The beginning of the season in figure skating is fast approaching.
Already on October 21, the first stage of the Russian Grand Prix starts in Moscow, and the representatives of the national team have less and less time to bring their programs to mind.
This could be done at the Panin-Kolomenkin Memorial, which was held in St. Petersburg.
Despite the fact that it is pre-season, the audience saw Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Mikhail Kolyada and many other outstanding athletes on the ice.
Full stands on Saturday morning gathered, of course, the ward of Alexei Mishin.
She didn’t have serious competition this time, so even with two points of a penalty for delaying the start and falling from the axel, the skater took first place.
At the same time, as the athlete admitted to reporters, she was satisfied with the rental.
“This alignment was in my head, because today in the morning without training it’s harder to ride than in the evening, when you warmed up, practiced, came to your senses.
I’m even glad that such a skate happened - this is the first time I fell from the first axel and did the second one.
Now I will be more confident in the second jump.
This almost never happened even in training, ”said Lisa.
She explained why she received a penalty for delaying the start.
As it turned out, the judges this time gave marks too quickly.
"I did not expect.
I decided not to adapt to the generally accepted rules.
No, not a new trick, it's only here, at the Grand Prix, I won't allow myself this.
Here it was more important for me to mentally prepare for the start, ”the figure skater admitted.
Talking about the prize money at the tournament, she also did not dissemble.
According to Tuktamysheva, it is foolish to say that money does not matter.
“It's always good.
Who will tell you that it doesn't matter?
Therefore, I will not lie.
But even without prize money, the Russian Grand Prix is very necessary for athletes, ”added the athlete.
The most interesting lineup of participants at the Panin-Kolomenkin Memorial was in the men's singles.
Almost all representatives of the national team training in St. Petersburg showed up for the tournament.
Only Evgeny Semenenko withdrew due to injury.
However, the impressions of the guys' programs are mixed.
It can be seen that they are not quite physically ready to perform yet.
Including because of this, there are a lot of errors.
One of the highlights of the tournament was the return of Eteri Tutberidze's student Daniil Samsonov.
The skater missed a year and a half due to Schlatter's illness, so he is not chasing difficult jumps yet.
“The triple axel is close.
Soon it will be possible to insert it into programs.
Quadruple later.
I first want to conquer the axel, perform it in the short, in order to have a small margin for the free.
Well, during the season I will try to restore all the jumps - not only my favorite ones.
You have to be able to do everything.
Because one jump can go for a week, and next week it’s not the same,” said the 17-year-old athlete.
For the first time after the transition to Evgeny Rukavitsyn, Arthur Danielyan went on the ice, who is also recovering from an injury.
Therefore, far from everything is obtained.
“It was the first competitive start, for a quadruple jump with a new technique - a week, plus a day and a half of lying at home due to illness.
The salchow itself was better, at least the step-out.
Then we will draw up a plan for preparing for the Grand Prix.
I have a stage in Kazan, I like to perform there, ”said the skater.
He also noted that he does not experience any problems with the mood for tournaments, and the prize money at the Russian Grand Prix is an additional bonus.
Recall that the winners of the upcoming stages will receive 500 thousand rubles each.
For the victory in the final, a payment of 1 million rubles is provided.
“The motivation is good, but it was like this even before the prize money became known, I have motivation over the edge.
I don’t know from where, but it’s good, already on principle I want to show what I have always done.
So that people don’t think: here, a good boy, he skates well, but he doesn’t show anything, ”the athlete admitted.
Andrey Mozalev performed not in the best way at the memorial.
He was unable to perform a quadruple salchow, and at the end of the program he fell off the lutz.
Dmitry Aliev was second after the short program, but unsuccessfully skated the free program and ended up fourth.
Makar Ignatov and Gleb Lutfullin did not succeed in quadruple jumps either, but the rest of the components were done cleanly, which allowed them to climb the podium.
Well, Mikhail Kolyada celebrated the victory.
The Russian became the only skater who never fell in both programs: only one step-out on a quadruple sheepskin coat in an arbitrary one.
Which is a rarity for an athlete, which is why he received unexpectedly high marks from the judges - 298.49 for both programs.
Spectators saw world records.
They were installed on Saturday by Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov in the competition of sports couples.
They won the tournament with scores that exceeded the highest marks in the short and free programs, as well as the sum of two performances.
Alas, these results will not be taken into account by the ISU, as they are shown at the internal start.
“In Russia, everything is official, so we will try to improve these scores even more.
Of course, we are happy with these estimates, the numbers are beautiful, we will try to make them even more beautiful, ”Gallyamov said.
At the same time, the athletes said that they were working out a quadruple ejection.
So there is a backlog, due to which to show a higher result.
“As soon as it is more or less stable, when it is safe, without injuries, then we will probably insert it,” Mishina explained.
The competition for the guys was Alexandra Boykova and Dmitry Kozlovsky.
In the short program, they beat their teammates, but withdrew from the free program.
As it turned out later, the coaches planned such a move in advance so that the partner would gradually recover after the injury.
According to the mentor of the skaters Tamara Moskvina, the couple will be ready for the stages of the Russian Grand Prix.
“It was decided about two weeks ago, when Dima (Kozlovsky) started skating after an injury.
It was wise to do so so that they would gradually get into sports uniform and show their programs.
Of course, they will be ready for the Grand Prix stages, ”the specialist emphasized.