Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova said that for a Russian, a figure skater Alina Zagitova is a greater athlete than a football player Lionel Messi .
— Of course, I agree that for a Russian, Alina Zagitova is a greater athlete than Messi. I am proud that figure skating in Russia has become comparable in popularity to football. I participated in it, I worked all these years, I have been working for 50 years already,” Tarasova said, as quoted by Legalbet.
Zagitova won the gold medal at the 2018 Olympics in single skating. Argentine footballer Lionel Messi won the Olympics in 2008 and also became world champion in 2022.
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