sports dictionary Figure skating - TROIKA (TRIPLE TURN) (THREE TURN)

Figure skating TROIKA (TRIPLE TURN) (THREE TURN) turn on one leg with a change of edge and direction of movement. It is called this because the track that remains on the ice looks like the number 3. One of the most common triples looks like this: the skater slides forward on the outer edge of the left leg, then turns 180 degrees over the left shoulder ("in the center of the circle") and continues to slide on the left leg, but back and on the inner edge. This triple is used when entering salchow and flip. Other options look similar, for example, one of the approaches to the Rittberger starts with a triple "forward in": the skater slides on the right foot forward in, turns and moves back on the outer edge. When triples are used as jump approaches, the second part ("after the turn") is often cut off, the skater simply jumps into the air from the required edge, but sometimes so-called "multiple" triples are used (when turns are performed one after the other without stopping), for example, Irina Slutskaya often used multiple triples to approach the triple rittberger.