Alena Kostornaia soars into first after Grand Prix Final short program | NBC Sports

These Eteri girls have such a short shelf life.

Still one of my all time favorite ladies short programs. It's so unfortunate that the pandemic interfered with Alyona's career and she couldn't get to a Worlds or the Olympics! Imo, she was the best of her generation! ✨️❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥✨️

She skates beautifully.

This was peak Tutberidze. This perfect balance is technical and artistic excellence won’t be matched by any Russian skater skater for a long time.

skating? no - came her for the beauty

Sigh.

She’s beautiful!

Crazy how it’s been over 2 years.. I remember this like it was yesterday

Lovely...

When she's on, she's incredible. She doesn't skate; she floats on ice. Aliona probably has the best footwork I've ever seen. I hope she can get her 3A back.

Now with buianova (sp?) as a coach, I hope to see her for many more years, unless she of course, decides to quit to become a neurologist (?) like she wanted.

The non drugged world record

Came back since the recent female figure skaters are seriously disappointing and I heard that Kamila had broken the highest SP score and…hm idk bout that I really do prefer Aliona to Kamila sorry Kamila’s spins are superb but her jumps are what scares me especially that landing it is definitely not help her balance in comparison to Aliona yes her flexibility is not great but her jumps have better technique than Kamila

I watch this all the time. I love you Aliona, you will always be #1 in my heart

Atrociously low PCS for this flawless perfect skate. It's amazing garbage like Alyssa Liu is allowed to skate being so slow and awful when Kostornaia is 1000x better

God, this makes me want to start skating

She was so excellent. It's really disappointing to see her already basically done. I was hoping she would be able to break the pattern of so many Tutberidze skaters who shine for a couple seasons then fall apart.

Can’t stop watching…

When shes at her best Shes the best in the world. Look at the height on her jumps. Everything is soo perfect u can even see her painted thumbnail shimmer through the gloves when she holds her arms up at beginning. Like a goddess or an angel. Perfection in a in a small glimpse of time . AMazing.

Bye

Sh

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Observe Russia

Carefully

Just watch

I seriously haven’t liked any skater since Yuna Kim but finally, a skater that cares about artistry and not just blindly jumping, and even her jumps look so smooth and grounded. Really hope she’ll be at the Olympics next year!

she must have also trained as a ballerina,she is so graceful

Only qualified

Show

So Graceful and free! I want to learn how to do this. Not for competition...just for the joy of it .❤️

Special.

Wow!

My head is hurting after watching this video

thats a nice pork cutlet bowl

Amazing!

I believe the music is the soundtrack but I can’t remember which movie it it, can anyone tell? 🤔

Yep im taking lessons. So majestic and beautiful.

even just watching her skate feels magical

Stunning

I cant even begin to imagine the amount of adrenaline and pure beauty she must feel while skating to the sound track. She is like Swan Lake and Elsa combined lol.

She is just sooooo amazing; she moves with so much fluidity, more than I have ever seen. i love that she is 16, like me. She gives me so much hope for our generation 🤍🤍🤍

HOLY FRIGGEN MOLEY! BEYOND INCREDIBLE! She's so GRACEFUL. I don't even know how that's HUMANELY POSSIBLE!? 👏🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟❤

What song is this?

Let's take a moment to remember that despite all her other faults, the first woman to land a triple Axel in international competition was Tonya Harding. I really did love her skating at the time, I just think she became kind of...tawdry.

I'm too old to do any of the great stuff but I got my first ever pair of skates today!!

yuri on ice

Only if I didn't fall I could be 1% as good as her

Fab !!!!!!!!

Great 👍

how does one skate so smoothly