Valieva's birthday

Kamila Valieva turned 17 last week. The figure skater met her holiday in her native Kazan, where Eteri Tutberidze's show "Champions on Ice" was held that day. But first, she visited the Volleyball Center as a guest of the local Zenit. Team players Ilya Fedorov, Alexander Volkov, Artem Volvich and Maxim Mikhailov, as well as coach Alexei Verbov congratulated Kamila on her birthday and presented flowers to her and her mother. In addition, they invited the skater to two matches of the final series of the championship of Russia with Moscow "Dynamo", and Mikhailov gave her his game T-shirt.

"I'm kind of small compared to you," Camila laughed while taking pictures together.

During the show, Valieva, of course, was also congratulated on the holiday. At the Tatneft Arena video cube, a video was shown telling about the formation of the athlete, and then a birthday cake was brought to the ice. After the performance, most of the participants went to a party in a restaurant. The celebration ended with fireworks.

The athlete admitted that in Kazan she is always greeted warmly - as if every spectator personally knows more than a year.

"In Tatarstan, they treat me like their granddaughter. I am very pleased and a little unusual. At times I am even shy. You come to the event, meet with the official, and he asks you how you are doing, talks to you in a fatherly way," said the Olympic champion of Beijing in the team tournament in an interview with Business Online.

In addition, the skater admitted that she was ready to perform at the next Games, if Russian athletes are allowed to them.

"But I don't like to think ahead. When you say it loudly, it usually doesn't come true. Now I just want to show my skating and perform further," Kamila emphasized.

A new candidate for the fight with Zagitova

As part of the tour of Tutberidze's team, Alina Zagitova also visited the memorable places of childhood. She conducted a demonstration training for children in Almetyevsk, where at one time she began to engage in figure skating. The family of the future Olympic champion moved there when Alina was five years old.

"For me, it's not just a master class, but something more... After all, I came to a special place: my childhood was spent here! You can even say that it was thanks to this ice that I became an Olympic champion. Thanks to such events, you feel the importance of the development of sports, and today it was a holiday rather not for children, but for me – and this is priceless!" the skater wrote in her Telegram channel.

She also wished young athletes to make their dreams come true and become Olympic champions. And the very next day, Tutberidze's entire team went to Ufa.

"So, the rubric "Survival". We are already on the bus, we have 6-7 hours to go. And yesterday the fans gave me a pillow. God, I've never been so happy about a pillow. Thank you very much, you are my favorite," Zagitova shared.

In the meantime, Alina travels around the country with the show, promoter Vladimir Khryunov does not lose hope of organizing a boxing match for her. The idea of inviting Olga Buzova as a rival apparently failed, but he intends to replace her with a girl "with similar media coverage."

"It's not going to be a singer, but she's boxing. We talked to her recently. We will name you when we sign everything. Now I am negotiating with sponsors. We will decide," Legalbet quoted Khryunov as saying.

Stepanova's first rental

Alexandra Stepanova performed in public for the first time after the birth of a child. The two-time champion of Russia took part in an open rehearsal of Ilya Averbukh's show "Favorite Songs about the Important" together with her partner Ivan Bukin. The couple performed part of the program to the song "Tenderness", with which they plan to go on the ice on May 4 in the capital's "Megasport".

"We were extremely happy to see you at our first training session. I remember it very well, because it happened with the new team, the impressions were new from all sides. And new coaches, and a new rink. Vanya gained a lot of experience this year, completely different for himself, came different, even with a new hairstyle. I also changed somewhere, and now we met. May 4 will be our first performance, I think it will be very exciting, for me, at least, for sure. We really hope that we will show a gentle number, where everyone will remember that it is possible and necessary to dream, "the Championship quotes Stepanova.

The skater became a mother at the end of March and returned to training a month later. According to Bukin, both really missed working together.

"We agreed that we would go out and ride calmly, recover, not rush anywhere, but it doesn't work that way, you're so charged, so many emotions that you go out and work, and three hours later it's like, 'Let's go rest a little.' Somehow you earn money, that is, you come to the conclusion that you adore this business and really missed it, "the skater said in a comment to Match TV.

In turn, Ilya Averbukh was glad that it was within the framework of his project that the first performance of the couple after almost a year break would take place.

"It's one of the highlights of our show, you'll see an amazing duo back on the ice together. I am very glad that such a certain return is taking place in my project. Of course, the guys have a huge road, they will ride in different shows, but the fact that the return takes place here is very important for me," said the choreographer and director.

Medvedeva talked to schoolchildren

Evgenia Medvedeva will also take part in the May show of Averbukh, who will be paired with Alexander Enbert. Especially for this project, a new program was staged for figure skaters who used to skate together in the play "Anna Karenina".

"As a guy, it's interesting for me to go out and skate the whole number, one might say, a sports one. It will be quite difficult, for me personally it will be a challenge, so keep an eye on how it progresses. I think in a couple of performances we will finally roll and everything will be beautiful. In the meantime, we will keep the intrigue," said the two-time world champion.

Meanwhile, the athlete visited the students of the Moscow school as part of the "Lesson with the Leader" project. Evgenia shared her view on education, and also gave the younger generation a number of motivating tips.

