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• Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitrii Kozlovskii: “Medals were important, not people. The harsh reality of Olympic sports.”
• “She gave me the courage to keep challenging myself.” Hana Yoshida about Amber Glenn and triple axel
• “Maybe I would have continued to fight, but my body was already giving up. It’s not that I suffered immensely from it. I would have suffered more if I had stayed.” Evgenia Medvedeva about ending her sports career
• Ari Zakarian: “Now, I would call his skating skills a huge credit to Ilia himself because he works on it more than anyone else I’ve ever seen in our sport.”
• “Taking a bath or shower helps me clear my mind.” Shun Sato on his concentration method before competitions
• “We are not going anywhere. We really love Azerbaijan, but for now, our connection to it is only through pomegranate juice and the fact that we know Vova Litvintsev.” Alena Kostornaia and Georgi Kunitsa on rumors about their change of citizenship
• “I went through different stages. It was hard, and sometimes I was indifferent, convincing myself that silver is also a medal! I do get overwhelmed sometimes — it hits my pride, I admit that.” Evgenia Medvedeva on the Olympic silver

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• Casual Observer on Irina Slutskaya: “To this day, I still believe I was the best at 2002 Olympics. My daughter, when she first watched that performance, asked in amazement, ‘Mom, how could that American girl have won? She made such serious mistakes.”
• Casual Observer on The ISU has postponed the decision on the admission of Russian athletes
• Casual Observer on The ISU has postponed the decision on the admission of Russian athletes
• Casual Observer on The ISU has postponed the decision on the admission of Russian athletes
• Casual Observer on The ISU has postponed the decision on the admission of Russian athletes
• Casual Observer on “We are not the only pair in the country; five other pairs train with us. And there will be more. We love skating very much and hope to become world-class skaters one day.” Interview with North Korean pair Tae Ok Ryom and Kum Chol Han
• no war = russia gets out of Ukraine on Oksana Baiul: “Having gone to hell and back, I didn’t turn into some crap who moved to Russia to work and just sits silently. They all run to Putin, asking him for money for shows, grants. Blood money? For me — yes.”
• No war on Oksana Baiul: “Having gone to hell and back, I didn’t turn into some crap who moved to Russia to work and just sits silently. They all run to Putin, asking him for money for shows, grants. Blood money? For me — yes.”
• Casual Observer on Oksana Baiul: “Having gone to hell and back, I didn’t turn into some crap who moved to Russia to work and just sits silently. They all run to Putin, asking him for money for shows, grants. Blood money? For me — yes.”
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