Coach Gorbacheva: Plushenko’s opinion is not authoritative for me

• Plushenko’s Angels filed a complaint with the FFKKR Ethics Commission against coach Fedchenko

After Gorbacheva’s victory in the Russian championship, Plushenko criticized the refereeing, alluding to the level of complexity of the champion’s programs compared to his students. Fedchenko responded, for which the Plushenko Academy complained about her to the FFKKR Ethics Commission.

“At first I didn’t want to react at all. Then I decided that it was at least worth saying something. What if the phrase “an athlete with an ultra-si won against an athlete with four” n hadn’t rung, I definitely wouldn’t comment on that, because there was a light stone in our garden.

Did I have a grudge? Only for my athlete. I had to defend her, she honestly did her job and is absolutely not responsible for anything. The child is annoying. Above all, I didn’t want her to start doubting her victory. Because she honestly and deservedly won the gold medal. True, it turned out that the story got very noisy.

I commented more than correctly. It’s just that my interview was torn into the sharpest sentences – and here we go. Basically, everyone clung to the phrase that I don’t care about the opinion of Yevgeny Viktorovich. In fact, I have a lot of respect for him as an athlete, but now we are colleagues in training. And I do not deny that his opinion specifically in coaching is really not authoritative for me.

Understand – we don’t work as a team, we don’t have common athletes. Therefore, I don’t care what his opinion of my skaters is. I have other authorities, experts whom I listen to. Evgeny Viktorovich is just my colleague. He is a good coach, he has great athletes, but we are not in the same team to count with his opinion of my guys,” Fedchenko said as quoted by RIA Novosti Sport.

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