@anonymoose_au Plushy supported Alina. his last column
http://www.sport-express.ru/olympic...skryvayu-sekrety-kolonka-plyuschenko-1377142/
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"My sympathies were on Zagitova's side, not only because of the dispute. I like her choreography. The image of a swan in a short program. Well, the most important thing is jumping. Beautiful, artistic, with arms raised, at a good height. I saw how in training she performs an incredible cascade - triple lutz and three triple rytberger! And sometimes the fourth rytberger clings, imagine ?!
I thought that at the Olympics Alina would add another triple rytberger to her branded cascade. That would be cool! However, for the victory there was also a cascade of triple lutz and triple rytberger. It does not matter that at the beginning of the random did not work. The girl was not taken aback, calmly attached it to another jump closer to the end of the program.
In 15 years, this composure is worth a lot. Not every experienced skater would come out with a brilliance from this situation. Alina once again proved that she has order with psychological stability.
Zhenya is also clever, after a serious injury she demonstrated amazing skating, but ... If we talk about the technical component, Alina's program is more complicated, more saturated in choreography. Yes, and jumps better.
Take the axel in two and a half turns. Alina has much more, higher, in the span. Zhenya with an axel, let's say, is stressed.
As with Lutz, where there is a change of rib. In Zhenya it is internal, but it must be external. Therefore, in a cascade, instead of a triple lutz, a triple rhythmberger is done. Purely - but this jump is easier, with it the Olympics can not be won any more.
As a result, its cascade of triple flip and triple toe loop is estimated lower than Alina's cascade of triple lutz and triple rytberger. From the judges you can not hide anything. When a gold medal is at stake, any detail is crucial. So the victory in Phenchkhan Alina is absolutely natural."
He congratulated to Eteri and the whole coaching team. He said Alina will be hard situation because of the fame popularity and she needs to handle it.
They played a game with his wife , Ari Zakarian (his agent ) and Maxim Kovtun!!!!! who will be the winner. Plushy won the other's bet went to Zhenya.
Did you notice Maxim Kovtun's name? He was on Plushenko35 show in Nizhny Novgorod yesterday evening...Can you imagine that????????????