The author of the text is Sergei Lisin, journalist of the Match-TV channel. I don’t know whether he published this article on the official website. One way or another, this “point of view” is based on sources (links are given directly in the text).
Beat me to it
The main reason the ISU raised the age to 17 was to stop Russian Ladies from dominating the sport. The skating powers that be noticed that their was a tremendous drop off of quads at that age. No Russian Lady has ever had a ratified quad at 18 or older. This was never stated as the reason . Instead the main reason given out was that it would reduce injuries. There is no evidence that this rule ever prevented a single injury any where in the world. And finally when you have nothing intelligent to say just call somebody a Troll. It's a lot easier than having to think.
so tired of Russian victim mentality,
Thank you for your advise. I think I will take it.so tired of Russian victim mentality,
why don't you go watch some bullshit domestic Russian jumping competition instead? why are you invested in skating outside of RUS because the level is so inferior, right?
"In CBC we trust"? Well, I don't want to offend anyone's religious feelings. But if you return from Eden to Earth, you can see that there are links in the text that I quoted. You can use them for fact checking. In this case there is no need for blind faith.
the victim mentality is when Vincent Zhou and Karen Chen, who failed at competitions, demonstratively suffer because of the medals they did not receive (and these medals were absolutely undeserved of). The victim mentality means many years of talk about the “cheating” of Russian figure skaters, about the “Eteri bonus”, about wrong edges and not enough mature skating.so tired of Russian victim mentality,
This is not a screenshot from the media, this is a screenshot from an official document. And the links also lead to official documents (including WADA documents). There are no links in the article you trust. If you don’t want to fact-check, well, no one is forcing you. But this is not a sign of cynicism, it is a sign of blind faith in the concept of “good” and “bad” media.
no, I don't want to discuss the ban. And the most I can tell you at all is a simple reminder: the age limit has been discussed for several years, and the fact that after the Beijing Olympics this new restriction will be adopted by the ISU was obvious at the beginning of the 2021-2022 season. That is, long before the ban and long before the incident with Valieva.
Look, when I say "a troll", I do not mean calling names. We all know perfectly well that a Troll is a honorable and well paid profession in Russia:
Unfortunately - it has every right to exist. Notice how even in this topic started to appear multiple offtopic posts about doping in Russia. Despite that topic was about preventing injuries in junior sport and has nothing to do with doping. What is the reason for it? It's like many participants here are treating Russia's quads as enemies weapon first and foremost. In fact by talking about doping here they are confirming ISU's and western skating comminity hostile and hypocrite mentality towards Russia - where first priority and concern is about to prevent Russian domination either with rules or by discrediting it with doping suspicions. This priority is so strong that it can't be contained even in a topic related to children's health. Because nobody cares about Russian children health here - which is obvious by posts about switching responsibility from ISU to the national federation. And health concern in a rule specifically made to prevent Russia's domination is used just to mask its real purpose. As I say before - if they really wanted to prevent injuries as was main declared reason for raising the age rule - they would ban or limit quads in juniors first.
About what "step back" or "regression" among young teens you are talking, I wonder? It can't exist in the first place - since in other countries except Russia there never was any noticeable progress in juniors until raising age rule was enforced. There is nothing to step back from. Unless you count constantly underrotated and unstable Alysa Liu's quads or You Young's 3As as progress of course. In fact, only in the last two seasons - after ISU raised the age - we can see real progress with real quads among nonRussian juniors at last. I.e. Mao Shimada's jumps. Therefore ISU age rule declared quads prevention purpose in juniors is not working even in other countries as well.
Re. that second sentence - of course it doesn't exist. But I see those derogatory words about non-Russian women thrown around quite often by certain fans of Russian women's skating here, hence why I'm referencing them. You may not have noticed because you're a new member here, but that kind of talk is common from certain users, and it's tiresome.
Your crystal ball is faulty... just thought you should know.
She also won both her GP stages at her first int season at the age of 14 (she actually become youngest skater who won Skate Canada in 30 years), and at same age won her RusNas gold (and then European bronze), but i guess you completely ignore her at that time (she was just teen after all) .
I remember her being there at the very young age. I did not ignore her, but she was not my favourite yet. Overall I did not follow much skating besides big comps during those days as being busy on my personal life. But she has had a long career, which I admire, and she did not give up after younger teens' showdown.
