Honored trainer of the USSR in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova reacted to a new video from the training of Olympic champion Roman Kostomarov. “Sport Express”.
“I am very pleased and amazed that Kostomarov continues to cope and does not give up. Tarasova is definitely one of the most outstanding athletes I have ever seen, ”said Tarasova.
In the new video, the 46-year-old athlete with a prosthetic walks on the treadmill followed by weight-bearing arm exercises and leg swings.
The figure skater has already started training on an exercise bike on prosthetic legs. He does not practice for more than an hour every day, because in the process of getting used to the artificial limb, pain occurs. Prosthetics for the hands of the figure skater have not yet been installed.
The Turin 2006 Olympic champion, paired with Tatyana Navka, has been in the hospital since January of this year, when she was admitted to intensive care with bilateral pneumonia. Complications of the disease led to tissue death and amputation of the shins, fingers of one hand and hand of the other.
used to be a doctor announcedWhere Kostomarov had a big hole in his neck.