“Everyone around offered to film.

It got in the way and added pressure. "

The women's tournament has become a real gem of the Russian Figure Skating Championship in Chelyabinsk.

The short program on Friday gave the fans an exciting confrontation between a number of skaters, and the free skates should have turned out even more interesting.

At the same time, the minimum spectacle gaps between the skaters kept the maximum intrigue.

Even the current champion of the country Anna Shcherbakova, who took the intermediate first place, could not be sure of her superiority.

Alexandra Trusova and 14-year-old Kamila Valieva could well take advantage of their rival's health problems and bypass her.

Moreover, it was not completely clear whether Shcherbakova would go out on the ice.

And the very fact of participation in an arbitrary program did not guarantee her anything.

For example, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, who also recently had a coronavirus, could not cleanly execute a single triple axel and dropped from fifth place to seventh.

But Trusova did not allow a single mistake and received 170.61 points for her performance.

Alexandra even managed to break the world record. 

“Finally, we can remember that in a few days the New Year.

We worked very hard.

It's hard after a bad start to go out and try to do everything.

Today I am satisfied.

At the moment (from quads. -

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) I can only jump lutz ", - quotes the words of Trusova" Championship ".

“There was an injury at Rostelecom, but I did not allow to remove anything from the program, although I was asked to simplify the content.

Now I listened to everyone and did as they suggested, there was nowhere to go.

I knew that I couldn't do other jumps yet, ”added the skater, who did not specify the nature of the injury.

Confident rental, as expected, helped Evgeni Plushenko's ward to push Daria Usacheva from the final third place, in whose arsenal there are no ultra-si elements.

But Valieva did not allow Alexandra to rise higher.

Kamila's performance turned out to be so convincing that Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin, who was commenting on the competition live, could not hold back his tears.

The coach of the athlete Eteri Tutberidze almost cried.

The judges also appreciated the rental of the young figure skater.

For an arbitrary she received 174.02 points, and in total - 254.01.

Thus, Valieva managed to break two world records at once.

“I tried not to be nervous, and everything worked out for me.

I tried to come out confidently and not to hesitate, not to make such mistakes as last time.

In principle, a happy championship for me.

I wanted to know how it felt to compete with adults.

That's cool.

Such support from the audience and performance with top skaters is great, "R-Sport quotes Valieva.

After her speech, only one question remained open: who would take the first place, she or Shcherbakov who had recently suffered pneumonia.

And Anna not only went out on the ice, but also perfectly worked out her program.

This time, even Tutberidze did not hold back tears, and many fans with her.

And the world records for the number of points for the free and total assessment fell again - 183.79 and 264.10.

Moreover, after the end of the tournament, Shcherbakova did not hide that both the coaches and her parents suggested that she withdraw from the tournament.

“I'm happy that everything worked out.

I tried not to think about the bad.

During training, I was worried about my health, the jumps did not work.

Everyone around offered me to film ... It interfered and added pressure.

If I was wrong, then they would be right.

Therefore, I am even more glad that everything worked out, ”Shcherbakova admitted.

According to Tutberidze, her ward did not feel very well even before the short program, in particular, she was dizzy.

The coach admitted: she did not believe that Shcherbakova would be able to skate an arbitrary.

“We decided to look at Anya's condition to the last.

Repeatedly probed the soil, tried to talk to her mother, to convince Anya herself that maybe it was not necessary.

But this is about sports.

The word that unites everything that happened is overcoming.

For me it was overcoming both physical and moral condition.

It was crushing and it was difficult.

We’re probably just happy now.

This is a great compensation for the work done, for the nerves.

In addition to Ani, who performed a heroic deed, I want to mention Kamila, who also gathered her nerves.

At the moment, both athletes have shown the best skates of the season, ”Tutberidze said on the First Channel.

In turn, the coach and choreographer of the group, Daniil Gleikhengauz, admitted that everyone was ready to remove Shcherbakova, but she insisted on her way, went to the end and eventually became a three-time champion of Russia.

"Tutberidze's tears are the highest degree of gratitude and empathy"

The women's tournament and experts did not leave indifferent.

In particular, Yagudin said that he had not experienced such emotions from figure skating competitions for a long time.

“I myself was crying at that moment.

Still, from the outside I was experiencing the situation, but for Tutberidze the skaters are her children, her family.

She knew what was happening to Anya, and Anya went out and made such a rental.

Tutberidze's tears are the highest degree of gratitude and empathy ", - quotes the Olympic champion TASS.

Commenting on the results, the famous coach Tatyana Tarasova expressed the opinion that the judges should have given Shcherbakova, Valieva and Trusova the same marks so as not to offend anyone.

“These three skated so beautifully that I couldn't see better.

Never in my life.

Today I watched luxurious skiing, when world records are like each other.

An abundance of records.

These quads and flips of theirs are incredible.

Thank you very much to these three girls, thanks to their coaches for making us cry and forcing the whole country to breathe in unison with them, to worry about them, ”Tarasova said.

Choreographer Ilya Averbukh called for these skates to be included in the gold collection of the Russian championships and thanked Tutberidze for her work.

“Of course, first of all I would like to congratulate Shcherbakova.

She showed herself to be such a fragile girl, taught us to air and thin skating, but she has a fantastically strong character.

Until recently, the coaches had a question that, perhaps, she would be removed for health reasons, but Anya was so magnificent and unmistakable that there could be no other words.

I would also like to congratulate Valieva, it was an absolutely magical performance.

We are waiting for her to qualify for participation in the World Championship, ”Averbukh noted.

Coach Alexander Zhulin even called the last Russian championship “the best in history”.

According to him, all the girls worked fantastically, and the judges fairly appreciated their performances.

“Shcherbakova was the first without question, she performed more difficult jumps.

Knowing that she had bilateral pneumonia, I was shocked how Anna was able to complete the program.

Honor and praise her ", - quotes the expert" Championship ".

But the three-time Olympic champion Irina Rodnina did not agree with Zhulin.

In her opinion, the Russian championship in Chelyabinsk should not be called the best.

“Each time has its own requirements, grades and skating.

Previously, there were jumps in two turns, then there were jumps in three turns, now in four.

The girls skated powerfully, they are great fellows.

But I will not call this Russian championship the best, ”Rodnina said.

At the same time, the three-time Olympic champion admitted that in skating, the prize-winners admire not only the technical complexity, but also the high-quality performance of the jumps.

“It happens that the complexity is high, and the quality lags behind the technical complexity, but in this case both the complexity and the technique are at a very high level,” Rodnina added.

Finally, she noted that Shcherbakova's victory did not come as a surprise to her, although the constancy of the Russian champion is surprising in an amicable way.

“I liked her more than others today.

More quads were expected from Trusova.

Probably, in this fight, where every step is taken into account, the coaching staff preferred to skate cleanly and steadily.

But we see the result - only the third place.

Valieva has a strong program.

She showed a very adult skating.

I like that she feels the music and understands that she is skating, ”Rodnina summed up.