Alexandra Trusova: Before the Olympics, for sure I would have said that you need to forget about your personal life. But now I think it’s possible to combine and perform well.”
Alexandra Trusova about quintuple jump, personal life and career, pair skating and favorite program. View [...]
“We were upset that there would be no Russian girls. We expected that with a strengthened short program we would try to compete with them.” Yulia Kuznetsova, coach of World Junior Champion Isabeau Levito
Interview with Yulia Kuznetsova, coach of World Junior Champion Isabeau Levito. About about Isabeau's path to gold, [...]
“Coaches can’t control an athlete 24 hours a day, so it’s wrong to say that it’s their fault.” Gurgen Vardanjan head of Hungarian Figure skating federation about Valieva’s doping case
Interview with Gurgen Vardanjan, coach and sports director of Hungarian Figure skating federation. About Trusova, [...]
Yana Rudkovskaya: “I think that Trusova is the only capable of breaking the established system that girls from Tutberidze’s group finish with sports at a maximum of 20 years old.”
Producer Yana Rudkovskaya spoke about the absence of Russian female figure skaters among the nominees for the Forbes [...]
Rafael Arutyunyan: “It’s high time to include the quintuple jump in the register of elements. So that everyone knows its value. What if suddenly someone really jumps it in competitions?”
Interview with Rafael Arutyunyan. About quintuple jumps, Trusova's intention to try them and Malinin's [...]
Evgenia Medvedeva: “I’ve never ran back and forth from coaches. Everything Kostornaia does is for herself. If she feels happy, then she doesn’t need to change anything.”
Interview with Evgenia Medvedeva. About photo shoot for a men's magazine, shows, Alexandra Trusova and Alena [...]
Alexandra Trusova: “I would like to try quintuple jumps. If it works, I want to be the first who did it. Not only among women.”
Alexandra Trusova about another Olympic cycle and quintuple jumps. View this post on Instagram A [...]
“Sasha asked to make a gala program for her. She wanted something special.” Dmitri Mikhailov about joint performance with Alexandra Trusova
Alexandra Trusova and Dmitri Mikhailov (coach in Angels of Plushenko) performed together at the show in St. [...]
Evgeni Plushenko: “There’re situations like at the Olympics for our girls – they compete also off the ice. I’m against it, I always followed the principle – when you took off your skates – be friends.”
Evgeni Plushenko about a chances that Alexandra Trusova and Alena Kostornaia will return to his academy and his [...]
Alexandra Trusova: “I always went to the goal, rejoiced at success, and I always had prizes from my parents. I completed a new element – they bought me what I wanted.”
Alexandra Trusova about motivation, her character, family and fans. View this post on Instagram [...]
“A month ago, Sasha came to me and said, upset: they tell me that I’m the worst in dancing, I can’t do anything” Dance coach about Trusova’s dance
Alexandra Trusova strip plastic dance caused a lot of fuss. Here's a comment from Sasha's dance teacher. [...]
Alena Leonova: “Trusova will grow up and will understand everything. Maybe even regret saying what she said then.”
Alena Leonova about the results of the Olympic season. View this post on Instagram A post shared [...]
“Everyone returned exhausted, Eteri looked awful. To my question: “How are you?” she replied: “It feels like I’ve returned from prison.” choreographer of Tutberidze’s group about Olympics
Interview with choreographer of Tutberidze's group - Alexei Zheleznyakov. About Anna Shcherbakova's victory, [...]
“No one knows what awaits us, so I will look at the situation” Anna Shcherbakova about possible retirement
Anna Shcherbakova answered a question about a possible retirement. The figure skater admitted that ban of Russians [...]
Evgeni Plushenko: “In Salt Lake City, I lost fair. I’m not ashamed of that defeat. I had a strong opponent. Vancouver – it was definitely a state like Trusova had in Beijing.”
Interview with Evgeni Plushenko. Plushenko explained why he believed in the victory of Anna Shcherbakova more than in [...]
Dmitri Mikhailov: “I don’t judge Trusova’s strong reaction. She used to say “I’ll do five quads and I’ll be the first.” Imagine what a disappointment comes when it turns out that this is not so.”
Interview with Dmitri Mikhailov, one of the leading coaches of the Plushenko's Academy. Mikhailov told what was the [...]
Alexandra Trusova: “Probably, I can’t perform after the Olympics yet. It’s very difficult for me to move away and start performing again. So I want to wait a little.”
Alexandra Trusova about not participation in the Channel One Cup, training new jumps and plans for the future. [...]
Irina Slutskaya: “Fair or not, such is the technique now. While the judges pretend that everyone doesn’t see prerotations and this is not a mistake, why not?”
Interview with Irina Slutskaya. About the performance of the Russian team at the Beijing Olympics, the judging scandal [...]
Alexander Zhulin: “Valieva has learned two magnificent quadruple jumps and triple axel. What dope are you talking about? She just doesn’t get out of the ice and withstands wild loads.”
Alexander Zhulin about Eteri Tutberidze, Kamila Valieva and Alexandra Trusova. View this post on Instagram [...]
Evgeni Plushenko: “If Trusova wants to win gold at the Olympics, she must learn to listen to the coach.”
Interview with Evgeni Plushenko about the Olympics 2022. View this post on Instagram A post [...]
“Kamila Valieva is Olympic champion in team event, our star. The test that fell on her, our entire team needs to go through together.” Eteri Tutberidze summed up the results of the 2022 Olympics
Eteri Tutberidze summed up the results of the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. View this post on Instagram [...]
Alexandra Trusova: “Where is the medal? I took it off. Anya will show you medal.”
Alexandra Trusova talked to the journalists after ther medal ceremony. After the awards ceremony, she took off her [...]
Alexandra Trusova: “I haven’t won for three years. I thought that if I jumped everything, I would win, but this did not happen.”
Alexandra Trusova on her performance in the free program at the Olympic Games and silver medal. View this [...]
Evgeni Plushenko: “Judges were incredibly generous to Valieva. She made a serious mistake, but got fabulous scores. Honestly, I’m surprised.”
Two-time Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko summed up the results of women's short program at the Olympics. [...]