Eteri Tutberidze: “In reality, no matter what people say, Adeliia was judged very well. If you want to fight for the podium, you need to do ultra-c elements.”
Eteri Tutberidze believes that Adeliia Petrosian received good marks at the Olympic Games in Milan.
original source: Sports
Eteri Tutberidze stated that Adeliia Petrosian was judged fairly at the Milan Olympics, emphasizing the importance of technical difficulty for podium success. Here’s a translation of her comment.
“In reality, no matter what people say, she was judged very well. For the first time, she received a level four for her step sequence in the free skate. She had never received that at our competitions. Our judges are stricter and felt that her body and edge work weren’t sufficient, and maybe that was true in some cases. So, the judging was generous…
And for me, nothing has changed. If you want to be stronger, if you want to fight for the podium, you need to do ultra-c elements. If she had landed one quad toe loop, mathematically she would have been in third place, maybe even second, because her component scores would have gone up a bit. But most likely, third.
If she had done two quad toe loops and a clean skate, that would have been first place.
There’s a joke – I won’t tell it, but the motto from it is: we know the way, and we know how to work. Nothing has changed. If you prepare, if you want to stand out and have a margin, that’s what you have to do. That’s all,” Tutberidze said in an interview with Okko.
Tutberidze also stated that Adeliia Petrosian hardly attempted the triple axel this season.
“At what point did the triple axel disappear? Well, it was practically never there, to be honest. It appeared only occasionally. For example, at the Russian Nationals, she could take the risk, go for it, and on adrenaline, she landed the triple axel there. So, it showed up here and there.
The way things turned out… Even so, it could have been enough if Adeliia had landed just one quad toe loop,” Tutberidze said in an interview with Okko.
Related topics: Adeliia Petrosian, Eteri Tutberidze, Olympic Games
I agree with you Eteri that’s why I’m content.