reporters to Anna: what would you like to tell Sasha?
Anna: i would do it in private, but we haven't really seen each other yet.
reporter: were you surprised by her reaction?
Anna: i feel emotionally empty inside, nor insanely happy for myself, nor any emotions for others.
mark's ig post: "sport is not medals, names and titles. sport is emotions, feelings and endless enjoyment of doing what you love most. however all this ends up, my experiences and my personal happiness of being part of great olympics history cannot be taken away from me"
(her voice becomes crying at the end of her answer)
reporter: why are you crying then?
Sasha: just because i wanted to. i've been here for three weeks already, alone, without my mom, my dogs. that's why i'm crying.
mark: what exactly you didn't like about nathan?
sasha: he skated very well obviously. but i instantly noticed the way he does the waltz hold position. he puts his hand very high, like he's holding a girl by her neck. he def needs to skate with a girl and learn the correct way.
reporter: did your relationship to eteri georgienva change?
Sasha: my feelings about anyone did not change, everything's fine.
reporters: but we heard everything...
Sasha: it's not my fault that cameras follow me everywhere. i asked to leave, they didn't let me
Sasha: i'm not satisfied with the result, but happy to [land?] five quads.
reporter: your words about never getting back on the ice, it was just emotions?
Sasha: [after a looong pause] you'll see.
she says she went over and over about her fall on a 4Lz at euros, it has haunted her in her dreams. imagine how this empathic girl who analyzes everything would feel in the coming years about her victory over a teammate who just couldn't stop crying after doing her absolute best?
i'm in a no mental and physical capacity to translate the rest of her mixed zone interview (nothing particularly of note there) but would love to highlight once more how well-spoken, kind, smart and polite she is. easily switches to english as well. golden girl.
reporter: but if you tried to analyze - what was not enough, the 4 points?..
Sasha: everything was enough for me, i did everything. what's after that is not my [? job ?]
reporter: overall, right now, on the short & free combined, are you satisfied with what you've done?
Sasha: yes. both in the short & the free i've done everything i could for the moment. i'm satisfied with my skates, my performances, i did everything i could.
Kogan: Anna Shcherbakova is flying to Germany tomorrow for a knee surgery. the injury has bothered her for a long time but there was no time to relieve it while she was preparing for the olys. we hoped that rest + non-surgical manipulations would help her but the chance was small
tbh the worst part about this story for me, as rightfully mentioned in dossiercenter article, is that none of the mentioned drugs (meldonium, tmz, hipoxen) have clinically proven efficency. so we have 1) wildly incompetent doctors 2) who are basically experimenting on children
re: the nyt article. Hypoxen and L-carnitine were not "found" in kamila's sample, she declared them in the doping control protocol herself (as well as Supradyn which is a vitamin supplement). there's no need to search for the traces after that
tw: ed
a documentary by anastasia skoptsova "eating disorders in sports: stories of soldatova, konstantinova and skoptsova" was just published
lmk if you'd like me to translate
vk figure skating groups are excited about this costume by svetlana gachinskaya and i'm obsessed as well. presumably it's for petr gumennik's spartacus program and please let it be true it would look so good on my fave dramatic boy!
so. the round of worrying about alina's life is over and now the period of worrying about her future begins. the way she's probably going to be treated by the police investigators, federation, (ex?) coaching team, the skating 'experts', the press, her family concerns me a big lot
someone screams "kitty, don't be sad" and the crowd goes into a very loud cheer
roz says something to her (presumably like "look how they support you")
i think that she responds "they are supporting the previous [version of] me, [indistinct] they don't need THIS"
Aliona: "changing the SP was a spontaneous decision. we were choosing exhibitions and wanted to perform to a song in english at sci and to a french one at idf. i started skating to NY NY and we all realised it was going better than my current short, so we decided to change it"
i regret to inform all the tina trusova stans that sasha has officially acknowledged it was too boring with tina because she does not bark during the press conference unlike ella
Zhukov (RIA): Daniel Grassl violated the doping control rules by missing 3 tests (presumably because of not updating his location to Moscow in the anti-doping system). It apparently leads to disqualification for a period from 1 to 2 years
uhm it seems rusfed was not satisfied with how junior test skates went and they're going to repeat them (in late september or early october)? weird af, poor juniors
vika talking about the atmosphere in the women's dressing room asdfghjklk she says everyone is trying to mentally destroy each other with their deadly stares and it only makes her giggle lkjhgfdsas
okay to end this crazy week we apparently have a police report filed on angels of plushenko for stealing an electrical control device from the city for their rink that's currently under construction. okay.
as per vasilisa's words he wanted her to sign a contract that says she would provide him full financial support???? and that he won't skate with her unless she signed it until september 1?????
Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN
Music Short Program as of season 2021/2022
Mission Impossible 2 Orchestra Suite: Part 2 by Hans Zimmer
Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2021/2022
Bridge Over Troubled Water by John Legend, Paul Simon
Varia Kisel saying thanks to Zhenya Medvedeva for her nice words during the 1tv broadcast 🥺🥺🥺
(Zhenya in the video: "guys this was SO GOOD. like SO GOOD. okay not distracting you anymore but i just couldn't stay silent")
@skaesthetique
someone wrote that she envies Kami, she responded "i don't understand why did you leave that comment under a post that's not about figure skating at all. as for the olympics skaters, i'm incredibly proud of russia having athletes that are outstanding unlike some instagram users"
an aspiring coach Adelina writing a whole motherfucking column about how long vacation is very risky because a skater can lose their shape and her students can't have more than 10 days... please... that's not the hot take you think it is...
there's alena leonova who's been pregnant for what feels like 3 years and then there's vanya and scott who pulls a "by the way i have a baby now" in a quiet russian media interview
euros this 4cc that, don't forget the real bloodbath of next week: russian junior nationals!
20.01
14:00-16:25 Men SP
17:25-19:50 Women SP
20:05-22:15 ID RD
21.01
13:15-15:50 Men FS
16:05-18:40 Women FS
19:35-21:20 Pairs SP
22.01
12:00-14:20 ID FD
14:40-16:35 Pairs FS
hi guys. sorry i won't be active atm, i'm taking this too hard, i'm shocked, scared and angry. i spend some of the happiest moments of my life in ukraine and i have lots of relatives and friends there. i can only pray that no harm comes to them. all of us russians say #нетвойне
daria trubnikova forgetting her towel and wiping her hands on everything in sight including the carpet and her coach's white pants ahahaha so cute love her!
so i stumbled upon this and thought it might be interesting or relevant. tldr: rusada has recently confirmed that some batches of a health supplement distributed by fmba (russian state medical agency) to athletes, including skaters, were contaminated with a banned substance.
for those who are unfamiliar with our crisis: russia has imposed a ban on some food products manufactured in europe including cheese, so since 2014 cheese is the best european souvenir. that's so fitting. i'm very happy for my faves.
"Dima Aliev's grandma washed his costume once, the one with the chains for his Man in the Iron Mask program. after that, there were no chains anymore. and no costume"
@SimplyBeckyyy
i've read this as well 😔😔😔 at least the russian journalists shouted her words of support and shushed the guy but that's far from enough😭
galliamov was taking part in the post-skate interviews and said their mistake might be because of the pairs practice event starting very early, they've never woken up this early