Athletistic / Figure skating. Former Russian figure skater, now choreographer and producer Ilya Averbukh, said that 2006 Olympic champion Roman Kostomarov would take part in his ice shows. In 2023, Kostomarov suffered from severe pneumonia, as a result of which his feet and some fingers were amputated.

In total, the athlete spent more than six months in the hospital. Later, he was fitted with dentures.

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“Roman Kostomarov will participate in our entire tour. He is an integral part of all my projects. It has always been this way and it will be this way.

Roma have had a very difficult time. Exactly a year ago, when he was in the hospital and struggling between life and death, we opened a show in Yaroslavl and held a program in support of the Roma. People wrote him letters of love and support. We picked them up during intermission and brought them to Roman.

It is symbolic for me that exactly a year later he travels to the same cities and goes out on the ice himself. Maybe Roman will also skate, thanking those who prayed for him and supported him with all their might,” Sport24 quotes Averbukh.


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