Kostomarov: “It’s a great pleasure to go out on the ice when a full audience welcomes you”

Olympic champion Roman Kostomarov said he had a great time taking to the ice with the stands filled to capacity during the anniversary show Ilya Averbukh .

Kostomarov appeared on skates at the end of his wife Oksana Domnina’s exhibition number with Maxim Shabalin at Ilya Averbukh’s anniversary show. On December 11, Roman posted a video on his Telegram channel about how he went out on the ice on skates for the first time after amputations. On Sunday he appeared on the ice during the show, the audience greeted him standing, people sat down only at the end of the show, many could not hold back their tears.

– Thank you for this support and love. It’s a great pleasure to go out on the ice and be greeted by a large audience. I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone for the support I have felt throughout this terrible time. I would like to thank my wife, my brother and my parents. Life brings us difficult trials, but if you have loved ones with you, it makes sense to move forward and live, ”reports the correspondent of , reporting Kostomarov’s words.

Kostomarov, partnered with Tatyana Navka, won gold at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, and also won the World Championships twice and the European Championships three times.