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Elizaveta Tuktamysheva turned 26 on December 17. This is about the sixth message I wrote on the occasion of his birthday. More experienced colleagues may manage to write at least thirteen, but this is, of course, a joke. In 2009, when Tuktamysheva won Russia’s first medal at the adults’ championship, it was not yet customary to dedicate birthday supplies to 13-year-old skaters, the dollar cost 30 rubles, and the Olympics in Sochi were five years away. Beautiful prehistoric times.

The meaning of this joke is to emphasize how firmly Elizaveta Tuktamysheva is engaged in Russian and world sports. She spent exactly half her life on this. She has been a role model for many, performing at the highest level for 13 years. Or closer, because a model is an ideal thing, far from reality. For the audience, Tuktamysheva is someone’s sister, someone’s girlfriend, someone’s daughter and granddaughter.

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva - RIA Novosti, 1920, 12/16/2022
Elizaveta Tuktamiseva

Can you call him invincible? No, although he is a world, European and Russian champion and a super successful figure skater. Can you call him invincible? Maybe not both – there have been periods in a long career when Lisa bent like a twig. But it can definitely be said to be unbroken, because bending does not mean breaking.

And of course, you can call it your own. The girl next door type, an archetype from American cinema, embodied in the sweet neighbor living, also became the reason for Lisa’s great popularity and told the public’s love for her.

In movies, this archetype refers to a certain appearance as well as personality traits. But Lisa does not have to be a smiling blonde with bright eyes to suit her – smiling brunettes are less often such cute neighbors.

Lisa is not a disembodied elf or a flawless, shiny figurine sitting quietly on a shelf. She is an earthly woman with all her strength and weakness. Being a woman means maximizing femininity and making it your brand. This is, among other things, revealing numbers with dressing and shooting in a men’s magazine. Being a woman means going through a complete transformation of the body, with hormonal changes and shifting centers of gravity. At this point, “being a woman” is incompatible with “being an athlete” and as it is really difficult to combine these roles, most of them left without waiting for the physical turmoil to end.

Tuktamysheva managed to stay. He lived in front of his eyes, perceiving all his defeats philosophically. So, if, as they say in a New Year’s movie, “something does not work out in fate”, remember Lisa. He missed the home Olympics and became world champion a year later. She did not qualify for the pyeongchang Olympics, and then for several seasons was among the leaders of the team of the best skaters on the planet. He didn’t go to Beijing, but as his coach Alexei Mishin aptly puts it, it remains the statue of liberty for athletes over the age of 20. He constantly performs a triple axle and learns a quadruple sheepskin coat – do not dare to take it as something out of the ordinary.

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva with coach Alexei Mishin - RIA Novosti, 1920, 12/16/2022
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva with coach Alexei Mishin

In fact, the fact that the Olympic games have not yet been experienced in her life brings Tuktamysheva closer to the public. The Olympics are to some extent like a lottery where luck plays a big role. Especially for Russian figure skaters, where choosing for the Games is sometimes more difficult than for the Games themselves.

For a lottery ticket bought at a high price (with years of education and health) to win, many factors must coincide: no injuries, the right age, an environment in which it is possible to compete in principle . Tuktamysheva has bought more tickets in her career than any of the current athletes, but she has yet to win her Olympic million. For now, because if he keeps buying them, if he doesn’t slow down and keeps the balance between stress and health, one day the lottery might break.

Now, in material terms, the life of Tuktamysheva can be called prosperous – she earns good money from awards and advertising contracts. She does not hide that she loves shopping, that she has the opportunity to buy whatever she wants within reasonable limits. Was it always like this? No, and Lisa knows the value of money well because her family once had a completely different era. The mother-teacher raised her two daughters alone after the early death of the father.

In real life, at least of all people looks like a photoshopped picture. Lisa never tried to adapt to other people’s filters. After the winning stage of the Grand Prix, you can only joke about wine with him in the mixed zone. Because of her life experience and authority, only Lisa can express her position on important matters.

Now much attention is paid to the romantic relationship of Alexandra Trusova and Mark Kondratyuk, it seems that Sasha made a revolution, the first of the skaters to stop hiding the existence of the man and his name. In fact, the first was Lisa, who presented her boyfriend Andrei Lazukin to the public in 2015.

At the same time, naturally, she openly said that her heart was free when she broke up with Andrei. Because both situations – being a couple and being alone – are absolutely normal and familiar to each of us.

There seems to be no distance between Lisa and the audience. Instead, nearly everyone can imagine themselves at some point in their life. His imperfection is poignant because he has sincerity and freedom. Tuktamysheva always shines with the ability to enjoy life in the mixed forest of all victories and troubles. Perhaps these are the most expensive things we can afford in 2022.

But Lisa can afford one more medal of the Russian championship – the last one was won 8 years ago. His collection includes two bronze, two silver and gold. You can add another one for a nice account.

Source: Ria

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