The 2002 Olympic champion in men’s singles, Alexei Yagudin, joked that their marriage with Tatyana Totmianina, who competed in a sports couple with Maxim Marinin, almost collapsed during the preparations for the tournament of show programs.
“We were almost divorced from my wife! “Tanya, what do you bet?” He: “I won’t tell.” “What do you want to say? We are a family. We have been together for a billion years, ”quotes Yagudin “Champions.com”.
The competition will be held on March 18 at the Megasport Moscow Sports Palace.
Totmyanina and Marinin are Olympic champions of the 2006 Games in Turin, Italy, in the sports couples competition.
Totmyanina and Yagudin met in their youth. At first they were just friends and a few years later they started dating. Yagudin and Totmianina broke up several times, and then reunited. They have two daughters named Elizabeth and Michelle. The couple officially married after many years of relationship and life together – in February 2016.
Former Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova reportedShe said she was not on the jury of the show show tournament organized by the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR) and Channel One.