Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova expressed the opinion that family life should not adversely affect the results of the figure skater couple Alena Kostornaya / Georgy Kunitsa. Transmits words “Match TV”.
“They just started skating together, nothing should stop them. They still have good hopes, they are young, they are just getting started, they are training. There will be one season – let’s see what they will get, ”said Tarasova.
The skaters got married on August 12. On May 20, Kostornaya said that Kunitsa had proposed to her in a balloon.
Kostornaya is the 2020 European champion in single skating. He worked with Eteri Tutberidze until mid-2020, then moved to the group with two-time Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko.
He returned to Khrustalny in the spring of 2021, passed a two-month probationary period. He performed in the two stages of the Grand Prix in the 2021/22 Olympic season and broke his arm ahead of the Russian Championship, a qualifying tournament for the 2022 Games. Kostornaya missed the national championship, so she could not compete for a ticket to the Olympics.
A year later, Kostornaya broke up with Tutberidze, this time to Elena Buyanova. She also trained there for a few months, she. At the beginning of 2023, the former coach Kostornaya announced that the skater began to pair. The figure skater was paired with Kunitsa, with whom she performed in the fall of 2020.
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