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Maria Sotskova (RUS) - 169.50, raising from 8th(!) in SP to silver
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The medal caps a season that was in doubt when Osmond broke her leg in 2014 after back-to-back Canadian championships. She struggled through last season with a third-place finish at Canadian nationals and missed the 2016 worlds.

Osmond says that for her, just getting back on the ice after her injury was a victory.

"When I originally hurt my leg, I was sitting in the hospital, and I said right then and there that I was never stepping on the ice again," she said. "I was done with the injuries, I was done with fighting, and I thought my career was over then."

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'It's like I re-woke up'

Osmond said she was having a hard time keeping motivated, something coach Ravi Walia was able to help her work through. She said she'd doubted she'd ever be able to compete at her best again, but Walia — and others — helped her get her confidence back.

"I don't know exactly what happened in the off-season leading into this year, but it's like I re-woke up," she said. "Ravi was always there pushing me, every single day, and he almost knew when I needed to be pushed a little harder than I thought. And just my entire coaching staff that I have. My friends and family have been incredible. And I've also started working with a sports psychologist, which has probably been one of the best things for me this year."
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Canada's Nexxice won the bronze medal at the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships on Saturday in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Nexxice, from Burlington, Ont., scored 197.54 points behind only Russia, which won the gold medal (208.70) and Finland (208.58), which finished with silver.

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Nexxice finished fourth for both its short and long programs.

''It was an emotion packed skate for us,'' Canadian Kiersten Tietz said in a press release. ''It was our best skate and we put our hearts into it.''

Les Supremes from St-Léonard, Que., — the second Canadian entry — came eighth overall (179.42) and finished with the fifth best long program.


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Coach Elena Buyanova said that she do not understand the decision not to send Anna Anna Pogorilaya at the World Team Championship in Tokyo. Russia will present at the tournament Yevgenia Medvedeva and Elena Radionova.

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- I do not understand the federation decision about the composition of the team at the World Cup - leads the "R-Sport" Buyanova words. - Anya in the course of the year brings the country a medal, performed at all important international tournaments and has always been in the prize-winners, except for the World Cup. Team Championship brings the season, and it manifested itself in that cycle, and I believe that Anna deserves to represent Russia at the tournament.

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Therefore, I do not understand the step taken by FFKKR not to include it in the team , and so far I have not heard an explanation about it. Emotional breakdowns and unsuccessful performances are all of our athletes, not only Anna Pogorilaya. The more these emotions going wild at the world championships absolutely everyone.

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One of Japan’s most popular athletes should have known she couldn’t leave quietly: Mao Asada’s press conference Wednesday to officially announce her retirement from figure skating attracted some 350 media and was telecast live across Japan.

Asada led her country’s figure skating scene since her teens with her trademark triple axel. She started skating at the age of 5 and won world championships in 2008, 2010 and 2014 in an illustrious career that included a silver medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

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The 26-year-old Asada decided to take a break from competitive skating in 2014 and made a comeback the following year.

While she had some positive results, including a bronze at the 2015 NHK Trophy, a career-low 12th-place finish at the national championships last December convinced her it was time to call it a career.

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”I got off to a good start after my comeback,” Asada said at a packed meeting room in a Tokyo hotel Wednesday. ”I was able to practice and compete but I did notice things were more difficult after coming back, and after the national championships I felt it’s enough, it’s OK (to retire).”

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Asada, who announced her retirement from her 21-year career on her blog two days ago, occupied a special place in the Japanese sports landscape. Her popularity far exceeded that of other figure skaters, even those who won gold medals.
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A remarkable number of elite figure skaters, many of which will compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, will perform at the Germain Arena April 13.

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Stars will include three-time U.S. Champion and 2016 World Silver Medalist Ashley Wagner, two-time U.S. Champion Gracie Gold, and 2015 U.S. Ice Dance Champions and two-time World Medalists Madison Chock & Evan Bates. Also included are reigning Olympic Ice Dance Gold Medalists Meryl Davis & Charlie White, and four-time U.S. Champion and Olympic Bronze Medalist Jeremy Abbott.

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Tickets range from $27 to $147.
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- Jack, do you even after the World Cup was not long vacation? Though you were allowed to rest for a week?
- a week! What do you mean? We've got the team championship of the world, you need to prepare, opponents are not asleep. In my possession was only one day to recover.

- What does it dedicated?
- Sleeping! I arrived home around two o'clock, slept until nine at night, got up, went back to 11 and before the morning. Barely woke up at half past nine. I do not remember that once before so I was asleep, but this time it was so.

- After the World Cup, Ilya Averbukh, with whom you cooperate, said that you have yet to pass the test of "copper pipes". Dwell?
- If you achieve success, you have to test it, whatever you did. "Copper tubes" are constantly heard. But who is now easy?

