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How are the Japanese fans feeling about the watch, btw?

You know the two clans are particularly jealous of each other even when both of the skaters have long been surpassed by newcomers? So now it’s the competition in terms of who gets what honorary mention or gets involved into which show.

Anyone’s guess. The school principal first said Alina was too busy, otherwise they wanted both Med and Zag to have taken part in the ceremony, Alina wrote in her insta she wasn’t invited, later the principal said they had too many renowned athletes and couldn’t invite everyone. And dropped a phrase about Alina being better off than the school itself now. Lol I apologise, folks, this might seem tame in term of sheer entertainment power next to the fireworks of the previous two or three weeks, but it’s still a good interlude until the next Cup of Russia, right?

Zagitova’s fans are incensed Medvedeva gets to raise the flag.

Another round of Russian Sambo drama - Alina Zagitova wasn’t invited to the celebration of Sambo 70 anniversary

Someone joked

I hear it that the first sales of the watch were over in like ten seconds?

It’s to do with the coronavirus.

None. We even don’t have any protocols. The thing is... competitions with participants under 18 are banned in St. Petersburg, so this competition is disguised as a test skate. With placements

It isn’t yet on sale, but it’s only Chinese Fanyus who have a chance

It was a local St.Petersburg competition, which Mozalev won, Semenenko came second, Kolyada third. Konstantinova won in the Ladies.

Tracy’s birthday photo looks lovely

And Happy Birthday to Tracy Wilson too!

That would have been a totally affordable watch, but...

Never! That would be cowardly, if you’re being an idiot, it only worth being one full blast and throttle! It’s pretty hard explaining to Russians what understatement is. There’s literally no good translations for the word.

This is really over the top. Ok, TeamTutberidze quietly deleted their stories, they tried to film and interview Eteri about it, she refused, but now they unleashed Laishev, who passed a final sentence on a complete nobody Plushenko. Eteri’s sister published a story in her insta saying “STOP THE RAIDERS!” This is better than any TV reality show, isn’t it? But I can no longer eat popcorn, this is getting too much.

“Plushenko, who’s never done anything special apart from his athletic career” and Laishev. That’s a pure gem.

What Plush said was this: “We we’re just doing our business, have you gone mad there? (referring to TeamTutberidze). Shall I riposte (or answer that in kind) that so that you felt embarrassed/ashamed?” Rudkovskaya spoke to a newspaper and Laishev called Plushenko a lazybones who just steals other people’s glory. https://tnv.ru/news/sport/127366-direktor-sambo-70-layshev-plyushchenko-bezdelnik-emu-dolzhno-byt-stydno/

It’s not over yet... it’s getting uglier and uglier

Yana strikes back.

What he means is that Evgenia doesn’t have the technical arsenal to overcome younger girls with 3A and quads, so he doesn’t believe Zhenya can hope for anything unless she starts landing quads.

So they implicate Alina in this that she revealed private correspondence with Rudkovskaya?

Yes, it does, he just says that he doesn’t think anyone can win a Lysachek type of victory now, and so you need to get technically stronger. He speaks of Medvedeva then.

Wow. Plushenko gave a great interview. Really, one of the best ever. My respect to him. Whatever his political affiliations, he sounds like a caring coach and person. https://russian.rt.com/sport/article/783731-plyuschenko-mishin-medvedeva