“Our unity lies in the fact that we were and remain patriots of the country.” Piseev – about Tarasova

Honorary President of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR) Valentin Piseev told that his long-term relationship with Tatyana Tarasova based on patriotism.

On Tuesday, Tarasova turned 77 years old.

— I congratulated her in the morning, we talked. First of all, I wished her good health, so that she could continue to help figure skating and delight viewers with her comments. He said that in our long-term relations there were different situations, but our unity lay in the fact that we were and remain patriots of the country, we did everything for the good of the cause. But the nuances have long been forgotten. She was okay with that.

— The essential thing in Tarasova’s character?

“The ability to achieve the goals that I set for myself,” Piseev told .

Under the leadership of Tarasova, the sports couple Irina Rodnina/Alexander Zaitsev, dance duets Natalya Bestemyanova/Andrey Bukin, Marina Klimova/Sergey Ponomarenko, Oksana Grischuk/Evgeny Platov, as well as singles skaters Ilya Kulik and Alexey Yagudin became Olympic champions.