Honored coach of the USSR in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova commented on the words of the two-time Olympic champion Evgeny Plushenko about unfair refereeing to the students of the Angela Plushenko Academy.
“She has beautiful daughters and she is doing a very good job. But her skaters made a mistake, and they were removed for it, ”said Tarasova. However, she added that Plushenko expects higher free skating grades from her student Veronika Zhilina.
Tarasova also expressed confidence that the referees would not listen to the coach’s words. “Yes, no one is listening to us. The judges didn’t care for everyone. She said and said. Why? But initially the figure skater made a mistake, ”she explained.
Formerly Plushenko threatening Separation of skaters to other teams due to refereeing at the Russian Junior Championships.
Alina Gorbacheva, representative of the Tver figure skating sports school, became the winner of the singles tournament.
According to the sum of the two programs of Gorbachev, whose coach is Sofia Fedchenko, he earned 224.41 points. This allowed her to get ahead of Muscovite Veronika Zhilina, representing the Plushenko Angels Academy (218.79), as well as Maria Gordeeva from the CSKA school (213.02), another representative of the capital – she won the bronze medal of the tournament.
Fourth, Evgeny Plushenko was another student of Sofia Titova. According to the total of the programs, it received 200.73 points. It is worth noting that after the short program he took only 16th place out of 18 participants, and after the free skating he was not satisfied with the refereeing.