Alexandra Trusova: Free skate| Free skate music| Olympics

Alexandra “Sasha” Vyacheslavovna Trusova is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2022 Olympic silver medalist, the 2021 World bronze medalist, a two-time European bronze medalist, the 2019 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and a four-time Russian national medalist.

Alexandra Trusova: Free skate| Free skate music| Olympics

Free Skate:

As a figure skater, you dream of what your Olympic moment will be like. The scores are read, your eyes go wide in disbelief, the announcer proclaims you’re in first place. Can this be real? You hug your coach as the crowd goes wild. One of the joys of watching the Olympics is seeing moments like this, dreams realized. I have indelible memories of such celebrations.

In 1998, Tara Lipinski leapt into the air and released a series of ear-splitting shrieks when she found out she won, embracing her coaches in pure joy. In 2002, Sarah Hughes fell to the ground in shock backstage, laughing and smiling in disbelief, her coach grabbing her face and exclaiming, “You won the gold medal at the Olympics!”

Free Skate Music:

Russian figure skater Alexandra Trusova won a silver medal for her performance today at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. During her free skate program, she hit the ice to the tune of the Stooges classic “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” albeit the John McCrea-recorded cover that appears on the Cruella soundtrack. Watch it happen here.

Trusova’s silver medal performance was mired in controversy. She landed five quadruple jumps, but due to her performance in the short program earlier in the week, she missed gold by 4.22 points. “Everyone has a gold medal, everyone, but not me,” Trusova shouted while crying just after her free skate performance, Reuters reports.

Olympics:

Outraged silver medalist Alexandra Trusova felt robbed of the gold in women’s figure skating after her Russian Olympic Committee teammate Kamila Valieva’s disastrous performance opened the door for a surprise winner at the Beijing Olympics.

As NBC’s cameras followed the distraught Valieva behind a curtain, Trusova could be seen wiping tears and she reportedly was heard, in her native Russian, threatening not to go to the podium.

It turns out that emotional outburst had less to do with the cruel fate suffered by Valieva — who slipped from first to fourth place after competing under the weight of a doping scandal — and more to do with Trusova finishing second.