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Maria Sotskova (RUS) - 169.50, raising from 8th(!) in SP to silver
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https://twitter.com/USFigureSkating/status/947545727126855680

Lower-level competitors are hitting the ice this weekend at Solar4America Ice in San Jose, which is one of the largest ice rink facilities in the country. Senior-level skaters will compete next week at the SAP Center to determine who moves on to the Olympic Games.

https://twitter.com/USFigureSkating/status/947288189965758464

San Jose previously hosted nationals back in 2012. Tourism officials say the event generated more than $23 million in economic impact that year. They expect the numbers to be even higher this time around.

"This is typically a slow time for San Jose hotels, and to have a big event coming in this time of year, it helps out the local economy, downtown hotels, and brings more people into the area that would normally not be here," says Kyle Schatzel, Team San Jose/Visit San Jose communications manager.

Before the senior events get underway, juvenile, intermediate, novice and junior skaters will take the ice. For some, it will be the first time on the national stage. Two girls from Northern Virginia, Clara Kim and Hannah Byers, will be in the mix.

“I’m very excited and I’m super grateful for this opportunity. I’ve worked very hard all year to make it to nationals,” said Byers, 12, whose main coach is Tommy Steenberg, whose own competitive days were featured in the Falls Church News-Press.

Byers, who has her own website, has handled adversity en route to this accomplishment. She had a growth spurt and had to relearn her jumps and also had some health issues. Hearing her scores at the Eastern Championships left her ecstatic when she realized she would be going to San Jose. After she’s done competing, she’ll attend a special U.S. Figure Skating camp on Jan. 1 for juvenile and intermediate skaters.
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"I DO NOT WATCH THE TV"

- The Olympic Games will be held in Korea, and you have more than once admitted to love this country, to Japan. Why such sympathy for the Far East?
- Somehow it happened, I really love these countries. Differences? There is more space in Korea. In Japan, everything is so small, cute ... In Tokyo, my goal was to get into the seven-story anime store. I bought, frankly, not much. I've reviewed a lot of anime in my life, but not seven floors, - laughs Medvedev. - I bought a poster that I hung in my room.

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- Who is it?
"Sakuya from the Norn." By the way, snail, I called Sakuya.

"Is there a TV in your room?"
- No, I do not look at all. There is a smartphone, I "sit" there. I also bought a snail and two fish in an aquarium - here I can look at them endlessly. I like to watch them swim, wag their tails.

- What color are your fish?
- Pink and light green.

- And what about gold?
- I hope I will have a goldfish ...

"IF I DO NOT GET UP, I'M SISTER"

- In Pyeongchang, you will be the favorite in women's skating. You can take the second medal - in the team tournament. Speaking for the team - something special?
- We have an individual sport. When you compete for a team, this is something new, new feelings. For me, this is the first such tournament, so I'm very interested in participating in it.

- Applicants for victory by and large - two: our team and Canada.
- Canada really looks very powerful. I agree: for gold, we will fight with Canadians.

- Ilya Averbukh, with whom you are cooperating, said that you still have to pass the test by "copper pipes". Stand up?
"If you succeed, you will have this test, no matter what you do." "Copper pipes" are audible all the time. But who is easy now?

- Many "fire" and "water" are being broken by "copper pipes". Do you have a recipe for how to deal with them?
- The most important is the support of people close to you.

- Is it true that Evgeni Plushenko played a certain role in the fact that you are interested in figure skating?
- This is the only memory that has survived from early childhood. I was three years old, was the Olympics in Salt Lake City. I, small, sat in front of the TV and I was told: "But this is our Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko."

- Alexey Yagudin also won!
- Yes, but I remember for some reason Plushenko.

- Now watch figure skating?
"I hardly looked at it until I was fourteen." I sat in front of the TV and thought: "What did not I see there?" I trained hard, but did not follow every tournament, did not know each skater by name. And after 14, I completely immersed myself in figure skating and outside the ice. Now I watch every competition, every kind, I try to find something for myself in the speeches of others. Now this is not only aesthetic pleasure or excitement, but also professional interest.

- You can come to the trainer and say: "Looked at such and such an element, can we try it?"
- Of course!

- Something on the ice can upset you?
- No, if something does not work, I'm not upset. I am angry! I'm so angry that I go and do more and more until it works out.

"BEFORE RENTING I LISTEN TO MUSIC"

- What is the secret of your stability? After all, you play almost without failures.
- I also make mistakes. The secret, if there is one, is everyday work, during which we try, even in training, to reduce the percentage of failures and falls to a minimum.

- How do you psychologically prepare for the performances?
"I've never worked with a psychologist in my life." I think I will not. Psychological preparation - especially individual. Personally, I listen to music. I never smile, I do not talk to anyone before the start. Only with the coach. This does not mean that I am at this moment angry or something is happening to me. No. It's just a complete immersion in yourself so much that sometimes you do not even hear that someone is talking to you.

- What exactly do you listen to?
- Absolutely different music, but mostly K-Roor - Korean pop music.

