The Polina Shelepen interview started me thinking about the subject of “different generations”.
I just went and looked up the Wikipedia article listing all the medalists at Russian nationals over the years. It seems like between 1999 and 2009, there was an age shift in the ladies field. We went from skaters who were born in the 1970s, like Irina Slutskaya, Maria Butyrskaya, and I see Elena Sokolova in there too, who was born in 1980. These ladies then retired and passed the torch along to the 1990s babies: Adelina S, Liza T, Alena Leonova, Ksenia Makarova, Ksenia Doronina, etc. I guess my point by bringing it up here, is that I just thought it was an interesting “age shift” worth pointing out. I just never noticed it before. That and I’m a 1983 baby, so it was odd to not see many close to my age on the list.
I just went and looked up the Wikipedia article listing all the medalists at Russian nationals over the years. It seems like between 1999 and 2009, there was an age shift in the ladies field. We went from skaters who were born in the 1970s, like Irina Slutskaya, Maria Butyrskaya, and I see Elena Sokolova in there too, who was born in 1980. These ladies then retired and passed the torch along to the 1990s babies: Adelina S, Liza T, Alena Leonova, Ksenia Makarova, Ksenia Doronina, etc. I guess my point by bringing it up here, is that I just thought it was an interesting “age shift” worth pointing out. I just never noticed it before. That and I’m a 1983 baby, so it was odd to not see many close to my age on the list.