St. Petersburg champion Russian figure skater Ksenia Gushchina shared her thoughts on comments made by commentators about the excess weight of athletes in sports, which she sometimes makes during various skating. His words lead the way “Sports Express”.
“When they say on the air that someone is gaining weight or getting fat, that doesn’t seem right and true to me. After all, there is an athlete and a coach, they need to decide this among themselves. We weigh ourselves every day. But it seems to me that no one feels uncomfortable talking about such a person. Then I review the publications,” Gushchina said.
At the last Russian Championship 2024, Honored Coach Tatyana Tarasova spoke several times about the excess weight that figure skaters have.
In March 2022, the ISU suspended Russian and Belarusian athletes from competition. In the 2022/23 season, they focused on domestic competitions (Russian Grand Prix stages and the national championship). Although the issue of the return of Russian athletes was on the agenda at the ISU meeting held in October 2023, it was not brought up. The last major tournament for the Russians was the Olympic Games in Beijing in February 2022.
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