The report of Russian figure skater Roman Kostomarov has been published telegram channel New year greetings.
The athlete wished health to his subscribers.
On December 17, Kostomarov took part in the show “Together and Forever” by choreographer Ilya Averbukh, going out on 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. He was in intensive care with pneumonia and was put on a ventilator. 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. Parts of his arms and legs were amputated.
Previously Kostomarov I couldn’t hold back my tears after returning to the ice.