Olympic champion of the team tournament in Sochi, figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya, has decided to retire. According to experts, this was not a spontaneous decision. The entire development of the young athlete’s career led to this.
Girl in a red coat
In 2014, Yulia Lipnitskaya became an Olympic champion in team tournament. She performed a program based on music from Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List. The performance of the girl in the red coat became a revelation both for specialists and for those who have nothing to do with figure skating didn't have. Among them is the creator of “Schindler’s List” himself, Spielberg, who, after the Russian woman’s performance, told her in a letter that the whole family watched the screening with tears in their eyes.
On the official Olympic channel on YouTube alone, the video with her program, staged by the famous Russian choreographer Ilya Averbukh, was viewed by more than six million users.
In the individual tournament, things didn’t go well for the athlete - having made mistakes in the short program, Lipnitskaya became fifth, and sixth in the free program. The athlete finished her performance at the Olympics in fifth place, which did not prevent her from becoming the face of the Games in Sochi and one of the most beloved athletes in Russia and respected in the world.
Growing problems and old injuries
After the Games, Lipnitskaya had a hard time - her body “gifted” the hostess with all the growth problems.
Failures began to haunt her. Suffice it to say that at the post-Olympic Russian Championship in 2015 she became only ninth, not even being included in the team for the European Championship. The podium of the championship was then occupied by only Russians - Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Elena Radionova and Anna Pogorilaya.
In November 2015, the athlete decided to change her coach, leaving Tutberidze for Olympic champion Lillehammer to Alexey Urmanov and moved from Moscow to Sochi. Unfortunately, there was no rapid progress. At the 2016 Russian Championships, the athlete was seventh, joining the team for the European Championships only as a reserve.
The pre-Olympic season also did not give the athlete much success - winning short program at the opening tournament in Bratislava, the skater felt the pain of an aggravated injury. Then - she missed the stage of the Grand Prix series in Chicago and the Moscow Grand Prix, where due to pain she had to stop performing in the free program.
Fight with overweight and deterioration of health
There were a lot of guesses about what could have happened. But famous Russian coachTatiana Tarasova suggested: it seems that the problems are associated with the athlete’s weight loss and, as a result, with a lack of potassium and magnesium, which are essential for the body.
The athlete’s constant struggle with excess weight led to Lipnitskaya being forced to undergo treatment for anorexia. After her failure at the Moscow Grand Prix, the athlete practically disappeared from the public space, occasionally posting posts on her pages on social networks.
In December, almost on the eve of the start of the Russian Championship, Lipnitskaya fell on the way from training, after which a decision was made to allow the skater to skip the Russian Championship, the qualifying start for the European Championship in Ostrava.
“Julia is a star. Some stars shine for a long time, while others flash like crazy and go out. But she illuminated everything. I want to wish her a wonderful life, she deserves it, because she is a very good, very smart girl and very kind,” Tarasova commented on the figure skater’s decision to end her career.
In turn Ilya Averbukh reacted to the news this way: “It’s very sad, because Yulia Lipnitskaya has a certain 25th frame that attracts you like a magnet to her performance: you cannot understand why her skating touches you, but it has just such an effect. You can call it charisma, talent, but Yulia has it, and it was especially evident at the Olympics,” Averbukh said. - It’s a pity that this was not developed - the technical side of the issue also played a role. I think that the demands of the coaches collided with our own ambitions, and we got the ending that was expected: after the Olympics, Yulia never made it to the European Championships or the World Championships.”
Biography of Yulia Lipnitskaya
Yulia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya was born June 5, 1998 in Yekaterinburg. She was raised by her mother, Daniela Lipnitskaya, who gave her daughter her last name.
In 2002 Yulia Lipnitskaya began figure skating at the Yekaterinburg children's and youth school sports school"Locomotive". Specialization - single skating. Her first coach was Elena Levkovets.
In 2009 Together with her mother, she moved to Moscow, where she continued her figure skating classes at the Sambo-70 Sports and Education Center under the guidance of coach Eteri Tutberidze.
In December 2011 in Quebec (Canada) she won the final of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating among juniors of the 2011-2012 season.
In December 2011 and December 2013 became the silver medalist of the Russian championships, in both cases losing to Adelina Sotnikova.
In February 2012 became the champion of Russia among juniors. In the same year in Minsk (Belarus) she took first place at the World Junior Championships. In 2013 in Milan (Italy) she became the silver medalist of similar competitions, losing only to compatriot Elena Radionova.
In December 2013 in Fukuoka (Japan) she took second place in the final of the Grand Prix in Figure Skating of the 2013-2014 season. The Japanese Mao Asada won the competition.
