“Kostornaya has just started performing as a duet and she is already chatting with the judges. This is provocative and unacceptable. » – Tatiana Tarasova

Honored coach of the USSR in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova told she considered the figure skater’s comments inappropriate Alena Kostornaya who criticized the judges after competing in the second stage of the Russian Grand Prix in Omsk with Georgy Kounitsa .

On Sunday, the Kostornaya and Kunitsa duo presented a free program at the stage of the Russian Grand Prix in Omsk, receiving 124.71 points. The total of the two performances was 192.77 points, the duo took fourth place. After the performance, the skater expressed dissatisfaction with how her work was evaluated after the short program, adding that due to the judges’ controversial scores, figure skating is “sinking into a swamp.”

“She would have skated better with more dignity.” Kostornaya has just started performing in pairs and is already chatting with the judges. This is simply provocative, unacceptable, no one allows themselves to do this. She just made her debut in pair skating at competitions, how does she know how to judge them? There is no need to express this, it is wrong, in our figure skating it is not customary to criticize the judges. She has a trainer, did she forget him? As a last resort, they could voice their complaints.

— After that, will the judges treat her worse?

– No, they won’t. Our judges evaluate the elements, program and purity of skating, not post-skating interviews. At least I hope that’s the case,” Tarasova told .

The pairs sports competition in Omsk was won by Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov, who scored 232.98 points.