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Figure Skating - Ladies' Singles
Topic Started: Feb 20 2016, 09:46 PM (3,300 Views)
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Maria Sotskova (RUS) - 169.50, raising from 8th(!) in SP to silver
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ashley Wagner remembers being glued to her TV in the winter of 1998, when a sprightly young figure skater named Tara Lipinski was dazzling the judges on her way to gold at the Nagano Olympics.
Wagner was 7 years old at the time. Lipinski was just 15.

http://turnto10.com/sports/olympics/wagner-leads-relatively-old-guard-for-us-figure-skating
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Olympic figure skating champion in the team competition Yulia Lipnitskaya in Sochi in January, is recovering from injury.

The athlete is on the same base, where trained. After Lipnitskaya complete rehabilitation, she will return to training and will be able to speak, told the Internet portal "Kuban 24," the press service of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia.

They explained that since Lipnitskaya could not take part in the championship of Russia due to injury, it is not declared to participate in the World and European championships. The Federation made it clear that the Czech Republic is a qualifying stage for these tournaments.

Figure skater in October, missed the first stage of the Grand Prix series due to aggravation of the old injury. Then in November Lipnitskaya was injured during the rental of any program on the Moscow stage of the Grand Prix series. Her coach Alexei Urmanov said that after that the athlete has passed a medical examination and continued training for the championship of Russia, according to TASS .

However, December 18, returning from a workout, Lipnitskaya fell on the slippery pavement and got injured hip and lower back. In this regard, it failed to perform at the Russian Championships in Chelyabinsk, according to the website Figure Skating Federation of Russia.

How to write Internet-portal "Kuban 24", in November 2015 Julia Lipnitskaya decided to change coach - since 2009 athlete coached Eteri Tutberidze - and wrote a statement to the Figure Skating Federation of Russia. On November 23, 2015 she began training in Sochi led by Alexei Urmanova.
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European Figure Skating Championships 2017: schedule

The fact, which will host the European Figure Skating Championships in 2017, we have already said. It will take a cozy "Chez Arena" in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Now more about the schedule for the European Championships 2017 Moscow time.

Officially, the tournament starts on January 23 but in the early days of a training will be held in Ostrava. Start the competition day is scheduled for January 25. January 25 at 13:00 Moscow time will begin their short women program. On the same day later, at 20:45 (hereinafter - as Moscow time) will start a short rental at sports pairs.

The next day, 26 January, at 14:00, a short dance couple will dance. But at 21:00 athletic pair free program to identify the strongest.

27 January at 13:15 the battle will enter a male figure skaters - they skated the short program. And in the evening, at 20:00, the women will start any program.

January 28 will compete for medals and the men dancing couples. Skating dance duets begin at 15:30, and arbitrary hire men - at 19:50.

Finally, 29 January completed EM demonstrations. We add that the full figure skating in 2017 from the European Championship in Ostrava will broadcast TV "TV Game" and "Eurosport".

Who goes to the European Figure Skating Championships 2017

Now we tell you about what will be the Russian quota for the European Figure Skating Championships in 2017 . In the competition of men, women, sports, and dancing couples will represent Russia for three participants. Thus, the Russian figure skating team won a total of 12 credits.

In conclusion - a full part of the Russian team at the European Figure Skating Championships in 2017 .

Women: Evgeny Medvedev, Maria Sotskova Anna Pogorilaya. Subs not used: Helen Radionova, Stanislav Konstantinov, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva.

Men: Michael Kolyada and Alexander Samarin, Maxim Kovtun. Substitutes: Andrew Lazukin, Aliyev, Dmitry and Alexander Petrov.

Sporting pair Ksenia Stolbov / Fedor Klimov, Yevgeniya Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov, Natalia Zabiyako / Alexander Enbert. Substitutes: Christina Astakhov / Alex Rogonov, Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoyev.

Dancing on Ice: Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Alexander Stepanov / Ivan Bukin, Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov. Substitutes: Elena Ilyina / Ruslan Zhiganshin, Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Ghurair, Sophia Yevdokimov / Egor Bazin.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbCV0Fzo98

In the show "Moscow Nights" two teams compete against each other, taking part in different competitions. The team - the stars, and the capital - ordinary people. The winning team will bring his captain prize - up to 500 thousand rubles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtaNSZg0XiU

For the team playing the customs officer Elina champion in figure skating Alexei Yagudin, actress Alla Mikheeva and actor Anatoly Rudenko. They are opposed by team cardiologist Yevgeny, which play an Olympic figure skating champion Adelina Sotnikova, actress Angelica Kashirina and producer, trainer and champion in figure skating Ilya Averbukh.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBt6GgSGJ2S3V7-3f67Ar9g/videos

