Rodnina refused to consider Kostomarov the person of the year

Irina Rodnina, three-time Olympic champion and State Duma deputy, believes that the famous figure skater Roman Kostomarov is a man of overachievers, and not a man of the year.

Last week, the general director of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), Valery Fedorov, said that Kostomarov had been named athlete of the year.

“He’s a passing man, but not a man of the year.” Even if Roman is a colossal example to follow. He made us proud with his will to win and live, he made us proud, but I can’t call him man of the year. Because this whole year we have somewhat different events and our thoughts are directed in a different direction. It’s difficult for me to name just one person and I shouldn’t do that, so people should decide that,” Sport24 quotes Rodnina.

At the beginning of the year, Roman Kostomarov, 46, was hospitalized for a severe form of pneumonia: following tissue necrosis, he underwent partial amputation of his arms and legs. On December 17, the skater stepped on the ice for the first time with a number.

Sport24