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| ThirdTerm | Feb 20 2016, 09:46 PM Post #1 |
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![]() #Lillehammer2016 #iLoveYOG Maria Sotskova (RUS) - 169.50, raising from 8th(!) in SP to silver Edited by ThirdTerm, Feb 21 2016, 07:53 AM.
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| ThirdTerm | Sep 6 2017, 12:49 AM Post #171 |
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Russian Test Skates 2017![]() Federation of figure skating in Russia (FFKKR) announced the composition of the participants of free skate in Sochi, which will be held September 9-10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUZfT3fQ32A Among them the two-time world champion in women's singles skating Eugene Medvedeva will take part. Full membership: Dancing on Ice - Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev, Sofya Evdokimova / Egor Bazin, Tiffany Zagorski / Dzhonatan Gureyro, Elena Ilinyh / Anton Shibnev Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd, Annabelle Morozova / Andrey Bagin, Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov, Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov, Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin; Men's single skating - Dmitry Aliev, Sergey Voronov, Maxim Kovtun, Mikhail Kolyada, Andrei Lazukin, Alexander Petrov, Alexander Samarin; ![]() Pair skating - Kristina Astakhova / Alexey Rogonov, Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin, Natalia Zabiyako / Alexander Enbert, Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov, Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov; Women's singles - Alina Zagitova, Alena Leonova, Evgenia Medvedeva, Anna Pogorilaya, Elena Radionova, Maria Sotskova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva. Edited by ThirdTerm, Sep 11 2017, 07:00 PM.
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| ThirdTerm | Sep 6 2017, 12:52 AM Post #172 |
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Demonstration performances of Olympic champions and musical numbers: in the capital there will be a show Magic on Ice 05 September 2017, 16:00SPORT Northern AO The presentation will be attended by two-time world champion Evgeny Medvedev, world champions among juniors Alexander Stepanova and Ivan Bunin and other athletes. On September 15, the "Magic on Ice" ice show will be held in the sports palace "Megasport". It will be attended by Olympic champions in figure skating and Russian pop stars. Two-time world champion Evgeny Medvedev, Olympic champions in team competitions Xenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov, world champions among juniors Alexander Stepanova and Ivan Bunin, European champions Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, prize-winner of European championships Anna Pogorilaya and other sportsmen will present the most complicated numbers. Special guests of Magic on Ice - Julianna Karaulova, Elvira Tugusheva (Elvira T), Nikita Alekseev (Alekseev), a group of DJs and musicians Swanky Tunes, the band A'cappella ExpreSSS and other artists. The beginning is at 19:00. |
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| ThirdTerm | Sep 6 2017, 04:55 AM Post #173 |
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Two-time world champion Eugene Medvedeva told about the preparation for the season and admitted that she never had a desire to change the coach. Since eight years the figure skater trains in the group Eteri Tutberidze. - About three months ago we already began to seriously prepare, - Medvedev quotes the official website of "Match TV". - Now the programs are rolled-in, preparing for control rentals in Sochi, in early September. - The program for this season was set by Ilya Averbukh, as in the previous one. Decided not to risk the change of the choreographer? - We already have a well-coordinated team, so we did not see any reason to change the choreographer. We normally work fully. - During the career of crises, when I wanted to go to another coach, change the choreographer, maybe in general - go to the steam room? "No, I did not want to go to the steam room!" I'm not a person at all to sit down and say: "I want this!" I could not even think of going to another coach, changing the choreographer and the like. For several years now we have a working team with coaches, choreographers, choreographer, dressmaker. No one even thinks about destroying this team. Let's add that this season, Medvedev will speak at the Grand Prix in Russia (October 20-22) and Japan (November 10-12). Edited by ThirdTerm, Sep 9 2017, 05:24 AM.
