As in the short program for the team competition, which they completed at the beginning of the Olympics, Bidar fell in a triple toeloop. He struggled with him all the time in Beijing.
“I don’t know what was wrong there, I didn’t even know which side I fell on. The coaches said that everything was right there, I have to look at it. Sometimes I have problems with this jump, but they went to the races. Now all of a sudden it doesn’t work, “regretted the 22-year-old figure skater, who was fourteenth with Anna Dušková at the Olympic Games four years ago.
Then his partner fell with a thrown triple lutz. “I have to stand up to Lisa. She sprained her ankle in the morning and we didn’t even know if we would board in the evening,” Bidar revealed. Zukova was injured in the morning while warming up in the gym during the impact of a twisted jump. “At first it seemed that Lisa wouldn’t get up at all, she was lying there for a while. I don’t know if it’s such bad luck and what we deserve,” Bidar regretted.
He regretted how their joint Olympic premiere turned out. “Of course it’s a big disappointment for me, it’s a pity. We do well in training, but not during the race. But we can’t make excuses, maybe next time it will be better,” he said.
Bad luck over bad luck
The Czechs were between the two eliminated pairs because the Hungarians Joulija Ščetininová and Mark Magyar could not board.
“Unfortunately, he had a positive covid test yesterday and they couldn’t start the Olympics for the first time. It was perhaps the last chance for them. I wanted to point out that these stories are also the Olympics. They were very unlucky. “and yesterday after his arrival he was positive. This is a tragedy,” Bidar regretted his Hungarian friends.
In the final race, the elite sports pairs overcame. Reigning world champions Anastasia Misinova and Alexandr Galljamov improved their personal record to 82.76 points and approached the world record of the elite Chinese pair from the team competition by seven hundredths. Olympic silver advocates and world runners-up, Sui Wei-jin, and Chan Chung, have gone hard on the coveted gold as they have pushed their own historical mark by more than a point and a half to 84.41.
Surprisingly, the most experienced Russians, Tarasov and Morozov, also took part in the expected battle for gold, and controversial coach Eteri Tutberidze is also involved in their preparation. Through a short program of life, they improved their personal maximum by more than two and a half points and approached the leading Chinese to a fraction of a point. Triple medalists from the World Cup are fighting for their first independent Olympic medal. They only have team silver from Pyongyang 2018, where they were quarters in a separate competition.
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