At the recent World Figure Skating Championships in Stockholm, the female athletes from the Russian Figure Skating Federation once again surprised four people and won the championships including short programs and free skating.
(Anna Serbakova)
With the exception of a silver medal lost in the women's short show (won by Japan's Kihei Ewha), the Russian contestants won silver and bronze medals.
As soon as the fighting nation goes to the ice rink, the gods fight, and they are invincible, which is really not just talking.
Anna Serbakova, who won the gold medal, was born in 2004, just turned 17 years old during the competition, and has won the Russian Figure Skating Championships three times in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and is also the first female athlete to jump around the two hookers in the 2019 Figure Skating Competition in the United States International Competition.
Speaking of the figure skating technique of "jumping around", Alexandra Trusova, a Russian player who also competed at this World Championship, can also be said to be a supergirl who broke history.
Trusova was born on June 23, 2004, and is the first woman in history to complete the hook jump Lutz around the game, the rear inner point ice jump around the flip, the outer point ice around the toe loop, and the second female player to complete the inner jump salchow after Japan's Miki Ando.
Jumping around in different categories is a huge test of the physical strength and technique of the female players, as well as courage.
Usually, it is difficult to practice, not to mention that it is not easy to have such a difficult technical display at the international grand prix.
When Trusova was 14 years old, she had already jumped around the world championships in the free skating and jumped around the inside and outside of the ice.
She once said in an interview:
"Male players can jump around, and women can do the same!" I'm going to be the first. ”
Trusova's family liked to call her Sasha Sasha. With long blond hair, she is the eldest of three babies in a family.
Her two younger brothers, who are her top fans, scrambled to say in an interview with the Olympic Channel:
"I hope my sister keeps winning and killing her opponents!" ～”
Sasha started skating at the age of four and has been training in her hometown of Ryazan. At the age of 11, because of the rapid progress, he soon moved to Russia, and at the age of 12 began training with the well-known figure skating coach Aitley Tutti Lize.
Tuti Lize brought a number of well-known figure skaters, such as Medvedeva, who set a world record 13 times, and Anna Serbakova, who won the gold medal at this World Championships.
The coach is known for her rigorous training, requiring players to diet and control their bodies, competing within the team, and practicing difficult movements in a short period of time, which is a common operation for her.
"I, Queen of Figures", a film about figure skating, focuses on the depiction of figure skating, which is a beautiful and beautiful sport on the ice rink, surging under the field and stressful.
The "love and killing" between the coach and the players, the competition between the players, is very straightforward and cruel.
(Stills from "I, Queen of Patterns")
Young Sasha entered such an 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 people who worked hard for the same goal.
14 and 5-year-old adults, talk very mature.
A mature competitive mentality comes from talent and hard training.
From the childish jump practice to the two four-week jumps that no one had ever completed in the competition, Sasha completed the leap at the age of 14 when she developed a long height and weight. She said in an interview:
"I've grown up fast in the last two years, but I feel like everything depends on me."
She takes the jump around as a normal training, the more difficult it is, the more frustrated and courageous, in many practice videos have fallen badly, tried in many competitions, and often falls or can not complete the full set of movements, stumbling situation.
However, the petite little girl of 1 meter 58 immediately stood up every time to complete the action, and her expression was very firm. At the age of 14, after successfully completing two four-week jumps at the World Youth Championships in Sofia, she finally rose to fame and won the gold medal.
"Male players can, so can I", and finally the dream shines into reality.
Because of repeated record-breaking, this fierce national girl who jumps around the world has attracted the attention of many figure skaters, including japan's Habu knot.
The jump around the feather string is a must on the ice altar.
In 2019, he met sasha, who also competed in a figure skating competition sponsored by the Canadian Skating Association.
The two practiced together and did a jump around the ice after doing the outer point.
Heroes cherish heroes, probably this is what it means.
However, in the end, it is still a girl born in 2004, although the field is domineering, and sasha in private is a cute girl who loves dogs incomparably.
Sasha has three dogs, one of whom is a Chihuahua named Tina, who often follows her to the ice rink for training.
She likes to match Tina with a variety of beautiful dresses, indicating that the dog is her favorite friend.
In addition to chihuahuas, Sasha has a husky and a mini VIP.
The poodle, lana, was a gift her dad promised her after completing her first three-and-a-half week jump at the 2019 World Junior Championships.
However, when training and life seemed to be going well, the young Sasha experienced some twists and turns last year.
At the Russian Championships, she didn't jump for three and a half weeks and fell down in two four-week jumps.
At the European Championships, he also did not complete two four-week jumps, after two teammates, Kostonaya and Shcherbakova.
(Sherbakova, Kostonaya, Sasha)
In May, Sasha announced that she had parted ways with her coach, Tuti Lize, who had been with her for many years.
There are reports that because of the competition within the team, the coach's attention is not enough, Sasha chose to transfer to the former Olympic champion known as "Pu huang", Coach Yevgeny Plushenko.
I have to say that Russia's figure skating, not only treasures small flowers more, the coach is also a more than a cow x. The professional record of Prushchenko's "Pu Huang" can be described as invincible.
Turin Winter Olympic Gold Medal, three-time World Champion, seven-time European Champion, he is the first figure skater to complete the competition in the combination of outer point ice four-week jump + rear outside point ice three-week jump + rear outside jump two weeks.
Dancing around the little flower turned to the name of the Emperor of the Four Jumps, Sasha said that Pushshenko understood her very well, often put on her own skates to guide, and could not stop.
In an interview with the Olympic Channel, Pu Huang also said that Sasha is a student he is very proud of and very tenacious.
He also added that he is very optimistic about Sasha's performance at next year's Winter Olympics.
Although she changed her coach, perhaps in the run-in period, but also because of the pressure of much attention, Sasha still had a fall error in the short program at this World Championship, and it can even be described as "collapse".
However, she caught up and completed two four-way jumps in the free skate (still falling by mistake in between) and finally won the bronze medal.
Falling down and starting over, flipping against the wind, less than 17 years old, constantly dancing around the salsa, worth admiring.
And figure skating, a beautiful ice sport, and the bravery of the players behind it, also make people excited.
Looking forward to next year's Winter Olympics, handsome guys and beautiful women will soon hit me!