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| ThirdTerm | Sep 10 2017, 08:14 PM Post #174 |
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![]() Two-time world champion in figure skating Evgeni Medvedev spoke about his new short program. According to her, she will be dedicated to the topic of the purity of the human soul at the time of death. " My short program is a flight of the soul, and I want to convey the purity of its essence," Tass quotes Medvedev. "From the very beginning of this program, I stand with my eyes closed, and people hear the beating of my heart, and then I seem to come out of my body, take a step, as if I see myself from the side, fear in my eyes and misunderstanding of what is happening. However cruelly it may sound, this is the step of a person's soul from the body during the state of clinical death. Let and rigidly sounds, but I say this so that people understand the image that I want to convey. In this program, I seem to re-learn this world and the other, which is also luminous, and there is no fear in it. At the very end of the performance, I return to my body, and my breath is heard. This is my own inspiration, we specially recorded it for this composition. Russian figure skater Yevgeny Medvedev after the open skates in Sochi said that she was not happy with her performance of an arbitrary program. - I could not cope with an arbitrary program on open rentals. The task was to skate cleanly, I did not fulfill it, "the correspondent of" Match TV "Sergey Lisin said. - I will work in this direction, roll out the programs better. For me, this is the first free program with jumps in the second half, so you have to discover something for yourself, solve new problems. ![]() The new short program of the two-time world figure skating champion Yevgenia Medvedeva in the Olympic season is dedicated to the purity of the human soul at the time of death. This figure skater told TASS at the open control rentals of the Russian team, taking place in Sochi. On Saturday, September 9, the figure skater for the first time presented her new short program for music Nocturne No.20 by Frederic Chopin. "My short program is the flight of the soul, and I want to convey the purity of its essence," she said, "Since the very beginning of this program, I stand with my eyes closed, and people hear the beating of the heart, and then I seem to come out of my body, step, as if I see myself from the outside, fear in my eyes and misunderstanding of what is happening, no matter how cruelly it is, it is the step of the person's soul from the body during the state of clinical death, even if it sounds harsh, but I say this so that people understand the image that I want to convey. " The skater noticed that at the end of the short program her own breath was heard. "In this program, I seem to re-learn this world and that other one that is also luminous and there is no fear in it .At the very end of the speech, I return to my body and I hear my breath. recorded for this composition, "- said the figure skater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3Jt1sGTLI Russian figure skater Yevgeny Medvedev commented on his speech with a free program on test skates in Sochi. "For me, this is new content, more jumping elements in the second half. I think I just need to roll out the program more. Roll and roll all over. To suffice and "funktsionalki", and there was more self-confidence. - Up to this point, there was not enough hire of an arbitrary program? "No, I did not even have a lot to buy." A lot of. But, therefore, I do not work enough, which means that more is needed, "Medvedeva said. "The flight of the soul during a clinical death." Medvedev showed the Olympic programs Edited by ThirdTerm, Sep 14 2017, 07:49 PM.
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| ThirdTerm | Sep 10 2017, 08:20 PM Post #175 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anVCvz9UTT0 Russian figure skater Maria Sotskova noted that at the first unofficial start of the season of Russian figure skaters, the open control of the national team in Sochi, there is already a pre-Olympic excitement before the Games in South Korean Pyeongchang in 2018. She told TASS about this after her performance with a short program at the rentals. ![]() "The validity of the Olympic season is felt right now, in Sochi, but I try to stay calm," said the figure skater. "Whatever the season, you need to do your job qualitatively without distracting yourself from the statuses and ranks of the competitions, otherwise you can just go crazy. you need to calmly go to the start - as in the past, as in the year before last. " The figure skater noted that she had a chance to get into the Olympics six months later. "I understand that I have a chance to get to the Games, but like all other sportswomen, you just have to work hard and not allow yourself to make mistakes." Stability is a sign of skill, and I think that it's on the stability of riding that they will bet in selection for the Games, "she noted. The athlete will perform a short program to the music of the waltz from the ballet "Swan Lake", an arbitrary one - under the piano piece by Claude Debussy. "A short program, it's a girl at a ball, an arbitrary one is air, it's nature, it's all classic, we did not take risks with experiments, we need to focus on the quality of programs this season." I allowed myself to experiment only in a demonstration performance - it's " Kalinka ", completely uncharacteristic to me, but the audience liked it very much." Sotskova left in an arbitrary set of elements from last year's program, but the short essentially complicated. "In an arbitrary program we saved the elements of the past year, but the short was noticeably complicated - we shifted the whole hopping part to the second half of the rental." Here in Sochi, I realized that it was necessary to work three times more, because before the shows it seemed to me that the program was ready much better than it actually turned out, "- added skater. The first start Sotskova will be the tournament "Finland Trophy", which will be held October 6-8 in Espoo. Подробнее на ТАСС: http://tass.ru/sport/4549265 Edited by ThirdTerm, Sep 11 2017, 06:38 PM.
