The Russian missile won and took the first place in the reserve from Adelia Petrosyan

Different and the same

But Alexander Trusov will not go to rest. She, of course, for some reason made herself a straw (and sick family, and the form is wrong). I also remembered that earlier in the selection for the main starts it was necessary to get into the three, but only to take the first place... “But it won't work, it won't work. Who cares? I'm going to rest.” He's not going, and we're very happy about that. Life has put everything and everyone at this stage in the right places.

Behind the shoulders - experience, in this life - hunger for performances. And there's a shield, Misha's son. Not by chance, the athlete has repeatedly said: I realized that figure skating is not the most important thing in life. “I thought, why am I wasting so much nerve?” Why? Wasted.

Five years after performing on the international stage, Alexandra Trusova is out on the ice today, of course, not the same. Yeah, she says she's scared and scared. I was very worried at the Denis Ten Memorial: I had to be the first, everyone saw how worried I was. But on the ice, there is no fear or doubt. And there's absolute freedom of speech: I'm here, look!

Sasha herself believes that the key to success is the lack of expectations this season. She says she didn't know how things would turn out when she came back, so that's probably what's going on. “I try not to expect anything from myself, to allow myself everything.”.

And this is not cunning, when Trusova admits that there is an understanding: she can even more. For the three performances that we saw (control rolls and two stages of the Challenger series), with each new outing, Alexander adds both power and nerve to the skating. And even in training, she wants to try different quadruples. And still stops only the need to enter the competition: first it was necessary to win the gold to become the first substitute, and now it is necessary to go to the Grand Prix stage, take a step wider. Injuries are useless.

In Kazakhstan, she said: “Not yet 100% for the Grand Prix, while in the substitutes, let’s hope for one stage of the Grand Prix, and two.” But the dizziness of general delight in Sasha is not. “Until we can rejoice. I tell everyone that the end of the season will come, I will be happy. Three interventions are not an indicator.”.

Its technical armament - even if you take one quadruple (the same lutz, which is admirable, although in Kazakhstan and caught a marble on the road), two cascades in the second half of the program, the highest levels of difficulty for tracks and rotations - allows you not to complicate the program. She will. Because maximalism has not disappeared, and the judges are different, and tournaments are held in “difficult” countries. And the programs need to beat for sure.

And the athlete herself says, “I either have everything or nothing.” This applies to the content of the program and emotions. Sasha does not hide, and it is impossible to hide that he does not like to skate “not the maximum of opportunities”. And absolutely does not tolerate comments from the outside: "Come on, don't do it", "What are you, and so normal", "here you do not need" - that's how I do not know. And it is necessary for an adult Alexandra, so that immediately everything worked out, I was clearly riding, and then everything is fine.

Does that happen? As you can see, yes.

Denis Ten Memorial

Women

1. Alexandra Trusova (Russia) - 226.01

2. Kim Yoo Jae (South Korea) - 209.20

3. Sofia Samodelkina (Kazakhstan) – 204.36.

5. Maria Zakharova (Russia) – 187.77.

7. Dina Khusnutdinova (Russia) - 185.70

Men

1. Vladislav Dikidzhi (Russia) - 312.79

2. Gleb Lutfullin (Russia) - 277.23

3. Peter Gumennik (Russia) - 261.76

Dancing on ice

1. Julia Turkkila/Mathias Versluis (Finland) – 191.32

2. Vasilisa Kaganovskaya/Maxim Nekrasov (Russia) – 187.20

3. Carolyn Green/Michael Parsons (USA) – 180.20

4. Irina Khavronina/David Narizhny (Russia) – 179.04

6. Anna Shcherbakova/Egor Goncharov (Russia) – 169.77