Russian ice dancing champion Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva In her column on , she noted that the public humiliation of figure skaters because of their excess weight often leads to big problems for the athletes.
Khudaiberdieva is 21 years old and plays in tandem with Yegor Bazin.
– Attention! Warning: sports are not about body positivity. “Accept me as I am” – it does not work here. In any sport, there are certain standards; in figure skating, aesthetics also apply. And this is a kind of obligatory sacrifice; if you don’t like something, don’t do it. And the joints will thank you. With too much weight for you and your load, training in full is not only difficult, but downright dangerous.
But! Is it really necessary to weigh a pubescent girl in front of the whole group? Discuss how many kilos she needs to lose? Call her a “ssbbw”, send her to run in a movie while your partner skates on the ice alone or with other free girls in front of you, and force her to send reports on what she ate today? Yes, I had a lot of coaches during my career, and at the beginning of my sports career, some would have been better off. Of course, you only get better because you don’t have the willpower, you can’t stand it and you eat at night. Anorexia, bulimia, laxatives – all this happens to figure skaters because of fear, shame, guilt and fear of being kicked out or replaced. And then they pester you about the fact that you can be so thin, well, you can’t eat normally ?! — wrote Khudaiberdieva.
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