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13 hours ago, mercedes said:

No sorry just no....this woman clearly is not well  no one like her should be even remotely near a child . I hope somebody does something to help this young girl .

The woman seems to admire Eteri Tutberidze. Though the latter´s method is also based on muscle memory and she has been harsh on pains (it seems that the team is now assisted by medics, so chronic problems are less likely to get serious), she is not abusive and one may hope An Xiangyi to be trained there, though normally they don´t accept foreigners? There she could be happy and make friends. I don´t think she questions the fact of being destined to figure skating. And after all, in other times (and still, in many countries, or in some regions of China itself) people were destined to such or such career because their parents were in. The problem is in her mother´s abuse, insanity, and being prevented from meeting people of her age, or to make any projects for after her skating career.

There was a different but somehow similar situation in ballet, with Nadezhda Pavlova, a little Chuvash girl in a family of ten, who was detected at the age of ten as having potential for ballet.

She was taken to the Perm Academy of Ballet, the third best ballet school but notorious for its culture of abuse (pupils were often beaten). She was also rejected by her family. She was such a desperate little bird out of the nest, that her teachers had pity on her and made up a family for her, yet she was somehow broken. From the age of 15 she was acknowledged as one of the best Russian ballerinas, and in front of the family TV, little Nikolay Tsiskaridze fell in love with her and decided to become a dancer (she was quite moved to have been such an inspiration, and they could even dance together). Being always used to obey to others, she accepted to marry her main partner "for PR reasons" but he was jealous of her fame and kept belittling her and... abusing her. Then she sought psychological help and found... her second husband (well, it may look unethical) and she seems much better now but still so frail... Yet, one essential difference is that a ballerina´s career lasts until 42 or more. Not a skater´s, which can be viewed as an advantage (for instance by Alena Kostornaia who wants to study Medicine after Beijing) but can be terrible for a girl who has been prepared to nothing except becoming a champion at 20.

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Happy to know Cong is getting better:tumblr_inline_n18qrbDQJn1qid2nw: since it looks like they're working towards Worlds (and Olys of course), I could see them skipping GP. This season especially, there's no need to rush back for GP

ETA: still wondering whether COC will happen. Though at least we could be sure prevention protocols would be enforced...

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Rewatching 2017 WC and marvelling again at Boyang’s 4ltz -  it’s astonishing.  Really hope that China broadcasts any competition they may hold - would live to see him and Han Yan and S/H again ( assuming he’s recovered of course)

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