Selection of ice skaters at the World Cup and training Zagitova

Russian skaters, triumphantly speaking at the recent European Championships in Graz, began preparations for the upcoming world championship, which starts in Montreal on March 16.

In women's single skating, the country will be represented by Alena Kostornaya, Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova, who in Austria occupied the entire podium. At the same time, according to the president of the FFKR Alexander Gorshkov, there was no choice between Trusova, who became bronze medalist and 2015 world champion.

“Why should this have been discussed at all? You yourself saw everything at the European Championships. Alexandra completed the planned task, which she was established. What reasons should there be for her not to go to the World Cup? ”, Gorshkov said in an interview with Sport Day to Day.

At the same time, Tuktamysheva said that the season for her was over. Now, the skater intends to focus on study and work on staging her own ice performance.

“I won’t go to the final of the Cup of Russia and any competitions. I have gos, diploma. Now I also coordinate the participants of my show and their program. There will be Dima Aliev, Sasha Boykova with Dima Kozlovsky, Betina Popova and Seryozha Mozgov, ”Tuktamysheva said in an interview with Sport-Express.

In addition, the athlete said that she had already begun to prepare for the next season and was studying the quadruple salchow. And in one of Instagram-publics there was information that Tuktamysheva trains in Italy.

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Alina Zagitova, who has taken a break from her career, continues her classes - she is now training and honing her skills in Switzerland before the start of the Art on Ice show. However, many still believe that the skater will not return to big sport. So, according to the Olympic champion Natalya Bestemyanova, the future of the Olympic champion remains foggy even though she maintains a good shape.

“It’s not enough just to keep your level, you still need to learn the quadruple jump to compete with other girls. She does not need fifth place, only first! ”- quotes Bestemyanova Sportbox.ru.

At the same time, the expert emphasized that it is not customary for skaters to disdain athletes participating in ice shows.

“What is the second grade, what are you talking about? At first you rose to the point of being even considered as a candidate for some role, not to mention the fees that Alina receives. The show is a whole industry in figure skating, not separable from sports, ”she said.

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The secret to the success of the Tutberidze group and the advice of Samodurova from Tarasova

At the last European Championships, Russian skaters did not even stop falling to win medals. However, after that, there was talk again about the excessive rigidity of Eteri Tutberidze - mentors of Kostornaya, Shcherbakova and Trusova. One of the team members, Sergei Rozanov, working with girls, does not agree that the athletes are experiencing a recession caused by extremely high loads. According to him, the coaches did not even set the task to bring the skaters to the peak of form for the European championship, since the upcoming World Cup will be their main start.

The specialist emphasized that it was unethical to call Tutberidze's approach “conveyor”, and the secret of success of her wards is in things that are familiar to the athlete.

“Love for his work and, of course, discipline. It allows you to say: "I'm tired, but I will do it," to fulfill the plan that you set for yourself. The same quadruple must be able, as they say, "squeeze". And for all this, you need to be on time for a warm-up, go hesitate after a workout, and so on. So it’s labor, labor and labor again, ”Rozanov noted in an interview with Sport-Express.

Another Russian figure skater - European Champion 2019, Sofia Samodurova, the season is not so brilliant: at the last Russian championship in Krasnoyarsk she took only ninth place. However, as the athlete said, despite the outstanding result, she received many compliments from the honored trainer of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova.

“Tatyana Anatolyevna came up to me after the rental, praised me for keeping up well and not going anywhere. Not "merged", as it is fashionable to say now. I also recommended working more on the interpretation of programs, ”said Samodurova in an interview with Match TV.

Slutskaya's new show and gala evening with Kostornaya

Meanwhile, ice shows are rapidly gaining popularity, and they are becoming more and more. So, on February 1, Irina Slutskaya, two-time Olympic medalist, presented her own production.

Skaters, among whom were Zagitova, Tuktamysheva, as well as silver and bronze medalists of the European Championship Evgeny Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov and Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin, performed on the ice of a forest lake. Slutskaya admitted that creating such a show was her old dream, and promised to introduce an updated program a year later.

“It was something unreal! I'm still a little shaking! If someone told me three years ago that our little adventure would turn into such a large-scale ice show, where the world stars of figure skating ride on the lake, I would smile and would not believe a word! There will only be more! ”Slutskaya wrote on her Instagram.

And on February 26, another show will be held in Moscow - a gala evening with the participation of pupils of Eteri Tutberidze and Nina Moser. The program was called "The Way to Victory" and Trusova, Kostornaya, as well as two-time Olympic champions Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov will be involved in it. The organizers of the evening promise competitions among adult amateurs, as well as master classes from trainers of Moser and Tutberidze groups.

“Spectators of the gala show will have the opportunity to look behind the scenes of the forge of the Olympic champions and get to know the work of the Tutberidze Team and Moser Team,” the official announcement of the event said.

The truth about alcohol from Medvedeva and the Bolshoi Theater through the eyes of Trusova

In preparation for the upcoming World Cup, skaters still find a little time for themselves. So, Trusova first visited the Bolshoi Theater - at the ballet "Swan Lake".

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But two-time world champion Medvedev watched the series Spinning Out. In it, according to the plot, the skater often drinks alcohol, and the athlete decided to tell her subscribers how things really are with alcohol in the world of figure skating. She broadcast on Instagram and explained that in real life no one would ever allow such a thing.

“Apparently, people are comparing: in the series, the heroine goes to a dream, to the Olympics, and I just participated in the Olympics. At the same time, she comes to the bar almost every evening and drinks a lot of alcohol. This is wrong, this is not true. When you are preparing for a competition, you count every calorie, every bite, try to put in yourself something useful to make it easier to ride, to improve your result, ”Medvedeva said.

The two-time world champion admitted that what she saw in the series really hurt her, and urged fans not to believe everything that they see on TV and on the Internet.

"I do not agree. And the directors show such things in large projects and on the big screen! This upset me, offended me. Especially when people started asking me if all this was true. I don’t want people to think like that about skaters, ”Medvedev added.

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