Kostornaya will have time to recover from her injury by the start of the season, her partner Kunitsa said.

Georgy Kounitsa performance in a sporty pair with Alena Kostornaya in an interview with , said that the skater will have time to recover from his injury by the start of the 2024/25 season.

Last season, Kostornaya and Kunitsa took ninth place at the Russian Championship. Alena underwent shoulder surgery in mid-February. It was reported that the 20-year-old athlete’s recovery would take around six months.

— Alena was injured. Will he have time to recover between now and the start of the season?

– Yes, everything will be fine, almost everything is fine now.

— Let’s imagine: could you be a winner at the European Championships and the World Championships? The level is objectively lower than it is currently in Russia.

— It is not very correct to compare the internal evaluation system and the international system. We would probably be competitive. We probably would have fought to get into the top 6.

— At the World Pairs Championships, the main phenomenon for me was Canadians Diana Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps. My partner won the title at forty!

— I’ve heard of her, I can’t say that I’m a fan of this couple. But they attract attention. It’s amazing that at forty years old a person finds the strength to go and become a world champion. My sister is now two years old. One day we will finish skating, then I will come back fifteen years later and, with my sister, I will win the World Cup. How do you like this scenario? (Laughs).

— To conclude the conversation on the sporting aspect: many think that Kostornaya/Kunitsa is a couple that will end in one season.

– Well, okay, let them write. We want to prove,” Kunitsa told .

Kostornaya is the 2020 European single skating champion. The athlete has been pair skating with Kunitz since 2023.

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