Kondratyuk’s injury, Bagin’s fall and Samodelkina’s excitement: what ended the Russian Grand Prix in figure skating in Samara

Progress Trusova

Two pupils of Svetlana Sokolovskaya, Alexandra Trusova and Sofia Samodelkina, fought for the victory at the Grand Prix stage in Samara for women on Sunday.

Russian Rocket was three points behind its rival after the short program and retained a chance to win the competition.

This time, compared to the first performance for the song I believe I can fly, the skater looked more confident on the ice and felt the music more.

"I tried to.

Yes, it was better than in Sochi.

I am very pleased with such support at this tournament, they support me very much during the warm-up, I am very pleased.

Thanks a lot to the fans.

I would not like to comment on anything else, ”Trusova admitted.

Unfortunately, it was not possible to cleanly execute all the elements again.

At the very beginning, Sasha fell from the quadruple lutz, although she did it during the rolling.

In addition, the judges reduced the points for the execution of the triple flip, and the step sequence was assigned only the second level of difficulty.

So, before the Russian Championship, the pupil Sokolovskaya has enough work, but one cannot fail to note the progress of the silver medalist of the Beijing Olympics.

Surprisingly, even with such a performance, Trusova could win, since the leader of the competition Samodelkina this time was also not perfect.

She fell from a quadruple salchow, did not perform the planned triple axel, limiting herself to a double one, and on the last cascade, she did not twist the second jump and could not stand on her feet.

As a result, the girl received 144.72 points for the rental - a few tenths more than Sasha.

The reasons, according to Sophia, lie in psychology: it is difficult for her to perform last. 

“Salkhov - I went a little uncertainly to him, and the last cascade - I relaxed a little, rode past the coaches with a smile.

I just needed to calm down.

But emotionally and physically it's harder that you're the last one.

Not for me now, but in principle, ”said Samodelkina.

The top three was unexpectedly closed by Ksenia Gushchina.

She was ahead of Anna Frolova, who was second after the short program.

Both girls do not have ultra-c elements in their arsenal, so they hardly counted on a more serious result.

It is impossible not to say about the incident that occurred after the rental of Trusova.

A fan came out to her with flowers on the ice.

As it turned out, his appearance was unplanned, and now the tournament security service is investigating the situation.

Four quadruple Lutfullin

In men's singles this season, fans are accustomed to seeing Piotr Gummenik trying to perform four quadruples in a free program.

And lately he's been doing it.

At the stage in Samara, the skater's initiative was supported by Gleb Lutfullin.

Together with two triple axels, one of which is in a cascade, a pupil of Alexei Mishin made six ultra-c elements.

The judges rated his performance at 180.79 points.

“Feelings are joyful - the first more or less clean rental.

There are shortcomings on the rotations, we need to work.

I am satisfied with the jump part, I managed to do four quads cleanly, the ice was comfortable.

In fact, when I arrived in Moscow for rentals, it was a little uncomfortable.

I myself am surprised that this is the first start, where, according to the sensations, I was not tired.

I can even talk calmly, ”admitted the athlete.

Finally, Alexander Samarin coped with the program.

Yes, he missed a landing on a quadruple lutz and made a step out on a triple axel, but the skater avoided falls and the fans were finally able to enjoy his composition, in which the athlete acts as a secret agent.

Alas, the joy of the audience ended there.

Andrey Mozalev, who was in second place after the first day, confidently started rolling, performed a quadruple salchow, but then unexpectedly fell.

As it turned out, his lace was untied.

I had to stop the performance and put the equipment in order. 

Being in a stressful situation, the skater hurried and did not tighten the boot very well.

This led to the fact that Mozalev could not land two more ultra-c jumps and dropped out of the fight for prizes.

“Falls after this episode - I hurried when I was tying my skates, and I didn’t tie it very well, my leg fell through.

I was told that I have three minutes.

Such experience is also needed, I will carefully prepare for the rentals, ”said Andrey.

But the performance of Mark Kondratyuk was much more disturbing.

If Mozalev was frankly unlucky during the start, then according to the rental of the pupil Svetlana Sokolovskaya, it seemed that the skater received some kind of damage.

He fell from a quadruple lutz, and further on, the expression on his face showed how the young man was struggling with the elements.

As a result, he failed the combination with the quad toe loop, and then the athlete decided not to jump the quadruple salchow and triple axel.

As a result, only fifth place in the free program and third in total. 

The impression of the audience from the rental turned out to be correct.

According to Sokolovskaya, Kondratyuk had health problems.

“In the morning, Mark woke up from a spasm of the back muscles, and the pain did not go away before the rental.

The reason is not yet clear.

We will return to Moscow, we will be examined, ”the coach explained in an interview with RT.

It remains to be hoped that there is no serious damage and at the Russian Championship the fans will again see the magnificent performance of the skater.

And the victory in Samara was celebrated by Lutfullin, beating Samarin by five points.

Winning with two falls in dancing

In ice dancing, there were no changes on the podium compared to the short program.

Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva and Yegor Bazin won.

However, big questions arose about the athletes' assessments.

They scored 119.68 points, although the partner fell twice during the performance.

At the same time, for the first time, he could not get up for a long time and a rather large piece of the composition fell out.

And after the support that the skaters still managed to do, despite the incident, Yegor was back on the ice.

On top of that, in the final, the guys got tangled in their hands and blurred the ending.

“These mistakes cannot be explained.

What happened is unclear.

Some kind of nonsense, ”Khudayberdieva said after the speech.

Elizaveta Shanaeva and Pavel Drozd, who took second place, would have been just right to be indignant if they skated their program cleanly themselves.

Ironically, during the dance, the partner also fell.

The only difference is that the skater managed to get up quickly.

"Marvelous.

I can't say that I often make such mistakes.

It is a rarity.

I only remember the championship of Russia among juniors, something similar happened there out of the blue and hundredths were not enough to get to the junior world championship, ”admitted Drozd.

In addition, the pair had other shortcomings: out of sync, low speed on lifts, not the best execution of twizzles.

Therefore, 110.35 points and 191.60 in total is just a great result.

Experts, in turn, spoke quite critically about the results of the stage in Samara.

So, the coach and choreographer Betina Popova recalled how Khudaiberdiyeva and Bazin almost fell in Sochi, but Yegor managed to keep Liza there.

“I have to say that we have a rather strong failure in dancing, there are no obvious leaders.

So far, young couples - Vasilisa [Kaganovskaya] with Valery [Angelopol] and Irina [Khavronina] with Dario [Chirizano] - look more confident than adult duets, ”TASS quotes Popova.

Unlike dance duets, the sports couple Alexander Boikov and Dmitry Kozlovsky do not allow doubting their skills.

They skated their Anna Karenina cleanly, making only a small blot on the ejection, and outstripped the silver medalists Yulia Artemyeva and Alexei Bryukhanov in the sum of two programs by 24 points.

The audience gave the guys a standing ovation, and the partner almost burst into tears on the ice.

“I don’t want to go into details, it was a hard preparation for this start.

Only our relatives and coaches know about it.

I think they suffered with us, rejoiced with us.

Of course, the fact that we skated cleanly is, first of all, a great victory and achievement for me.

Of course, for my partner, whom I again got nervous during the warm-up.

But nothing, most importantly, I didn’t get nervous at the box office, ”Boikova explained.

Was satisfied with the performance and Kozlovsky.

According to him, this start will be a good start for big victories.

“Great, we finally rolled out our free program purely at the tournament, with a difficult set, in a really tense competitive environment,” the athlete added.