Olympic diving champion and now sports journalist Elena Vaitsekhovskaya telegram channel He summarized the figure skaters’ performance at the 2024 Winter Spartakiad.
“Of course I could be wrong, but the same words about the seven nannies kept going around in my head. “Eteri Tutberidze clearly and even somehow lost interest in what was happening in Russia, Maxim Trankov and Alexey Tikhonov combined coaching with commentary, and Pavel Slyusarenko focused more (which is logical) on his own Perm duets,” Vaitsekhovskaya wrote.
Tutberidze’s wards Alexandra Boykova and Dmitry Kozlovsky won the silver medal, while Adelia Petrosyan took first place in the women’s singles.
At the end of February 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) appealed to international sports federations, recommending that Russian and Belarusian athletes not be allowed to participate in any competitions. For this reason, the International Skating Union (ISU) suspended athletes from both countries from competitions.
Previously Kostornaya saidWhy Tutberidze left him.