Disappointments in sport have a very different nature. The singles competition at the Grand Prix in Sochi showed it clearly. Almost all the participants found reasons to be sad. Sports tells about the results of competitions among girls.
Adelia Petrosyan completed the maximum task and won, but she fell on one quadruple and made a serious mistake on the other quadruple in the free program. Alexandra Trusova showed perhaps the hardest performance in her career. However, it fully reflects her current physical condition. It was strange to expect otherwise. At the same time, Sasha was still very upset.
Veronika Yametova gave two clean skates. However, she remained outside the top three. Although 200 thousand rubles for bronze would be a great motivation for a girl from Yekaterinburg.Sofia Samodelkina after the collapse in the short program in the free program looked great. But even with a clean skate with a quadruple salchow, the skater would no longer be able to get around Petrosyan in the fight for first place. all participants. For example, Sofia Zakharova from St. Petersburg pleases with her charisma and plasticity for the second stage in a row. At the same time, she jumps very high quality, but does not rise above fifth place. What is not a reason for the sadness of a talented girl?
The tournament turned out to be quite predictable. One of the fighting juniors of the Tutberidze team, the heroine of the last season and a girl representing an alternative coaching staff, got on the podium. In this way, a parity of forces is achieved, almost an equilibrium. It fairly describes the real competitive environment.
Petrosyan went for two quads, sheepskin coat and rittberger in the free program. According to the base, this is the strongest program of the stage. True, after the fall and stepout, I had to go for the third quad out of plan. It has already turned out clean enough to add a second jump to it. The judges' voices were interestingly divided. For the quadruple toe loop with a double axel, the experts gave Adelia from «-1» to «+4» in the GOE. Here to ask questions to experts, which of the arbitrators was closer to the truth. But we have a code of silence. Oh, that is, the code of ethics. And he forbids doubting the refereeing.Samodelkina, taught by the sad experience of the short program, decided not to risk it in the free program. Of the complex elements, there was only a quadruple salchow, but it turned out to skate cleanly. The program played without errors in a new way. Like a full-fledged elevator from a deaf fifth place to the second step of the pedestal.
Trusova is now somewhere between the shifting tectonic plates of her own life, right in the middle of a smoking rift. A new coach, a changing body, unhealed injuries, an inevitable personality crisis after a tough Olympic season. Hence the lighter content (only one quadruple with a fall), and two new programs, and sometimes a feeling of being lost in the look.
Sasha doesn't need much. The time and attention of the coach. No other recipe for returning to the top has yet been invented. then Yametova would definitely win it. After a successful last season, when Veronika did not get lost in the adult national championship and won the Russian Cup final, she became even more confident. The figure skater is charged immediately from two batteries — her own progress and the attention of the fans.
A funny girl with a stubborn character, thoughtful jumps and programs in which the coaches invested. As in your own child. It is impossible not to sympathize with such a set of virtues. I want Veronica not to lose her confidence. Her performances do not always correlate with points and places in the standings. Judges began to reckon with talents from the regions. As with the metropolitan stars.