January 17, 2014 In Budapest (Hungary), Yulia Lipnitskaya won the European Figure Skating Championship.
February 9, 2014 as part of the Russian national team won the XXII winter Olympic Games in Sochi ( Krasnodar region) V team competitions in figure skating. Lipnitskaya performed at the Games with a free program choreographed by Ilya Averbukh to music from Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List. She became the youngest Russian woman to win the award highest quality at the Winter Olympics: at the time of her performance, the figure skater was 15 years and 249 days old. Lipnitskaya beat the achievement of Ekaterina Gordeeva, who became the champion of the 1988 Games in Calgary (Canada) in pair skating together with Sergei Grinkov. At the time of her victory, Gordeeva was 16 years 268 days old.
March 29, 2014 in Saitama (Japan) she became the silver medalist at the World Figure Skating Championships, losing only to Mao Asada.
In November 2015 Yulia Lipnitskaya left Eteri Tutberidze’s group, after which she began training under the guidance of Alexey Urmanov, moving from Moscow to Sochi. However, in December of the same year, at the Russian Championship, she became only seventh and joined the team for the 2016 European Championship as a reserve.
In December 2016 the figure skater missed the Russian championship due to injury hip joint caused by a fall on a slippery sidewalk.
Honored Master of Sports of Russia (2014).
She was awarded the Order of Friendship (2014), the distinction “For Services to the Sverdlovsk Region”, III degree (2014).
Yulia Lipntskaya spoke openly for the first time about her illness, why she left sports, plans for the future, and supposedly her father.
Figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya gave her first interview after leaving the sport. The athlete admitted that she had gray hair because of the lies that flowed from television, and spoke openly about anorexia.
Yulia Lipnitskaya stated that, of course, she had not fully realized herself in sports, and important role Health problems played a role in this. “After my diagnosis was announced, they began to write to me and ask why I did this? But even if I hadn’t said it myself, the information would still have leaked out. Anorexia is a disease of the 21st century, it occurs quite often. Unfortunately, not everyone can cope with it. I thought that there was nothing like that if I spoke openly about it. The only thing I regret is that I didn’t do this earlier, because everything went on for more than the first, second or third year... After the Cup of Russia, I came home, put my skates in the closet and haven’t seen them since. I don't feel like going on the ice anymore. In January I went to the clinic. That’s the whole story,” said Lipnitskaya.
The figure skater admitted that she had a hard time bearing the yoke of popularity that befell her after the Games in Sochi. And when information appeared about her retirement from the sport, the hype around her name only increased. This led to a huge amount of false information, which Julia expressed a desire to refute.
Lipnitskaya attacked Channel One with criticism. “Absolutely everything was false. When I asked the editors: “How did you allow it to go on air?”, they answered me: “But you didn’t refute all the information personally, so it may be true.” Let's start with the program, after which my mother turned gray, and I have more gray hair, but the creators of the show are doing well - the ratings are high. So, on this program there was a man with the telling name Zanozin. This person claimed that I entered Moscow State University, and this is reliable information. But I only have plans to go to university, if, God willing, everything works out. Only in a year I plan to take exams there,” the skater noted.
Yulia spoke about a man who “wanders” from program to program, calling himself her father. The athlete said that this man had nothing to do with her and called him an outright fraudster. “As for my father, I know perfectly well who he is and where he lives. Therefore, I warn: if such cases are repeated, my “dads or relatives” appear on the channels, obsessed with the desire to promote themselves at my expense, then we will meet them in court,” the athlete threatened.
In conclusion, Lipnitskaya shared her plans for the future. “Most of all I want to find something that will be interesting for me to do in life. Now I am at a crossroads, because there are many offers, different options, projects... But I cannot and do not want to come somewhere just to sit in the role of a wedding general. I want to participate myself, to do things that make me as interested as possible, but without studying this will not work. Therefore, now my first priority is study. I'm actively studying English with tutors. In the near future I will focus on my studies, and then we’ll see,” the FFKKR website quotes Yulia Lipnitskaya.
Lipnitskaya. Anorexia. Game
What's going on with our athletes?
The news that Yulia Lipnitskaya was retiring from her career due to anorexia was, of course, shocking. Figure skaters end their careers due to injuries, pregnancy, inability to compete with girls quad jumping ( quadruple jumps). Because of star fever, because of conflicts with coaches, directors, everyone. Figure skaters are like that. But anorexia?
This is the third known case. The first is called Lyubov Ilyushechkina, the second is Yulia Antipova, whose story shook up the world of figure skating in 2015. And now Lipnitskaya.
