Vice-champion of the Olympic Games Alexandra Trusova was not in the national team for the next season. This is more of a formality than a reason for panic — the list is made up of the best skaters following the results of the last national championship. Alexandra missed it due to health issues. The Russian Figure Skating Federation has already explained that it will submit to the Ministry of Sports an additional list of titled athletes who, for various reasons, did not participate in the competitions of the season. There is little doubt that Alexander Trusov will be in it. Previously, under the same conditions, Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova got into the national team.
True, neither Zagitova nor Medvedev did not enter the competitive ice after that. Does this mean that we can say goodbye to Trusova as an active figure skater?
About Sasha among specialists and fans there is an idea that he is a fanatic of figure skating. A sort of machine, a jump terminator, the meaning of life of which is to study quadruple jumps. «I want to do something first in the world,» said 13-year-old Sasha. She said and did, three times hitting the Guinness Book of Records for performing a quadruple sheepskin coat, lutz and flip.At the same time, she almost never publicly formulated specific goals related to important tournaments. Winning the Olympics, the World Championships, the European Championships — it all seemed to her too small worries. Not to mention the championship of Russia. Who even thinks about it? These dreams should be left to those who are not able to aim at the unique. Or she subconsciously believed: it is enough to do something first in the world, then collect it all in one program, and then not a single title will stand.
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The reality turned out to be more complex and unfair. The Beijing Olympics completely destroyed Trusova's image as a girl-who-wants-just-to-jump. There she jumped everything she wanted, if we leave out the triple axel in the short program, but this did not bring her Olympic gold. So Sasha faced the biggest disappointment of her life.
It turned out that the jumps themselves no longer warm her on the cold ice, helping her to come to training every day with a light heart. And even the departure from the group of Eteri Tutberidze, reminiscent of the Olympic drama, to the comfortable environment of the group of Svetlana Sokolovskaya did not help to reset morally and take up full-fledged training with renewed vigor.
Now Sasha Trusova has a balanced and, perhaps, happy life in the universal sense of the word. She has many admirers, her loved one is nearby, she has the opportunity to do the business that used to bring so much pleasure with taste and without the same haste. There are ice shows with the main roles, own books, dances, photo shoots in hot images. She drives a car herself, goes on vacation without her parents, and is generally independent and self-sufficient as never before. By and large, she has already proved everything to everyone. Everyone but yourself.
The problem is that Russian figure skating in its current form is unlikely to satisfy her ambitions. It can offer her only internal starts, even if they are beautifully filmed by Channel One and paid for with high prize money. This was a pleasant incentive for many, but not for Sasha. As if a person who once saw the light of a real sun were offered to sit under a lamp for the rest of his life. the whirlwind of training and regimen necessary for the usual results — the opportunity to compete for real high-profile titles that she does not yet have. That is, if tomorrow Russian athletes were allowed to participate in international competitions, Trusova would fly in from Thailand on the very first flight in order to be in time for the evening training. But for now, she has the opportunity to become the champion only of the internal Grand Prix series. Too weak motivation to enter the water with renewed vigor, in which she once almost choked.
So we are waiting for the development of events with the admission of Russians to competitions and, of course, we do not stop waiting for Sasha herself. After all, we also once saw the sun in her face — without it, the landscape is not at all the same, you must agree.