On Tutberidze’s birthday, the mother of figure skater Tursynbaeva spoke about the coach’s unique attitude towards the parents of athletes.

Padishakhan Sultanalieva, mother of figure skater Elisabeth Tursynbaeva, noted in a conversation with that Eteri Tutberidze considers the participation of parents in the process of training their children’s figure skaters to be extremely important.

On February 24, Tutberidze celebrates his 50th birthday. Her students include Alina Zagitova, Kamila Valieva, Anna Shcherbakova, Evgenia Medvedeva, Adelia Petrosyan, Alexandra Trusova and other figure skaters.

“What I like most about our coach is that she focuses exclusively on the athlete’s potential and doesn’t listen or read gossip. Always based on the fact: the person came, how is he here and now? Can he work in a team? Eteri Georgievna always emphasizes that the organization of an athlete depends on his parents. No matter how disciplined a parent is, so is the disciplined child. She therefore always asks the parents of her students to attend training more often. So that they can see how all the coaches work, how their children work. She doesn’t hide from her parents. And how we suffered before that! In other schools, all the doors were closed, we rushed to the rink, looked through the crack… So I was pleasantly surprised when Eteri Georgievna herself invited me to practice. Each parent sees for themselves how their child behaves in class: if he works, if he relaxes… The coaches’ questions then no longer arise.

What has always struck me about Eteri Georgievna is that she doesn’t attend parties. All the coaches go to the banquets after the competitions, I was always invited too. But she doesn’t go, and even during dinners with the team, I rarely saw her. She constantly works, thinks of new ways. He perceives each victory in such a way that today there is a medal, but tomorrow it no longer exists. Tomorrow there are other projects, you have to prepare! From then on, she herself does not relax and asks herself above all: what did she do to make her athlete win?

This man played a big role in the fate of my entire family. Her son also studied with her and later trained as a coach. Timur always says that Eteri Georgievna really loves her work and is never late. His goal in life is to work and achieve results. Timur gained a lot of experience from these observations and began to work differently. He is now in Kazakhstan, with his sister, to develop his school. But before leaving, Eteri Georgievna said: “If something doesn’t work out, you can come back at any time. There will always be a place for you in my school. » She gave me a lot of advice at one point, both in terms of coaching and in terms of personal development. We are happy to see each other again, she guides us.

On her birthday, I wish Eteri Georgievna that she lives a long, long time. Life is the most important thing a person has. And health. If she has enough, everything else will work out. I also wish Diana (Davis) to achieve a lot in sport – to the delight of her wonderful mother,” Sultanalieva told .

Davis performs in an ice dance duet with Gleb Smolkin.