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has anyone else listened to these? I have listened to a few so far, and they are very interesting. she talks about her childhood and upbringing, early training, her breakthrough as a junior, and her first senior seasons including the olympics.
she speaks about judging injustices and what she learned goes on behind closed doors from personal interactions with judges, how it's all a game to hold up skaters of certain federations, not being selected for junior worlds the year she won nationals, feedback from champs camp, etc. it seems a lot of the time she was under the impression she was doing enough by skating clean programs with hard content yet kept missing podiums, or when she did end up on a podium, there was always negative feedback. she seems to have a very old school perspective on if you make mistakes, you should not be on the podium. it's really interesting to hear all of this from an elite athlete's perspective.
i highly recommend taking a listen, they are available on spotify. what are your impressions if you have listened? do you agree with her on the issues she brings up?
she speaks about judging injustices and what she learned goes on behind closed doors from personal interactions with judges, how it's all a game to hold up skaters of certain federations, not being selected for junior worlds the year she won nationals, feedback from champs camp, etc. it seems a lot of the time she was under the impression she was doing enough by skating clean programs with hard content yet kept missing podiums, or when she did end up on a podium, there was always negative feedback. she seems to have a very old school perspective on if you make mistakes, you should not be on the podium. it's really interesting to hear all of this from an elite athlete's perspective.
i highly recommend taking a listen, they are available on spotify. what are your impressions if you have listened? do you agree with her on the issues she brings up?
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