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Interview with Brian Orser after World Championships 2019.
by Dmitri Kuznetsov for sport-express.ru dd. 24 March, 2019
Brian, do you count World Championships that you’ve attended?
– The first was in 2007, in Tokyo, with Kim Yuna. Since then, I’ve missed only one. Turns out 12.
I ask because many people say that it was almost the best championship ever.
– Really? You know, I didn’t even have time to think about it. There were very strong moments in every discipline. The Chinese pair skated amazingly. In ice dance, the entire top five was incredible. Ladies – something unbelievable, super skating, drama. Men – you saw everything on Saturday night, it was great. For certain that was one of the best championships. For sure one of the most dramatic. Well, I always look at the quality of skating. It was very high.
Another important point is always interesting to watch at the post Olympic championship. We have a new four-year cycle, some kind of changing of the guard. Zagitova took the first title. Chen and the Chinese pair – the second, in ice dance the duet kept the leadership. But still, a lot of new names. Japanese single skaters are still new. There are good guys from Europe – Italians, French. Many rising stars. Now we are flying to the new Olympics. And in the next three years we will see how it all will be played out.
Evgenia won the bronze. If you had been told this in December after the Russian Nationals, what would have been your reaction?
– (laughs) Listen, I always knew that we needed one thing – time. And we still need it. I’m satisfied, satisfied with her performance.
And with place?
– With place…Yes. But more with skating than with the result. The place will be corrected with time (laughs). After 10 months of working with her, we are at this point. But even after Saransk in December, I knew that it was still not enough time. And we just tried to survive. Make some changes. Just under a changing environment, a growing organism …
Yesterday, Evgenia said that this process is over.
– Let’s hope so. But after the Olympics there were serious changes. Of course, both me and, more likely, athletes need time to adapt. In such situations they often return to the old technique, to the old mindset, to the basics. We are making some adjustments, but it was nervous for Evgenia to do new elements. This is a human nature.
But now I see that together we’re finding the way through it all. We are just starting to find it. We had to go through this competition. I’m very satisfied that she qualified, went through the whole process. The process was fair. The tough situation in Russian figure skating comes from the fact that there are so many good skaters there! Any country would dream of being in this position. When you have five contenders, you have to choose three. They tried to make the selection fair, it turned out, and the decision turned out to be right. Evgenia proved it.
In the fight for a medal Evgenia won 0.3 points from Kihira, 1 point from Sakamoto. This can be considered a kind of luck, perhaps compensation from the fate for a difficult season? After all, Kihira gave this medal, and the results were so close that the outcome is quite subjective.
– Yes, to some extent. Kihira was one of the favorites. But this is a competition. As a coach, I try never to dig very deep. Because wasn’t Medvedeva’s triple toeloop underestimated in the short program? I don’t know. They counted it so. But you start to do simple math and it turns out that Medvedeva could have got 4-5 points more in the short program, that is, 80 in total, right? And that means, we would have been within striking distance of Zagitova before the free program. And then we would have had a solid second place. That is, you can always make these calculations – what if so. So you can go crazy. Therefore, it is better to take the protocol and make conclusions, and the next time do the combination perfectly. I want my skaters to win due to confident skating, not reputation. Because there were so many such cases in figure skating, with my skaters too.
Well, at this championships also. There was one French ice dance team …
– Well, here I must say that they were beautiful (laughs). I love this team. And the Russian duo did everything they could. They had an excellent rhythmic dance, and they laid a good foundation. It was their first year, and I think they left an impression. This is the groundwork for the Olympics. Here you need to take a place as early as possible. Surprises are rare in ice dance, except for the French themselves. But this is an exception.
Evgenia said that at first, she felt in Canada like an adopted daughter. Were you more than a coach then? What was the hardest thing for her?
– First, I helped her to find housing closer to the rink. We have a lot of foreign athletes in the Cricket Club, and they helped her and her mother. Where to shop and with other household issues. I know that in Toronto there is a certain Russian quarter where they could buy some familiar products to cook something of their cuisine. But I’m not so aware. In general, many people even sheltered her outside the rink, not only her, but also her mother, because in a new country everything is not easy at first, it is obvious. Now everything is fine, they feel comfortable.
She speaks English so well.