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| ThirdTerm | Sep 11 2017, 07:49 AM Post #176 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VptWTVJQmLQ Rehearsals are underway at the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena for Golden Moment Hawaii, a skating concert on ice featuring Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi. https://twitter.com/ppatatohead/status/906787922224996352 The shows take place Saturday, Sept. 9, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 10, at 4 p.m. ![]() This year’s show features special guests: Tony Award-winning entertainer Lea Salonga for a live performance and “Dancing with the Stars” judge Carrie Ann Inaba as emcee for Saturday’s show. ![]() The lineup includes world champion skaters Meryl Davis and Charlie White, Ekaterina Gordeeva, and Yuka Sato. ![]() We also caught Yamaguchi rehearsing with a special skater, her daughter, Emma. ![]() Proceeds from both shows go to Yamaguchi’s Always Dream Foundation, which supports early childhood literacy in Hawaii. ![]() The first Golden Moment Hawaii, in November 2015, raised more than $200,000. ![]() The foundation’s Always Reading program now serves more than 400 kindergarten students at seven elementary schools on Oahu: Kalihi-Kai, Linapuni, Fern, Puuhale, Waiahole, Pope and Kalihi. Edited by ThirdTerm, Sep 11 2017, 07:51 AM.
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| ThirdTerm | Sep 11 2017, 07:59 AM Post #177 |
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![]() Gold announced Friday through a publicist that her “passion for skating and training remains strong,” and she is not retiring. “After recent struggles on and off the ice, I realize I need to seek some professional help and will be taking some time off while preparing for my Grand Prix assignments,” the statement said. “This time will help me become a stronger person, which I believe will be reflected in my skating performances as well.” The release did not say what kind of help Gold, 22, will seek. The 2014 Olympian will miss the Japan Open on Oct. 7, but plans to return to the Grand Prix season in November for Cup of China and Internationaux de France. ![]() Polina Edmunds (front) says she has recovered from a foot injury heading into the Grand Prix season. She is skating Sunday in San Jose in Golden Moment, a fundraising show for Kristi Yamaguchi (back), and includes Palo Alto’s Vincent Zhou (center). (Photo by Elliott Almond/ Bay Area News Group). The U.S. championships are scheduled for the first week of January at the SAP Center, where the Olympic team will be announced. Olympic champion Kristi Yamaguchi praised Gold for “taking care of herself first.” But the 1992 gold medalist said Friday the timing could not be worse. “This is when you are putting everything you have into your skating,” she said while preparing for her Golden Moment fundraising show that will be held Sunday in San Jose. Gold, a two-time U.S. champion, has long been considered America’s next big star. But her career started to slide at the 2016 World Championships when she slipped to fourth place after winning the short program. Gold tumbled to sixth place at this year’s nationals, won by Karen Chen of Fremont. Two-time Olympian Johnny Weir said last week all of the American women are behind the rest of the world in preparation for the Pyeongchang Games that open Feb. 9. But Gold will begin her quest to make her second Olympic team from a deep hole. “Timing is everything,” Yamaguchi said. “It’s now who wants it.” Chen has emerged as the United States’ top woman skater but by her own admission is prone to mental lapses. Two-time U.S. champion Ashley Wagner is the country’s most experienced skater. But San Jose’s Polina Edmunds has returned after missing more than a year because of a foot injury. Edmunds said Friday that her foot has healed and she plans to compete in the Grand Prix in France as her only showcase event before the U.S. championships in her hometown. Edmunds had been the country’s most consistent skater when she took second at the 2016 nationals — before boot and foot issues sidelined her. Gold’s setback could ease Edmund’s road to her second Olympic team if she continues to improve after starting to jump again in March. Mirai Nagasu, who also is performing Sunday in Golden Moment with Chen and Edmunds, is another American with an opportunity if Gold can’t rebound in time. “She’s been through the ups and the downs,” Yamaguchi said of the 2010 Olympian. “Now she’s mature.” Gold isn’t the only 2014 Olympian struggling. Russian star Julia Lipnitskaia recently announced her retirement at age 19 after suffering from anorexia. |
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| ThirdTerm | Sep 11 2017, 06:37 PM Post #178 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBO-YZt_63Q Junior World Champion, winner of the junior finals of the Grand Prix series, Alina Zagitova, performed for the first time as part of the control hire of the Russian national team in Sochi. According to the 15-year-old figure skater, she is not afraid of the transition to adult skating. The sportswoman in Sochi presented the programs with which she enters her first adult career season. "This is my first hire in adult skating, although I once played in junior ones, but I was worried a bit, like at every start, I have a new short program -" Black Swan ", and an arbitrary one is the same as last season - "Don Quixote", but we refreshed it with new elements, complicated by the transfer of jumps in the second half of the program.The transition to adult skiing does not frighten me, physical loads are not new, except that rivals are more experienced ", Zagitova TASS quoted. The figure skater noted that, like her friend on the command of coach Eteri Tutberidze, Yevgeny Medvedev, questions about the Olympics leave unanswered. When asked what task Turgeridze had set for Zagitova, she replied: "It's a secret, I can not say anything." "I understand that the Olympics is the main start in the life of every athlete, therefore I prepared for this season with joy and love, without them nothing will turn out. Now in my arsenal all jumps except triple axel, I also try cascades of three triple jumps" , - emphasized the figure skater. Edited by ThirdTerm, Sep 18 2017, 07:45 PM.
