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Kamila Valieva

Alone

February 18, 2022 By Beverley Leave a Comment

I did not realize, until I watched the NBC broadcast in the evening of Feb. 17, just how deeply ran the emotions of an Olympic women’s figure skating event gone wrong. I had not seen all of Kamila Valieva’s tears when she finished. I had not seen how, when she came off the ice, her […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alexandra Trusova, Anna Shcherbakova, Eteri Tutberidze, Kamila Valieva, Kaori Sakamoto, Olympics

A Star is Born

October 31, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Those hot pink gloves of Kamila Valieva: You couldn’t miss them in her Bolero free skate. They were the commas to every move. To the throbbing sounds of “Bolero,” the gloves skimmed the air, in and out and away as her hands moved, too. When she did a jump – any jump – the gloves […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alena Kostornaia, Bolero, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Kamila Valieva, Madeline Schizas, Skate Canada

The Newest Face of Russian Women

October 30, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Before any talk of triple Axels or quads or such, 15-year-old Kamila Valieva stepped out onto the ice at the start of her short program at Skate Canada and did something seemingly quite simple. But astonishing nonetheless. Dressed in rose froth, the 15-year-old Russian stretched out a leg far, far up and behind her, up […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alena Kostornaia, Alysa Liu, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Kamila Valieva, Skate Canada

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