Russian women news & updates, 2021-22 season

[love_skate2011]

I've been really trying to find this lady, coz I knew Kostornaia's face looked familiar
I found her, finally ! Kostornaia is the Doppleganger of Canadian Actress Daniella Evangelista

This is Kostornaia if she was taller, the resemblance is uncanny.

Daniella Evangelista: film, foto

Daniella Evangelista è nata il 20 Settembre 1982 a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Attrice: film, foto e altre informazioni.

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Daniella Evangelista

Daniella Evangelista at "How It Went Down" Premiere, Writers Guild of America Theater, Beverly Hills, Calif., 09-16-03

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A video of her from Rock band Nickleback's song - Someday

Nickelback - Someday

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[Ka3sha]

Aliona Kostornaia OUT of Russian Nationals due to injury

Алена Косторная не примет участие в чемпионате России из-за травмы

Чемпионка Европы Алена Косторная не сможет принять участие в чемпионате России по причине травмы. Чемпионат России 2022 пройдет в Петербурге 23-26 декабря 2021 года. Фото сайта ISU

fsrussia.ru

 

[Coco]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Wyliefan]

 

[Karen-W]

Aliona Kostornaia OUT of Russian Nationals due to injury

Алена Косторная не примет участие в чемпионате России из-за травмы

Чемпионка Европы Алена Косторная не сможет принять участие в чемпионате России по причине травмы. Чемпионат России 2022 пройдет в Петербурге 23-26 декабря 2021 года. Фото сайта ISU

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And there end her Olympic chances. What a shame.

 

[Coco]

OK, ever the optimist, but not necessarily. There is Russian Cup, Euros, even. Depends on severity of the injury and everyone else's health, too. Plus, there are Worlds, too.

 

[clairecloutier]

And this is the end of Kostornaia, most likely.

 

[Vash01]

And this is the end of Kostornaia, most likely.

Not necessarily. She can come back next season and compete for years, like Leonova. Hard to say if she will make the world team ever, but stranger things have happened. Her chances of going to the Oly or worlds this year were not that great, but her future could still be bright.

 

[clairecloutier]

I won't hold my breath.

We don't see many Leonovas these days; and certainly none in the Tutberidze group.

Although maybe she could country-hop, like Gubanova (?).

 

[Ka3sha]

According to Match TV she has broken her wrist and is off the ice and practices for 20 days at least

 

[BittyBug]

Kostornaia has spoken about wanting to be a doctor, so I'm skeptical that she'd stick around for another quad. As it is, her heart did not appear to be in skating this season.

 

[antmanb]

I'm really sad to hear about Kostornaia's injury. But at least it makes me a little less conflicted about hoping Tuk makes it to the Olympics now.

 

[skatingguy]

So much promise unfilled.

 

[pointbleu]

I feel like watching the Hunger Games… Poor Alёна!

 

[Coco]

We may see her at Worlds. I don't think this is the end of her.

 

[Karen-W]

We may see her at Worlds. I don't think this is the end of her.

I don't think at least 3 of Valieva, Shcherbakova, Tuktamsyehva, Trusova and Khromykh are going to pass on Worlds...

 

[Sylvia]

A Kostornaia fan account posted this photo (shared by Alena herself perhaps?): https://www.instagram.com/p/CXbjZMCIv3v/

It seems she may have communicated to this fan that she will "remain for another four-year cycle"?

 

[sk8nlizard]

A Kostornaia fan account posted this photo (shared by Alena herself perhaps?): https://www.instagram.com/p/CXbjZMCIv3v/

It seems she may have communicated to this fan that she will "remain for another four-year cycle"?

I saw that as well and while I hope she continues at least for a bit, I’ve seen a lot of skaters say right after an injury or an Olympics that they will continue on but then eventually don’t.

 

[AxelAnnie]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Sylvia]

I saw that as well and while I hope she continues at least for a bit, I’ve seen a lot of skaters say right after an injury or an Olympics that they will continue on but then eventually don’t.

Of course, but it's nice to give fans a tiny bit of hope on this bleak day for them.