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| ThirdTerm | Sep 12 2017, 08:15 PM Post #179 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SMas8swF4s Emmy MA USA - Riga - Ladies Free Skate - ISU - JGP 2017 Emmy spent her early years in Long Island, New York, but now lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with her mother. (Sadly, she lost her father to cancer when she was 8.) In addition to figure skating, Emmy is an accomplished violinist. She is a member of the New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, and will take part in their summer tour to Norway this June/July. She is a student at Newton North High School. Emmy recently took some time to speak with me at her training rink in Revere, Massachusetts, where she works with coaches Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson. Sweet, modest, and soft-spoken, Emmy Ma is as appealing and lovely in person as she is on the ice. We talked about her early years in skating, her struggle to get back to Nationals, her unexpected success last season, her programs for next year, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxp8lENwg70 Emmy MA USA - Riga - Ladies Short Program- ISU -JGP 2017 ![]() Q: Emmy, how old were you when you started skating? Emmy: I think I was 6 years old. I got into it kind of differently than most other people. My [older] sister and my [older] brother had both skated before me. But my sister was done with it after a month. She quit. My dad had just bought her new skates, and he said, “I don’t want to give these skates to anyone [else], so I think you’re going to start skating.” And then I started skating. Q: Did you like it right away? Emmy: No. As soon as I started taking private lessons, though, my parents thought that I could be something. And I started to like it, so that was the most important part for me. Q: Once you started liking it, what were your favorite parts of skating? Emmy: I liked being able to actually skate and not holding onto the wall and being afraid I’m going to fall. (Laughs) Just being able to do stuff. And watching it on TV was cool, too. I hadn’t really known about skating before I started. Then I started watching it, and I was like, “Oh, I want to do that.” ![]() Q: Where did you skate, when you started? Emmy: I grew up in Manhasset, on Long Island, NY. I skated at a local rink in Port Washington. I did the Basic Skills program there with a couple of my friends. Then I moved to Syosset and trained with 2 coaches. And then I moved to Ice House in New Jersey, to skate with Steven Rice. Q: You first competed at North Atlantic Regionals in 2011, when you were just 9, right? Was that a bit scary? Emmy: I was so nervous, yes! But I was kind of overly confident when I went into it. I was like, “Oh, I’ll easily get into the final round.” But I got 5th in the qualifying round. In any other group, I would have made it to 4th [or higher], because of my score. But I didn’t make it, because my group was hard. So that was totally a bummer. But the next year [2012], I trained really hard. And I made it to Junior Nationals [in Juvenile]. But I got sick at Junior Nationals, so that was kind of a bust. Q: What did it feel like to go to Nationals at that age and have that experience? Emmy: It was so crazy!! Because I didn’t have the jumps that my competitors did, I wasn’t really expecting much. But I was obviously stoked to have won third! Yeah, it was a really good experience. The seasons after that weren’t so successful. But I think that pushed me, last season, to do what I did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzQCS-de7Ao Q: After 2013 Nationals, you competed in Novice for three seasons. What were those three years like? What was going on in your skating at that point? Emmy: So, after that first year I didn’t make it [to Nationals] in Novice [2014], I moved here. And I was doing pretty well. I had gotten my double Axel, my triple jumps. Then I found out I needed surgery in my wrist. It was hurting for a while. I thought it was a sprain, and didn’t go check it out. It ended up being broken. So I needed a hip graft, from my hip to my wrist. And that put me off for the season. Well, I made it to Sectionals [2015], but the injury was hard. It was hard for me to get back. And then the year after that [2016], I also had injury issues. So it wasn’t as successful as I wanted it to be. Injuries set me back in Novice, I think. Q: A hip graft–that sounds painful. Emmy: Yes. And then I had tendinitis in my ankle, which was bad. Q: Was your wrist break a multiple fracture? Emmy: No, I think it was just that I had left it for so long without doing anything. And I kept falling on it. It just built up after a while. ![]() Q: What happened when you finally got the diagnosis? Emmy: I was so upset—my mom was so upset! I was surprised that I had [been] able to skate, actually. I did Regionals that year. And Sectionals. But it is what it is. If something hurts now, I go immediately to the hospital to check it out, just in case anything’s wrong. Q: