Oksana Domnina, wife of Olympic medalist and Olympic champion Roman Kostomarov, in an interview First Channel He talked about how the skater’s children perceived the amputation surgeries their father had to undergo.
“This whole situation was very difficult for them. Nastya is wonderful. He’s probably like me. First of all, I instilled in myself, the Roma people and the children the hope that everything will be okay, that we will overcome everything, that everything will be fine. He adopted these words from me and began to say that when Roman left the hospital, it was hard and bad, of course he lives everything inside, supports and supports him. “There was never a moment when she was deeply saddened,” Domnina said.
The couple has two children: 12-year-old Anastasia and 7-year-old Ilya.
On December 17, Kostomarov took part in Ilya Averbukh’s show “Together and Forever” and went out on the ice on skates. The figure skater appeared at the end of his wife Domnina’s exhibition routine with Maxim Shabalin and performed an excerpt from “Carmen”, the free program with which he and his former partner Tatyana Navka won the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin.
At the beginning of January 2023, the skater was hospitalized after New Year’s performances at the outdoor show. The champion was taken to intensive care and put on a ventilator with pneumonia, 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: the skater lost both legs, the hand of one hand and the fingers of the other hand. On July 6, Kostomarov was discharged from the hospital in Kommunarka, where he spent 175 days.
Previously Kostomarov shared Emotions arising from performing in a skating show after amputation.