Eteri Tutberidze: “About delaying pubertal development – please watch the strongest warm-up at the 2018 Olympics. Who had breasts in that warm-up? Only Zagitova and Medvedeva.”

Translation of Eteri Tutberidze’s comment about the length of her students’ careers.

original source: Comment Show Youtube Channel

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

“Q: The main complaint from the community is that the athletic journey of Eteri Tutberidze’s students constitutes a very short time frame. It’s claimed that your methods slow down the girls’ pubertal development, preventing them from reaching puberty. At this age, they find jumps, choreography, and all spins easier. You extract the maximum from them, and they end their careers. Examples include Yulia Lipnitskaya, Alina Zagitova, Evgenia Medvedeva…

Eteri Tutberidze: Medvedeva competed in the Olympics at the age of 18. She came to me when she was six and a half. Now, calculate her journey to the Olympics with me.

Q: So, it’s a myth.

Eteri Tutberidze: About delaying pubertal development – please watch the strongest warm-up of the 2018 Olympics. Who had breasts in that warm-up? Only Zagitova and Medvedeva. So, who’s slowing down development there?

It’s almost 13 years – Medvedeva’s journey to the Olympics only with me. Things were quite challenging for her, I always emphasized that she was a workaholic, and I understood that the way she worked with us, she wouldn’t do it anywhere else.

Do they have a short path? Not at all! And if they, after winning a medal, maybe don’t want to work as hard – should I force them against their will?” Tutberidze said in an interview with Leonid Slutsky on the “Comment.Show” YouTube

Related topics: Alina Zagitova, Eteri Tutberidze, Evgenia Medvedeva