 

[AxelAnnie]

According to Match TV she has broken her wrist and is off the ice and practices for 20 days at least

OK - we are going to have to put these kids in bubble wrap. I am so disappointed...of course, it is all about me LOL.

Does anyone want to look for clues in her trajectory during the last 3 years?

I can't put it together, but it looks like she went

Eteri Tutberidze Sergei Dudakov Daniil Gleikhengauz Evgeni Plushenko Sergei Rozanov Elena Zhgun Marina Cherkasova Back to Eteri. Sometimes a coaching change is just what is needed. But I am wondering if changing coaches might cause injury as it works on different ways to do things. That is good in the long run (maybe) but must be harder on the body in the short term. And, given the pressure on Russian ladies, I would imagine the pressure is very high. As for Korstonia.....I think that she was the most melodic of the Eteri skaters. She didn't skate through the music, and her touches and details were added rather than subtracted.

 

[AxelAnnie]

A Kostornaia fan account posted this photo (shared by Alena herself perhaps?): https://www.instagram.com/p/CXbjZMCIv3v/

It seems she may have communicated to this fan that she will "remain for another four-year cycle"?

OUCH!!!

 

[Sylvia]

...
Elena Zhgun
Marina Cherkasova
Back to Eteri.

Cherkasova was Kostornaia's first coach and Zhgun her second.

From a December 2017 interview that was translated on FSU:

http://www.fsrussia.ru/intervyu/3433-alena-kostornaya-mne-ochen-khochetsya-stat-nejrokhirurgom.html
...
Q: Alena, what brought you to figure skating?
A: My mom brought me (to the ice rink) when I was 4. She said you have to try so that they will teach you to fall and you don't break anything. I started skating at «Umka» with coach Marina Cherkasova. She got me on skates, taught me a lot, I took my first steps on the ice with her. After 3-4 years, my mom asked if I wanted to continue skating. I said: of course. I already liked figure skating by then, even though at first I didn't want to go to the rink at all. My mom would push me on to the ice and close the door. I very much didn't want to go. But then I got into skating, I started liking it.

We decided to move further and switched to another coach, Elena Zhgun at «Sambo-70». I skated with her for 5 years, and then after last season, in February, we decided to move to Eteri Tutberidze's group, because her girls show strong results. And I wanted to be on podium as well.

 

[PRlady]

She really has had a tragically bad-luck story. It would have been a shock if she hadn't won the cancelled Worlds in Montreal, that was her moment.

So now I'm hoping Trusova is back in great form by Russian Nats. Hoping against hope. I've been a Tuk fan forever but I would have to sacrifice her if there's no getting by Anna and Kamila this year.

 

[Scott512]

And this is the end of Kostornaia, most likely.

She will be back. if she's not one of the top 3 or 4 Russian ladies that's OK she will still be the most beautiful skater in the world. There will be a time where AK needs to evaluate things by the end of the season or before then. It's been a brutal 14 months for her starting off with coronavirus last year.

 

[Hindernisse]

Oh dear… very sad news

 

[ChelleC]

My day has already sucked, Kostornaia being injured is just

 

[love_skate2011]

Its over for her, she had a last redemption chance
Tuk must be delighted, only Trusova can stop her now

 

[Frau Muller]

Wishing her well. I’m sad but not surprised (not about the injury but that she’d be out of Nationals, in general). It just hasn’t been a great year-and-half for her.

Aliona Kostornaya, star Russian figure skater, to miss national championships

Aliona Kostornaya, the world's top figure skater before the pandemic hit, will miss next week's Russian Figure Skating Championships.

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Maybe we’ll see her again skating for another country in 2023? Azerbaijan comes to mind, as a competitor to Ryabova if/when the latter retires, although they’re about the same age (18 or so). Rozanov is on the National coaching team there, with Litvintsev…who knows?

 

[Karen-W]

Its over for her, she had a last redemption chance
Tuk must be delighted, only Trusova can stop her now

Kostornaia wasn't in her way before today's news anyways.