Literally traumatising experience
POV: when tinder match didn’t come on arranged date 😭🤣
Russian SkatingThis is such a cute program. I also think he is not the best of people but his pro programs are also really good.
imagine being SO well prepared for a date for said date not to appear. I would be enraged.
Maybe this is how villains are born… 🤔😔
not his fan, but he did pretty well here. where's the rest of the program?
They competed with Stephane Lambiel who also delivered amazing program “ne me quitte pas” I recommend watching it as well. Judges couldn’t chose a winner so both were awarded with gold medals. Starts from 1:00 https://youtu.be/a9snEtUHJZ0?si=yJbYFnHfSUWSgOjc
It’s a beginning of program “Oblivion” Starts at 1:15
lol he got ghosted by his Grindr date. This homophobic POS used to “party” at gay clubs with Brian Orser in the 90s.
basically. Now he lives a very much bitter life with his aparently perfect wife. he has kids (and that's why he is trapped in that bitter marriage) don't make me talk more that i can talk a lot
please do 👀 🍵
I have this screenshot🤣
Not a fan… horrible human. Cute little intro-shrug. 🥱
still a great skater with an incredible level of artistry and acting. His life is very much a drama and now he is a sore old man.
I totally agree. He deservedly won the 2002 Winter Olympics. it’s his comments about Adam Rippon and Timothy LeDuc which were disgusting and disturbing coming from a champion or anyone. I’m Black and queer and skated snd competed in the Late 1970s and early 80s and it was ugly. to me, Yagudin represents the most deplorable aspects of straight white men, and so unsportsmanlike that I just find him every irredeemable. While unfair, it’s just how I feel. Queer & BIPOC PROPLE are getting so hard hit by the very people who should be embracing them/us. People are down voting me, but I don’t care. If you stood in someone else’s shoes for any amount of time, you might see the world in a different way as I have to. “You” is general not specific.
From what i know the man has a lot of drama to unravel and a diagnosed depression imho for ALL the shit he has suffered. Still he decided to mask in the most disgusting man possible
If you watch any of his interview (where he constantly talks about wanting to kill himself) you can see that he is very depressed. So don’t judge all straight white men by his example, he is a mental case. After so many years in drama of Russian figure skating it’s easy to go crazy unfortunately
Fair enough- well first off as a black gay man, over 50 years old, involved in the sport since I was eight years old I have far too much discretion to group all straight white men into one group. I guess most straight white men don’t have the type of reach that someone like Yagudin has. he has a much bigger “microphone“ than most of the people who are most detrimentally impacted his rhetoric.
He may be a mental case, but he is a mental case with a lot of agency.
Also yagudin seems to be a huge closet case. The rumours he had in the states are huge and plausible and they didn't seem to be a young man experimenting.That probably pressure him into going too extra and It created sadly one of the most disgusting POS in international FS. And im saying that while I can also say that i have actual sympathy for him.
That’s a great response! Thank you!! “closet case” says so much. you’re spot on.
Also his wife (OGM in pairs skating tatyana totmianina)seems to be a bit of a follower of aljona savchenko when It comes to treating men not in the nicrst of ways.
At least he stopped being a commentator at competitions and almost never seen on tv (🎉))) but I hope he feels better and creates interesting programs Btw it was Zhulin the one who talked about Leduc and Ciseron. Once great ice dancer (I posted him as well). All my favourite skaters always disappoint me 😭
I wasn’t aware of that… as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine the day after the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing China concluded. While I’m sorry Yagudin is suicidal and not commentating any more my concerns are more for the Ukrainian people whose sovereignty and autonomy has been destroyed and millions of decimated. Yagudin, Plushenko, even Valieva and many others have to bow and kiss the butt of the dictator Putin. I met Zhulin in 1991 at the Munich World Championships, I was on the coaching team of the second German team in 1990 and worked on their Free Dance in Moscow while they were training with Natalia Linichuk. She introduced us. Beautiful team. Him? Not a beautiful person.
Russia is a HOMOPHOBIC state… They terrorize gay people and kill them, arrest them and torture them. Zhulin, Yagudin, Plushenko, they’re chest beating homophobic racist beasts-and they support the tyrant Putin-
I can’t condone or “like” what they do even if it’s a “nice” program. I’m a Global citizen I have to agree to disagree-like my out queer skating siblings, Amber Glenn, Timothy LeDuc, the late John Curry, the late Toller Cranston, the late Brian Pockar, Adam Rippon, Johnny Weir, Jason Brown, Rohene Ward, Rudy Galindo, Robin Cousins, Derrick Delmore, Mark Mitchell, among many others AND allies… I give Alexei Yagudin, and Alexander Zhulin, A Raspberry’s salute. Real loud.
Stop the H8T!
I know he's not a great person, but I love this program so much😍