update: probably not concussed, should be in the clear but in other news we're launching our solidarity encampment at my uni! I will be awolish here as I want to give my 100% to that; if you need me I can give you my priv as i'll be more reachable there ❤️🖤💚🤍
bonked my head in practice today i don’t think i’m concussed (fingers crossed at least i lucked out last time) but after i post mone bday loop + swan lake bracket results i’m gonna try and spend some time offline bc my head is killing me and i need to ratio screentime for hw
sickening to see the effects of abuse happening before our eyes with her coaches expressing nothing but contempt for a girl so clearly injured and unable to get up. this sport is rife with abuse but none are quite as bold to express it as russian coaches. zinina was kicked out 1/
i’m sorry but if after all of these years yuna (formally) gets her second ogm specifically because adelina couldn’t keep her fucking mouth shut. the universe is righting a cosmic wrong and i will wake up smiling every single morning from here on out
Korean Sport and Olympic Committee will ask the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to investigate a recent doping admission by Adelina Sotnikova
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seeing both medo + zagi talk about their struggles with weight right after eteri referred to weight gain as "laziness" in an interview...
the call is coming from inside the house! there could not possibly be more red flags here!! this is who ISU calls best coach of the year!!!
Alina Zagitova: ‘I broke my arm, then my leg and when after recovery I was back on the ice, Tutberidze said ‘I’m kicking you out.’
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i will never get over the fact that they gave her this short when she was 13. like at some point we need to have conversation about how pervasive the exploitation of young kids is in this sport because shit like this flies under the radar and somehow isn’t a major red flag!!
no ISU, this is what a racist culturally appropriative sport looks like. the fact that this white girl is skating to slumdog millionaire, a widely criticized movie in india, in a sari, to a gold medal, speaks volumes about how culturally appropriative this sport can be by nature.
amber just posted to her story—people have the audacity to make shit like this and then say queer skaters have nothing to fear from coming out/that it isn’t brave to be openly queer in this sport.
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we love you so much thank you for your bravery and authenticity ❤️🩹❤️🩹
it just hit me that if kamila valieva gets banned beijing will have been her last international competition—and still despite doping and abusing their student whom they were entrusted with the safety of, no signs have been shown of eteri tutberidze and her cronies being punished.
In light of the Kamila Valieva case I think it's super important to talk about how we know Russian doping isn't just isolated to one individual or to one training camp, its history as well as the role of sport in Russian domestic and foreign policy as a whole. A thread
“she has no responsibility” she had a traumatic breakdown on international television if she never wanted to step foot on the ice again she’d be well within her right to do so!
“She’s not doing anything to get back to competitions. It’s very, very unfortunate that she has no responsibility.” Tatiana Tarasova on Trusova’s possible retirement
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that person who said we’d only find out if yuzuru got married through brian oversharing must be so excited right now. can’t wait to find out who from brian oversharing soon 💞💖
figure skating confession blogs are so unserious because they’ll be like “yuzuru hanyu needs to fire his costume designer” and it’ll be literally the most stunning beautiful gorgeous yuzuhan costume you’ve ever laid eyes on
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she refused to wear a corset too. not sure if she refused to wear a floor length dress for the same reason but she refused to wear a corset bc of the myth that corsets were bad for women 🫠🫠
of the 6 skaters eteri had beijing-ready only one still skates. anna, sasha + daria have soft retired, there’s no word on maya, alena switched to pairs, kamila’s slowly becoming less competitive as her body breaks down. but ppl still say their coaches “aren’t abusive/the problem”
i can guarantee you sunghoon never would have stepped foot on ice had it not been for kim yuna paving the way for korean figure skating. have some respect for your betters
every single time i see this program i get so angry the fact that they gave this music to a thirteen year old is so. like eteri speaks english there’s no fucking way they didn’t know exactly what they were giving her. literal child exploitation
isabeau crying after the free skate and in the kiss and cry oh usfs and yulia kuznetsova you are never seeing the light of heaven
STOP FUCKING PUTTING THIS KIND OF PRESSURE ON TEENAGE GIRLS HAVE YOU DUMB ASS BITCHES LEARNED NOTHING FROM ALYSA.
“i think the coach has nothing to do with it” daniel grassl are you suggesting that a 15 year old CHILD managed to procure adult heart medication, all by herself, no questions asked?? and managed to manage all her doses so as not to test positive prior to this occasion???
it boggles my mind that yuzuru thinks of origin as like. subscribing to the norms of a “jumping competition” as if it somehow isn’t a work of art just like all of his other programs. man outperforms every other person in his field but still finds fault within his skating
Kamila Valieva: “Winning the team Olympic gold is a big responsibility because you’re not only performing for yourself but also for the team. It’s an incredible pride and happiness that we succeeded.”
