The headquarters of Tutberidze and Valiev created a cry program: “Everything is shaking”

If you were able to watch with indifference how Kamila Valieva skates a new free program, you don’t need to go to figure skating. It’s not yours. The music is from The Truman Show. The man in the reality show. If the language of the annotation is: everything around is a game, a show, and he is an actor who is unaware of this, nothing in this game depends on him.

Beijing 2022 sounds on ice in the truest sense of the word. First, there are text news about the shocking test, and the final pose is a reminder of how Valieva was tormented after the information received by foreign journalists, through which she somehow even passed, hiding herself with a hood.

The idea of ​​the program was proposed by Eteri Tutberidze and Daniil Gleikhengauz. But first they asked: does she want, can Camila touch on this topic again? “It seemed to me that this program needed to be lived, and I agreed.”

What Kamila and her coaching staff – Eteri Tutberidze, Daniil Gleikhengauz and Sergey Dudakov – decided on, I personally do not see as the exploitation of emotions that many experienced in Beijing, watching the sudden doping story and the hysteria that then broke out from all sides.

This program is a desire to talk about what happened in the most accessible way for Camila: expressing feelings through the elements on the ice. And, having spoken, throw it out of yourself, leaving it in the past. Let go, let go of yourself into the future.

Controversial? Maybe. But very strongly. And – unprecedentedly drawing viewers into the rental. Riveted eyes, forcing to freeze.

Camila says that when she first listened to music, she could not hold back her tears. Then there was no such thing in training. At Khodynka, the presence of spectators made emotions surge. “I stood and understood that tears were welling up in me, and I needed to ride. Everything was shaking, but I’m happy that I was able to do it. I just wanted to show everyone my story and bring it to the audience through the program. It seems to me that I succeeded, ”says Camila. With tears, she will tell those who swallowed the same tears during the program.

Even on the first day of the skates, the skater encrypted the message to the audience by drawing it with her hand in the air through Morse code. These dashes and dots, which Camila tapped out during the short program to the soundtrack from the film “Interstellar”, will then be repeated at the request of the host Maxim Trankov by the entire hall on Khodynka. “Faith”. A much-needed word to Camila.

When journalists asked Valieva why, in her own words, it was her faith that was lacking at the Beijing Olympics during the individual tournament, she admits: “I don’t want to say anything.” And he will explain – I will leave it for myself, because everyone interprets the explanation in different ways.

Perhaps that is why she rolled her story. And this time – after Kamila’s memories that hit the ice – the interpretation and evaluation of the program will also be different. Let. Someone will surely see in the return to such a sensitive topic only naked cynicism: to squeeze everything out of even such a situation. Or a provocation: the case is not yet closed.

Will this free-shock remain for the whole season? Probably, both the coaching staff and Camila do not know this now. And is it necessary? Maybe it will be too much. And it is possible that every time Camila will be easier and easier.

But this rental in Moscow will go down in history. Already entered. By courage (someone will call it impudence), by the unexpectedness of what was conceived and its unique embodiment right now, when no one knows the final. There is no decision in Camila’s anti-doping rule violation case, the reaction of society (in either of the two solutions) she will have to relive.

And yet – she has already stepped into the future. I allowed myself to do it. She also stepped towards a resource of strength, which seemed to be lost during the frustrated free program in Beijing. Valieva did not go to the ultra-si elements in Moscow, but she did not make any mistakes either. The figure skater was asked if she had any thoughts of withdrawing from the free program, since she is still afraid to do them because of an injury that has not been fully healed. “You know, the main thing for me right now was not completing the elements,” Camila replied. And yet she emphasized that she was preparing for the season, which means that she had to skate cleanly.