Former figure skater Elizabet Tursynbayeva was selected as a candidate for the maslikhat (local representative body) of the city of Almaty from the ruling Amanat party in Kazakhstan.
“Yes, this is still a candidate, but I have a great responsibility and honor for the opportunity to be a representative who can make changes for the better in the future.
This is just the beginning. “It’s easy to be an outsider and complain about the system, it’s much harder to take action, so this is not an easy step for me,” said Tursynbayeva in social networks.
The 22-year-old athlete was in Russia’s Honored Coach Eteri Tutberidze’s group from 2012 to 2013. In 2018, Canadian Brian Orser left the team to return to the Russian coach. After that, the skater won a silver medal at the 2019 World Championships, the first quad salchow in adult competitions.
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