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I find the whole Oklahoma Bombing anecdote from Eteri fascinating and started looking for more information on it. The group that was stranded was pretty big and I could not find any direct mention of her. The group that was stranded was the Russian Ballet on Ice and there's video of Eteri skating with them in 1993 which was about a year before they got stranded. There is an article putting Nikolai Apter in Oklahoma as part of the group and Eteri stated that he was her pair partner. I'm going to put the links establishing those two facts first and then put the rest in chronological order.
Eteri skating in Mikhail Belousov presents Russian Ballet on Ice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ORvtyOaD1k&t=125s
CBS News with Dan Rather does report on stranded Russian skaters, interview's Mikhail Belousov https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/362394 (would be great if someone actually found this news clip)
https://fsrussia.ru/intervyu/905-eteri-tutberidze-pyatyj-element.html "My partner Kolya Apter"
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/454523131/ Oklahomans Aid Stranded Russian Skaters "Russian skaters Nastya Senina, Julia Kirillova and Nikolai Apter wait at a Guthrie church camp for money to come through so they can perform in the United States." (either "view source" or click on OCR to find that text. The OCR is not cleaned up so different newspaper articles and photo captions run into one another)
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1993 - Eteri skating in Mikhail Belousov presents Russian Ballet on Ice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ORvtyOaD1k&t=125s
Dec 2 1994 - "Oklahomans Aid Stranded Russian Skaters" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/454523131/
Dec 18 1994 - Russian Skating Troupe Stuck In Oklahoma -- Funds To Underwrite Tour Tangled In Web Of Red Tape https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19941218&slug=1947942
Mar 3 1994 - A stranded troop of Russian skaters' year of broken dreams in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/362394
Mar 24 1995 - Skaters Shown Nothing But Love https://oklahoman.com/article/2496405/skaters-shown-nothing-but-love
Mar 31 1995 - Stranded Russian Skaters to Perform in City - https://oklahoman.com/article/2497081/stranded-russian-skaters-to-perform-in-city
Apr 19 1995 - Oklahoma City Bombing
Apr 20 1995 - More bad luck plagues skaters after explosion https://bombing.newsok.com/bombing/article/1175331/?template=bombing/main
Apr 27 1995 -"Brunare" the cat is mobbed Thursday by Russian skaters Julia Kirillova, left, Olga Tiltsova and Helena Nikonova after the cat was rescued from the seventh floor of the downtown Oklahoma City YMCA. The cat was trapped in a suitcase for seven days after the bombing and was found by a volunteer clean-up crew from DOC which had gone to the 7th floor Wednesday to retrieve the Russian skaters' belongings after the Alfred Murrah Federal Building car bomb explosion last week. https://oklahoman.com/gallery/6038702/the-days-following-oklahoma-city-bombing-april-1995
May 18 2000 - Russians return to skate https://tulsaworld.com/archive/russ...cle_dc3ad39a-2c2e-5dde-b8e1-509bd8cf8085.html
May 19 2000 - Eight members of the Russian Ballet on Ice who survived the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing are back in the state to skate again. http://oldtmt.vedomosti.ru/sitemap/free/2000/5/article/skaters-in-oklahoma/263112.html
Dec 2011 - An American Dream https://www.edmondoutlook.com/an-american-dream/ (profiles a skater who settled in Oklahoma. He wrote a letter to a newspaper expressing thanks one year after bombing here but it's hard to make out the complete text via the OCR dump: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/454129665/)
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Interviews where Eteri talks about her experience during the Oklahoma City Bombing in detail.
Mar 2015 - Eteri Tutberidze: Fifth element https://fsrussia.ru/intervyu/905-eteri-tutberidze-pyatyj-element.html
Apr 2019 - Interview with Posner https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...ew-with-v-posner-russia-1.105478/post-5570346
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I have no reason to doubt her story about her and other russian skaters close to the Oklahoma City bombing considering how detailed it is and how it matches up with published information, but I do find the story of the fireman who helps her get a job with Ice Capades to be very odd. Partly because in the interview a very weird name for the fireman is given and partly because Ice Capades was in chaos and would only exist for another 2 years. It makes more sense if "Ice Capades" is just a generic name for some touring ice show.
