Outraged silver medalist Alexandra Trusova felt robbed of the gold in ladies’s determine skating after her Russian Olympic Committee teammate Kamila Valieva’s disastrous efficiency opened the door for a shock winner on the Beijing Olympics.
As NBC’s cameras adopted the distraught Valieva behind a curtain, Trusova may very well be seen wiping tears and she or he reportedly was heard, in her native Russian, threatening to not go to the rostrum. It seems that emotional outburst had much less to do with the merciless destiny suffered by Valieva — who slipped from first to fourth place after competing beneath the load of a doping scandal — and extra to do with Trusova ending second.
“Everybody has a gold medal, everybody, however not me,” Trusova stated, in keeping with Reuters. “I hate skating. I hate it. I hate this sport. I'll by no means skate once more. By no means. It’s unattainable. That’s not the way it ought to be.”
Trusova began Thursday in fourth place after an uneven brief program. However she loaded up her dazzling four-minute program with 5 quadruple jumps — there wasn’t a single quadruple tried within the 2018 Winter Olympics by any feminine skater — to make a run on the podium.
The 17-year-old Trusova set a document for technical rating by breaking 100 factors, however NBC analysts Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski knocked her lack of artistry, the opposite key element in scoring. The high-flying routine was not sufficient for Trusova to go one other Russian teammate, Anna Shcherbakova, who moved up from second to win the gold medal regardless of together with solely two quads in her program.
Scherbakova received gold on the 2021 World Championships and Valieva received gold on the 2022 European Championships. Trusova took bronze in each these competitions.
“Over the previous three years, I didn't win something,” Trusova instructed reporters in Beijing. “I didn't win a single vital competitors and I used to be making an attempt to elucidate this by the truth that I used to be making an attempt to attain some lofty targets and I've added quadruple jumps. And once I would do that, I'd win, I assumed. However this didn’t occur. That’s how it's.”
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Trusova finally relented and took her place on the rostrum. She declined to reply questions on Valieva — who left the sector with out talking to reporters — and defined her backstage tears as “simply because.”
“I needed to cry, so I cried,” Trusova stated. “I’ve been right here for 3 weeks, alone with out my mother, with out the canine, so I'm crying.”
All three Russians share the identical coach. Shcherbakova (255.95) beat Trusova (251.73) by a wholesome margin of 4 factors when the brief and lengthy program scores have been mixed, whereas bronze medalist Kaori Sakamoto of Japan (233.13) was additional again.
“Within the brief and within the free [programs] I did every thing I may,” Trusova stated. “I'm content material with my packages, I'm pleased with my performances.”
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