– It’s hard to believe, right? (laughs)
2019年03月27日 03点03分
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by Dmitri Kuznetsov for sport-express.ru dd. 24 March, 2019
Brian, do you count World Championships that you’ve attended?
– The first was in 2007, in Tokyo, with Kim Yuna. Since then, I’ve missed only one. Turns out 12.
I ask because many people say that it was almost the best championship ever.
– Really? You know, I didn’t even have time to think about it. There were very strong moments in every discipline. The Chinese pair skated amazingly. In ice dance, the entire top five was incredible. Ladies – something unbelievable, super skating, drama. Men – you saw everything on Saturday night, it was great. For certain that was one of the best championships. For sure one of the most dramatic. Well, I always look at the quality of skating. It was very high.
Another important point is always interesting to watch at the post Olympic championship. We have a new four-year cycle, some kind of changing of the guard. Zagitova took the first title. Chen and the Chinese pair – the second, in ice dance the duet kept the leadership. But still, a lot of new names. Japanese single skaters are still new. There are good guys from Europe – Italians, French. Many rising stars. Now we are flying to the new Olympics. And in the next three years we will see how it all will be played out.
Evgenia won the bronze. If you had been told this in December after the Russian Nationals, what would have been your reaction?
– (laughs) Listen, I always knew that we needed one thing – time. And we still need it. I’m satisfied, satisfied with her performance.
And with place?
– With place…Yes. But more with skating than with the result. The place will be corrected with time (laughs). After 10 months of working with her, we are at this point. But even after Saransk in December, I knew that it was still not enough time. And we just tried to survive. Make some changes. Just under a changing environment, a growing organism …
Yesterday, Evgenia said that this process is over.
– Let’s hope so. But after the Olympics there were serious changes. Of course, both me and, more likely, athletes need time to adapt. In such situations they often return to the old technique, to the old mindset, to the basics. We are making some adjustments, but it was nervous for Evgenia to do new elements. This is a human nature.
But now I see that together we’re finding the way through it all. We are just starting to find it. We had to go through this competition. I’m very satisfied that she qualified, went through the whole process. The process was fair. The tough situation in Russian figure skating comes from the fact that there are so many good skaters there! Any country would dream of being in this position. When you have five contenders, you have to choose three. They tried to make the selection fair, it turned out, and the decision turned out to be right. Evgenia proved it.
In the fight for a medal Evgenia won 0.3 points from Kihira, 1 point from Sakamoto. This can be considered a kind of luck, perhaps compensation from the fate for a difficult season? After all, Kihira gave this medal, and the results were so close that the outcome is quite subjective.
– Yes, to some extent. Kihira was one of the favorites. But this is a competition. As a coach, I try never to dig very deep. Because wasn’t Medvedeva’s triple toeloop underestimated in the short program? I don’t know. They counted it so. But you start to do simple math and it turns out that Medvedeva could have got 4-5 points more in the short program, that is, 80 in total, right? And that means, we would have been within striking distance of Zagitova before the free program. And then we would have had a solid second place. That is, you can always make these calculations – what if so. So you can go crazy. Therefore, it is better to take the protocol and make conclusions, and the next time do the combination perfectly. I want my skaters to win due to confident skating, not reputation. Because there were so many such cases in figure skating, with my skaters too.
Well, at this championships also. There was one French ice dance team …
– Well, here I must say that they were beautiful (laughs). I love this team. And the Russian duo did everything they could. They had an excellent rhythmic dance, and they laid a good foundation. It was their first year, and I think they left an impression. This is the groundwork for the Olympics. Here you need to take a place as early as possible. Surprises are rare in ice dance, except for the French themselves. But this is an exception.
Evgenia said that at first, she felt in Canada like an adopted daughter. Were you more than a coach then? What was the hardest thing for her?
– First, I helped her to find housing closer to the rink. We have a lot of foreign athletes in the Cricket Club, and they helped her and her mother. Where to shop and with other household issues. I know that in Toronto there is a certain Russian quarter where they could buy some familiar products to cook something of their cuisine. But I’m not so aware. In general, many people even sheltered her outside the rink, not only her, but also her mother, because in a new country everything is not easy at first, it is obvious. Now everything is fine, they feel comfortable.
She speaks English so well.
– It’s hard to believe, right? (laughs)
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