Guys, I came across both gymnasts and figure skaters at training camps. They usually sweep everything off the table that isn't nailed down. And if the trainers put them on a diet, then the food sneaks into the bases in ways that it’s better not to even know about. In general, if girls want to eat, they will eat. I fed it myself.
The causes of anorexia are varied. Stress that could be caused by a drop in results. Some medications, including those for stress, also block the feeling of hunger. An unbalanced diet aimed at weight loss. And completely wild - drugs. I propose to discard the latter out of respect for the Olympic champion.
To be honest, knowing our sport firsthand, the most likely option seems to me to be an unbalanced diet. In practice, this is exactly what happens. Despite the beautiful costumes in figure skating, leotards in gymnastics, pretentious statements, beautiful photo sets, our sport, especially in terms of nutrition, is the bottom of the bottom.
Yulia Lipnitskaya / Photo: © RIA Novosti/Vladimir Pesnya
Here the situation is completely obvious. Julia was never famous high jumps, performing its revolutions due to the speed of rotation (twist). This was only possible with the figure of a child, which she had in Sochi 2014. The next season Lipnitskaya was at, but could not finish free program. And here young Medvedeva is hot on his heels. The coach's focus shifted - and Lipnitskaya went to Alexei Urmanov. She left for Sochi - without her mother, alone. In order to return to jumping, it was necessary to lose weight, and the body refused to do this in the midst of adolescence. The girl was turning into a girl, and with her jumping technique it was death. How did she go on a diet? Who prepared this diet for her? There are no answers to these questions. There is a fact: having pitted her growing body against an acute lack of food, Lipnitskaya got anorexia.
Professional cycling teams carry mobile field kitchens with them to ensure that riders with sensitive stomachs are fed a guaranteed high-quality, healthy diet. But cyclists weigh themselves every day, and an extra 300 grams of weight there is a problem. This is how professionals work.
In Russian national teams, nutritionist is a dirty word. The only thing worse than a nutritionist is a psychologist. These are some incomprehensible people who say some incomprehensible things, but in reality it is difficult to evaluate the result of their work, and, in fact, no one evaluates it. In the commercial sector, there is such a thing as KPI (Key Performance Indicator), a quantitatively measurable indicator of the results actually achieved.
For example, for a nutritionist of the Russian national team, such an indicator could be the fact that not a single team athlete had more than two food poisonings in a year, and body weight did not exceed the target by more than 3%, with the exception of periods of illness and recovery from injuries . If these indicators are not met, the nutritionist is fired.
The same goes for a psychologist. The same goes for the massage therapist. The same goes for the driver, assistants, choreographers, physical training coaches and everyone else. If this entire brigade, feeding from the state table, is driven into a commercial framework, they will commit suicide in a month.
Yulia Lipnitskaya / Photo: © globallookpress.com
The Olympic champion ends her career due to anorexia, and this is the third case in our figure skating. Yes, they are there in the “figure” all in clans, some do not work with others, they cluster together and hiss. But damn it, the third case!
Of course, Lipnitskaya can be considered separately. Perhaps this is what needs to be done. Perhaps she herself decided to lose weight, went overboard with effort, knocked down the hormonal system, went into a peak, and here she is - anorexia.
Does Lipnitskaya live alone on the planet? Are there no people around her? Did people notice that her pants were falling off?
Or do people only want Yulia the champion, and Yulia the loser can quietly die in some ditch and no one will care?
In the history of our country, I already know enough great athletes, even greater than Lipnitskaya, who, having ceased to be feeders for those around them, became of no use to anyone. And gradually, day after day, they faded away. And then they died.
Anorexia is not a cold; it doesn’t cause you to wake up suddenly in the morning. So where have you, the people surrounding Lipnitskaya, been all this time?
By the way, who gets paid for it as a coach on the list of the Russian national team?
Yulia Lipnitskaya / Photo: © RIA Novosti/Alexander Vilf
Bad, uncomfortable questions. But without them, we will continue to catch anorexics, suicides (this also happened in one of the subjective types) and simply children with broken destinies and health.
Photo: RIA Novosti/Alexander Vilf, RIA Novosti/Vladimir Pesnya, globallookpress.com
0 12 September 2017, 18:55For several months, 19-year-old Yulia Lipnitskaya decided to complete her sports career due to the disease of the 21st century - anorexia. However, only today, September 12, on the website of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR) it was published great interview figure skaters, in which Julia officially announced that she was leaving big sport and dotted all the i's.
I would like to say thank you to all the fans for their love, faith, understanding and expectation. I am very glad that there are people who treat me with such warmth. Just thank you everyone!