- Many past "fire" and "water" break it "copper tube". Do you have a recipe for how to deal with them?
- most important - support for people close to you.

- After the Games in Sochi at the rink "Crystal", where you're doing, you hung a huge poster depicting Yulia Lipnitskaya. Your portrait hangs now?
- Yes.

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- Do not bother?
- Not at all - he smiles Medvedev. - It used to, do not pay attention.

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- TV watching?
- I do not watch it, I have it, even in a room no. I have a smartphone, "sit" there. Even bought a snail and two fishes in aquarium - that's on them, I can watch endlessly. I like to watch how they swim, they wag their tails.

- What color is your fish?
- pink and light green.

- But what about gold?
- I hope to be with me and goldfish ...

- The news of recent days: Adelina Sotnikova will train with Evgeni Plushenko. Do you think she has a chance to qualify for the Games in Pyeongchang?
- Each person has the right to decide their own destiny. I will not make predictions. I can only wish good luck to Adeline.

- It is true that Plushenko has played a role in the fact that you are interested in figure skating?
- This is the only memory that remained from early childhood. I was three years old, was the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. I'm fine, sitting in front of TV and I said, "But it's our Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko."

- The victory Alexei Yagudin!
- Yes, but I remember the reason I Plushenko.

- Now look at figure skating?
- up to 14 years almost did not watch. I am sitting in front of TV and thought, "What I have not seen?" To train hard, but do not follow each tournament, did not know the name of each skater. And after 14 years I was fully immersed in the figure skating and off the ice. Now I look at each event, each kind, trying to find something for themselves in the statements of others. Now it is not only aesthetic pleasure or excitement, but also a professional interest.

- You can come to the coach and say, 'spied a certain element, we can try it? "
- Of course!

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- Returning to the issue of Sotnikova. She and Tuktamysheva - 20 Lipnitskaya - 18. Olympic champion and world champion, but the chance to get into the national team for the European Championship even they do not have much. Very annoying, it can be frustrating, this crazy competition?
- Yes, this can not but agree: competition within the country, and very strongly jumped in the world. Can not relax even for a day, not an hour, not for a moment ... Soon we have the World Cup, which also need to perform very adequately. I can not say that competition upsets. That is our job.

- Something on the ice you can upset?
- No, if something goes wrong, I'm not upset. I am angry! In me is boiling so angry that I go and do another and another, until you get it.

- Playing for the national team at the World Team Championship - something special?
- We have an individual sport. When the team are competing for the team - it is something new, a new experience. For me, this is the first tournament, so I'm very interested to participate in it.

- Participants to win in the long run - two: Russia and Canada .
- I watched the list of participants, and Canada really looks very powerful. I agree: for gold Russia will compete with Canadians.


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- What is the secret of your stability? After you speak with almost no disruption.
- I also make mistakes. The secret, if there is one, it's everyday work, during which we will try even in training to reduce the percentage of failures and falls to a minimum.

- How to psychologically prepare themselves for performances?
- I've never worked with a psychologist. I think it has and never will. Psychological preparation - is especially individual. Personally, I listen to music. I never smile, with no one to talk before the start. Only with the coach. This does not mean that I am at this moment, or evil to me that something is going on. No. It's just a complete immersion in himself so much that sometimes do not even hear what you talking to someone.

- What is it listening to?
- Completely different kinds of music, but mostly K-Pop - Korean pop music.

- An unusual choice.
- I'm a big fan of this music, especially groups EHO.

- After the Russian stage of the "Grand Prix" in 2015 you did not know defeats in the 10 tournaments. Not specifically want to lose on some not very important tournament, to remove the burden from the shoulders? For example, Svetlana Ishmuratova told that one day perhaps especially missed during the race, to the decisive moment to shoot clean. This helped her to win Olympic gold.
- We have only two types - short and arbitrary program. So miss particularly nowhere. Lose on purpose? No! I'm not going to lose.

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"RUSSIAN first exit on the dance floor"
- This season you started jumping with arm raised. How much it gives an increase in points?
- Technically, it does not add assessment adds on GOE (Grade of Execution - a bonus for the excellent performance of the element or a fine - for the failure - Ed...).

- How difficult was it to adjust to such jumps?
- I had to change a lot in itself. Still, when pressed his hands to the body, you feel more confident. And with his hand raised ... to disclose something. I had to seize the moment when it is necessary to curl up when you need to make a start. Standing still can not, it is necessary to move forward, so we decided to try to coach such jumps.

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- At the world championships in Helsinki acted Briton Zoe Wilkinson. She was 37, returned to the sport after the birth of three children. Can you imagine yourself on the ice at that age?
- It is. Actually, I want to ride as long as possible.

- What happened at the party after the World Cup?
- There was a banquet, but there I was not long. There were dances. Russian usually the first to go to the dance floor. It happened this time.

