Medveyedeva did a live stream and created a stir, when discussing "Spinning Out" series?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfTj2lzdJ7E and she addresses her audience in English, lecturing even
They ask me:“ Do you really drink so much? ” Medvyedeva responded to allegations of alcohol
The Russian figure skater Yevgeaniya Medvyedeva, who currently lives and trains in Canada, conducted a live broadcast on Instagram for the first time in a long time. The 20-year-old athlete did this at about 03:30 Moscow time. The goal of Medvyedeva's live broadcast was to refute the allegations that she drinks alcohol in large quantities. Yevgeniya admitted that relevant questions fell upon her after the American series “Spinning Out” (“Clinging to Ice”), whose main character regularly drinks alcoholic beverages.
“A lot of people ask me about Spinning Out. They ask if it is true that skaters drink so much alcohol. I was directly asked: "Zhenya, you really drink so much?"
Apparently, people are juxtaposing. In the series, the heroine pursues a dream - to get into the Olympic Games. And I participated in the Olympic Games. But at the same time, the heroine came almost every evening to the bar and drank very, very much alcohol. It is not right! And this is not true! Skaters do not allow themselves this. And I do not think that any of the sports of high achievements allows himself to relax so much.
If you go to some competitions of a very high level, then you count every calorie and measure out every piece of food. To put in yourself something useful, to make it easier to ride, to improve your result. In principle, this is all that figure skaters and other athletes think about. It doesn’t even occur to us to do anything destructive. We work so hard every day that there is no way to drink alcohol like this every day.
I do not agree that the directors show such a reality in large projects, on the big screen. This upset me a little and offended me to some extent even. Moreover, people began to write and ask me if this is true. I don’t want people to think such things about skaters. And I understood that the questions are no longer in a good direction, not with a good intonation.
Please do not believe the Internet and everything that is shown on TV. The reality is basically completely different. We are those people who are hunched over every day, work a lot, love our work and will not ruin all the material we have accumulated with such actions. I wanted to intercede for the skaters. So here I am this person.
In general, this series left positive emotions. Somewhere in it there is truth, somewhere else - not. Nobody goes to the Olympics with one triple Toeloop, although beautiful. But it’s all the same great that figure skating is so popular they started making films, such huge projects, ” Medvyedeva said.
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From:
https://sport24.ru/news/other/2020-...va-otvetila-na-obvineniya-po-povodu-alkogolya
Good to hear she stands up for herself, other figure skaters and sports and athletes in general.