Jokes aside, look at how injured and devoid of ability she is at NINETEEN. She's younger than half the current ladies field and most of the pairs/dance/men.
This is terrifying evidence of the consequences of jumping quads all day.
zhenya got to 22 with major injuries and jumping triples and now we see the effect of trixels and quads. kosto and anna can't even make it to 20 without injuries so severe that they require surgery
TW: Abuse
A child was panicking in the corner alone and two fuckass adults acted as if nothing happened? I can't even say it out loud how disgusted I am. She was breaking down and that monster was laughing?! This is seriously rotten to the fucking CORE. These people aren't human
We need to talk about how much the Korean ladies field resembles the Russians and not in a good way. Yuseong, Yujae, Minsol, and Seojin aren't even eligible for the 2026 Olympics.
I sound like a hater but at this point I think Anna's medal needs to be stripped. Not only because the scoring was a joke and she didn't deserve to win in the first place, but because RUSADA has a dirty scheme going on.
Bruno's words literally haunt me. Like even Anna Shcherbakova publicly says that she would endure everything again if she knew there was an ogm at the end. Holy shit.
Maria Sotskova is banned for 10 years for a diuretic.
Andreea Raducan lost a gold medal due to Sudafed.
Kamila Valieva takes banned heart medication and is allowed to compete at the Olympics.
The Olympic movement lost today.
i'm thinking valery angelopol did something else that wasn't disclosed publicly. there is no way a mega-talented young nepo ice dance male is getting this level of punishment from a community which glorifies treating young girls as disposable.
“Indicative of the class she has, this team has had a very difficult few months and Laurence has supported Nikolaj” can we think about how difficult it is for the victim
Yulia Lipnitskaya was Eteri Tutberidze's first star who last competed 7 years ago and has been succeeded by 5 generations of senior skaters from Eteri's group.
Out of the 35 women at the 2023 Worlds, 5 were older than Lipnitskaya. 5 more were just 1 year younger than her.
Precision, delicacy, strength, chemistry, musicality, starpower, elegance, charisma, choreography, extension, acrobatics, edges…
When was the last time we had it all?
@andthewaltz
ikr it's more sad than anything. she is physically and emotionally traumatized at 19. skating was dangerous enough without the quads, remember zhenya saying she can't turn her head a certain way?
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While this is true, I'd love to see a media bias spectrum for fs news sources, with FS Gossips and TSL being opposite of SportsRu and FS Delight. Are we going to pretend that athletes from other countries do not endorse and support politicians/government-affiliated activities?
For all those who keep saying sport outside of politics, Russian athletes do not support their president and his war crimes and are unfairly suspended for international competitions - your Olympic champion Alina Zagitova in an interview for Moscow news:
"The President, Vladimir
“i dream of winning the beijing olympics. this dream will definitely not change. i want to try my best working towards that dream.”
with rika being now coached by brian orser according to her plan, she is one step closer to achieving it. wishing rika a successful+healthy season!
Yulia girly you benefited from eteri bonus and being able to compete internationally for that one season so maybe supporting a pro war anti-eteri person isn’t a great look
Evan Bates has outlived his own career 🇺🇸. The world-record holder announced his retirement after achieving two falls and two victories at the world championships.
@Fran_klymydear
I think DAria fell out of her spin cause her back hurts from carrying all of Eteri's immaturity and Daniil's repeated (literally exact same) choreo
@OBEY_elREY
@asj519
I think some women are in denial or secretly glad they don't have a period, since they see it as a sign of being skinny enough. It's really sad.
imagine having enough money and being as wasteful as to buy every skater in your rink a matching wednesday costume just for a little clip to shade a coaching team and a chlid who was victimized then turned into a propaganda tool
Yulia and Evgenia were severely injured after drilling consistent triple triples yet Plushenko’s 14 year old student Sofia Titova just attempted 4 ultra-c’s in her free program at junior nationals
Ukrainian pair Serova/Khobta refused to congratulate and shake hands with Georgian team Metelkina/Berulava at the Junior Grand Prix in Budapest.
Metelkina and Berulava compete for Georgia, but were born and continue to train in Russia with a Russian coach and possibly still
@rikakihira
i don't want to lay it on any of the athletes but its kinda magical how they randomly went from a few quads being attempted here and there to everyone having a quad. and anna magically getting it together whenever it matters is .....
let us not forget at natoinals that one year when she had a fever on the first day and they let her skate (cause eteri lol) and then the next day she refused to get temperature tested at all and they let it slide
one of the men in the soup pot is ilia spiridonov, who schemed with his coach to dump his injured partner behind her back at the start of the season and started dating his new partner when she was 15 and he was 20
Tw: weight, body image
The interviewer not only asked Shcherbakova about a topic that she had discussed previously but also asked her specifically how much weight she gained after the Olympics and what her weight standards for herself were? How much more invasive can you get?
alina's competitive career ended so early that now she's trying just about everything....she should really just use her journalism degree for writing or get a degree in something completely different like fashion design or smth
valid: frustrated at kamila and criticizing her in a civil manner for the things she has repeatedly said and done esp things that are pro-russia
invalid: when you continue to defend and praise sasha trusova and daniel grassl
Alina Gorbacheva won a whole national championship, and the press only talked about the Eteri girls who couldn’t compete with her. Now she’s missing, and the headlines are still about Eteri girls. If this isn’t a monopoly, what is?
my favorite thing about some of the quotes is that they adamantly say that anna shouldn't have won for xyz reason but then go on to say that SASHA should've won instead. like cmon now. can we be real with ourselves.
Eight-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina finished in 23rd and is now mathematically ineligible to earn a world cup berth. Her final chance at qualifying to Paris is through the all-around at Asian Championships.
gymnastics raising the age limit reminds me of how i would sue the whole world if i was sofia akatieva. she got several jwc titles taken away by covid+ban, then 3yrs worth of senior titles taken away for being born 7 days too late
Stephen Gogolev 🇨🇦 is our Most Valuable Skater Winner. 🙌🏆
The 2023-24 Grand Prix Final champion has grown the skating economy by $31 million in bets alone. ✨
The pairs skating community would like to preemptively give our sincere condolences to Ms. Kostornaia and any being who is influenced by her to become invested in pairs skating.
Ignoring all the other unfortunate things affiliated with them later, Vasilisa and Valery truly were special skaters and complemented each other so perfectly. They will be missed as ice dancers - and ice dancers only.