Leading the show - Roman Yunusov and Alexey Likhnitsky (known as the duo "Zaitsev Sisters").
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Canada's team for the world figure championships boasts 17 world medals between them.
With the return of ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, along with Patrick Chan and pairs skaters Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford, Canada will send one of its strongest teams ever to the world championships in Helsinki in March.
The team was named Sunday after the Canadian figure skating championships.
"It was a great week," said Skate Canada's high performance director Mike Slipchuk. "When it came time to select the team, it was pretty clear. It was nice to see our defending champions skate the way they did."
Chan, a three-time world champion, and Kevin Reynolds of Coquitlam, B.C., were named to the team in men's singles. The announcement came a day after Chan won his ninth national title.
Kaetlyn Osmond of Marystown, N.L., and Gabrielle Daleman of Newmarket, Ont., will compete in women's singles.
Virtue and Moir, who are two-time world champions and six-time medallists, plus double world medallists Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje of Waterloo, Ont., as well as Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Unionville, Ont., will represent Canada in ice dance.
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Ashley Wagner

Hometown: Alexandria, Virginia

Training town: Lakewood, California

Age during world championships: 25

Helsinki will mark: Seventh world championships (2008, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’15, ’16)

Major accomplishments: Silver at 2016 world championships; 13 grand prix event medals (five golds, three silvers, five bronzes); Silver at 2013 Grand Prix Final; Bronze at 2014 and ’15 Grand Prix Finals; Gold at 2012 Four Continents Championships; Fourth at 2012 world championships; Seventh at 2014 Olympics; Gold at 2012, ’13 and ’15 U.S. championships; Bronze at 2014 Olympic team event

Why she stands out: There is no doubt that Wagner is favored to lead the U.S. women in Helsinki. Not only is she the only one of the three to have previous worlds experience, but she took silver at the event last year, becoming the first U.S. woman to medal at either the world championships or Olympics in a decade. The oldest competitor at the 2017 U.S. championships – her 10th senior nationals – by two years, her silver medal made her the oldest U.S. ladies medalist since World War II.

On being a veteran of the sport: “I choose to view the word veteran as experienced, and experience is never a bad thing, because I've gone through the good experiences and the brutally, terribly awful experiences. I think that this sport focuses on age too much. I'm so sick of hearing about my age, I'm so sick of it, you guys. If anyone asks me one more question about my age, I'll just stop talking to them, it's ridiculous.”


Men:

Jason Brown

Hometown: Highland Park, Illinois

Training town: Monument, Colorado

Age during world championships: 22

Helsinki will mark: Second world championships (2015)

Major accomplishments: Fourth at 2015 world championships; Silver at 2016 Skate America; Silver at 2014 Skate America; Bronze at 2015 Skate America; Bronze at 2013 Trophee Bompard; Ninth at 2014 Olympics; Gold at 2015 U.S. championships; Silver at 2014 U.S. championships; Bronze at 2017 U.S. championships; Bronze at 2014 Olympic team event

Why he stands out: Brown missed last year’s national and world championships with a back injury. But having finished just off the podium in fourth at his first and, to date, only worlds appearance, Brown will be eager to leave his mark when he returns to the worlds stage. He has spent part of this season dealing with a stress fracture in his right fibula, but still managed to finish third at nationals, and expects to be healthy by worlds.

On his free skate performance at nationals: “It’s been a tough week. I’ve been pushing through and I’m really proud of that. Injuries are really kind of big eye-opening experiences to go through. I think you learn so much from every experience along the way. You learn about yourself, you learn about perseverance and mental toughness. And I think that’s something that I have been able to take into performances and into the season. You know where you started, you know how far you’ve come. You have a great background of people helping you out along the way and through that. And you kind of feel that support system along the way and they are there fighting for you the whole way. And you are there pushing yourself, so I think every injury that I’ve gone through I’ve learned something from it, I’ve grown from it and it’s launched me to do better things and push myself further than I thought, and I hope this one will do the same.”





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Icenetwork: Many skaters stay in their bubble. Do you?

Pogorilaya: I can hear the audience during my program. In fact, I hear everything and can pay attention to every detail of what's going on in the stands. During my free program yesterday, I could hear distinctly the moment when the crowd started to applaud each one of my steps. That helped me a lot. In fact, it's like exchanging energies: I give the audience some energy, and the audience gives me its energy back. It's so great. Now I really enjoy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJZepz17ZiA

Icenetwork: You are known as one of the fiercest competitors on the circuit. Where does that come from?

Pogorilaya: It's probably just my character. It was the same when I was a child, when I started skating.

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Icenetwork: May I ask you what you did with the huge teddy bear you received after your short program?

Pogorilaya (smiles broadly): For the time being, I gave it to my coach (Anna Tsareva). I have no idea how she is going to transfer it to Russia, but she will find a way. She has two children, a girl and a boy, aged 10 and 11. They may well fight for it!
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- After a successful free program of the season you are happy to tears, but in Ostrava it was not.
- Because I was trying to understand what happened. And then, when they saw the coach evaluation and outcome, the joy we had mad.