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

- This season you started jumping with your hand up. How much does this increase in points?
- Technically this does not add value, adds on GOE (Grade of Execution - bonus for excellent execution of the element or penalty - for unsuccessful .- Ed.).

- How difficult was it to reorganize for such jumps?
- I had to change many things inside myself. Still, when you put your hands to your body, you feel more confident. And with a raised hand ... Are you revealing something. It was necessary to catch the moment when it is necessary to be twisted, when it is necessary to repulse. You can not stand still, you have to move forward, that's why I decided to try these jumps with the coach.

- At the World Championships in Helsinki, the British actress Zoe Wilkinson. She is 37, returned to the sport after the birth of three children. Can you imagine yourself on the ice at this age?
- Quite. In general, I want to ride as long as possible.

QUESTIONNAIRE FAVORITE

FILM. Always this question puts me in a stupor: I forget all the films I watch. Mostly I watch anime. The last thing I saw was "The Great Of Stray Dogs." I really liked it. But the favorite after all - "Tokyo ghoul."

BOOK. The "Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

ACTOR. Benedict Cumberbatch

MUSICIAN. ECHO

SCHOOL SUBJECT. Mathematics

DISH Fig . Ordinary white rice. Friable, unrestricted, sticky, sweet, salty. Any! You can without anything, you can with soy sauce

MACHINE MARK. I was never interested in cars. Therefore, there is no favorite. Someday, of course, I'll sit behind the wheel. But only because it is so comfortable.

A COUNTRY. If not Russia, then Japan and Korea. Although, let's be honest - Japan.
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https://twitter.com/figure_skate84/status/940088164353323008

The thirteen-year-old winner of the Junior Grand Prix finals Alexander Trusova is the only figure skater in the world who performs a quadruple jump at official starts, and is also able to make triple salchows from the spot and lutz jump right out of the cantilever. What it is? It is better to look. And while the child prodigy from the group Eteri Tutberidze told Anatoly Samokhvalov, RIA Novosti correspondent, how to hypnotize the judges, what she was promised by the two-time world champion Evgeny Medvedev , and stressed that she wants to become an Olympic champion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdhmmixs3DM

I want to do something first in the world



- Sasha, where did you get so much charm? This is taught? Give advice?

"Only parents give me advice." And in general - probably since childhood.

- Have you been such a smiling girl in your early childhood?

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- In my childhood, I was not shy, but now ... I practically did not go to kindergarten, I was at home with my mother. Since four years we went to training together, and when we decided that figure skating should be done professionally, my mother decided that she would not go to work anymore, because my work was my training.
- You are from Ryazan.

- Yes, we go there regularly, to my grandparents and two of my cousins.

- Do you feel that you are gradually becoming a star?

- I do not understand yet how it is to be a star.

Figurist Trusova said she equals Medvedev, but tries to remain herself >>>

"Now, perform the quadruple Salchov in its pure form and feel, maybe?"

"I want to do something first in the world." Therefore, I teach both a triple axel and a quadruple toe loop. And all the remaining quadrants.

"Then will you compete with the boys?"

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- Yes (laughs).

Alexandra Trusova
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- During the training during the Grand Prix Final you made a cascade of six triple jumps lutz - rytberger - rytberger - oyiler - salhov - oyiler - salhov - oyiler - salchov. I'm not wrong?

- You are not mistaken.

- What do you want to say?

- The coaches told me: "Go jump something to jump a lot." At the same time, Dasha (Panenkov) jumped lutz-tolup-tolup-sheepskin coat. And they say to me: "Well, give the answer to Dasha." I went and gave. Yes, I can do from the place. It's nice when you jump, jump, jump, and you do it. And I want more and more, more. I always wanted to perform multi-turn jumps myself.

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She looked at Medvedev as a celebrity



- Do you already have a feeling that you can make everybody at the junior level?

- I have a feeling of great competition, because we have a lot of strong girls in Russia and all of them are my rivals. And there is a girl who jumped the quad - Anya Shcherbakova. Now (after fracture of the leg), she does not practice such jumps, and earlier we went with her equally in the mastery of these elements. I will train and try to win all.

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- In what you are stronger than all the others?

- In that I try to jump quad.

The triumph of Russian juniors: Trusova won the final of the GP, Kostornaya and Tarakanova on the pedestal. PHOTO >>>

"Is it scary to visit them?"

"I'm not afraid to fall." When I teach them, I put on my trousers with foam rubber and jump. And I already tried on the fishing rod lutz, and flip.

https://twitter.com/tenten740502/status/943122793578688513

- For a girl lutz and flip are real?

- I think yes. While it's hard for me to make them myself, because I jump with my hands up, and on these jumps I need to lower my arms. But the jump is better with my hands.

- At the very beginning of an arbitrary program before entering the quad, you have a magical look. What does it mean?

- I look into the eyes of the judges, that they looked at me and could not tear myself away. I'm so focused already during the program.

- Do you hypnotize the judges?

- Yes (smiling).

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- I like this at competitions, but in training, if I feel that they are looking at me a lot, it does not become very much on my own.

- Can you fight the excitement?

- The coaches help, explaining how to jump correctly to sit down "to the feet".

