Roman Kostomarov, the 2006 Olympic champion in ice dancing, recalled his first marriage with Russian figure skater Yulia Lautova, who competed for Austria, in the “Secret of a Million” program broadcast on NTV channel.
“We got married and built a big ship. 150 people. I have a great relationship with Yulia, we communicate with her, but I can’t understand her… Here it is 2005, my pre-Olympic year. I rented a good apartment, we started living together in America… But I was absorbed in the training process, and he was bored too… But he should have understood, after all, he was a figure skater in the past, “said the athlete.
Kostomarov and Lautova married in June 2004 and divorced in 2007.
At the beginning of January 2023, Roman Kostomarov was hospitalized after New Year’s performances at an open-air show. It was reported that he was in intensive care due to pneumonia and was connected to a ventilator, and his condition was evaluated to be extremely serious.
The athlete was then transported to a hospital in Kommunarka, resuscitated and connected to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine. During the treatment, both Kostomarov’s feet and hands were amputated. On July 6, doctors discharged the skater from the hospital.
Previously Kostomarov named Figure skating is a sport where you have to betray people.