Eteri Tutberidze: “Loves not the one who strokes, kisses, and tells you how great you are and that everything will be fine. But the one who leads you to medals.”

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Translation of Eteri Tutberidze’s comment about her students leaving her.

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Here’s a translation of Eteri Tutberidze’s comment her stydents leaving her made in a interview with Leonid Slutsky.

Q: None of your students who left have achieved anything anywhere else. Even Zhenya Medvedeva was so happy with her bronze at the 2019 World Championships, more so than her gold medals.

Eteri Tutberidze: Even though she lost to a Kazakh athlete.

Q: Do you (the athletes) not understand who you’re growing up with, your coach. What does they give you? Parents should understand that.

Eteri Tutberidze: I don’t even know. At some point, they start to think they’ve achieved everything on their own. I’m almost certain that if Zhenya Medvedeva sincerely searches her mind… She and I both know the truth. Maybe even Dudakov and the others don’t know.

We achieved some things together. It’s important to give her credit for understanding her problem areas so well. If you tell someone else that something’s wrong here, another athlete might not perceive it, but Zhenya immediately understood everything; there was no need to go over it with her.

So, I find it very strange that there were interviews about her new family, or her family in general, that she found a new one. Well, okay. They all leave when they have individual attention and new families who love them. Sasha (Trusova) was also loved in that family. Probably, they still love her. Now, she talks about her new family too.

First of all, loves not the one who strokes, kisses, and tells you how great you are and that everything will be fine. But the one who leads you to medals.

Maybe she forced you, scolded you, or didn’t listen to your complaints about how bad you feel and that you can’t do anything, and she played your music again and made you do it again. That’s the one who loves. The one who invests her nerves, strength, life, a part of her life in you. Energy that no one will replenish.

Q: So, you need to decide: either you just want to skate…

Eteri Tutberidze: But they don’t understand this! They think that he hugged her, said something to her, and smiled at her. And here they don’t smile. So, they probably don’t love,” – said Russia’s Honored Coach in Figure Skating, Eteri Tutberidze, on the “Comment.Show” show with Leonid Slutsky.


 

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