So, after being in Novice for 3 years, and competing and not making it to Nationals— Did you ever get discouraged during that period of time, and question skating? ![]() Emmy: Yes, definitely. Because I had moved from New York to Boston just solely to pursue my skating career and train with Mark and Peter. And I felt unsure what I was supposed to do—should I focus on my studies, do something else? I didn’t know. Because skating wasn’t going in the path that I had expected it to. And I think, during that time, I was not sure if I wanted to continue or not. This past season, I was like, “Okay, one more year, I’ll just see how things go.” And during [last] summer, I tore my LCL in my knee. I was like, “Oh my gosh. Not again.” But I got through that. I rested for 2 months, without jumping. And Mark and Peter really helped me to stay confident in myself. And I think, just being confident in the things that I can do really helped me to be successful last season. This season …. Well, I just sprained my ankle. I was like, “Again? Really?” But this year, I feel like, even though this happened, I know the steps that I need to take to get back and go slowly, so I can stay healthy for the rest of the season. I’m happy it happened now, [rather] than in October. Q: It’s great that you were able to regain your confidence, after all your injuries. Emmy: Yes. Last year, I was really lucky. I thought I was going to [need] surgery. But it didn’t hurt, for some reason. I tore my LCL [lateral collateral ligament], but it didn’t hurt at all. And I was able to train well for the qualifying competitions. Q: Did it heal on its own, so that you didn’t need surgery? Emmy: Yes. I got really lucky. But I’m not complaining—I’m happy with how last season went. Edited by ThirdTerm, Sep 12 2017, 08:16 PM.
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| ThirdTerm | Sep 14 2017, 06:26 AM Post #180 |
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![]() On the eve of her interview appeared on the website of the Federation of figure skating of Russia. In it, the youngest Olympic champion figure skater confirmed her decision to leave professional sports, admitting, however, that this decision was given to her very hard. But it was the fruit of many months of thinking while in the clinic, where she was treated for anorexia. "The worst thing was for me to understand what's next? - Julia has shared. - I leave the clinic and what? Especially when I began to realize that 99.9 percent of everything tends to what I'm finishing with the sport. And then I began to panic from all this uncertainty, what will happen? It was just a nightmare! And when I returned home, I sat for the first week and thought: and then, but how to start, and what to do? Uncertainty is a terrible thing. " Julia admitted that she had not fully realized in sports, but health problems would not allow her to do it. The only thing she regrets is that she has been trying to hide her problems for a long time. It did not lead to anything good. Her silence was the occasion for gossip and guesswork. ![]() "At first it was funny, until it took the sweep of some madness! - says Julia. - There was a lot of fake information, which I want to debunk. A serious reason for this was the program that appeared on Channel One, where absolutely everything was fake. When I asked the editors: "How did you allow her to go on the air?", They answered me: "But you did not refute all the information personally, so this may be true." Therefore, I will have to refute the speculation now. " She told me that the lies were the statements on TV of a certain Zanozin, who said that she was leaving the sport, since she entered the Moscow State University. It is also untrue that she quits the sport because of some young man. And most of all she is angered by the appearance on the screen in different programs of a man who calls herself her father and dares to tell stories about her. ![]() As for the future, now Julia is not going to participate in any shows, invitations to which she regularly receives, the girl does not like the publicity. She intends to get an education and find a place in life. "I have been actively engaged in the English language with tutors - said Julia. - In the near future I will focus on their studies, and we'll see. In parallel, of course, I will try myself in some other things and try to find something for myself. But I know for sure that I will not work as a coach. Linking your profession to sports is another matter. But without education anywhere. " The new fad of Julia, to whom she dedicates her free time, became horse riding. On weekends she makes in the suburbs walks in the company of his favorite - a horse Trakehner named Dakota. At the end of the interview Julia thanked the people who were for a long time for her most of her life - a federation, his coach Alexei Urmanova and, of course, those who have suffered for it, experienced and continues to write her words of support social networks. |
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