Honored Coach of the USSR Tatiana Tarasova in a conversation with , she supported the figure skater’s decision Alexandra Trousova compete in athletics.
On June 3, the All-Russian Athletics Federation confirmed the information from that the silver medalist of the 2022 Olympics Trusova will participate in the week of athletics in Moscow in the discipline of long jump. Jump day is scheduled for June 9.
– She’s a big girl, why shouldn’t she play if she has the ability and desire. We have a winter sport, we do our physical in the summer. She is used to heavy workloads, everything will benefit her,” Tarasova told .
Trusova, who turns 18 on June 23, is also a 2021 World Championship bronze medalist, a double European Championship bronze medalist (2020, 2022) and a double junior world champion (2018, 2019). At the 2022 Olympics, she was the first in history to be able to perform five quadruple jumps in a free program without falling.
Source : MatchTV
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