- Who do you like most in terms of personality and choreography?

- Zhenya (Medvedev).

- And what touches her skating?

- Everyone.

"Remember when it was first seen?"

Evgeniya Medvedeva
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Evgeniya Medvedeva
- I saw her at the rink even before I began to train with Eteri Georgievna. We did not talk yet, she did not know me, and I just looked at her as a star, as a celebrity. Then I came to them in the group, went to the locker room, we began to communicate. I like to be with her together. Then in Novogorsk we were placed in one room.
- At international tournaments, Eugene lives in the same room as the Olympic champion Ekaterina Bobrova and considers her older sister. Sometimes, for the broken axel the elder "sister" reacted with a kick of the younger. Do not get a joke from Medvedev?

- No, Zhenya tells me everything.

- It was a shame that she could not perform in the Grand Prix Final because of the consequences of the injury?

- Yes, she promised me that if I go to my Final, we will go to Japan with her, but ... I would like to be with her in this Final.

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- Eugene told me that on the day off she is in her room with fish, Alina Zagitova is engaged with chinchillas. What distracts you from figure skating?

- I have a small dog, a chihuahua, named Tina. She lives with me and with me, if possible, goes to competitions, including Europe - in Italy, France.

- Do you have time to learn at school?

- Only in the evening I go to it, because in the morning I really do not have time. I love math, because we have a very good teacher, which explains interestingly.



I thought Lipnitskaya would win the Olympics in a single



- Dad you have an athlete.

- Yes, the master of sports in three types of martial arts. Judo, Sambo and one more, but I do not remember the name.

- Does he often praise you as an athlete athlete?

- He can easily say: well done, Sash, it's just like me. When I was very young, I went with him to the hall, pulled myself up, climbed the rope. But judo did not try, they have an older brother.

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- One athlete's presence on the rostrum helps, and hinders others.

- My mother is present practically at all trainings and competitions, and the grandmother, father's mother, almost at all tournaments. I do not care, I'm used to them, that they look at me, and I do not notice them anymore. And Dad did not see a single live performance. Only in the phone. But he, the sportsman, wanted his children to be athletes too. At first I was given in order to be good for health, and then professional sports began.

- What is your character?

- I do not even know (laughs). I hope, like Zhenya's, strong. In general, I'm shy. As a child, I did not care that they were looking at me, but now I, seeing the audience, I clamped. True, this does not apply to competitions, I'm fine with them. And when I just dance in training in the hall, then I start to be embarrassed.

"Are you easily offended?"

- Well, only if my brothers get me (laughs).

- Did you encounter envy in figure skating?

- No.

- And then in the ballet and in your sport is traditional damage to the shoes.

- Something was with me with skates, but I do not know if someone did it or I unsuccessfully stepped on the piece of iron.

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- What do you want to achieve in life?

- To become an Olympic champion.

- When did you realize that you can become not just a figure skater but a champion?

- Years 9-10, when I watched the Olympics in Sochi. Then I decided that I was definitely going to figure skating, and I want to become an Olympic champion.

- Who made you more impressed then - the champion in team competitions Yulia Lipnitskaya or the winner in single skating Adeline Sotnikova ?

- I was rooting for Lipnitskaya, I liked how she performed, and I thought that she would win in solo skating.

- What appealed to Julia?

"She always skied well." For some reason I was ill for her.

- Once Tutberidze was asked what attracted her especially to Lipnitskaya, and she answered - stretching.

- She was spinning amazingly, and in puffing she had the maximum twine.

Julia Lipnitskaya
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Julia Lipnitskaya
"You have a beautiful cantilever."

- First, Diana Davis, Eteree Georgievna's daughter made it, then all of us began to try. I can jump right from the cantilever. In the short I play the cantilever, then I make a step, then a triple lutz. And I can immediately put my foot and make lutz.

- Is there fear before jumping?

- From the fact that I will fall, there is no fear. But at competitions there is excitement from the desire to make a jump.

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- Anna Pogorilaya told me that she makes a double axel, and go to the triple - as in the abyss. One more turn, but you do not understand where you will end up.

- For me it's just one turn. Nothing supernatural.
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American figure skating got a peek at its future Sunday night and she’s only 12 years old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIsELtJf1pg

Richmond’s Alysa Liu dazzled the judges and the audience at Solar4America Ice in San Jose to win the short program in the women’s junior division at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

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Liu, who trains at Oakland Ice Center under Laura Lipetsky, scored an impressive 63.83 points after flawlessly completing three triple jumps and a double axel in a program set to flamenco music.

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“We have a set goal — and I met it,” said Liu, who has a seven-point lead heading into the free skate.