Eteri skating in Mikhail Belousov presents Russian Ballet on Ice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ORvtyOaD1k&t=125s
CBS News with Dan Rather does report on stranded Russian skaters, interview's Mikhail Belousov https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/362394 (would be great if someone actually found this news clip)
https://fsrussia.ru/intervyu/905-eteri-tutberidze-pyatyj-element.html "My partner Kolya Apter"
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/454523131/ Oklahomans Aid Stranded Russian Skaters "Russian skaters Nastya Senina, Julia Kirillova and Nikolai Apter wait at a Guthrie church camp for money to come through so they can perform in the United States." (either "view source" or click on OCR to find that text. The OCR is not cleaned up so different newspaper articles and photo captions run into one another)
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1993 - Eteri skating in Mikhail Belousov presents Russian Ballet on Ice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ORvtyOaD1k&t=125s
Dec 2 1994 - "Oklahomans Aid Stranded Russian Skaters" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/454523131/
Dec 18 1994 - Russian Skating Troupe Stuck In Oklahoma -- Funds To Underwrite Tour Tangled In Web Of Red Tape https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19941218&slug=1947942
Mar 3 1994 - A stranded troop of Russian skaters' year of broken dreams in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/362394
Mar 24 1995 - Skaters Shown Nothing But Love https://oklahoman.com/article/2496405/skaters-shown-nothing-but-love
Mar 31 1995 - Stranded Russian Skaters to Perform in City - https://oklahoman.com/article/2497081/stranded-russian-skaters-to-perform-in-city
Apr 19 1995 - Oklahoma City Bombing
Apr 20 1995 - More bad luck plagues skaters after explosion https://bombing.newsok.com/bombing/article/1175331/?template=bombing/main
Apr 27 1995 -"Brunare" the cat is mobbed Thursday by Russian skaters Julia Kirillova, left, Olga Tiltsova and Helena Nikonova after the cat was rescued from the seventh floor of the downtown Oklahoma City YMCA. The cat was trapped in a suitcase for seven days after the bombing and was found by a volunteer clean-up crew from DOC which had gone to the 7th floor Wednesday to retrieve the Russian skaters' belongings after the Alfred Murrah Federal Building car bomb explosion last week. https://oklahoman.com/gallery/6038702/the-days-following-oklahoma-city-bombing-april-1995
May 18 2000 - Russians return to skate https://tulsaworld.com/archive/russ...cle_dc3ad39a-2c2e-5dde-b8e1-509bd8cf8085.html
May 19 2000 - Eight members of the Russian Ballet on Ice who survived the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing are back in the state to skate again. http://oldtmt.vedomosti.ru/sitemap/free/2000/5/article/skaters-in-oklahoma/263112.html
Dec 2011 - An American Dream https://www.edmondoutlook.com/an-american-dream/ (profiles a skater who settled in Oklahoma. He wrote a letter to a newspaper expressing thanks one year after bombing here but it's hard to make out the complete text via the OCR dump: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/454129665/)
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Interviews where Eteri talks about her experience during the Oklahoma City Bombing in detail.
Mar 2015 - Eteri Tutberidze: Fifth element https://fsrussia.ru/intervyu/905-eteri-tutberidze-pyatyj-element.html
Apr 2019 - Interview with Posner https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...ew-with-v-posner-russia-1.105478/post-5570346
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I have no reason to doubt her story about her and other russian skaters close to the Oklahoma City bombing considering how detailed it is and how it matches up with published information, but I do find the story of the fireman who helps her get a job with Ice Capades to be very odd. Partly because in the interview a very weird name for the fireman is given and partly because Ice Capades was in chaos and would only exist for another 2 years. It makes more sense if "Ice Capades" is just a generic name for some touring ice show.
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Little late wish for the ladies of the team for int. women's day:
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I hope Donovan Carrillo can attend!Sergey and Daniil will conduct a seminar in Mexico:
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Younger boys are doing well so far at novice championships. After elements and short programs Kolya is first, Arseniy is third (was fourth after elements):
Girls generally have also very good positions after elements. Score: https://www.fsrussia.ru/results/2021/mlvoz2021/index.htm
Girls generally have also very good positions after elements. Score: https://www.fsrussia.ru/results/2021/mlvoz2021/index.htm
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Lyuba Rubtsova also did surprisingly well (I mean she usually is not that consistent. She's second just behind Dasha.
Jumps:
Steps and spin:
Alisa Dvoeglazhova is 5th, also did well. In younger girls Baziliuk and Andreeva are 3rd and 4th, only poor Kostyleva messed both attempts for the solo 3Lz, though she delivered everything else, she is 10th for now.
Jumps:
Steps and spin:
Alisa Dvoeglazhova is 5th, also did well. In younger girls Baziliuk and Andreeva are 3rd and 4th, only poor Kostyleva messed both attempts for the solo 3Lz, though she delivered everything else, she is 10th for now.
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Margarita Baziliuk has a birthday today, she's 10.
Alisa did well though. And the future is the most important thing and that 2A lift off by Sadkova was a real wow-moment for me. It's so easy. Triple axel here we come!Today was not good, I've seen almost whole last two groups and only mistakes were from Rubtsova na Sadkova. Hopefully tomorrow they will do bettter.
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Yeah, I saw it and I thought she's going for triple
She fell on 3F, but the difference is very small for all skaters on top places. Lyuba, who is currently 6th, loses only 5 points on the first place.
Boys got medals, BTW, Kolya is golden (even though he fell on both quads
), Arseniy is third. He won over Lev Lazarev both in SP and FS, just the 4 points difference from the elements has shown as decisive about who gains silver and bronze.BTW, friendly coaches
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Elena Kostyleva with boys (Kolya and Arseniy):
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Congrats to Alisa, little surprising winner of the elder girls:
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Elena Kostyleva on podium:
She won silver medal, and she won the free skate. Pity about her troubles in elements where she didn't deliver a solo 3Lz, otherwise she could even win.
She won silver medal, and she won the free skate. Pity about her troubles in elements where she didn't deliver a solo 3Lz, otherwise she could even win.
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Glad she's back with the best.
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