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fuck 2026; he’s not even going to make it to next season at this rate. we literally just saw the dangers of overtraining + drilling ultra c elements with daria’s retirement. i’m literally on my knees atp where are his parents and why are they letting him do this 😭
i would also like to add that this all is in addition to the restrictive diet their coaches have them on, contributing to low bone density and leading to further injuries. in an interview about the 2018 olympics zagitova said they rinsed their mouths with water and spat it out 1/
And here comes the nonfans thinking they are doing some moral policing,feeling good about themselves.
I better get videos of you on that ice rink rather than these corny lines.
broke her hip at 15, retired at 17 after being forced to skate on an injury sustained by training ultra-c elements but you expect us to believe that the coaches “aren’t the problem”
Daria Usacheva: “I imagined myself skating the free program, and I felt like dying. Probably now my career is ended. I don’t think I’ll be back on the competitive arena in a year.”
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i think it’s also important to mention that daria sustained her career-ending injury training a triple axel. the pressure to perform ultra-cs destroys athletes; tutberidze was uniquely incapable of handling daria’s case, from forcing her to jump for shows mere month after injury—
off topic but holy shit i hateeee when they do overhead cameras for SPINS like babe we can’t see shit!!! literally one of the worst things to happen to figure skating viewing after paywalled content
it amazes me every day that the adults in ilia’s life seem to not care one little bit at the potential irreversible damage that pressuring an 18yo to do inhuman jumps may do to his body
Rafael Arutyunyan: “I saw that Malinin had the quadruple axel in him from the very beginning. I believe in the quintuple toe loop too, he can do it.”
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the vast majority of her experiences with coaching came from eteri tutberidze idk why y’all are surprised by her exhibiting signs of potentially abusive behavior as a coach. it’s a cycle of abuse
i won’t sit here and say skate canada doesn’t have the right to be angry about this ruling but personally i think it’s fucking disgusting they care enough to make a statement on this but not about the athlete they’re sending to international competitions being a fucking rapist
Skate Canada’s response to
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cranky as hell bc of personal issues but y’all need to stop infantilizing yuzuru and treating him like he isn’t a grown ass man who can make his own decisions. he isn’t a fucking kid, he’s a grown almost 30yo man who is fully capable of standing up for himself. touch grass.
hey
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your tech panel messed up? anna pezzetta was given a stsq1 when no other athlete scored below stsq2 and when she’s scored stsq4 all season. the point difference between sts1 and stsq3 would have qualified her for the free skate.
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where have you been lmfao she’s been talking about how abusive and unethical shein is for years—as long as you’ve supposedly followed her 🤔
of plushenko’s school for allegedly training on injury and for her mother forcing her to train when she wasn’t supposed to. remember: the parents are as much to blame as the coaches. fuck skate parents. i hope anastasia is able to take the time that she needs to heal and recover.
fstwt has a huge problem with how we talk about kids. like some of y’all have got to remember skaters have internet access and can see what you say about them online
genuinely figure skating is so fucking frustrating because white athletes are far too often just handed undeserving scores while asian skaters have to fight tooth and nail to get acknowledged by the judges and they’re still so fucking robbed and underscored
this is what i’m talking about when i say that athletes like trusova and valieva are used by their government for pro-war and russian imperialist propaganda btw
Weirdly, last week YouTube ran an advertisement “Yevhenii Prigozhin, the defender of motherland”. To the tune of
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#Ukraine
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it’s genuinely so worrying that they don’t seem to be working on her axis/landing at ALL like she’s risking severe injury as it is by doing these jumps + if anything this dangerous technique is making her even more injury-prone. i’d bet on her back injury being the result of 1/
okay i posted this on priv but i’m gonna say it again here. i genuinely think it’s super concerning that people are able to reach out to ilia so easily.
i hope valieva + the russian oly team gets suitable punishment for doping but none of it will mean anything if eteri + co are allowed to escape the hearings unscathed. the ISU cannot be allowed to use valieva as a scapegoat with which they can waive off concerns of athlete safety
it will never be okay to give a 13yo BIG FUCKING SPENDER to skate to but it will especially never be okay to make a kid skate to this in a sport so rife w/ sexual abuse. a grown ass adult came up with this, choreographed it KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS. that will NEVER sit right with me
my love idk if you knew this but one of yuna’s ex coaches, peter oppegard, was suspended + investigated for physical abuse. he allegedly BIT a teen + threw hot drinks at his skaters. so maybe the reason she’d keep her kids from skating has smthn to do with that!! just a thought!!