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Boy, did she, starting with lively footwork and spins before landing her double Axel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNZnFgZCBeM

After Liu executed a triple flip-triple toe in combination someone in the audience burst out, “Wow!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNtF7ewBsWo

Liu was nervous as the first skater to perform in front of a hometown crowd. But the youngest skater in the event told herself to “focus, focus, focus, I just kept telling myself to focus.”
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The thirteen-year-old winner of the Junior Grand Prix finals Alexander Trusova is the only figure skater in the world who performs a quadruple jump at official starts, and is also able to make triple salchows from the spot and lutz jump right out of the cantilever. What it is? It is better to look. And while the child prodigy from the group Eteri Tutberidze told Anatoly Samokhvalov, RIA Novosti correspondent, how to hypnotize the judges, what she was promised by the two-time world champion Evgeny Medvedev, and stressed that she wants to become an Olympic champion.
I want to do something first in the world

- Sasha, where did you get so much charm? This is taught? Give advice?

"Only parents give me advice." And in general - probably since childhood.

- Have you been such a smiling girl in your early childhood?

- In my childhood, I was not shy, but now ... I practically did not go to kindergarten, I was at home with my mother. Since four years we went to training together, and when we decided that figure skating should be done professionally, my mother decided that she would not go to work anymore, because my work was my training.
- You are from Ryazan.

- Yes, we go there regularly, to my grandparents and two of my cousins.

- Do you feel that you are gradually becoming a star?

- I do not understand yet how it is to be a star.

Figure skater Trusova said she equals Medvedev, but tries to be herself

"Now, perform the quadruple Salchov in its pure form and feel, maybe?"

"I want to do something first in the world." Therefore, I teach both a triple axel and a quadruple toe loop. And all the remaining quadrants.

"Then will you compete with the boys?"

- Yes (laughs).

- During the training during the Grand Prix Final you made a cascade of six triple jumps lutz - rytberger - rytberger - oyiler - salhov - oyiler - salhov - oyiler - salchov. I'm not wrong?

- You are not mistaken.

- What do you want to say?

- The coaches told me: "Go jump something to jump a lot." At the same time, Dasha (Panenkov) jumped lutz-tolup-tolup-sheepskin coat. And they say to me: "Well, give the answer to Dasha." I went and gave. Yes, I can do from the place. It's nice when you jump, jump, jump, and you do it. And I want more and more, more. I always wanted to perform multi-turn jumps myself.

She looked at Medvedev as a celebrity


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- Do you already have a feeling that you can make everybody at the junior level?

- I have a feeling of great competition, because we have a lot of strong girls in Russia and all of them are my rivals. And there is a girl who jumped the quad - Anya Shcherbakova. Now (after fracture of the leg), she does not practice such jumps, and earlier we went with her equally in the mastery of these elements. I will train and try to win all.

- In what you are stronger than all the others?

- In that I try to jump quad.

The triumph of Russian juniors: Trusova won the final of the GP, Kostornaya and Tarakanova on the pedestal. A PHOTO

"Is it scary to visit them?"

"I'm not afraid to fall." When I teach them, I put on my trousers with foam rubber and jump. And I already tried on the fishing rod lutz, and flip.

- For a girl lutz and flip are real?

- I think yes. While it's hard for me to make them myself, because I jump with my hands up, and on these jumps I need to lower my arms. But the jump is better with my hands.

- At the very beginning of an arbitrary program before entering the quad, you have a magical look. What does it mean?

- I look into the eyes of the judges, that they looked at me and could not tear myself away. I'm so focused already during the program.

- Do you hypnotize the judges?

- Yes (smiling).

- Like when attention is focused on you?

- I like this at competitions, but in training, if I feel that they are looking at me a lot, it does not become very much on my own.

- Can you fight the excitement?

- The coaches help, explaining how to jump correctly to sit down "to the feet".

- Who do you like most in terms of personality and choreography?

- Zhenya (Medvedev).

- And what touches her skating?

- Everyone.

"Remember when it was first seen?"

- I saw her at the rink even before I began to train with Eteri Georgievna. We did not talk yet, she did not know me, and I just looked at her as a star, as a celebrity. Then I came to them in the group, went to the locker room, we began to communicate. I like to be with her together. Then in Novogorsk we were placed in one room.
- At international tournaments, Eugene lives in the same room as the Olympic champion Ekaterina Bobrova and considers her older sister. Sometimes, for the broken axel the elder "sister" reacted with a kick of the younger. Do not get a joke from Medvedev?

- No, Zhenya tells me everything.

- It was a shame that she could not perform in the Grand Prix Final because of the consequences of the injury?

- Yes, she promised me that if I go to my Final, we will go to Japan with her, but ... I would like to be with her in this Final.

- Eugene told me that on the day off she is in her room with fish, Alina Zagitova is engaged with chinchillas. What distracts you from figure skating?

- I have a small dog, a chihuahua, named Tina. She lives with me and with me, if possible, goes to competitions, including Europe - in Italy, France.

- Do you have time to learn at school?

- Only in the evening I go to it, because in the morning I really do not have time. I love math, because we have a very good teacher, which explains interestingly.

I thought Lipnitskaya would win the Olympics in a single

- Dad you have an athlete.

- Yes, the master of sports in three types of martial arts. Judo, Sambo and one more, but I do not remember the name.

- Does he often praise you as an athlete athlete?

- He can easily say: well done, Sash, it's just like me. When I was very young, I went with him to the hall, pulled myself up, climbed the rope. But judo did not try, they have an older brother.

