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Eteri Tutberidze’s group will hold its traditional open practice ahead of the start of the season.
This event will take place on August 23 at 4:00 p.m. Moscow time.
The list of participants has not yet been finalized.
Alena Prineva, Dina Khusnutdinova and Andrei Mozalev have reposted this news, likely confirming their participation.
P. S.: The event will last about an hour, so I assume that only members of the national team in men’s and women’s singles and pairs will be invited. In total, there will be about two warm-ups, three pairs, and six singles skaters, or thereabouts.
UPD: Tickets cost $42 or $30, depending on whether the view was unobstructed or obstructed. They sold out overnight, with about 60 seats remaining.
UPD-2: 10:00 a.m. Moscow time—sold out. Sold out overnight.
This event will take place on August 23 at 4:00 p.m. Moscow time.
The list of participants has not yet been finalized.
Alena Prineva, Dina Khusnutdinova and Andrei Mozalev have reposted this news, likely confirming their participation.
P. S.: The event will last about an hour, so I assume that only members of the national team in men’s and women’s singles and pairs will be invited. In total, there will be about two warm-ups, three pairs, and six singles skaters, or thereabouts.
UPD: Tickets cost $42 or $30, depending on whether the view was unobstructed or obstructed. They sold out overnight, with about 60 seats remaining.
UPD-2: 10:00 a.m. Moscow time—sold out. Sold out overnight.
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I didn't know that they had so many pairs
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Within last three years they built big pool of pairs.
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Daniil Glekhengauz on the public’s perception of figure skating:
“The hardest thing about figure skating is making people think it’s easy. It takes so much blood, sweat, falls, and injuries just to make it look easy.
If an ordinary person steps onto the ice—even if they’ve already learned to skate—and just tries to skate two laps without stopping, they’ll soon have to stop; their breathing will change, their muscles will start to tire, and their legs will give out. But a professional figure skater has to maintain that level of exertion for four minutes while performing complex, coordinated movements.
It’s not just about skating and repeating the same thing over and over; it involves jumping, spinning, stopping, making sudden movements and flips—constantly throwing off your breathing. The hardest part is training all of these elements together—that one program the audience eventually sees, whether in a dress or a costume.
An athlete has to run through it that many times to get it right at the start—and still not run out of breath. You have to do this routine 200 or 300 times in training.
Not everyone understands how much you have to give. People only see the final stage—the moment of triumph, say, even at the World Championships or the Olympics. And then, when an athlete says, “That’s it, I don’t want to do this anymore,” the fans are in shock: “What? We’ve only been watching you for a year or two—how can that be?”
But they’ve been in a system since the age of four where there’s nothing but training. Your whole life is training, recovery, extra training, the gym, the pool, preparing for training, resting after training, massage… Continuing for another four years, eight years—it all depends on the individual.
But here’s a message to fans and viewers: Be more forgiving of people if they don’t live up to your expectations. Because, as one great man once said, ‘Your expectations are your problems.’”
Cr: “A Car for the Task”
“The hardest thing about figure skating is making people think it’s easy. It takes so much blood, sweat, falls, and injuries just to make it look easy.
If an ordinary person steps onto the ice—even if they’ve already learned to skate—and just tries to skate two laps without stopping, they’ll soon have to stop; their breathing will change, their muscles will start to tire, and their legs will give out. But a professional figure skater has to maintain that level of exertion for four minutes while performing complex, coordinated movements.
It’s not just about skating and repeating the same thing over and over; it involves jumping, spinning, stopping, making sudden movements and flips—constantly throwing off your breathing. The hardest part is training all of these elements together—that one program the audience eventually sees, whether in a dress or a costume.
An athlete has to run through it that many times to get it right at the start—and still not run out of breath. You have to do this routine 200 or 300 times in training.
Not everyone understands how much you have to give. People only see the final stage—the moment of triumph, say, even at the World Championships or the Olympics. And then, when an athlete says, “That’s it, I don’t want to do this anymore,” the fans are in shock: “What? We’ve only been watching you for a year or two—how can that be?”
But they’ve been in a system since the age of four where there’s nothing but training. Your whole life is training, recovery, extra training, the gym, the pool, preparing for training, resting after training, massage… Continuing for another four years, eight years—it all depends on the individual.
But here’s a message to fans and viewers: Be more forgiving of people if they don’t live up to your expectations. Because, as one great man once said, ‘Your expectations are your problems.’”
Cr: “A Car for the Task”
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Daniil Glekhengauz on the impact of professional sports on health:
“Professional sports aren’t about health. When people say you should go work out for your health—that’s a completely different approach. When you compete professionally in any sport, on the contrary, you’re essentially ruining your health.
All your joints, your spine, hernias, knees, menisci, ligaments—all of that takes a beating over the course of your career. And generally speaking, there are no healthy athletes who have finished a long professional career.
Whether it’s Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo—it commands respect when an athlete at that age can maintain his body and physical condition at such a high level. But that’s the exception to the rule.
Still, the peak of the human body and its capabilities passes by this point. It’s not the same as when you’re 26 or 27, running like crazy, working hard, and recovering faster. No matter how gifted you are, you just don’t recover as quickly physically anymore; it gets much harder with age.”
Cr: “A Car for the Task”
“Professional sports aren’t about health. When people say you should go work out for your health—that’s a completely different approach. When you compete professionally in any sport, on the contrary, you’re essentially ruining your health.
All your joints, your spine, hernias, knees, menisci, ligaments—all of that takes a beating over the course of your career. And generally speaking, there are no healthy athletes who have finished a long professional career.
Whether it’s Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo—it commands respect when an athlete at that age can maintain his body and physical condition at such a high level. But that’s the exception to the rule.
Still, the peak of the human body and its capabilities passes by this point. It’s not the same as when you’re 26 or 27, running like crazy, working hard, and recovering faster. No matter how gifted you are, you just don’t recover as quickly physically anymore; it gets much harder with age.”
Cr: “A Car for the Task”
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