Police have identified figure skater Dikiji’s attacker, the athlete’s coach said.

Russian figure skating coach Vladislav Dikidji Oleg Tataurov told that the police had identified the person who attacked the athlete.

On Friday, the 19-year-old figure skater said on his Telegram channel that he had been “almost stabbed to death in the subway.”

“Now the police are investigating.” In the car, an inappropriate person shot Vlad and threatened him with a knife. The police identified him and are now looking for the attacker. Maybe soon it will become clear why the attack took place,” Tataurov told .

This season, Dikidzhi won two stages of the Russian Grand Prix and took silver at the national championship, losing only to Evgeniy Semenenko.