Anastasiia VASYLCHENKO (UKR) | Junior Women Free Skating | Riga 2024

And now to Anastasia Vasilchenko, a skater who struggled through the short program. There could be a multitude of reasons for that, but certainly we're wishing her every success and happiness over the next three and a half minutes. 16 year old from Odessa Anastasia Vasilchenko and it was a bit of a nightmare performance for this young 16 year old. And again those that skate and then those that have been a 16 year old jumping triples will know that these moments come and pass. It's a bit like what was it Simone Biles said the the I can't remember the terminology that she used when you disconnect from tumbling and you the same feeling can so often happen for the figure skating where you completely lose your sense of awareness. Here's the lesson to be learned in a performance like this and for young skaters watching no matter what you don't give up you keep going and she didn't give up she kept trying to do the triples and the double axels and all that and there were some successes and there were a number of failures as well but she didn't give up that is a skill that you can't it you've got it's inbred in the person yeah i'm not going to give up i'm not going to back down i'm not taking the easy road yeah right and she didn't take the easy road she kept going this is the lesson she doesn't understand the value of what she just did because that'll pay down the road three years of this well said three years of this and i've seen other skaters who have had similar types of performance then be very apathetic in their movement like you say anastasia did not do that and i really respect that i admire that and i think you know if i'm a coach looking at anastasia i recognize this is an athlete with lots of potential and a good solid good enough technique to continue successfully into the senior ranks it's just some uh i i love what's on her face right now she's i don't know i don't know if it's mad or disappointed but she wants more and as long as you want more and as long as you're prepared to go back and do the work to get you're gonna get more right so this young woman is just a little frustrated but she turns jumps the takeoffs are bad it's all fine just it just might and you know when she went into one of the ladies double axels i think and she took a fall i've been there i've been going into a jump stepping up into jump thinking i have no concept of how i'm going to come out of this many of us have empathy for how you feel today anastasia 49.80 people come to score that third and 81.07 overall competition score that we put at least for the moment into third place don't give up