- Who are the instigator?
- Katya Bobrova.

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The Council of the International Skating Union (ISU) has approved a calendar stages of the Grand Prix figure skating season 2017/18 and the season-2018/19, according to the official website of the ISU, the Russian stage in the upcoming pre-Olympic season will be the first in the series.
In the season 2017/18 the first stage of the Grand Prix will take place on 20-22 October in Russia since January 2018 Moscow will take the European Championship. Next steps will be: Canada (27-29 October), China (November 3-5), Japan (10-12 November), France (17-19 November), the USA (24-26 November). Grand Prix Final will be held December 7-10 in Japan.
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In the season 2018/19 calendar Grand Prix will be as follows: USA (19-21 October), Canada (26-28 October), China (2-4 November), Japan (9-11 November), France ( 16-18 November), Russia (23-25 ​​November). Finals will take Canada December 6-9.
ISU also approved the calendar of tournaments "Challenger" series in the 2017 season / 18. 13-17 September tournament will be held in Salt Lake City (USA), 14-17 September - in Bergamo (Italy), September 20-23 - Montreal (Canada), 21-23 September - in Bratislava (Slovakia), 27 -30 of September - in Oberstdorf (Germany), October 6-8 - in Espoo (Finland) 27-29 October - Minsk (Belarus), 16-19 November - in Warsaw (Poland), 21-26 of November - in Tallinn (Estonia), December 6-9 - in Zagreb (Croatia).
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The family of Olympic champion Yulia Lipnitskaya raging almost Indian passion. We found the athlete's father, who claims to have 15 years did not know about its existence.

Vyacheslav Lipnitsky did not know that he has a daughter, until 2014, until he saw the broadcast of the Games in Sochi. "I began to review the records of all figure skating tournament. A million times scrolled performances of Julia, looked into her face, a smile, facial expressions and gestures. This is my copy!" - he said.

Affair with the mother of the athlete Daniela Vyacheslav was in 1998. Later, he was drafted into the army and sent to the North Caucasus. During the military operations in Chechnya Lipnitsky serious concussion, which resulted in loss of memory. However, the man decided to devote the army life, writes Eg.ru .

"I do not know why, but Daniel did not tell me she was pregnant", - assured Lipnitsky. However, at a friend's family champion another point of view. "When Danielle got pregnant, Slava was taken to the army there to it, he never came back." - said former neighbor.

Now Julia's father, who lives in Israel and is closely monitoring its progress and trying to establish contact. Athlete never told him in social networks.

"I pray to God only one thing -. For a meeting with my daughter If I only knew that I had somewhere the child grows, he immediately dropped everything - just to be there, believe me, my daughter, and I'm sorry." - Lipnitsky said.
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The Korea Ice Federation Association '2017 Performance Excellence Award' was held at the Olympic Parktel in Bangi-dong, Seoul on the afternoon of the 17th. At the ceremony, the winners are gathering.

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The 2017 Olympic Winter Games Awards were presented at the Olympic Parktel in Bangi-dong, Seoul, on July 17. The figure skating Eun-soo, who received the best newcomer at the ceremony, is greeting.

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The 2017 Olympic Winter Games Awards were presented at the Olympic Parktel in Bangi-dong, Seoul, on July 17. The most awarded recipient of the figure category at the ceremony is the greeting.

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It is a ceremony for athletes and leaders who have achieved excellent results at various international competitions in 2016-17 season, one year ahead of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. This year's events included star players who have been active in international events for the last season such as Lee Seung-hoon, Kim Wo-rim (over speed skating), Lee Jung Soo, Shim Sihui, Seira (over short track), Choi Bin Bin.


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Maxim Kovtun could not fly from the Russian team to the team championship of the world. The skater was late for the plane because of an accident.

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Kovtun on his page in Instagram wrote that he was late for check-in for the flight through the fault of the taxi driver. On the way to Seoul airport, the car got into an accident, and as a result, Kovtun arrived at the airport too late.

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The skater was late for registration for only a few minutes, and the airline suggested that he fly, not handing over the luggage. However, the skater refused this offer, since his suitcase was too large for hand luggage.

Kovtun at his own expense bought a ticket for another flight, but unlike the other skaters in Tokyo, he flew off with a transfer.

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Kovtun at his own expense bought a ticket for another flight, but unlike the other skaters in Tokyo, he flew off with a transfer.

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For the World Cup in men's single skating for the Russian national team, in addition to Kovtun, declared Mikhail Kolyada. In the women's single skating the team will be presented by Evgeniya Medvedeva and Elena Radionova, Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov will compete in the pairs, Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyov in the tournament of the dancers.

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The team championship of the world in figure skating will be held in Tokyo from April 20 to 23. In addition to the Russian national team, teams from Canada, the USA, Japan, China and France will perform at the championship.

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