Evgenia Medvedeva

[Ame]

Even in losing, she still as dignified :sad4:

 

[charlotte14]

To be fair, her jumps at European were not at her best. And as some people have stated before, she should have upgraded her layout last season. Change 3F3T to 3F3Lo, 2A2T2T to 2A2T2Lo and backload the combo. Now it is a bit too late to change it. I still think it is ok if she skates clean at the Olympic but with the current BV it is hard to tell.

 

[russianfan]

https://pp.userapi.com/c841629/v841629799/5ecf4/0yN65Bp-zaI.jpg

 

[skatingfan200]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeWCRCSnann/?taken-by=julbka_

Zhenya and Alina before the Freeskate

 

[skatingfan200]

1 Million views in this fan fest forum.

 

[puremagic]

1 Million views in this fan fest forum.

 

[Ame]

To be fair, her jumps at European were not at her best. And as some people have stated before, she should have upgraded her layout last season. Change 3F3T to 3F3Lo, 2A2T2T to 2A2T2Lo and backload the combo. Now it is a bit too late to change it. I still think it is ok if she skates clean at the Olympic but with the current BV it is hard to tell.

Backload won't help even if she planned it at the start, she had 2 months break for injury, had remove the cast like 2 weeks before rusnats, no way she can skate a clean backload program after just 3-4 weeks of training. Thinking about it, how she performed at Euro is already incredible. The reason Alina can pull it off is because she skates it for 2 seasons already and no interruption.

 

[russianfan]

1 Million views in this fan fest forum.

wow, Yulia is an all-time leader if you sort threads by views

 

[Ame]

Just celebrate 1 million views, don't care about placement

 

[Hannah555]

Evgenia and Alina are in the list of atheletes approved for the Olympic Games. They will probably leave for Japan next week.

https://m.sports.ru/biathlon/1059603457.html

 

[Ame]

why Japan? It's in Pyeongchang right?

 

[ejnsofi]

why Japan? It's in Pyeongchang right?

There will be training camp in Japan

 

[Ame]

What's the difference between training camp and regular training? Will they have a different instructor or something?

 

[Hannah555]

What's the difference between training camp and regular training? Will they have a different instructor or something?

No. Same team as always. All the russian figure skaters will train in Japan in order to avoid acclimation problems and get used to time differences.

 

[elly211]

That's right -on Jan 27th they are going to Niigata (men and ladies) and the pairs - to Fukuoka.

 

[Elucidus]

What's the difference between training camp and regular training? Will they have a different instructor or something?

Also there only 30 minutes per day are given for training at Pyeongchang. For such workaholic as Zhenya it's not acceptible )

 

[Ame]

that's why ppl said Olympics is a different beast I guess. They're stuck with 3-4 weeks of reduced training.

 

[chopinskate]

She has a mind of steel. Reminds me of Yuna in that sense.

 

[freeman21]

Also there only 30 minutes per day are given for training at Pyeongchang. For such workaholic as Zhenya it's not acceptible )

that's why ppl said Olympics is a different beast I guess. They're stuck with 3-4 weeks of reduced training.

More time for anime though

/s

 

[YesWay]

No. Same team as always. All the russian figure skaters will train in Japan in order to avoid acclimation problems and get used to time differences.

And I'm guessing, they have their training camp in Japan rather than Korea itself, because Japan has a lot more rinks/facilities, with higher quality etc...