Ashley Wagner

American figure skater Ashley Wagner is called one of the strongest single skaters, demonstrating real classic women's figure skating. Experts are pleased to note her artistry, athleticism and perseverance.

The future figure skater was born in Germany in May 1991 in the family of a US Army officer and a teacher. Father Eric Wagner served in various military bases, and the family - parents, Ashley and brother Austin - moved frequently. The girl went to school in Alaska.

Ashley describes herself as an army kid who had no friends and had a hard time making contact with peers. Therefore, Melissa's mother suggested that her daughter take up ballet or figure skating, believing that in this way she would communicate more with other children. Ashley chose a skating rink. Her younger brother followed her onto the ice.

Ashley became even more convinced of the correctness of the choice when she watched the performances of her compatriot Tara Lipinski, world champion and Olympic Games in Nagano. Wagner wanted to experience the same emotions from victory as her idol.

Ashley's career in professional sports began in 2007 with the third place at the World Junior Championships. At the same time, the works of the young figure skater were rewarded with two gold medals at the junior Green Prix stages. In the 2007-2008 season, Wagner made it to the podium at the US Championship and Internationaux de France. In the future, for two more seasons, the American figure skater remained in the second and third roles in the world table of ranks.

At the championship of the planet Ashley was catastrophically unlucky. At the debut 2008 championship, the athlete, according to the draw, had to go out on the ice after the representative of Japan Miki Ando in the free program. However, the latter withdrew from the performances due to injury.

Wagner was psychologically unprepared for such a turn and made a lot of mistakes at the box office. Since then, for 8 years, the skater has not risen higher than fourth place. Luck finally smiled at the home championship in Boston, in which Ashley lost only to Evgenia Medvedeva.

The World Team Championships turned out to be much more successful. Here Wagner won two gold, silver and bronze awards.

Ashley's pride is the American National Championship. Three times Ashley climbed to the top step of the podium, became a silver and bronze medalist. The figure skater also has two tin medals - the distinctive mark of the American Federation for the fourth place.

Wagner's performances at the Grand Prix stages were quite successful. The athlete won tournaments five times, twice became a silver medalist and three times - bronze.

The Olympic Games were noted in different ways in the girl's sports biography. In Vancouver in 2010, the American was not selected, but reacted calmly to this: she said that she was self-critical and did not count on places on the podium. Although he perceives the fact of missing the Games as the worst event in his life. By the end of the season, Ashley had left her coach Priscilla Hill. Since then, she has been trained by John Nix and the spouses Vera and Rafael Harutyunyan, who raised Mao Assad and Nathan Chen.

The selection for the Sochi Olympics was accompanied by a scandal within the American Figure Skating Association: one of the members of the national team did not get there on a sporting basis. According to USFSA rules, winners of the domestic championship go to the Olympic Games, in which Wagner finished fourth. However, the Association created a precedent - they sent Ashley instead of the bronze owner Mirai Nagasu, taking into account past achievements.

According to rumors, it was not without the influence of big money: Wagner, as a successful athlete, already had solid sponsors, she was lobbied by the leadership of the Figure Skating Association of America and the NBC television channel, which broadcast the Games. On the Internet, special attention was paid to the political component.

At that time, Russia passed a law banning the promotion of homosexuality among children and adolescents. The ex-American champion said that she is categorically against, she has friends in the LGBT community and in Sochi she intends to actively defend the rights of representatives of sexual minorities.

At the Sochi Olympics, Ashley showed the sixth result in the short program and the seventh in the free program, losing in individual competitions to her main rival on the team, Gracie Gold. She managed to get close to the podium. From Russia, Wagner took away bronze in team competition.

It's hard to say for sure how the American figure skater is doing with her personal life. For several years, on Instagram, Wagner published photos and videos with figure skater Adam Rippon, which allowed followers to assume a close relationship between young people. However, Adam came out in 2015. At the same time, Ashley, in an interview with The Washington Post, called the skater her best friend and “her boyfriend, who is not her boyfriend.”

On the Internet, information flashes that the athlete has a special relationship with short tracker Eduardo Alvarez. The romance began after the Sochi Olympics, in which Eddie won silver in the relay. He later retrained as a baseball player.

The sports principle, which did not work in 2014, did not let Ashley go to the Olympics in Korea: the girl lost the national championship. The reason for this, by her own admission, is the lack of a fighting spirit. The new season, Wagner said, began with the thought that enough titles had been won to give them the right to feel good about themselves. However, since winning the silver medal at the World Championships, Ashley was under pressure, although she did not consider this the main reason for the defeat.

If the jumps were successful as never before in their career, psychologically there was not enough calmness. The skater assessed her condition as constant stress.

During the days of the Olympics, Ashley recalled herself, criticizing the performance of the Russian loner Alina Zagitova. She didn't like the fact that complex and expensive elements were concentrated in the second part of the program, which automatically adds points. Although the skater admitted that these are the requirements of the system, and Alina is a figure skating star, her words did not weaken the resonance.

Without exaggeration, the whole country rose in defense of Alina - both specialists and people far from sports. As soon as the American was not called: both the "past" of figure skating, and the old, and the person whose opinion nobody cares about. Wagner's compatriots were also found, who on Twitter called her an envious person.

Olympic medalist and stage director Ilya Averbukh drew attention to the fact that Wagner did not say a word about the unique cascade of triple jumps, which, except for Zagitova, no one performs, and stressed that Wagner "is not even close to jumping such a cascade."

But, perhaps, the most harsh assessment of the words of the American athlete was given by Natalya Bestemyanova. According to the Olympic champion, "Ashley is a stupid person, he doesn't know the rules by which the program is put together, that's why she didn't get to the Olympics."

Wagner herself said that after Pyeongchang she plans to continue skating, if there is strength, and there will be progress, because she loves figure skating. On the other hand, she's not the kind of person who sits and watches her career decline - this moment Ashley will have time to catch. But this will not happen after the 2018 Olympics.

2007, 2009 - Bronze medal at the World Junior Championships 2012 - Gold medal at the Four Continents Championship 2011, 2012, 2014 - Gold medal at the US Championship 2014 - Bronze medal at the Sochi Olympics (in team competition) 2015 - Gold medal at the World Team Championship 2016 - Silver medal world championship

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