Figure skater Trusova made a breakthrough, performing a quadruple jump in the tournament - Averbukh

- One athlete's presence on the rostrum helps, and hinders others.

- My mother is present practically at all trainings and competitions, and the grandmother, father's mother, almost at all tournaments. I do not care, I'm used to them, that they look at me, and I do not notice them anymore. And Dad did not see a single live performance. Only in the phone. But he, the sportsman, wanted his children to be athletes too. At first I was given in order to be good for health, and then professional sports began.

- What is your character?

- I do not even know (laughs). I hope, like Zhenya's, strong. In general, I'm shy. As a child, I did not care that they were looking at me, but now I, seeing the audience, I clamped. True, this does not apply to competitions, I'm fine with them. And when I just dance in training in the hall, then I start to be embarrassed.

"Are you easily offended?"

- Well, only if my brothers get me (laughs).

- Did you encounter envy in figure skating?

- No.

- And then in the ballet and in your sport is traditional damage to the shoes.

- Something was with me with skates, but I do not know if someone did it or I unsuccessfully stepped on the piece of iron.

- Blades have spoiled?

- Yes.

- What do you want to achieve in life?

- To become an Olympic champion.

- When did you realize that you can become not just a figure skater but a champion?

- Years 9-10, when I watched the Olympics in Sochi. Then I decided that I was definitely going to figure skating, and I want to become an Olympic champion.

- Who made you more impressed then - the champion in team competitions Yulia Lipnitskaya or the winner in single skating Adeline Sotnikova?

- I was rooting for Lipnitskaya, I liked how she performed, and I thought that she would win in solo skating.

Solar Julia Lipnitskaya: Olympic champion Sochi completed her career. A PHOTO

- What appealed to Julia?

"She always skied well." For some reason I was ill for her.

- Once Tutberidze was asked what attracted her especially to Lipnitskaya, and she answered - stretching.

- She was spinning amazingly, and in the tightening she had the maximum twine.

"You have a beautiful cantilever."

- First, Diana Davis, Eteree Georgievna's daughter made it, then all of us began to try. I can jump right from the cantilever. In the short I play the cantilever, then I make a step, then a triple lutz. And I can immediately put my foot and make lutz.

- Is there fear before jumping?

- From the fact that I will fall, there is no fear. But at competitions there is excitement from the desire to make a jump.

Alena Kostornaya: Tutberidze praised once for the whole year

- Anna Pogorilaya told me that she makes a double axel, and go to the triple - as in the abyss. One more turn, but you do not understand where you will end up.

- For me it's just one turn. Nothing supernatural.

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I, Tonya, the darkly comedic tale of figure skater Tonya Harding's rise and fall surrounding the infamous 1994 attack on her then-chief rival Nancy Kerrigan, is Robbie's first such foray, developed under her LuckyChap Entertainment banner, which she founded in 2014 with her husband of one year, Tom Ackerley, and a couple of their closest friends. The company already has a second film in the can and a portfolio of at least a dozen more projects in development. But in recent weeks, nearly all of Robbie's attention has been squarely on I, Tonya, in which the 27-year-old stars as the infamous former athlete. Since the film began rolling out in theaters in early December — where it cut through an especially crowded field with a strong $66,039 per-screen opening weekend — Robbie and her onscreen mom, Allison Janney, have both scored Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations as well as serious Oscar buzz.

While audiences still are catching up to Robbie's ambitions, I, Tonya's director, Craig Gillespie, marvels at her drive, praising her ability to simultaneously star, produce, assume an accent and learn to figure skate as she did to play Harding. And her 58-year-old co-star, Janney, who steals several scenes as a stage mother from hell, jokes that she was still doing "off-off-off-off-Broadway" when she was Robbie's age. "I just kept thinking of Katharine Hepburn when I looked at her," says Janney. "Katharine put together The Philadelphia Story because she wasn't getting the parts that she wanted, and that's what Margot did. She was going to be typecast as this beautiful young thing, and she wanted to find interesting roles for herself and for other women, so she took the bull by the horns and she formed this company."

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Indeed, launching LuckyChap was Robbie's way of ensuring that she has a hand in both the creative process of individual projects and the larger mission of righting the industry's gender imbalance. That she has started down this path at such a young age, however, feels in no way remarkable to her. "I've spent the past 10 years of my life on sets, and after a while, it's like, 'I want to have a say when I read a script that I really love, like I, Tonya. I don't want it to just be up to chance that it goes in the direction that I believe it should go," she says, as her pint-size rescue dog, Boo Radley, investigates the pair of Puma sneakers that the dressed-down star has kicked to the side on this unseasonably warm December morning. "Sometimes I don't want to leave it up to someone else, and that's not to say I want to be in charge of all the decisions because I don't know enough to be in charge of all the decisions, but I do want to be a part of the conversation."

Raised the third child of four by her single physiotherapist mother on Australia's Gold Coast, Robbie started thinking big for herself at an early age.