is it just me or has shoma’s flip gotten worse 😭 is he injured or something??? maybe i’m losing it but i could have sworn it didn’t use to be THIS bad…
my honest thoughts on the ilia stuff—it’s one thing to criticize his skating. but i’d gently like to remind you all that he is 18 years old and is the product of a system that has grown to prioritize quads at the expense of young developing bodies. please remember that skaters 1/
okay serious question, when titles are revoked do athletes have to give back the medals they received? or do the organizers have to come up with new medals? if they have to give them back do they just mail them or something?? this is absolutely not the point but i’m curious LMAO
Katya Kurakova will receive a small medal from the ISU for the free program at 2022 European Championships at the earliest opportunity - confirmed 🇵🇱Polish Figure Skating Association.
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this is how the cycle of abuse is perpetuated in figure skating btw kids who are abused go on to coach thinking that the methods they were coached with are completely normal and it’s how we have coaches like yulia lipnitskaya being compared to their ex abusive coaches.
Alexei Zheleznyakov: “Daria Usacheva is now coaching kids in Tutberidze’s school. She learned from us and now she’s passing it all on to the children.”
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sasha was not robbed from 1st place y’all are dumb. she didn’t “get 2nd place for the same thing” when you look at her jump tech, her short program, etc— stop trying to divert the narrative away from the abuse she suffered at the hands of t*tberidze. you’re setting yourselves up.
none of you get to judge her to this day for her reaction because she WAS robbed from 1st place. in the men skating, the no 1 place also did 5 quads btw. while she got 2nd place for the same thing.
Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin are considering switching to the Israeli national team. The final decision will be made based on the political situation in the world.
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me when i lie??? they didn’t acquit her bc the second sample was opened and everything was fine; she was acquitted bc rodchenkov said she wasn’t a part of his program. which was bc the russian figure skating team was under shvetsky at the time, who was valieva’s doctor in beijing
Adelina Sotnikova: “In 2014, they said they found doping in my probe, I was supposed to have a trial, but I was acquitted because the second sample was opened and everything was fine.”
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homeboy needs to either ditch the gloves or find a pair that actually matches his skin tone i’m not taking constructive criticism. they’re giving adelina
rewarding white people for skating to “exotic” programs while criticizing and underscoring BIPOC athletes for skating to things from their own culture happens so often in this sport and it’s absolutely sickening. like you can’t make this shit up
daniel absolutely should get criticism for this lmfao what he’s doing is not okay and horrifically tonedeaf in the wake of the russian invasion of ukraine. we’ve already seen how russians are using his being there as a means of propaganda. what he’s doing is disgusting full stop.
what’s happening w my boy daniel and why are people hating on him 😭😭 i mean ik he was at sambo but are people out of twitter even aware of how tut team is?? anyways he shouldn’t get hate for this
this is legit the ugliest thing i’ve ever fucking seen in figure skating. it’s so fucking ugly she should have gotten last place because of this dress alone. i literally repressed all my memories of this failed abortion and seeing photos of it today reawakened my rage
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tbc this is not incompatible with the fact that she doped. Grooming starts from a young age—they’re told that the “supplements” they take will keep them strong, improve their health, etc. Valieva is ultimately a victim, and she isn’t the only one—she’s just the one who got caught
again i would like to reassert:
the starvation diets that tutberidze’s skaters are on contribute to low bone density, leading to injury. we’ve seen this with lipnitskaya, we’ve seen this with medvedeva, and we’ve seen this with shcherbakova. this is textbook female athlete triad
Anna Shcherbakova: “I hardly ate anything at the Olympics. At that moment, I believed that the less I ate, the better I train.”
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wakaba higuchi's fs to "fix you" and "paradise" at the 2024 japan national sports festival!! 💖
3A(2ft), 3Lz+3T, 3Lo, 3S, 3Lz+2T+2Lo, 3Lo+2A+SEQ, 3F
sp: 63.32
fs: 130.79 (66.26+64.53)
total: 194.11
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while we’re talking about the subject of holes in the ice though idk why we don’t normalize patching up the ice after you skate. like last time i took a really bad fall from skating into a hole i sprained both of my wrists which took me off ice for a few months. it’s something 1/
Bruh. He is an idol for 2 years now. This is the footage from when he was an idol
Bring me one that was during his skating career and you could definitely pin point faults. Go on.
I saw alexandra's newest video and she couldnt even do her first triple axel attempt so stfu.
this might be an unpopular opinion around here(?) but i /gen think that a four year ban is an appropriate course of action PROVIDED that valieva's coaching team is properly investigated + penalized. which might not happen because this is team tutberidze we're talking about but yk