Max Naumov: The Olympics “would mean the absolute world” to me<\/p>\n
In the kiss and cry, Naumov held a photo of himself at age three – on the ice for the first time, flanked by his parents. Shishkova and Naumov Sr. were world champion pairs skaters in the 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When his 85.72 score came up,\u00a0Naumov\u2019s emotions finally let out, and the tears flowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was thinking about them,\u201d he said of the moment. \u201cTheir smile, their laugh, what they\u2019d say to me, their words; it all replays in my head, especially in times like this, and I\u2026 love \u2018em.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fight will continue Saturday (10 January) in the men’s free skate, where Naumov will be a contender for one of Team USA’s\u00a0three quota spots in Italy.<\/p>\n
Making it there, he says, would be the ultimate tribute.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the ultimate goal. It’s what my parents and I, one of our last conversations was exactly about that,\u201d said Naumov. \u201cAnd it would mean the absolute world to me to do so. That’s exactly what we’re fighting for. It’s what we wake up for, it’s what we go to bed for, every single day. That\u2019s what I think about first thing in the morning and when I shut my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n
*As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Winter Games, athletes’ participation at Milano Cortina 2026 depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at the Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Naumov: The Olympics “would mean the absolute world” to me In the kiss and cry, Naumov held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-228862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}