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She had plenty of friends at school whose families were considerably better off, which, she believes, "was the best scenario to breed ambition." It gave her a close-up look at the doors financial success can open, just as her own upbringing illustrated how a lack of means can keep them closed. "Breaking a plate or spilling the milk was a big deal at our house. It was like, 'Well, now we don't have milk for the week,' and it put a lot of strain on everyone," she says. "Whereas if you broke a plate at a friend's house, it was like, 'Don't worry, we'll buy a new one.' It was happy and calm, and I was like, 'Oh, I want to make sure I have that.'"

So Robbie began laying the groundwork, showing entrepreneurial instincts that could occasionally prove disruptive to the household. She sheepishly admits to selling her younger brother's toys on the side of the road or charging family members first to watch her magic shows and then demanding more if they wanted to see how she'd done the tricks. By 14, she was already earning a paycheck tending a bar. ("Not at all legal," she laughs now.) A series of odd jobs followed, often more than one at a time: a house cleaner, a surf shop clerk, a sandwich maker at Subway. "Margot's always just been a hustler," says her childhood friend and current assistant Sophia Kerr, another LuckyChap founder.

At 17, Robbie had relocated to Melbourne and, after barraging the casting director with calls, landed a part as a bisexual teen on the popular Australian soap Neighbours. By her second season, she was already thinking out loud about what was next. "I want to go to L.A.," she told a student magazine, "and be a massive actor over there." In the meantime, she saved her money and worked closely with a dialect coach on her American accent. After her third year on the show, her plan was to come to the U.S. and secure stateside talent reps ahead of pilot season. It went off without a hitch. She touched down in L.A. in late 2010, signed with Management 360 and, almost immediately, landed a part on ABC's then-promising period drama Pan Am. The latter ultimately failed to take off with viewers, but it opened the door to other opportunities, including her role in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street.

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By then, "quality, versatility and longevity" had become Robbie's career mantra and, post-Wolf, she uttered it often as she began, as she puts it, "chasing the roles that people didn't want to give me." Among them: that 19-year-old farm girl in the 2015 indie Z for Zachariah. Robbie had been passed over for the part because she lacked the box-office value needed to get an indie film financed. But just before shooting was set to begin, Amanda Seyfried dropped out, and Robbie, with Wolf about to hit theaters, made a second approach. Still, the financiers were nervous. She assured them that as soon as Wolf opened, her name would carry weight and that, in any case, she was far more like the farm girl than she was Wolf's promiscuous wife. "I knew I needed to adjust people's perception of me right then," she says, "because otherwise I was just going to be given [this one kind of thing]."

Robbie was similarly relentless in lining up other roles: that con artist opposite Will Smith in the 2015 thriller Focus, the war correspondent beside Tina Fey in the 2016 dramedy Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and, soon, a smallpox-addled Queen Elizabeth I, alongside Saoirse Ronan, in the upcoming Focus Features historical drama Mary Queen of Scots. Robbie sought out the part of Harding with her producer hat on, reaching out to writer Steven Rogers on behalf of LuckyChap. She was just 3 at the time of the 1994 scandal, so she initially had mistaken the screenplay — the result of lengthy interviews with both Harding and her once-abusive ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly — as a work of fiction. "It was a character that definitely scared me," she says of the allure, both as a producer and star. "And I couldn't understand why she was doing and saying the things she was doing and saying, but I wanted to — and any time that happens in a script, that's a character I really want to play." That the part also would require her to transform into a hardscrabble athlete who lacked the physique and polish of the sport's other stars made it that much more compelling. Robbie, who had some experience in the rink playing ice hockey, began a grueling training schedule that had her on the ice five days a week. (Stunt doubles performed every jump save the triple axel, which was the work of CGI.)
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The personal life of 21-year-old Adeline Sotnikova is legendary. Since Adeline became the first Olympic champion in women's history in women's singles in individual competitions, the media is constantly writing about the girl's new novels.

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But in the end all the news remains in the category of rumors.

Although Sotnikova herself "warms up" interest in her personal life, for example, laying out photos with a wedding ringlet on her finger. Take a picture in the restaurant-yacht Chaika.

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"Whoever works, he and rest!) With my @ kurti54 came to @chaikamsk # delya14 # asotka14

And tomorrow we continue! At 14 o'clock # Nutcrackerplushenko "

- signed a picture of Sotnikov.

However, in the comments write that Adeline can wear a ring just for beauty.

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But still I want to believe that after the figure skater could not return to the big sport because of an injury, she has a close person who supports her and motivates being not only an athlete, but also just a girl.
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Evgeny Medvedev will miss the Russian championship due to a difficult injury
Suffice it to recall just a few facts, voiced by the manager of the Kostroma branch of the bank Vadim Lushin. As a result of 2017, 45% of loans to individuals, half of all loans for business and 64% of mortgage loans issued in the Kostroma region, were issued by Sberbank.

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In general, in 2017, the Russians saw off with the same mood as in 2016. 49% feel joyful changes in 2018, 32% - calmness and confidence. The number of those feeling sadness decreased from 14% to 4%.

