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Zhenya is a judge on the latest episode of Ice Age. I'm convinced this show is the best thing that Russia produces.
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Putting aside the AI-slop voiceover, the point here is actually valid.
Anna Shcherbakova won gold with twenty-nine points more than what secured gold at the 2026 Olympics. Twenty-nine. That’s not a marginal difference, that’s a different sport. By that metric, Alexandra Trusova would have walked gold as well with a similar skate.
And that’s exactly why Adeliia Petrosian went for the quad, even though she’s clearly less proficient at them than Anna or Sasha. She had to. The scoring logic basically forced it. It just didn’t come off on the day.
What really underlines how mad this is: literally none of the other girls at these Olympics even attempted quads. In 2022, Trusova landed five. Anna landed two, then beat her anyway on components and artistry. Both performances are in a different scoring universe than anything that was attempted at these games.
That’s the gap we’re talking about.
For the record I don't think this diminishes Alysa's achievement. If anything it's an indictment on the extreme dieting and brutal training that Tutberidze demands of her athletes. A lot of which break down after 18.
Putting aside the AI-slop voiceover, the point here is actually valid.
Anna Shcherbakova won gold with twenty-nine points more than what secured gold at the 2026 Olympics. Twenty-nine. That’s not a marginal difference, that’s a different sport. By that metric, Alexandra Trusova would have walked gold as well with a similar skate.
And that’s exactly why Adeliia Petrosian went for the quad, even though she’s clearly less proficient at them than Anna or Sasha. She had to. The scoring logic basically forced it. It just didn’t come off on the day.
What really underlines how mad this is: literally none of the other girls at these Olympics even attempted quads. In 2022, Trusova landed five. Anna landed two, then beat her anyway on components and artistry. Both performances are in a different scoring universe than anything that was attempted at these games.
That’s the gap we’re talking about.
For the record I don't think this diminishes Alysa's achievement. If anything it's an indictment on the extreme dieting and brutal training that Tutberidze demands of her athletes. A lot of which break down after 18.
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Daniel Gleichenhaus - on Adelia Petrosyan's emotional state after the Olympics 
After Adelia's interview, where she said it would be hard for her to return to Russia, we talked right away. Now she's in a good mood. It's understandable that Adelia wanted more, but things turned out the way they did. At first, it was hard for her to cope emotionally, which is normal. But already during the exhibition performances and after the Olympics closing ceremony, Adelia was in a good mood. She's looking forward to the future with optimism
After Adelia's interview, where she said it would be hard for her to return to Russia, we talked right away. Now she's in a good mood. It's understandable that Adelia wanted more, but things turned out the way they did. At first, it was hard for her to cope emotionally, which is normal. But already during the exhibition performances and after the Olympics closing ceremony, Adelia was in a good mood. She's looking forward to the future with optimism
Alina actually went beast mode at the Olympics. She got the rules changed and just went generally ham. It will forever be legendary
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Anna Shcherbakova on the men's event at the Olympics
"This is sport. And figure skating is a sport where sometimes mindset and nerves matter even more.
I always say that your technical skills aren’t a percentage of success - they’re just the foundation your results are built on. But when you step onto the ice, 90% depends on your mental state, your readiness, any distractions, and how you handle them.
Everyone has different factors and different levels of pressure. The Olympics are when everything reaches its highest intensity.”
"This is sport. And figure skating is a sport where sometimes mindset and nerves matter even more.
I always say that your technical skills aren’t a percentage of success - they’re just the foundation your results are built on. But when you step onto the ice, 90% depends on your mental state, your readiness, any distractions, and how you handle them.
Everyone has different factors and different levels of pressure. The Olympics are when everything reaches its highest intensity.”
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Alysa performing to Pink Pantheress at the Olympics was the most hip and happening I've felt in a LONG time. Since I obviously follow Ice Skating so knew who Alysa Liu was going into the games AND I actually know who Pink Pantheress is because I heard another one of her songs that I liked somewhere and looked her up a while ago and I really quite like her. Both visually and musically.
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Alysa performing to Pink Pantheress at the Olympics was the most hip and happening I've felt in a LONG time. Since I obviously follow Ice Skating so knew who Alysa Liu was going into the games AND I actually know who Pink Pantheress is because I heard another one of her songs that I liked somewhere and looked her up a while ago and I really quite like her. Both visually and musically.
Daniel Gleichenhaus about the percentage of landing a quadruple lutz by Adelia Petrosyan, her mood after the free program, and plans for the content:
"What you counted wasn't directly related to the number of attempts made to the music in the competition. But that's a bit different.
When she came out and was very upset, I discussed everything with her and said that there's no resentment or criticism towards her for not succeeding in the competition.
This isn't a situation where she was 100% ready and motivated, but she went out and made the only mistake in the whole week or two. It's a training process.
If the lutz had been stable in the training process, there would have been a greater chance of doing it to the music. We also perfectly understood what could happen, what could go wrong. There wasn't a 100% certainty.
Of course, inside you, even knowing how hard the training process was and what problems there were, but being here and seeing how motivated she was, how well she trained overall, you still think inside that maybe a miracle will happen. But it didn't. That's how it goes. It's not about everything being in our hands and us having missed it. It was still that same 40-50% chance.
Not to go for the quads at all? People, I've seen, speculate that if she hadn't gone for a single quad, she might have been in the top three. But you can only speculate after the competition is over.
We perfectly understood that to fight for first place, you need to do two clean ones. To get into the top three, it's enough to do the first lutz and maybe make a mistake on the second. That would be enough to get into the top three. But if you fall on the first one, then you'll get even less points than we roughly scored.
Doing the second one was illogical, because you could get penalized for a repeat, and then the element would be worth nothing at all. That is, a fall on the second lutz, after all the deductions, would have brought less than one point. Then it wouldn't have been a 6th place, but, as Adelia said, she could have easily ended up much lower.
Plus, it's a question of training. If it had been an accidental fall on the first one and the person was 100% sure that they would go for the second one, then she would have gone for it. But even if the first one didn't work out, the chances of doing the second one were even smaller."
"What you counted wasn't directly related to the number of attempts made to the music in the competition. But that's a bit different.
When she came out and was very upset, I discussed everything with her and said that there's no resentment or criticism towards her for not succeeding in the competition.
This isn't a situation where she was 100% ready and motivated, but she went out and made the only mistake in the whole week or two. It's a training process.
If the lutz had been stable in the training process, there would have been a greater chance of doing it to the music. We also perfectly understood what could happen, what could go wrong. There wasn't a 100% certainty.
Of course, inside you, even knowing how hard the training process was and what problems there were, but being here and seeing how motivated she was, how well she trained overall, you still think inside that maybe a miracle will happen. But it didn't. That's how it goes. It's not about everything being in our hands and us having missed it. It was still that same 40-50% chance.
Not to go for the quads at all? People, I've seen, speculate that if she hadn't gone for a single quad, she might have been in the top three. But you can only speculate after the competition is over.
We perfectly understood that to fight for first place, you need to do two clean ones. To get into the top three, it's enough to do the first lutz and maybe make a mistake on the second. That would be enough to get into the top three. But if you fall on the first one, then you'll get even less points than we roughly scored.
Doing the second one was illogical, because you could get penalized for a repeat, and then the element would be worth nothing at all. That is, a fall on the second lutz, after all the deductions, would have brought less than one point. Then it wouldn't have been a 6th place, but, as Adelia said, she could have easily ended up much lower.
Plus, it's a question of training. If it had been an accidental fall on the first one and the person was 100% sure that they would go for the second one, then she would have gone for it. But even if the first one didn't work out, the chances of doing the second one were even smaller."