Why didn’t Alexandra Trusova’s quads deliver gold? Skating scoring explained. (Published 2022) (2024)

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Why didn’t Alexandra Trusova’s quads deliver gold? Skating scoring explained. (Published 2022)? ›

So what happened? It is important to remember that the result of a skating competition is the combined score of the short program and the long program

This was her response after being pushed to the limit for years. She landed 5 quads for what? She didn't even have to go that hard but she did.

The three-time Russian national medallist has three Grand Prix gold medals to her name, as well, and trains under Eteri Tutberidze, having briefly worked with Olympic gold medallist Evgeni Plushenko.

2022–2023 season: Injury

In August 2022, Shcherbakova traveled to Germany in order to have knee surgery for an old injury. She did not recover from the surgery in time for the 2023 Russian Championships. On 18 March 2023, Shcherbakova performed in Moscow at a show program tournament called the "Russian Challenge".

So what happened? It is important to remember that the result of a skating competition is the combined score of the short program and the long program. Trusova fell on a triple axel — the most difficult triple jump — in the short program, and finished fourth. Quad jumps are not permitted for women in the short program.

In her free skate, she landed three quad jumps, recording a world record score of 174.31 points, also setting a new world record for total points (249.24).

The CAS judges upheld an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency which asked for a four-year ban and disqualification of her results after a Russian tribunal cleared Valieva of blame. The Russian team was stripped of its Olympic title by the International Skating Union, which declared the United States champions.

A decision to address the disqualification of Kamila Valieva gave the United States the gold in the Beijing 2022 team event, but it kept Canada off the podium.

Her team's Olympic gold medal is going to Team USA. Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been banned from the sport until 2025 after it was found she committed an anti-doping rule violation, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Monday.

Even though Russian skaters are still banned from competing in ISU events due to the war, there are still plenty of updates around the national team.

How many quads are in figure skating? ›

No skater has ever landed all six - the quad toe loop, Salchow, flip, Lutz, Axel and loop - in competition in their career before. "It was the first time I was going for it (in competition)," Malinin told reporters.

Still the only athlete who has ever successfully executed the quad Axel in competition, Malinin's signature jump propelled him into the lead in Beijing, China, as he scored a new international personal best score of 106.90.

That's when he decided to try the quadruple axel; his sport's hardest jump, a leap so terrifying that most skaters won't attempt it. Until Malinin, the sandy-haired 19-year-old American star from Vienna, Va, became the only person to land the jump two years ago, many skaters thought it would never be done.