Voronova: “For the sake of the medal, Khondoshko’s program was redone in 2 days remotely”

Elena Voronova, consulting coach of Belarusian synchronized swimmer Vasilina Khondoshko, said that after the preliminary competitions at the World Championships in Doha, she was forced to remotely help the athlete redo her solo program.

Hondoshko participates in neutral status at the World Championships and scored 245.1042 points, which is the third result. Canadian Jacqueline Simoneau won (264.8207), while Greek athlete Evangelia Plantanioti finished second with 253.2833.

“It was a kind of mockery of the new system of rules and refereeing. We have shown seven identical ligaments; they were absolutely identical, differing only in the way the toe was bent one way or the other. Why was this done? We prepared a superb solo program, very beautiful, which finished fifth in the preliminary rounds. “Singing” legs, musicality, super beautiful hands, but no one looks at him now. Now they are wondering whether or not we will hand over the elements of complexity. We decided that since no one needs our beautiful solo, we will, sorry for the jargon, wring our butts! Well, as a result, here is the result. I hope that this story of such specific jokes will make people think that with a beautiful solo program you are in fifth place, and with “à, deux, trois, quatre” you are among the winners. This is where synchronized swimming is now heading.

We wanted to draw attention to the fact that in solo shows, people don’t want to just see cliché moves. But factorization is designed in such a way: no matter what you do from an artistic point of view, it will still not outweigh the elements of complexity in the connections. I had to use my intelligence. With my help, Vasilina completely redid the solo in two days.

— Excuse me, did you redo your solo free program remotely?

— Yes, remotely, we can do that. So what to do? It was Vasilina’s idea, I supported her, because he who does not take risks does not become a winner.

— According to the new rules, how many screws must there be in Svetlana Kolesnichenko’s program to potentially win at the international level?

“She doesn’t do any solo shows yet and can afford to leave everything as is. In fact, it is now pure mathematics. Sveta and Vasilina are such physically fit athletes that they can perform as many elements as necessary. But we’re just forced to slide into this pit of madness to compete for medals. And it’s terrible. It is impossible to watch solos staged according to the new rules,” Voronova told .