2.2 Liza´s world (I am not a pessimist)
Clouds, she had to dodge as well and for a World Champion, she seems to be very calm and quiet and you got to love the attitude she presents on the ice. It always seems like everyone could do it and while I for sure could never rock the dresses as she does and god beware, manage to land on my feet after a jump or spin with any of my legs higher than the knee, she does it all with ease, like it´s the most normal thing to do.
It almost seems like decades ago, when she had to face a very difficult time in her life. A time that every female athlete seems to hate, puberty. In the year of the Olympics, she only came 10th at nationals, unable to medal and therefore without a ticket to Sochi. While Adelina and Julia won the medals for her country and became superstars at home, Liza was out and lonely, unsure what her future skating life might look like and to all of that, she also picked up an ankle injury, leaving her out until summer.
When many already wrote her off, complaining about weight and other stupid things, she returned, returned with a bang at Nebelhorn 2014, winning the competition in front of Gracie and Alena, followed by seven more wins, including Worlds, Europeans and the GP final. What impressed not only fans, but other skaters was her triple Axel, an element that she landed together with a triple toe-triple toe combination and a triple Lutz, becoming the first woman ever, to do four triples in a SP.
It was very difficult ... but it is very important for us to reinvent ourselves and constantly make breakthroughs
Of course I am aware of the risks. There is a 50 percent chance I would fall. But still I think we need to take as many risks as the male athletes do so that in the future we can achieve more elements.
she noted after her SP at Worlds last season
In the current season, the record breaking Russian traded her gorgeous Boléro from last year, for Carmina Burana, choreographed by Benoît Richaud and what worked OK at Nice, where she however, only came second in the short, did not quite work that well at Skate Canada and for Liza, it was quite a little disaster, not landing any of her triple jumps, while coming 7th only, with a huge gap to the leader Wagner.
Everyone can make mistakes, look at the Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu, there is nothing bad or terrible about that.
And there isn´t, especially if you have the capabilities of Liza, to come back with such a huge performance in the Free, skating to music from the dramatic poem of Peer Gynt, which definitely had the right touch for Halloween, very spooky and mysterious, with the Russian shining in the darkness.
Stephane suggested music of Peer Gynt and I wanted something with a symphonic orchestra and when I heard it for the first time, I knew that this is going to be my music.
In said program, Liza landed seven triples, including a shaky Axel, but gorgeous triple Toe combination, ending up with 68.83, the highest technical score of all ladies.
Yesterday, wasn´t a good day for me, but this is something you need to forget about and go back fighting on the ice, I am not a negative thinking person, you know and what is done is done anyways. I am happy that I could pull myself together and show all my jumps that I can do.
Liza´s performance, however, was not all about jumps. Her Free Skate was choreographed by Stephane Lambiel and received high PCs, especially in interpretation averaging a 8.32. Remarkable was how such a quiet skater, can still create such an incredible atmosphere by her emotes and movements, something that all, except one judge were able to see.
Yesterday I was not so confident, it is harder than last year, but I am pleased that I was able to skate an almost clean performance and could leave yesterday behind me
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(it was my 1st ever flight on the day of mourning:hopelessness
They dont seem to bash Ash or Gracie that much)
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