Figure skating is the sport of the young (except perhaps ID). It is the realities of today that all competitions are shown and all broadcasts find their viewers. If I see a young girl impressing me with graceful skating, and another, for example, with technical difficulty, why should I stay away? It's normal to notice young talents, to follow their successes, to wish them luck. And it's good that we can follow their path from their first performances to more serious tournaments, instead of waiting until they are 17-18. This is my position, and I believe that this in no way prevents athletes from growing up healthy and mentally complete, because they have a family, friends among their peers, full communication in a familiar circle.
No sport inspires as many Green Eyed Monsters as figure skating, and there is no place where I see more of them then on reddit. Unhinged Jealousy has always been in figure skating, long before the internet. I believe it is because it is a sport that demands so many resources of the parents-money and time spent at the rink and at competitions. And after taking a second mortgage to keep your kid on the ice, puberty happens and dreams are snuffed out. And it is hard to see more talented kids in Russia easily landing quads, when your own kid can barely do a double jump after 10 years and thousands of dollars. Reddit is probably the most toxic place on the internet, a place where the Green Eyed Monsters are in control and can feel good about themselves for spreading hate borne of envy.
Yes very good points indeed. However, I disagree with "no exceptional artistry". Petrosian is more sophisticated than Muravieva artistically. And Khromykh isnt in the conversation. Maybe she isnt Lipnitskaya tier but its very high level and not worse than anyone else internationally either (right now). In Russia I think Akateva is a bit more artistic but Akateva is truly at the highest level in that regard.
I dont care what anyone says, if you could call yourself a "fan" of anyone who isnt at least junior eligible thats weird.
Hm, maybe Japanese are not slow, thats not what I was saying. But I saw the best Japanese girls at international events and I think the difference was quite perceptible still. I believe jumps also count towards SS by rules but maybe not. Anyways people always criticize Russian SS but typically they just mean the edge factor of SS, which isnt really a massive argument in my opinion. I do sort of agree about your comment on quads vs 3A but there are plenty of other girls who fit the "cheated" quad standard and get lots of attention so it doesnt really explain why people ignore Petrosian. I realize you're just stating your own reasons but the question in general still remains to me why Petrosian is so unappreciated.
Yes. I also think the jealousy comes from their own inadequacy. They wish they could be similar but have to come up with excuses as to why those girls are actually unfortunate to make themselves feel better; "yes this girl is beautiful, artistic and athletic but she is still worse off than I am. She must have paid too big a price for this, I'm happy with my mediocrity". I imagine the great majority of the haters are out of shape or lacking something severely in their heart or purpose.
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With this approach big sport just won't function. I imagine such microinjuries and common bruises are usual thing on every training in figure skating - well, in every other sport as well. How one can improve in a sport with real chances to win tournaments - if they will be removed from training and spend valuable time to recover - after every painful experience? It's impossible.
She couldn't. She wouldn't get the same training conditions, financial support and treatment from Armenian federation - and she would be forced to spend year or two on quarantine without competitions as well. Meaning fatal blow for her motivation to train and rapid degradation of abilities in less strict environment she is used to. I am surprised how people still don't get it after so many examples of this. European champion? Maybe. World champion? No.
For fairness sake - with Russia she would get even less PCS and GOEs internationally nowadays.
Following this logic - you can't cheer for ANY Russia's skater. Then.. what are you doing here?
On this occasion, I remind you that I`m a woman. It's just that there have been precedents for confusion because the boy in the avatar
There're also St. Petersburg Championships with some top skaters before Junior Nats
He stopped taking part in such competitions after he entered university. He recently ran away from Team Mishin hoodie presentation because of his exams, he has a very busy schedule. So I guess not. Although he was actually going to compete last year, but he caught a cold.
He's got a bad back, he gets aggravations.What is up with Dima Aliev? What kind of health issues? He did very well at Nats and then went on to do many shows, so it didn't seem like he had any problems
But today he did seem sort of off. Not sure if it was something physical or not though. It was mostly that throughout the competition and even at the end after winning and all, like when they were doing the celebratory lap around the rink, you could tell he was mainly just going through the motions. His heart was very very far away from it all
