Preparation for the competition was peculiar. Now I am happy and grateful to myself, the coaches and today that all this has happened. Therefore, I had tears and joys, and overcoming myself. When I realized that the rental was worthy, pictures popped up in my head as I was preparing for this tournament. In addition to the shortage on the fourth lutz, to which the technical team found fault, Dmitry did not make a single mistake. Everyone noticed Aliyev’s unprecedented confidence even after a short program, but in arbitrary he surpassed himself. He did not stop dreaming even last season, when Aliyev at the Russian Championship lost to Mikhail Kolyada, who had just left the hospital and returned to Maxim Kovtun after a break in his career. They love children by anybody, they educate and dream that someday they will see their blockhead as a big man. Why does the word "son" mean everything here? Because you can refuse a student by transferring it to another teacher, but they don’t refuse children. And then already, meeting the student by the side, he told him simply and precisely: “Thank you, son.” The broadcast director perfectly caught the shot of Dmitry’s final pose - right behind him, carefully celebrating his clean rental, Evgeny Rukavitsyn triumphantly threw up his hands in the champion's way. In Eugene Rukavitsin I had a lot of strong athletes, but no one else did not submit immediately a national title (his Aliyev won at the end of December) and the best skater on the continent.
For each of them, this gold is the first award of this level.
There was definitely no one happier on this day than the new European champion and his coach. Who will think about such mundane things as a dream and a hot dinner when the sports history of the country is happening before your eyes. After it, another prize-winner press conference was planned, so the journalists were in no hurry for the last scheduled shuttle to the hotel at midnight, risking staying overnight right in the arena and finally using this canvas giant tent for its intended purpose. This has not happened for eight years - the last winner from Russia was Evgeni Plushenko in 2012.Īfter the competition, the men held an awards ceremony. On Thursday, January 23, Russian skater Dmitry Aliyev won the European Championship gold. Naturally, there have been a ton of articles congratulating Dima in the Russian media and I don't have time to round them all up, but I particularly liked this one from Match TV:ĭMITRI ALIEV IS THE NEW EUROPEAN CHAMPION! JOURNALISTS WERE LEFT WITHOUT DINNER, CELEBRATING THE HISTORIC VICTORY OF THE RUSSIAN SKATER