The battle of the Russians was singular in its excitement, but the
fundamental tension of the competition was as old as the sport of figure
skating itself: Should technical mastery be valued over theatrical
brilliance?
Between Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova, there
was no better test case. They came from the same coach in the same rink
in Moscow, but they displayed two distinct styles in Thursday’s dramatic
conclusion to the Olympics women’s competition. In Medvedeva, there was
sophistication and storytelling as she condensed the nuances of
Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” into four minutes. In Zagitova, there was
speed and spontaneity as she exploited the musical accents of Minkus’s
“Don Quixote.”
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