Tarasova on the attack on figure skater Dikidzhi: “Being attacked in public with a knife, what does it feel like? I suffer from this. Horror”

Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova in a conversation with a correspondent, she admitted that she was shocked by the attack on the Russian figure skater Vladislav Dikidji.

On Friday, Dikidzhi, 19, said he was attacked in the St. Petersburg metro and threatened with a knife. The skater was not injured. On Saturday, the athlete’s coach, Oleg Tataurov, told that the police had already arrested the attacker, Dikidzhi had been training and his condition was stable.

“Luckily they didn’t do more to him!” I really like this boy and his coach, who wrote today that everything is fine. We were all very worried. Vlad is a nice boy. But I can’t understand how this happens in broad daylight? How to be attacked in public with a knife? I suffer from this. It’s terrible that this is happening in St. Petersburg. We all shout about crimes, that they have a city of contrasts. We ourselves are a city of contrasts, since this happens. We shouldn’t write about others, but we should make sure that this doesn’t happen to us,” Tarasova told .

Dikidzhi won a silver medal at the Russian Championship, which took place in December 2023 in Chelyabinsk. The skater also won two stages of the Russian Grand Prix, in Kazan and Moscow.