— the figure skater wrote on her Instagram page, adding a link to her interview.
As Lipnitskaya admitted, the decision was very difficult for her, but her health is now a priority.
It was incredibly difficult to come to the decision to end my sports career. Seriously, every day I fell asleep and woke up with one thought about what would happen. While I was in the clinic, we worked a lot with psychologists, there are strong psychologists there, and they helped me create life priorities that related to health, for example. I had to seriously think about many questions, because I was sure that I would recover and return to figure skating. I was sure of this, and everyone was sure! Mom, coach, everyone...,
- says Yulia.
The worst thing for me was to understand what next? I leave the clinic, so what? Especially when I began to realize that 99.9 percent everything was leaning towards the fact that I was done with sports. And then I began to panic from all this uncertainty, what will happen? It was just a nightmare!
Lipnitskaya has been in sports for a long time, but admits that she did not have time to fully realize herself:
There was a lot that I would still like to do in single skating I still wanted to achieve and improve a lot. But what happened, happened.
Anorexia did not allow Yulia to realize her potential in sports.
99 percent are health problems. And the rest, of course, has already been added to this. After the Cup of Russia, I came home, put my skates in the closet and haven’t seen them since. I don't feel like going on the ice anymore. In January I went to the clinic. That's the whole story.
A terrible disease has been plaguing the figure skater for three years. As it turned out, the fame that befell Yulia after the Olympics in Sochi led her to this state.
This really stressed me out. Not only did I have no strength left, it was really hard for me. I'm not a public person. It has always been this way. Since childhood, I have been a very strong introvert. To speak to a stranger, I had to make an effort on myself.
After the early announcement of the end of Lipnitskaya’s sports career, many rumors and fake information began to appear on the Internet. The skater also mentioned this.
A serious reason for this was a program aired on Channel One, where absolutely everything was false. When I asked the editors: “How did you allow it to go on air?”, they answered me: “But you didn’t refute all the information personally, so it may be true.”
What kind of work will Julia do now? The athlete searched for an answer to this question for a long time and found:
Now my first priority is studying. I am actively studying English with tutors. In the near future I’ll focus on my studies, and we’ll see. At the same time, naturally, I will try my hand at some other things and try to find something for myself. But I know for sure that I will not work as a coach. I would like to get into sports management in the future. I'm interested in this, it will be connected with my life,
- said the figure skater.
Let us remind you that Yulia Lipnitskaya is known as the youngest Russian champion(she was 15 years old at the Sochi Olympics) women's single figure skating. In addition, she is a European champion, world champion among juniors, multiple silver medalist, as well as an Honored Master of Sports. After so many awards, Yulia was expected to win new victories for Russia, but unexpectedly for everyone, the athlete put an end to her sports career.
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“Yulia informed the leadership of the federation about her plans to end her career back in April, immediately after returning from Europe, where she underwent three months of treatment for anorexia. Now she lives only on an Olympic scholarship. She does not receive a salary from the federation, although she is on the roster of the national team ", said the mother of the 19-year-old champion.
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In the piggy bank Russian athlete, native of Yekaterinburg, in addition to Olympic gold - silver at the World Championship and gold at the European Championship in 2014, as well as silver at the Grand Prix final in 2013. Lipnitskaya was forced to miss the Russian Winter Championship at the end of 2016 - beginning of 2017 due to a serious injury after an unfortunate fall on a slippery street on the way from training.
Previously, Yulia became her own apartment in the capital's Rasskazovo residential complex. In a group dedicated to figure skating on social networks, the champion boasted of her gift. “There is a forest nearby, a lake on the territory, spacious courtyards, beautiful architecture... Personally, it reminds me of Chicago. It turned out a little unexpected... I didn’t believe it, and I didn’t expect it earlier than in 2018,” she wrote on the VKontakte social network. . Fans supported the skater: “Everything is fine with you – you’re a beauty, you can’t take your eyes off you. We’re very happy for you! Congratulations on your housewarming and be happy!!! We love you!”
Earlier, information appeared in the media about the affair between Yulia Lipnitskaya and her colleague Vlad Tarasenko. About their relationship in 2015. Soon the lovers stopped hiding their passion. So, in December of the same year, on the Malaya podium sports arena"Luzhniki", where the Rostelecom figure skating cup was held, Tarasenko and Lipnitskaya were sitting next to each other.
Figure skating coach Tatyana Tarasova, what time Olympic champion 2014 has long passed for Yulia Lipnitskaya. “She is a star who shone in her time. Thanks to her for that,” the mentor said and added that the girl received recognition, after which the athletes “begin some other path.”