But this is only if we talk about hockey. And since we traditionally have chances in very many sports, and gold medals in any case will be. We have athletes who win these medals. But there are also functionaries who build some "medal plans": if even a victory for an athlete is a feat, that the official has already planned this feat. I do not want to be like sports functionaries and talk about what kind of sports we have in medals in advance.

The team included dozens of athletes. In the category of "women" besides Alina Zagitova, Maria Sotskova and Yevgeniya Medvedeva are included. Another three - in the category of "men", six people - in the category "couples" and six - in the category "dancing on ice." In addition, the team includes athletes who will be on the bench for the time being.

For 2018 citizens have much greater expectations, expectations of changes for the better than a year ago in 2017. The index of personal expectations, based on the question: "What do you expect from the next year personally for you and your family?", From 2015 to 2017, he added 27 points (from 37 to 64 points). The indicator of expectations throughout the country remained at the same level as last year. More than a quarter of respondents (27%) believe that the year will be successful for them personally, 21% - for the country as a whole.

For several years in the city hung under the arena arena sweaters pupils who won the world championships and even did not finish their careers - Danis Zaripov, Evgeni Medvedev, Dmitry Kalinin, Yevgeny Kuznetsov. Last season we decided to start all over again, taking off the old "kartonki" and noting only the outstanding and iconic for the club veterans.

The World Cup in Russia, the Winter Olympics with the Russians under the neutral flag, as well as the match for the world chess crown - "Gazeta.Ru" tells about the main events of the coming year in the world of sports.

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Evgeniya Medvedeva biography of the figure skater photo. Fresh material.

- First, Diana Davis, Eteree Georgievna's daughter made it, then all of us began to try. I can jump right from the cantilever. In the short I play the cantilever, then I make a step, then a triple lutz. And I can immediately put my foot and make lutz.

You did not think that there would be only positive examples here? The figure of Grigory Rodchenkov really did our year, and I must say, made him very lousy. A former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory a couple of years ago became the chief informant of WADA and, as it later turned out, the main source of all the evils of Russian sport. It was with his testimony that the investigations of Richard McLaren and the IOC commissions were formed under the strict guidance of Denis Oswald and Samuel Schmid.

This year, we all learned about doping everything we wanted, and everything that was not very wanted. To thank for this is exactly Mr. Rodchenkov, now living in the USA. His erotic diaries also surfaced, the content of which, no doubt, you want to quickly forget, if you still for some reason read it. Russian sport is located where it is, not only thanks to Rodchenkov, but his contribution, of course, can not be underestimated.
As reported on the site, the politician of the year for the Russians is Vladimir Putin - he was named 58% of respondents. Next, Sergei Lavrov (18%), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (13%), Sergei Shoigu (10%), Dmitry Medvedev (9%), etc. take a big lead. In the ranking of athletes, the first places are taken by biathlete Anton Shipulin (4%), hockey player Alexander Ovechkin (4%), skater Evgeny Medvedev (4%).

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Evgeny Medvedev achievements in figure skating. Detailed data as of 01/07/2018.

Mon-Fri: The day of adoption of the resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on the renaming of the Autonomous Region of the Autonomous District of the Udmurt Autonomous Region (now the Udmurt Republic) PT: Glazov's declaration of the administrative center of the Autonomous Region of the Autonomous Oblast

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No American man or woman won a singles medal at Sochi, and that might happen again in Pyeongchang. The best hope is 18-year-old Nathan Chen, who won his second straight U.S. men's title on Saturday with a five-quadruple-jump long program and on Sunday was nominated to the Olympic team. Third-place finisher Vincent Zhao, a 17-year-old who's a spectacular jumper but lacks artistry, also made the team. However, runner-up Ross Miner was skipped in favor of fourth-place finisher Adam Rippon despite Miner's sparkling long program and Rippon's error-strewn routine.

Surprisingly, sixth-place finisher Jason Brown was named the first Olympic alternate and Miner the second alternate. Miner's coach, Mark Mitchell, endured a similar snub in 1992 after he was third at the U.S. championships but was left off the Albertville team in favor of Todd Eldredge, who had missed the U.S. competition. Eldredge was 10th at the Olympics.

"We are looking for the athletes that consistently performed across the Grand Prixes, internationally, who can get the scores and who are most likely to perform well at the Olympics," Auxier said, praising Miner's "amazing, lights-out performance" but deeming it insufficient reason to give Miner an Olympic berth. "We weren't sure if we put him out at the Olympics he would perform to the extent that he was a possibility for a medal."

Chen is undefeated this season, including a three-point victory over Olympic and world champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan at the Moscow Grand Prix event in October. Zhao will basically be along for the ride to gain experience that could help him in the 2022 Beijing Games if life doesn't get in the way for him, too. Rippon relies on artistry more than big tricks, making him a fan favorite but probably not a medalist in a sport infatuated with big-score quadruple jumps.

U.S. women's champion Bradie Tennell, 19, is admirably consistent with her jumps but lacks the emotional depth to earn high scores in the program components, the subjective part of the judging. Mirai Nagasu earned her second-place finish and her second Olympic spot eight years after she finished fourth at Vancouver as a carefree 16-year-old. Her arsenal includes the triple axel, a score-boosting, 3 ½-revolution jump that few women can land. Karen Chen, the 2017 U.S champion, probably won't be in the Olympic medal mix.

