Athletistic/ Figure Skating. Two-time Olympic figure skating champion Evgeni Plushenko has spoken about the expulsion of 15-year-old figure skater Anastasia Zinina from his academy.

Zinina studied at the Angela Plushenko Academy under Dmitry Mikhailov. Last season, the athlete took 18th place in the Russian Championship among juniors.

“Zinina was expelled from the academy because she refused to follow the instructions of the coaches. Anastasia got injured, she was forbidden to do jumps, but the athlete did not obey the coaches, the Her mother’s opinion was more important to her.

In our academy, such things are unacceptable,” Plushenko told TASS.

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