Oksana Domnina, wife of 2006 Olympic ice dancing champion Roman Kostomarova, said in an interview: “Sports Express”The one who supported her husband during his illness.
“Relatives. We all supported each other. But the biggest support came from the Romani brother. At first we were together all the time,” said the Olympic bronze medalist.
At the beginning of January 2023, Kostomarov was hospitalized after New Year’s performances at an open-air show. Roman was taken to intensive care with pneumonia and placed on artificial respiration, and his condition was assessed to be extremely serious.
The athlete was transported to a hospital in Kommunarka, resuscitated and connected to an artificial blood oxygen saturation device (ECMO), after which he remained on a ventilator for a long time.
Complications caused by the disease led to the development of gangrene, for which doctors had to perform a series of amputation surgeries: Kostomarov lost both legs, the hand of one hand and the fingers of the other hand. The figure skater was discharged on July 6 from the hospital in Kommunarka, where she spent 175 days.
Previously Kostomarov statedHe said that the children came up with a new nickname for him because of his prosthetics.