- The value of coin depends on the experience and pain, through which had to go for her?
- From all together. In general - when you skate well and realize that you did the best, and thus occupy a good place, it is valuable to you.

- In the championship of Russia medal, you have not won, but not this case, even when the fourth place, which allowed to qualify for the European and world championships, after the ridiculous drops bring joy?
- No, actually the fourth place was all in fun. We coaches a little upset and did not understand why we are so moved. Naturally, training, trauma, but rentals were quite good. Okay, what happened, it happened.

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"Out jumps coups finally grew"
- Almost two months before the World Cup. You can go on vacation?
- No, I'm after the European Championship once flying on a show in Switzerland for 10 days. This seems to me to be such a discharge to the head. Then, perhaps, will give a couple of days off - and begin to prepare all over again. But the holiday - a tricky topic. In that season, when I broke a bunch, I just went on vacation - my mother and I flew to Egypt after the European Championship. The first day of training after the holidays started well: in the morning, I remembered all the triple jumps in the evening - cascades "3-3", and then on the PFD to tap dance, I tuck a leg break. Because the body after the holidays was not prepared. So with the holidays, we are now carefully.

- Last year's European Championship with terrible lows before the current is not remembered?
- No. My memory is so arranged that I forget bad. That World Cup in Shanghai, where I skated after ligament rupture, I do not remember - just what took 13th place. But exactly how - I do not remember. And the last European Championship recalled only when the revised rental with friends and laughed rittberger with the coup.

- But it was then the European Championship with you was something that brought skating to a whole new level. More because no upheaval was not!
- Grew up on this, finally. In fact, we are well aware of the reason for such things. Technical errors, excitement ... I had to just work on it.

- You told me that before the tournament trying to find out what's on in the country where you go. What already know about Finland, where the World Cup will take place?
- Well, I do have been in Finland, I like this country. All quiet, nature is similar to the Russian. Birches ... And more even look.

- At the World Cup will go to win?
- Yes!
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Nikolai Chegorsky, AiF.ru: Tired after such a triumphant performance?

Evgeny Medvedev : To be honest, more than tired from the flight, and received great pleasure from the European Championship. Probably, there I am more Energize than tired. Not to say that the tournament turned to me easy, but great satisfaction from it.

- The legendary coach Tatiana Tarasova admired your speech and said that never in my life saw a figure skater stronger. How to react to such praise?

- I am very pleased that such words are addressed to me. But I often do not take the praise and I can not agree with it because ... (hides his face) I'm very embarrassed.

- In any program you even allowed yourself to pampering and committed an additional element, but know that it will not be counted by the judges. This was done in order to show its superiority over rivals?

- Rather, it was just a little fun for me.

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- That is the European Championship as the entrance for you, you can arrange such entertainment during the official rental?

- I would not say that. Any competition for me - a great challenge. And I take it very seriously. But I never bother about the scale of the competition: just want to go on the ice and show good skating. Because I knew that all my free program until the last jump was executed cleanly, I realized: you can afford some luxury ice.

- It is believed that because of you, engages in unprecedented leaps and cascades, is to change the rules of figure skating. We agree with this?

- There are many elements that I do not do: stage with triple lutz or a triple loop cascade. So I do not even think about how to change the rules.

- Two years in a row you arrive at each start and win. How to keep the same form before the Olympics in Korea?

- I try to live for today and make plans for the year ahead, I will not. Ahead of the championship of the world, and two championship of Russia, one of which will be held just before the Olympics. Before the World Cup, which will be held in Helsinki in April, I will have a little break in terms of competition. Training, of course, will not stop. The main thing is to maintain a good mood.

The Russian women's figure skating - the strongest in the world?

- I think that it makes no sense to argue with it. Russian girls - one of the strongest skaters. But despite this rivalry, the competition is very high. Perfectly speak Japanese, American, Canadians and others.

- What is now the next plans?

- The first day of my work on the Russian language.

- You still have time to study?

- Of course. I usually two or three times a week to attend classes. But often have to learn with a teacher individually. Since there are so many days off to go to school.

- In addition to journalists, relatives and classmates at school "Sambo-70", you met at the airport and even a dog. Your?

- Yes, this is my French Bulldog Jerry.

- Why not take him with me to the European Championship?

- It is quite normal for figure skating. I know athletes who take with them on the pet contest. But I did not lap dog or chihuahua and bulldog. I understand that during the European Championships just do not have time to take care of him. All these days I lived on schedule hotel - Ice Palace - a hotel.

- And what about the traditional banquet at the end of the European Championship?

- Yes, he went just fine: we have a lot of dancing on it.

- Who is the best dancing in our team?

- It is logical that all skaters dance very well. But most of all I liked the dance floor Katya Bobrova .
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