Olympic diving champion Elena Vaitsekhovskaya believes that figure skating coach Yevgeny Plushenko could find for Alexandra Trousova motivation to continue exercising.
2022 Olympics silver medalist Trusova was engaged in the Plushenko group from May 2020 to May 2021. In October 2022, Trusova left the group Tutberidze to Svetlana Sokolovskaya.
– Why didn’t Sasha win at the most important moment? It seems to me that in her life as an adult figure skater, she really needed someone next to her with a stronger character than her own. In whom she would have unconditional trust. And who would be able to convince the skater that rushing around the doorway around the clock, performing some other feat, is not the most profitable practice if you want to win the main fight. Moreover, Trusov had to convince and not try to crush him. But there was no such person.
Maybe Evgeni Plushenko could have become one, but not then and not in this situation. I am therefore far from thinking that if Trusova had remained at the Angels, she would have become champion in Beijing. Everything is much more complicated here: Plushenko, it seems to me, at that time did not have enough training weight, which the judges always look at, and most importantly, for Sasha there was no equivalent sparring that would push the skater forward.
In other words, working with Trusova, Evgeny himself learned to be a coach. Just like in his time, Tutberidze learned to be a coach working with Lipnitskaya (I think it is not necessary to explain here that we are not talking about working with groups of children and juniors).
Maybe I’m just wishing, but for some reason it seems to me that the current Plushenko would be able to find the motivation for Sasha not to leave training. Not to scatter on all sorts of PR projects, causing the delight of fans, but to lose condition, but to stay in sports seriously and for a long time.
Why might a figure skater need it? Well, at least because Olympic Gold opens up much wider opportunities for a person than any other medal. The example of Alina Zagitova is a vivid confirmation of this, ”quotes RT Vaitsekhovskaya.
Previously, Trusova was on the Russian national team’s extra roster for the upcoming season. The figure skater is the silver medalist of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games in individual skating.
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Source : MatchTV
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