the point of arguing with the haters and just ignore them.
Recently I think there also appeared a new phenomenon which is being fueled by money IMO, because I've seen people who know something about fs advance totally ridiculous opinions, like saying that IZ's best skate of SD emotions-wise was at the GPF (!) expressed by the forum moderator (!) and others agreeing, just to cite one example. But anyway it won't make any difference. These people just don't realize how pathetic they are. Nobody who matters in fs is going to read them, and if anyone did, they'd think they're only good for a laugh, or an illustration of some aspects of human nature.
I saw this on the Internet and for some reason I thought of I/Z
https://pp.vk.me/c543106/v543106566/6965/q2YhHS28h98.jpg
Exactly! Great pic, thanks for bringing it here.
But I didn't know that Elena writes poetry. I've read that she wrote fairy-tales for her brother, but didn't know about poetry. Did she ever post any?
I'm so happy for them that they are friends!
And I/Z are twice as popular and loved as I/K were before Sochi at least.
This habit can't be healthy.
I love this!
