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Figure Skating: Alina Zagitova Wins Russia’s First Gold Medal Strictly speaking, Alina Zagitova, the 15-year-old victor in women’s figure skating, competed as a neutral “Olympic Athlete From Russia.” At a medal ceremony later Friday, she was to see the five-ringed Olympic flag raised instead of the Russian flag and to hear the Olympic hymn played instead of the Russian anthem. But a nominal barring of Russia from the Olympics for operating a systematic doping scheme at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, was more of a semantic prohibition than a complete ban. 169 Russian athletes were permitted to compete here. And there was no question which country Zagitova represented in winning her gold medal with a score of 239.57 points as fans chanted her name and waved the Russian tricolor. “In our souls we know,” she said recently. Her friend and training partner, Evgenia Medvedeva, took the silver medal with 238.26 points while skating as Tolstoy’s tragic Anna Karenina. Kaetlyn Osmond of Canada won the bronze with 231.02 points. Medvedeva, a two-time world champion and consensus favorite to win gold before she broke a bone in her right foot last fall, was forced to confront a sobering reality at age 18: Experience and emotion and expressiveness did not prevail against mathematics.   Honesty is the best policy. |
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They both gorgeous and skated beautifully. There is only a smidgen of points to separate them from gold and silver medals. Super performance. I enjoyed every minute of their skating. Honesty is the best policy.
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Both of the two women from Russia skated beautifully. Alina Zagitova won gold medal with two scores combined of 239.57 points. Evgenia Medvedeva placed in silver medal with two scores combined of 238.26 points. I like both of them. Honesty is the best policy.
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