At the recent World Skating Championships in Stockholm, the women from the Russian Federation once again surprised the audience by winning the short program and free skate.
The Russian skaters won all the silver and bronze medals, except for a silver medal in the women’s short program (won by Japan’s Norihira).
It is not just a matter of words that when the combatants are on the ice, they are invincible.
Anna Shcherbakova, who won the gold medal, was born in 2004 and turned 17 during the competition. She has won the Russian Skating Championships three times in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and is the first woman to jump two hooked four-week jumps in the international competition at the 2019 Skating Competition USA.
Speaking of the “four-week jump” skating technique, Russia’s Alexandra Trusova, who also competed at the World Championships, is also a history-breaking super girl.
Born on June 23, 2004, Trusova was the first woman ever to complete the hook jump Lutz four weeks, the back inside flip four weeks, the outside flip four weeks toeloop, and the second woman to complete the back inside salchow after Japan’s Miki Ando.
The four-week jump in different categories is a huge test for women’s physical strength and skill, as well as courage.
It is not easy to practice in normal times, let alone to have such a difficult technical display at the International Grand Prix.
When Trusova was 14 years old, she had already jumped the back inside and back outside skating in the free skating at the World Youth Championships.
She once said in an interview.
“Men can jump the four weeks, women can do the same! I want to be the first.”
Trusova’s family likes to call her Sasha Sasha. With her long blonde hair, she is the eldest of a family of three children.
Her two younger brothers, her number one fans, competed in an interview on the Olympic Channel, saying.
“I hope my sister keeps winning and killing the competition! ~”
Sasha started skating at the age of four and has been training in her hometown of Ryazan since the age of 11. She quickly moved to Russia because of her rapid progress and started training with renowned skating coach Atlee Tudoridze at the age of 12.
Toutteilidze has trained many famous skaters, such as Medvedeva, who set 13 world records, and Anna Shcherbakova, who won the gold medal at the World Championships.
This coach is known for her strict training, requiring the skaters to diet to control their figure, and it is a common operation for her to start competitions within the team to practice difficult moves in a short period of time.
As highlighted in the film “I, Queen of Fancy”, skating is a sport that is as beautiful on the ice as it is stressful off it.
The “love affair” between coaches and skaters, and the competition between skaters, is very straightforward and brutal.
The young Sasha was introduced to this environment at a very young age. She once said in an interview that she wasn’t sure if she had friends, but that we were all on the same path working towards the same goal.
The young adult of 14 or 5 years old talks in a very mature way.
The mature competitive mindset comes from talent and hard training.
From the juvenile jumping practice to the two four-week jumps that no one has ever completed in a competition, Sasha made the leap precisely at the stage of developing a long height and weight at the age of 14. She said in the interview.
“I’ve grown fast in the last two years, but I think it all depends on me.”
She took the four-week jump as a regular training, the harder it was, the more frustrating it was, the more she fell in many practice videos, and many attempts in competitions, and often fell or could not complete the full set of movements and stumbled.
However, the petite girl of 1 meter 58, time and again immediately stood up to complete the action, the expression is very determined. 14 years old at the Sofia World Youth Championships after the successful completion of two four weeks of jump, she finally rose to fame, get the gold medal.
“If the men can do it, so can I”, finally the dream came true.
Because of repeated record breaking, this tough four-week jump fighting girl has attracted the attention of many skaters, including Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu.
The four-week jump of Yuzuru Hanyu is one of the best in the ice world.
Back in 2019, he met up with Sasha, who also competed in the Skate Canada-sponsored skating competition.
The two practiced together and did the back outside point ice four-week jump.
That’s probably what it means to be a hero.
However, in the end, the girl born in 2004, although the field of dominance, private Sasha, is an incomparable love of the dog budding girl.
Sasha has three dogs at home, one of which is a Chihuahua named Tina, who often follows her to the ice rink for training.
She likes to give Tina with a variety of nice dresses, said the dog is her favorite friend.
In addition to the Chihuahua, Sasha has a husky and a miniature poodle.
The poodle, named Lana, was a gift promised to her by her dad after she completed her first three-and-a-half week jump at the 2019 World Junior Championships.
However, while training and life seemed to be going smoothly, young Sasha experienced some ups and downs last year.
At the Russian Championships, she failed to jump the three-and-a-half and fell in two more four-week jumps.
She also failed to complete two four-week jumps at the European Championships, finishing behind two teammates, Kostonaia and Serbakova.
In May, Sasha announced that she was parting ways with her longtime coach, Rizzo Toutte.
Reports say that because of the competition within the team and the lack of attention from the coach, Sasha chose to move to the banner of the former Olympic champion, Yevgeny Prushenko, who is known as “Emperor Poo”.
The Russian skating team is not only full of treasures, but the coaches are also more than one bull.
The first skater to complete the four-week jump + three weeks jump + two weeks jump combination in the competition is the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Turin, the champion of three World Championships and the champion of seven European Championships.
The quadruple jumping mini-flower moved to the name of the emperor of the four-week jump, Sasha said that Prushenko understands her quite well and often puts on the skates himself to guide her on the field and can’t stop.
And Emperor Prushenko said in an interview on Olympic Channel that Sasha is a trainee he is very proud of and very tough.
He also added that he is very optimistic about Sasha’s performance in the Winter Olympics next year.
Although the change of understanding their own coach, perhaps still in the integration period, but also because of the pressure of the attention, Sha Sha in this World Championships, the short program still have fall mistakes, even can be described as “collapse”.
However, she later caught up and completed two four-week jumps in the free skate (still had a fall in the middle), and finally got the bronze medal.
She fell down and started over, and turned around against the wind. At the age of 17, Sasha, who kept jumping all around, is worth admiring.
The beauty of the ice skating sport, and the courage of the players behind the fight for it, also makes people feel excited.
Looking forward to next year’s Winter Olympics, handsome and beautiful people smashed to me!
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