Eteri Tutberidze: “Bastards wrote to Lipnitskaya and Medvedeva: change your coach, your coach let you down. I probably shouldn’t say who one of these people is.”
Translation of Eteri Tutberidze’s comment about her students change coaches.
original source: Telegram Comment Show
Here’s a translation of Eteri Tutberidze’s comment about her students changing coaches made in a interview with Leonid Slutsky.
“Q: How did you handle the situations when your students left you? It must have been really tough. You’ve mentioned being upset when some of the girls and boys went to Mishin. But when, the reigning champion is leaving.
Eteri Tutberidze: You get really upset. Very, very upset.
Q: Did you try to understand or justify their decisions? Did you attribute it to their age?
Eteri Tutberidze: Well, let’s take Julia Lipnitskaya, for example. Her mom’s control waned a bit after the Olympics. Perhaps that was the right thing to happen. Julia is a complex girl, with a difficult character too.
Q: Are there any athletes who are not complex at all?
Eteri Tutberidze: Well, some are a bit easier, and some are really difficult. She was a difficult one — she could, at the age of 11, dismiss an invited choreographer because she didn’t want to work with him. You had to find an approach with Julia. But that’s not the point.
I won’t force anyone to work in the kind of regime you need if you want to achieve something. I won’t make them.
Conditions are offered: there’s a warm-up, choreography, training. If an athlete starts to evade a certain load or goes out onto the ice and does nothing… I’m not talking specifically about Julia now, I’m talking in general, but including Julia.
Somewhere, as it seemed to me, she was heading towards conflict. I believe there are many good people around. She was told everywhere: change your coach. And Zhenya (Evgenia Medvedeva) was told: you need to change your coach, your coach has let you down.
Q: Who was saying that?
Eteri Tutberidze: Bastards. But if I tell you who one of these people is… I probably shouldn’t say that.” said Eteri Tutberidze, in an interview on ‘Comment. Show’ with Leonid Slutsky.”
Related topics: Eteri Tutberidze, Evgenia Medvedeva, Julia Lipnitskaya
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