Athletistic/Figure skating. 2020 European champion in women’s single skating, winner of the ISU Grand Prix Final of the 2019/2020 season, Russian figure skater Alena Kostornaya told how she suffered a fracture in her second arm, which led to her exclusion from the Tutberidze group.

“After the cast came off, I returned to the ice. On the third day of training, I tried to do a jump and broke my left arm. And again, not on the same jump! J “I started to recover, but in the end, when I tried to do simpler tricks, she also broke her left arm. The idea of ​​stopping skating, of course, came to me mind, but I thought: what will I have if I stop? Nothing. So I decided to contact the federation and ask for help, they offered me to move to CSKA.

I wanted to get back on the ice, but I had to take care of my hands and only do physical training. I always wanted to ride, then I realized I just needed to. I’m studying to be a coach, and it takes a lot of time, but I realized I had to ride because I love it. I want to feel the emotions of competitions. At that time, we began to develop programs with Elena Germanovna Buyanova, and it was at that time that problems with my leg were discovered at the training camp. I can talk a lot about my injuries. It was a nightmare,” Kostornaya explained in an interview on Laysan Utyasheva’s YouTube channel.

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