Gallyamov's expectations and Tuktamysheva's plans

Unlike most winter sports, the season in figure skating is not over yet.

In mid-April, the athletes will compete at the World Team Championship.

Russia will be represented by Anna Shcherbakova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Mikhail Kolyada, Evgeny Semenenko, dance couple Victoria Sinitsina - Nikita Katsalapov and sports duet Anastasia Mishina - Alexander Gallyamov.

The latter shared their expectations from their debut tournament.

“We expect full team support, we already know how it happens.

We can say that these competitions will be held in such a festive mode.

Therefore, the situation will be completely discharged, we will ride for pleasure to support the team, ”TASS quotes Gallyamova.

At the same time, the thoughts of many athletes are busy with the 2021/22 season, the main event of which will be the Winter Olympic Games.

After the triumphant World Championship, there are good reasons to hope for a repeat of the success of Russian singles in Beijing.

According to the coach of Tuktamysheva Alexei Mishin, the athlete has already begun work on new programs.

“We have plans to get to the Olympics and perform with dignity.

To do this, we are already starting training, creating programs, selecting music and the routine that is necessary in order to adequately prepare an athlete, "Mishin told RIA Novosti.

At the championship of the planet in Stockholm, Tuktamysheva became a silver medalist, thereby proving to critics that a figure skater of age in terms of figure skating measures is capable of fighting for the highest awards.

For this and other achievements this season, she received the GQ Super Women Award in the Sports category.

“Thank you for the unique opportunity to be here, among wonderful people, among the strongest women.

It is very cool!

And I want to note that women are also the strongest in figure skating, ”Tuktamysheva said at the awards ceremony.

The guest of the ceremony was the seven-time world champion in rhythmic gymnastics Margarita Mamun.

She shared a shameful photo with the skater, and social media users appreciated the spectacular images of both athletes.

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Medvedeva's dress and the dance of Shcherbakova, Usacheva and Akatieva

Meanwhile, Eteri Tutberidze's group continues to travel across Russia with the show "Champions on Ice".

The leading figure skaters of Khrustalny visited Kazan, where they delighted local fans with their best performances.

Two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva demonstrated the Anna Karenina Olympic program, in which she performed the triple salchow and rittberger purely.

At the same time, she appeared on the ice in the same costume in which she appeared in the 2017/18 season.

“To be honest, today has been a very tough day.

I got on the plane early, then there was a flight, training-rehearsal.

There, nothing went at all for me, but I appeared on the show like new.

How is the dress?

I got in.

Even the waist is a little too big.

I altered the skirt a little, because the proportions of the body have changed.

And so, in some places it even freezes.

It pleases ", - quotes Medvedeva Sport24.

Alina Zagitova, on the contrary, could not cope with the jumps and made three mistakes in two programs.

At the same time, in Kazan, she attended the training session of the hockey "Avangard", for which her father Ilnaz Zagitov played as a defender from 1993 to 1995.

And then she appeared in the stands of the match of the Eastern Conference of the Gagarin Cup, where Omsk residents met with the local "Ak Bars"

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And Shcherbakova, Daria Usacheva and Sofya Akatieva took part in the new challenge in their free time.

They simultaneously performed the popular dance Dancing in My Room on the TikTok social network by 347aidan.

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Plushenko's criticism and Vyalbe's admiration

Despite the fact that Alexandra Trusova took third place at the World Championships, some condemned her for being overconfident and wanting to insert as many quadruple jumps as possible into the free program.

Her coach Evgenia Plushenko was also criticized.

So, according to the three-time medalist of the world championships Maxim Kovtun, it is he who is to blame for the failures of the skater.

“Unlike his mentor Mishin, Plushenko made a mistake ... I remember the European Championship, which was attended by Konstantin Menshov.

He had a great morning workout, but why was he brought to the second?

He also performed it amazingly, joined the program - and turned out to be empty.

A little ahead of time they wanted to prove it.

And here, I think, it would be better if she did not show all this accumulated energy in training before the performance, namely, she gave out all the strength at the box office and would be the first, ”Kovtun said on the air of“ Russia-24 ”.

However, not everyone agrees with Plushenko's criticism.

According to the Russian figure skater Artur Dmitriev Jr., he has great potential, but it is too early to assess his coaching activities.

“I know that Plushenko is criticized by many, and, frankly, I don’t understand the reason.

I would like to support him.

I believe that the colossal experience and the presence of strong colleagues will bear fruit.

Let not immediately, but in the next couple of years we will see results.

It just takes time and patience.

I think Evgeny's team is on the right track, let everything be fine with them, ”the website of the Match TV channel quotes Dmitriev.

Regardless of the distribution of World Championship medals among singles, all three athletes have contributed to the popularity of figure skating in Russia.

In confirmation of this fact, it is said that the broadcast of the free program has overtaken the number of audience in the qualifying match of the 2022 World Cup Russia - Slovenia.

Its rating was 4.1% versus 3.4% for the football broadcast.

Representatives of other sports followed the tournament in Stockholm.

The President of the Russian Ski Racing Federation (FLGR) Elena Vyalbe admired the achievements of the Russians, and the skier Veronika Stepanova admitted that she was equally worried about all domestic figure skaters.

“I root for all our girls, because they set the bar high in the international arena.

Why do I watch figure skating at all?

I am attracted to the result.

In biathlon, unfortunately, at the present time it is not.

Now figure skating is much more interesting for me to watch than biathlon, ”Stepanova said in an interview with the On Skis Youtube channel.

Unfortunately, sometimes interest in sports rises not so much due to the results as to scandals.

Some time ago, American journalist Dave Lees made a statement that figure skaters Eteri Tutberidze are achieving success thanks to the intake of hormonal drugs that slow down growth.

His statement caused a wave of indignation among experts.

Then he made a new controversial statement, in which he noted that such a reaction was due to the special status of Tutberidze in Russia.

This assumption was denied by the director of "Sambo-70" Renat Laishev.

“They envy!

Tutberidze is a talented person who brings up talented athletes!

They just start to hiss at us.

They don't, but we have everything.

Americans do not understand our phenomenon, but we are just talented people.

Enemies raise their heads, but we do not notice them, "Sport-Express quotes Laishev.