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Alexia Paganini cries for happiness at the European Championship in Graz. She sets her personal best and finishes fourth.
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Paganini starts strong, faces her most difficult combination.
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But in the second element, a triple Lutz, she falls.
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Paganini cannot be put off. After the fright, she runs her cure perfectly.
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Paganini particularly impresses the fans with her expression.
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It is tears of happiness that Alexia Paganini cries after her free skating at the European Championships in Graz. She fulfills all of her goals, achieves a personal best and is in the top 5. The 18-year-old is relieved.
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Paganini dances at the highest level. After 4th place in the short program, she also gets going in the freestyle. It starts with a combination triple Lutz / triple Toeloop. Stands perfectly. But then the damper. In the following triple Lutz, she falls.
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The US Swiss is not impressed by this. She does her freestyle, then runs flawlessly and dances even deeper into the hearts of the fans. This is rewarded with 192.88 points. Synonymous with the 4th EM place after the ranks 7 and 6 in the last two years.
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Sarah van Berkel, who ran for EM gold in 2011 as Sarah Meier and thus won the last Swiss medal to date, raves about Paganini: «She is developing enormously. Every time I see her running, she has made a huge increase again. »
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Van Berkel’s analysis: Your jumps have become even more stable, even higher. And of course, the expression. Here the 18-year-old is stronger than the Russian competitors. “She runs like a woman, not like a child.”
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Powerful Russian trio in a class of their own
But just. The Russians. The trio called “Triple A” Alena Kostornaja (16, gold), Anna Schtscherbakowa (15, silver) and Alexandra Trussowa (15, bronze) are technically in their own league. At a level that was unthinkable in Van Berkel’s day.
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But Paganini has established itself behind this Russian omnipotence. At the World Cup and Olympics, she can now target the top 10. And she achieved her personal goal at the EM anyway.
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The reward for that? «I love chips, chocolate and ice cream. And fondue and raclette – and everything that’s fried, ”she admits. After the Swiss championship title in December, she indulged in pizza. And now she is dancing into the 7th junk food heaven.
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