Sports journalist, Olympic champion in diving Elena Vaitsekhovskaya spoke about her criticism of the refereeing of Evgeni Plushenko, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating. The head of the Angela Plushenko Academy criticized the judges at the Russian championship, for which, according to him, his wards were considered biased. Vaitsekhovskaya noted that there is a grain of truth in the famous figure skater’s words.
“From the statements of Yevgeni Plushenko to the judges an ambiguous feeling. In fact, behind his words there is truth, unfortunately, the most pleasant expression of the truth: the qualifications of Russian experts may be arbitrarily high, but even a superficial analysis of the protocols leaves the feeling that almost all of them are playing their own game. game for many years.
But there is another fact. Complaining about refereeing if an athlete is at fault is not the right strategy. This applies not only to figure skating, but to all sports in which people are in control, ”wrote Vaitsekhovskaya. telegraph channel.
The journalist admitted that the ward of Plushenko, Veronika Zhilina, is the best in the free program. GOE – the performance score – and realized that the second score was not very high. But Vaitsekhovskaya believes that this may be the result of Zhilina’s ninth place in the short program. In this case, the specialist believes that the complaints are inappropriate.
Former figure skater and choreographer Betina Popova spoke About the possible change in Plushenko’s federation guardianship.