St. PETERSBURG, April 17, Taras Barabash. The fall of figure skater Evgeny Semenenko during the ice show in St. Petersburg — a fatal accident, said the skater's coach Alexei Mishin. On Saturday, during the ice show of Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko, Semenenko tried to make a four-turn jump at the beginning of the rental, but landed unsuccessfully and hit his head on the ice. An 18-year-old athlete was hospitalized, he was diagnosed with a concussion. «Yesterday's show is a wonderful sports event. The atmosphere was so emotional, so motivating that all the athletes began to perform difficult jumps. And the first was Alexander Samarin, who jumped the quadruple lutz. This desire of athletes to show the best and caused this unfortunate combination of circumstances in which Zhenya made a fall. This fall is associated with the desire to make the performance bright, to show his strength, which is natural for an athlete, «Mishin said. a matter of chance. The quality of the ice was impeccable. Zhenya is now conscious, he has a concussion, but the doctors did not find any damage to the internal contents of the skull. We wish him a speedy recovery. Zhenya (Plushenko) himself expressed the same wishes to his namesake, and Yana ( Rudkovskaya), and the whole team. And Liza Tuktamysheva, and Misha Kolyada, and all the strongest ie athletes, friends. We all wish him well. I think that, despite such a misfortune, there will be demonstration shows. They were, are and will be. This is a fatal accident,» the coach added. Semenenko, a participant in the Beijing Olympics, the bronze medalist of the Grand Prix stage, took fourth place at the 2022 Russian Championship.
