I immediately understood that the situation was bad: how much Medvedev and Haniah are divided by the coach – News figure skating – Winter

Final Grand prize in figure skating of the 2018/19 season, its composition is quite original. In the women's competition, Evgenia Medvedeva will not have won the series twice, but Elizaveta Tuktamysheva will emerge from an oblivion of three years and will debut this year in adulthood, Sofia Samodurov.

Serious changes also took place in the men's tournament: on November 29, it was learned that two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hania would not come to Vancouver. because of injury.

The Japanese speed skating federation spread the message that the athlete was still recovering from ankle injuries and that it would take him about a month to rehabilitate himself.

So the final Grand prize which will take place from December 6 to 9, the skater will certainly miss it. It's not difficult to imagine how upset Hania is: her mentor, Brian Orser, said the figure skater "did not lose hope of participating in the final" and did everything possible to to get up.

Recall that the athlete was injured at the ankle during morning training in Moscow – just before an arbitrary program at the stadium Grand prize in Russia. After making a quad rittberger, the Olympic champion landed so badly that he had damaged two ligaments, a tendon and a fibula.

In spite of serious pains, the skater did not work with an arbitrary program, but somewhat simplified its contents, for example by removing this unfortunate rittberger.

As a result, Hania won first place in Moscow and reached the final with confidence. Grand Prix. At the awards ceremony, the Japanese appeared on crutches.

Orser later explained that the skater decided to continue to compete in a number of ways. because of respect for Evgeni Plushenko: the free program of the Japanese is set on the same music as the performance of Russian in the 2003/2004 season entitled "Dedication to Nezhinsky".

"When Yuzuru fell, I immediately realized that everything was wrong. In general, I can say the following about his work with Hania and his speeches in Moscow: he is doing everything possible, said the Canadian "SE". – Hania admires Yevgeny Plushenko a lot. He respects it enormously. He could not therefore act and he fought with the injury being recruited to try to run the program in the best possible way. "

Such heroism has brought the Japanese to deserved admiration from the public, as well as to Plushenko himself.

"I am very proud of you. Unfortunately, I could not be here to see you. I wish you a speedy recovery, my friend Yuzu-san, "wrote a former athlete in his instagram.

However, it is possible that this feat of Hania has aggravated the already serious injury. Now instead of the Japanese in the final Grand prize Canadian Keegan Messing will perform.

In addition, the chances of participating in the tournament appeared in the Russian Alexander Samarin, who is the second substitute. If another skater is dismissed, Svetlana Sokolovskaya's student will travel to Vancouver.

Let's get back to the situation with Hania: the athlete now has a question about the Japan Championship, to be held on December 20th – at the same time as the Russian Championship.

As a general rule, in the national championship, it is determined which athlete will represent their country in international competitions, such as the World Cup, but Hania does not participate in any competition. After his restoration, he will be admitted to the tournaments without selection. So now, the essential for a 23 year old athlete is a calm and progressive recovery.

But for Medvedeva, the eventual refusal of the Olympic champion to go to the Japanese championship could be a fatal decision.

In this case, Brian Orser, their mutual mentor with Hania, will have the opportunity to come to Saransk for the Russian championship, where Eugenia will have to find a place in the national team for the European and World Championships in the most difficult competitions.

Earlier, a Canadian expert said that because of In crossing the tournaments, he can only support Hania:

"Unfortunately, the championships of Japan and Russia are taking place at the same time. That is why, at the beginning of the work, I told my wife that I would go with Yuzuru because we are cooperating with him since the seventh season. But nothing terrible in there: my badistant, Tracy Wilson, works very closely with Eugenia and will be with her at the national championship. This is a good specialist.

But now, things can change. We must admit that in the national championship of the country, the support of Orser would be much more necessary for Medvedeva than for Hania.

In Saransk, Tuktamysheva and Samodurov, already mentioned, the Olympic champion Alina Zagitova, who demonstrates the high level of difficulty of Stanislav Konstantinov, and the brilliant juniors Alexander Trusov and Anna Shcherbakov with quadruple jumps in the arsenal, expect Yevgeny. It is difficult to imagine what place an artistic skater will occupy in such an undertaking, regularly making serious mistakes in the leases, because of the transition to a new technique of performance of the elements, and because of psychological problems.

Maybe the support of the coach will play a role and Medvedev will skate for the first time this season without errors.

Elvira Ondar