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wow, the official proof that there will never be a successful skater named "Polina". How many Polinas have all succumbed to the curse ?
Too bad. Good for her to recognize that she can't combine school and skating (a la Nathan Chen). Very mature decision
That was super disrespectful and unnecessary. Tsurkskaya was plenty successful in the junior circuit, even though many of us wanted even bigger fishes for her. Best of luck to her.
I will really miss her big beautiful jumps, even when they were called under, I still think they were magnificent. To retire so young, I think she must have thought out this for a while. I remember the controversy that when Eteri said she has bone related genetic illness in public, her parents came out to say Polina was fine. Now it's confirmed Eteri was not making things up, right? Polina is very tall, but Maria Sotskova is now even taller, who has also been struggling last year. If both were shorter, things may be quite different.
Sad, but like others, her delayed Triple Lz-Triple toes will be etched in my memory for a long time.
I don't know Polina and I'm not familiar with her skating, but much more from the interview I got that she didn't *want* to combine both. Some skaters just don't want to skate competitively any more, and it has diddly boop to do with their results, it has to do with desire.
Polina seems more interested in furthering her education than in any skating career, and I certainly do respect that decision, although I feel bad for her fans. Good for her and best of luck
Back injuries rarely go away; it doesn't mean there has to be some genetic illness. The 'controversy' was a coach revealing private medical information about a student; even if it's true that's Polina's illness to share if she wanted to. And the interview that was translated gives me the distinct impression, her retirement has to do with her not wanting to competitively skate anymore and do other things
sorry, what I mean with that is her career has been cut short or short lived.
The same with the other Polinas: Edmunds, Agafonova, Shelepen, Korobeynikova. Hence the infamous "POLINA CURSE"