After the women's event had finished here, Auxier sat beside Tennell, Nagasu and Chen to praise their efforts. He also brought up the flawed triple axel Nagasu had performed. "I think we'll work on getting that clean for the Olympics," he said, as she smiled politely. "We saw that she can do it very well in practice and hopefully can get that clean."

It sounded like a command. And it could be decisive in adding team or individual hardware to what likely will be a meager U.S. skating medal tally at Pyeongchang.
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We were at a lounge called 38 Below, which is skating-themed. Hockey and figure skates, including a signed pair of hers, hang over the bar, which features a “frost rail” that makes its surface look and feel like an ice rink. “But you should use Tonya Harding in your story,” she said. I told her I probably can’t; if her name is Tonya Price I should call her Tonya Price — paper of record and all that. She objected.

“But Tonya Harding is who people know.” Which is a good point. She is Tonya Price but you cannot deny that she is also Tonya Harding. This is basically how this entire story goes: There are facts, and then there is the truth, and you can’t let one get in the way of the other or you’ll never understand what she’s trying to tell you.

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But therein lies the problem: Whatever her name is, she looks an awful lot like Tonya Harding. So even when she meets a stranger and says, “Nice to meet you, I’m Tonya Price,” the person will narrow his eyes and say, “Wait, aren’t you….?”



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You can’t run from being Tonya Harding, is the point. Even if you wanted to, even if you tried, and yes, she’s tried. “I moved from Oregon to Washington because Oregon was buttheads,” she said. Then, with mock apology, “I disappointed them. It’s like, how can I disappoint a whole state? Wait a second, how can I disappoint a whole country?” Oregon had been so proud when their own Tonya Harding was the first American female figure skater to land a triple axel jump in competition. Then what happened happened, and people turned on her. So she confronts it head on, the way she always has. As if she ever had a choice. She knew from the moment it all went down in 1994 that the Nancy Kerrigan attack wasn’t going to fade into the annals of history. “I knew that this would be with me for the rest of my life.” Absent anonymity — her face has softened over the years, but she is still clearly Tonya Harding — she is left to explain herself endlessly and hope that someone is listening.

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Lord knows she’s tried to be understood. Over the years, “E! True Hollywood Story” came along. “Entertainment Tonight” came along. Oprah came along. But the focus was so much about what happened in 1994; it was never about before or after, and if you want to understand her at all, you have to understand her childhood and her early adulthood. They all told her that they would let her explain, and each time she felt like she didn’t really get her message across, because each time, it came down to: Well, did you do it, or didn’t you? Did you know more than you said? Did you actually plan the attack? Are you sorry? Are you still sorry?

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Then, in 2014, the screenwriter Steven Rogers watched the ESPN documentary “The Price of Gold,” and decided to reach out. ESPN had given a rounder, more nuanced look at Ms. Harding and where she came from. It laid out the facts: How on Jan. 6, 1994, six weeks before the Lillehammer Olympics (and two nights before the conclusion of the United States Figure Skating Championships), Ms. Kerrigan was clubbed on the knee by a man with a collapsible baton. An F.B.I. investigation found that the man had been hired by Shawn Eckardt, a friend of Jeff Gillooly’s, who was Ms. Harding’s ex-husband. In the end, Ms. Harding pleaded guilty to hindering the prosecution — meaning that she knew who had done the attack, but only afterward, and that she didn’t report it immediately.

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The prosecution believed that she was much more involved than what the plea bargain encompassed, but they accepted the plea since it included a felony charge. She was sentenced to three years of supervised probation, 500 hours of community service, a $100,000 state fine, and was tasked with setting up a $50,000 fund to benefit the Special Olympics, reimbursing the Multnomah County prosecutor’s office $10,000 in costs, undergoing a psychiatric examination and participating in any court-ordered treatment . And then there was this: She was forced to surrender her membership to the United States Figure Skating Association. Eventually, the association barred her for life.

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Mr. Rogers, who wrote the 2015 movie “Love the Coopers,” asked her agent for the option to her story — her whole story — for $1,500, with more if the film actually got made and recouped its costs. The initial money wasn’t much, just enough for a month’s rent really, and she didn’t know if it was worth the hassle. But her agent said, “What’s the worst that could happen?” The worst had already happened.

All these years later, she’s still punished for what she did, but also for what she didn’t do. People still think she herself held a baton over Ms. Kerrigan’s leg that day. People still think she was married to Mr. Gillooly (who has since changed his last name to Stone), who planned the attack and was sentenced to two years in prison for racketeering, but they were divorced by then.

At the very least, people still think she herself hired the guy who attacked Ms. Kerrigan, Shane Stant, and they have never forgiven her for it. “I’ve had rats thrown into my mailboxes, [expletive] left on my door, left in my mailbox, all over my trucks. You name it, it’s been done to me.” Sometimes she pulls up to a traffic light and a man in the next car will make oral sex gestures at her.
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