“It’s a childish resentment. It’s some kind of insecurity, envy of something. I remember Gabi was like that since childhood. She’s sit in the locker room and look at you out of the corner of her eye.” Victoria Sinitsina on Gabriella Papadakis’s book
Victoria Sinitsina criticized Gabriella Papadakis’s book, calling it an expression of insecurity and envy, and questioned the decision to publish it before the Olympics.
original source: Sports
World ice dance champion Victoria Sinitsina, who skates with Nikita Katsalapov, shared her opinion about Olympic champion Gabriella Papadakis’s book on the show “Katok.” Here’s a translation.
“Roman Naguchev: Vika, can you understand Gabi Papadakis, who released this strange book?
Victoria Sinitsina: Understand?
Roman Naguchev: As a woman. The book is made up of grievances, of all the revenge she could take on her former partner, on Cizeron.
Victoria Sinitsina: I didn’t understand this idea at all. And the fact that she did it before the Olympic season, before the Olympics. There are things that should be discussed and shared, and there are things that should be kept private. It’s personal, and I don’t think it should be made public.
Second: you’re an athlete. You understand that this isn’t a hobby. You come to sport – it’s pain, it’s patience, it’s tears. It’s not like you come in a good mood, skate, win, and leave. But she seemed to expect that’s how it would be. In reality, it’s very hard. And she presented it as if it was her torment. As if everything in sport should be very good, easy, simple, everyone smiling, everyone in a good mood. But it’s not.
Roman Naguchev: Do you have any explanation for why she did it?
Alexei Yagudin: I think it’s resentment. Resentment that he’s with someone else.
Victoria Sinitsina: It’s a childish resentment. I think it goes way back, from childhood. It’s some kind of insecurity, envy of something. I remember Gabi was like that since childhood. She would sit alone in the locker room.
Evgenia Medvedeva: She was always alone, she didn’t really socialize.
Victoria Sinitsina: She and Guillaume would compete together, and she’d sit in the locker room and look at you out of the corner of her eye.
Alexei Yagudin: Maybe she admired your beauty?
Victoria Sinitsina: But it was as if she did it with envy. You can admire someone with wide-open eyes: “You’re so beautiful.” Or you can sit there with malice. I think she was like that.
Nikita Katsalapov: Imagine the negative karma she’s accumulated. If she had supported her partner and been happy, people would have carried her on their shoulders.
Victoria Sinitsina: But it was so ugly. I really didn’t like it. I think it was very ugly. And for me, Guillaume rose even higher in my eyes. He knows what sport is, but she seems not to.
Evgenia Medvedeva: She clearly did it before the Olympics to hurt Guillaume. That’s 100%. And it turned out the opposite.”
Related topics: Gabriella Papadakis, Guillaume Cizeron, Victoria Sinitsina Nikita Katsalapov
Her book and her interviews makes me so sad. It is an expression of entitlement, resentment, jealousy, unsportsmanship, and disrespect. In one word, an expression of self created deep suffering which needed revenge but should have been kept outside of the public eyes.
She wiped, with this book, all the beauty she created in her time. What a loss!
And what a courage Guillaume had for not answering back and giving us, with Laurence, such an extraordinary moving program.
Medvedeva officially joined the dark side. Was only a matter of time before she stopped playing the I’m-a-nice-Russian-honest card. What a bunch of lame losers, just sitting around bitching about Gabi.
I have shock that Evgenia would speak so(for the others it is expected.)
For sure none of these people have actually read the book for themselves, they just speak from extracts and rumors and the “poor Guillame” propaganda. Evgenia especially should be better because of her own experiences
He took it well, I was worried it might affect him emotionally.
Hope peace for all parties even after this.
Especially after the wine cigarettes logging off photo, why are you keeping up with someone you said bullied you?
Very strange, glad they had a good unbothered coaches.
I agree with you Evgenia.
The book’s publishing date was set before Guillaume even announced that he was coming back to competition.