“Trusova pushed the limits of human abilities with her elements” – Alexander Enbert

Alexandra Trousova it’s worth taking a step back and rethinking some things, the current season is just when you can aim for the new olympic cycle and work on mistakes, says 2018 olympic silver medalist in figure skating competition per team Alexandre Enbert who competed in pair skating.

Trusova took third place at the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi on Sunday, losing to Adelia Petrosyan and Sofya Samodelkina. 18-year-old Trusova, who won the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics, where for the first time in history she performed 5 pure quads in a free program, in Sochi, in the “free program”, fell off a quadruple lutz and did double rittbergers and salchows instead of triples.

I can’t say anything about being overweight. Notice of extra weight on the scale. What you might have noticed with Sasha was that some quads didn’t show up and there were fewer of them than in previous years. If we take figure skating more broadly and imagine it as a sport bordering on art, then Alexandra has always been a fan of athletic figure skating. She got us used to a lot of amazing quads and ultra-c elements that permeated her entire program. Today we saw them less than expected, but figure skating has many facets, and maybe she deliberately chose such a new strategy, here she or her coaching staff can say it best. Of course, we expect maximum content from Sasha, as she always has.

– Alexandra continues to recover from an injury, she has changed coaches. Is it possible to link his failures to this?

– Here, we must not forget that it is the post-Olympic season and that the athletes who participated in the Olympic Games have experienced enormous stress. Even if we don’t take the past Games, in which there were additional stressors, such as a neutral status and other sport-like things, in principle, the Olympics are a huge stress on the body of the body. athlete in all possible aspects, up to a decrease in immunity for a long time. Because it really is a certain moment in time that takes a lot of emotional strain. So, of course, after the Olympics, it is difficult to judge the athletes as strictly as possible and expect them to progress as much as before the Games. Athletes pitch all their best and most interesting ideas during the Olympic season. They come into the season in peak physical and emotional form and do the maximum they can, which only the body can do.

About Alexander Trusova, I would like to say that she really pushed the limits of human abilities a little bit with her elements, her content. I think it’s worth taking a step back and rethinking some things, like the staging, the complexity of the content, and its element saturation. Now is the time to aim for the new Olympic cycle and work on the mistakes. Sasha has a new coaching staff and Svetlana Sokolovskaya, who knows very well how to prepare top athletes for various tournaments. Of course, they have a grinding moment and, in principle, this cannot pass quickly. Women’s figure skating in Russia is at an incredible level of complexity, and finding new winning opportunities is a great job they have begun. So I think the post-Olympic season, the injury and the coaching change can only affect. But maybe Sasha will now turn to artistry, showmanship, interesting discoveries in skating and balance her super technical and athletic skating with the details of artistry, Enbert told .

In early October, it became known that Trusova left coach Eteri Tutberidze for the second time in her career and joined Svetlana Sokolovskaya’s squad.