“Roman Kostomarov is a perfectionist and sets global goals” – Averbukh

Ice show producer Ilya Averbukh declared that the Olympic champion Roman Kostomarov he needs time to prepare for other performances, because he is a perfectionist and sets big goals.

For the first time after the amputations, Kostomarov skated on Ilya Averbukh’s birthday. Together with Tatyana Navka, they performed the program “Carmen”, with which they won the 2006 Olympic Games.

A gala concert on ice in honor of the liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade took place on January 28 in St. Petersburg. Its participants included Kamila Valieva, Mark Kondratyuk, Dmitry Aliev, Alexander Samarin, Natalya Khabibullina and Ilya Knyazhuk, dancers Ekaterina Mironova and Evgeniy Ustenko, Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, Alexey Yagudin and other champions of different years.

— Roma was already on the ice, everyone saw him. There were no plans to participate in today’s concert, but we are making plans. Roma is a perfectionist and sets global goals. If the first time the very fact of going onto the ice with skates was important to him, now what matters to him is what will happen on the ice and how. That takes time. Today Oksana Domnina is involved in several numbers, and our team has a big tour ahead of them. “I really hope that sooner or later we will see Roman on the ice,” reports the correspondent of , reporting Averbukh’s words.