Alexandra Trusova: “Once at the junior Grand Prix, the lights went out completely during practice right when I was entering quad salchow.”
Translation of Alexandra Trusova’s comments about quads and prize money.
original source: Okko Sports
Alexandra Trusova spoke about quad jumps and prize money on Prokat Show on Okko Sports youtube channel. Here’s translation of her comments.
Alexandra Trusova shared memories of the Junior World Championships in 2018. The competition took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, where the figure skater claimed victory.
“I arrived there very well-prepared, even considering that all our main coaches were at the Olympics, and only Sergei Rozanov was there.
Somewhere, the boys from our group helped, gave some advice, because I included two quadruples – which was difficult for a girl, and no one was doing it at that time.
During the first practice, we had a training rink – either old or… In any case, very cold. When I started to skate my program and entered quadruple Salchow as the first element, the lights went out completely.
You couldn’t see anything, there were no windows, nothing. And Sergei Viktorovich shouted, ‘Stop!’ right at the moment when I was supposed to take off.
But I didn’t rotate in the jump, thank God. It would have been very dangerous. After some time, they turned on the lights again, and they just started my music from the beginning. But it was very scary,” she said.
Alexandra Trusova also shared the story of her first attempt at a quadruple lutz during a junior Grand Prix stage in Armenia in 2018. Trusova successfully landed the jump, marking a historic moment in women’s single skating.
“Once again, I was sick – a month before this event. At that time, I almost didn’t eat anything. I think I was 2 kg lighter than my normal jumping weight, which was a lot for that age.
I hardly skated the program because I physically couldn’t skate it from start to finish. I had only one run-through for each: one run-through of the short program and one run-through of the free skate in a month.
Many people were telling me: maybe you’ll go with one quadruple, maybe with two, with a toe loop, with a lutz – what will you choose? And I didn’t know because I had no strength for anything. Some suggested doing it without any quadruples.
But I chose the lutz because I really wanted to jump it first, and I needed to do it. I chose the lutz, went only with it – and thank God, it worked out the way I wanted,” said the figure skater.
Alexandra Trusova revealed that from a young age, her father always gave her prize money for achieving certain placements in competitions.
“My dad always gave me prize money, as it’s called now, for a triple jump. For the first place, one amount, for the second and third – another.
From a very young age. I saved up for my first iPhone this way. For the 4th one, it turns out,” said the silver medalist of the 2022 Olympics.
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