Figure skater Alena Kostornaya could continue to compete, despite the injury. The coach of the athlete Eteri Tutberidze told Channel One about this.
According to the specialist, the Russian woman has a “crack on the bone of a finger.” Tutberidze reproached the ward for refusing to start. “I believe that it was possible to try and skate with this injury. Because Evgenia Medvedeva skated with a plaster cast on her arm at the Russian Championship, and no one even knew about it. And she won that Russian championship beautifully, ”the coach added.
Tutberidze stressed that there are injuries incompatible with the performances, but she does not consider Kostornaya’s damage to be such. “It seems to me that I had to train, I had to try,” said the specialist.
On December 13, TASS and Match TV reported that Kostornaya would not compete in the Russian championship due to a fractured hand. Missing the competition will prevent her from qualifying for the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.
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