#rusfed

[russianfigureskatinghell]

Name me 1 female figure skater that has said their hypothetical future daughter might be a figure skater??

They all say this, it's so sad fr....

[me-and-my-hyperfixations]

Yuna Kim sure knew what she was doing when she decided to skate to Send in the Clowns at Sochi.

[petitmimosa]

I vote for lifetime ban on the skaters and staff who proudly stood at the rally with their Z jacket on.

[caterpillarstims]

Stimboards for my favorite skating programs part 2/?

Alexandra Trusova

Cruella, 2022, Free Skate

🖤/🖤/🖤/🖤/🖤/🖤/🖤/🖤

[caterpillarinacave]

You know, if I was judging an international figure skating competition I would simply judge the skaters fairly. RIP to the ISU but I’m different.

[raininyourblackeyes]

I'm literally presenting the paper we had to do for our little doping class. The topic is abuse of trimetazidine in sports (to quote our professor a few months ago "It's a quite concerning case that's happening now, so I put a topic about that here."). I raised my hand to sign up my group for that quicker than light.

Good luck to me keeping a straight face tomorrow.

[tutuandscoot]

Sweet, darling Tessa delicately holding her flowers/plushie/trophy (feat. Scott not knowing wtf to do when he gets flowers)

[seimei-chsq]

the most frustrating type of skaters by far belong to the ‘they’re definitely over-scored, but they can actually skate’ category. like… by no means are they a bad skater! but that doesn’t mean their score isn’t inflated!

[alchemistys]

the racism in fs is...astounding to me. specifically im bitching about how asian skaters can’t skate to asian music because the judges don’t ‘understand’ it or the artistry. like apparently some motherfucker (Joe Inman) was saying hanyu Yuzuru was lucky to win pyeongchang gold with seimei because japanese music in unintelligible to westerners?? please. I didn’t know jack shit about Abe no seimei when I saw the 2018 olympic free skate as a stupid teenager who’d never been outside fucking North America. yet I cried as I watched it. you don't have to know fuck all about the folklore or the cultural/historical context to feel passion or raw emotion, to appreciate the interpretation. after I finished watching seimei I still didn’t know shit about the guy, but I knew the program, the skating made me feel some kind of way. there’s a bazillion ‘swan lakes’ but let me tell you to this day I don't know shit about fucking swan lake. I can still tell when a skate has good artistry. your average american probably doesn’t know jack shit about swan lake either, same as Abe no seimei, but they'll still prefer swan lake over seimei. like don't try to tell me it's ‘only’ because of cultural differences that you're gonna score swan lake higher, just admit you’re racist. we know. and the absolute stupidity of this is that asian skaters performing a western piece will get scored higher and people will feel the artistry is better. what kind of dumbass logic is it that an asian skater will have a better interpretation of a piece of music from a different culture than of one from their own? you dumb fucks. I hate how skaters have to conform to western culture/standards in order to be taken seriously. are you so convinced of your own fucking superiority? of your own importance? the world doesn’t revolve around you. is someone else’s culture not as, idk, valuable as your own lukewarm white history (and how the fuck can you measure a culture’s value)? there’s over a billion people in china alone yet the country the entire world has got to pander to is the u s of fucking a? ‘cultural differences’ and ‘unintelligible’ my ass, it’s just soft imperialism. reminds me of how kpop is seen in the west. if the entirety of america can bop their bussy to despacito they can also bop it to bts. but nooooo the orientalism just has to get in your way of enjoying amazing cultural exports. you don't have to understand it you just have to appreciate it, which is why that fucking racist bullshit falls apart when you poke it with the critical thinking stick. and admitting that you can't do your job properly is so embarrassing, especially when you admit it’s racism standing between you and competence. i’d say the isu should fire any of these racist chucklefucks who say asian culture is unintelligible and that impedes their scoring, but we all know the isu is a joke that’s also comprised of racist chucklefucks. 

[carol-ing]

I still miss Misha

[thatwizardofearthsea]

JSF brought up many good points and asked good questions. Tbh I didn't expect it. They even talked about the national bias in judging. There is no meaning of the personal best scores or world records anymore. Ofc none of them are addressed or answered by those Palpatine cosplays.

[russianfigureskatinghell]

I truly have no words......

[richkidcityfriends]

is adeliia not 1/2 Armenian could she not be coached by someone like Brian and skate for Armenia?

technically hypothetically she could but i doubt it's ever going to happen

if you switch what country you skate for then you cannot compete for a year after your last international competition, which for the eteri girls is roughly a quarter of their entire senior career. none of them are switching any time soon

also i don't think adeliya speaks anything other than russian, so she would be limited in where she could train (unlike zhenya, who can speak english)

[petitmimosa]

lol. russia saying russia isn’t at fault with doping. 

[yunamaocaro]

damn the camera work at sochi was atrocious

[raininyourblackeyes]

I'm not watching Russian Test Skates this weekend, but I've heard things so please tell me that they don't actually have a red carpet set for the skaters before they step on the ice.