Ilyinykh, a water jumper, explained why she quit figure skating, which she had been practicing for three months

World Championship Medalist Christina Ilinykh she said in a interview that before diving into the water, she tried many sports, including figure skating.

Kristina Ilyinykh is the namesake of Olympic figure skating champion Elena Ilyinykh.

I have been figure skating for three months. I went there because it was painful to fall, but above all, nobody forced me to go there, to keep doing it. According to the principle: if you don’t want it, you don’t have to. It was different in show jumping because the coach was interested in me. I won’t come, she calls, asks, says to come. Mom and coach in this matter played a role. The coach saw that I was self-critical, so she tried to support me so that I wanted to do this more.

– About “it hurts to fall”: there are also a lot of jumping falls.

And it hurts too, of course. For this reason, I did not want to go to training. It was scary to learn new jumps.

They say it’s even worse in adulthood.

– In adulthood, this fear is already a habit. As a child, you are more afraid of the unknown. It scared me,” Ilyinykh told .