"Sometimes I feel a little sad that I trained all my childhood, and I didn't have classmates as such. I look at you and think: "I wish I could go to school every day, sit at my desk, feel what it's like." That's why I love school, at one time it seemed to me that it was not enough, "the skater admitted.

Medvedeva noted that in life a lot can be achieved by perseverance and hard work. She stressed that you can't stop in front of difficulties: if something doesn't work out, you need to try again.

"If it didn't work out once, twice, three, ten times, it will definitely work out on the 15th. And if even then it doesn't work out, you need to think about it and change something in your tactics. It works in all aspects of life. Study, dream, work – and you will definitely succeed!" concluded the vice-champion of the 2018 Olympics.

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And a little later, the famous figure skater pleased fans with a new photo shoot. She appeared in a tight-fitting white outfit with a hood with sequins and tights in a net. At the same time, long white bunches were made on her eyelashes.

"White fashion post," the girl signed the publication on social networks.

Yagudin's triple toe loop

Alexei Yagudin, who in March became the winner of the tournament of show programs "Russian Challenge", told how important it was for him to perform a triple toe loop at these competitions. According to the Olympic champion of Salt Lake City, physically it is not as difficult for him to perform this element as psychologically. The problem is fear.

"It's like the Olympics of that time, only now! Only then it was a quadruple, now it is a triple. I have strength, of course. My hip creaks and my knee hurts a lot - plus fear. And under fear, you have cotton feet, you're afraid that you won't jump now, "Alexei shared.

The skater said that his wife Tatyana Totmianina even criticized him for being too obsessed with this jump, but he could not help himself.

"This is already a clinic - I didn't want to let you down, otherwise some said that I don't know how to ride. " Let him continue to sit and comment." I wanted to prove that I still had enough gunpowder, and the matches were not completely wet. I wanted to overcome fear - everything worked out, "Yagudin said in a conversation with the Sport24 portal.

Tuktamysheva's unique autograph

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva shared the story of the most unusual autograph that she has ever given. According to the Empress, she signed ketchup and mustard for figure skater Betina Popova.

"And this was probably the most unique painting in my performance, because then we met Betina. She asked me for an autograph. We were already on the same wavelength at that time - literally half an hour later. And instead of finding a pen, I took a napkin and painted with ketchup and painted with mustard. Such a story. And after that, we became best friends," Tuktamysheva said in her Telegram channel.

In addition, the athlete shared which day from the past she would like to get. It turned out to be a round of the 2019 ISU Grand Prix in Las Vegas, or rather the evening after the performance. After the competition, Elizaveta, along with Dmitry Aliyev, Stanislava Konstantinova and Roman Savosin, went for a walk.

"I got an insane lot of emotions, because everything was so bright there, so new. I probably haven't felt such delight for a long time. We got together in a good company, it was fun, we rode something from roof to roof, flew - I don't remember what it's called. There were a lot of emotions, so I would like to go back to that time and live this day again," Tuktamysheva admitted.

Challenge from Papadakis and Hubbel

Beijing Olympic champion Gabriela Papadakis and two-time medalist of the Games Madison Hubbell decided to put on a joint dance program. Thus, the famous athletes plan to convince the International Skating Union (ISU) of the need to allow same-sex duets to perform. In Canada, last season, appropriate changes were made to the rules. If earlier it was written in them that a couple or a dance duet is made up of a man and a woman, now we will talk about "two skaters". As explained in Skate Canada, this change is aimed at eradicating discrimination "based on gender identity."

Alexei Zheleznyakov called the initiative of Papadakis and Hubbell madness. Tatyana Tarasova was not impressed by this impulse either.

"I wouldn't be interested in looking at it. I like the classic boy-girl duets. It's all nonsense, there is no gender discrimination in figure skating. Pair up with the boy and work," said the famous coach.

However, there were those who liked the proposed idea. So, RT columnist Elena Vaitsekhovskaya recalled that in synchronized swimming, for example, purely female duets have existed for many years, and this does not bother anyone. In her opinion, one should not be surprised at the attempt to come up with something new, to somehow diversify the usual, even if it goes against the prevailing stereotypes.

"Some, I know, are still haunted by the question: why is there hurdles in the Olympic athletics program, but there is no running in bags? And, you see, it is absolutely impossible to find any intelligible arguments to answer. It just happened. And I would look at Papadakis with interest even if she goes out on the ice with a foam stuffed Cizeron, "the Olympic champion joked in her Telegram channel.

This point of view was supported by the head coach of the Russian synchronized swimming team Tatyana Pokrovskaya.

"Why not. Of course, it can be interesting. In synchronized swimming, the girls have been performing together for a long time. They need to give it a try. I, too, always oppose everything new. It seems that this is bad, it is impossible, and then it turns out to be very interesting, "the specialist admitted.

However, Elena Vaitsekhovskaya, having looked at the rentals of Papadakis and Hubbel, did not see anything outstanding in them.

"I realized what exactly was wrong with this couple for me. The thing is, it seems to me, that the subconscious mind automatically turns on the comparison when viewing. And it will always include. The paradox is that in this comparison, Papadakis and Hubbel will always lose to both Papadakis and Cizeron, as well as Hubbel and Donohue. Well, what's the joke then?" - said the RT columnist.