Honored trainer of the USSR in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova emotionally reacted to the words of the American figure skater Ashley Wagner, who spoke about the dismissal of the Russians.
“Well, what can I say about it? It was not asked where the Russian coaches should go and where they should not go. Next time we will ask him if we can go. Who’s that? Stupid is simple. Stupid girl,” Tarasova quotes DEA News.
Wagner said he did not understand why Russian athletes were removed from international competitions, but Russian coaches were not.
Recall that the Russian coaches Eteri Tutberidze, Daniil Gleikhengauz and Sergey Lipov accompanied Italian Daniel Grassl and Georgian Maurice Kvitelashvili and Nika Egadze at the World Championships.
Recall that at the end of February 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made an appeal to international sports federations and advised not to allow domestic and Belarusian athletes to participate in any competitions. For this reason, the International Skating Union (ISU) suspended Russian and Belarusian athletes from competitions.
Formerly Katarina Gerboldt He stated that it would be possible to evaluate Grassl’s work with Tutberidze only in the new season..