MOSCOW, March 2 Eteri Tutberidze's choreographer Alexei Zheleznyakov said «Match TV «that the career of the European champion in figure skating Alena Kostornaya began to decline due to the attitude of the athlete to the training process. On Wednesday, a source said that the European champion 2020 had moved to the group of Elena Buyanova.
" trainer. You don’t need to look for your ass in the dark, if a person wants to, he will do it, if he doesn’t want to, the opposite is true, and you can change trainers as much as you like. Alena has not appeared in training for a long time, she only goes for PR, ”said Zheleznyakov. — Once she was a European champion, but now she is nobody. Eteri Georgievna always says — when you get off the pedestal, you are nobody. Everything in our life is built this way. If Alena decided so, let everything be fine with her, but even if God descends from heaven, nothing will come of it without personal desire".
Kostornaya is 18 years old, she studied in the Tutberidze group until the 2019/20 season and then for a year she moved to Evgeni Plushenko together with Alexandra Trusova, after which she returned to Tutberidze. In December, it became known that Kostornaya had broken her arm, which is why she missed the Russian and European championships and failed to take part in the Olympic Games. In February, the athlete announced that she had again received a fracture.