Anastasia PaninaReporter SportAll materialsOctober is not the time when we wait for news about transitions in figure skating, but this season everything has turned upside down. Due to the absence of at least some visible Olympic prospects, athletes and coaches have lost the need to rub each other in the tightness of the training process. Something you don't like? Are there any complaints or disagreements? You can do it like in the famous song: «If you want to go — go, if you want to forget — forget.» Something like this happened with Alexandra Trusova and Eteri Tutberidze. On Saturday, it became known that the skater moved to the group of Svetlana Sokolovskaya, where her boyfriend Mark Kondratyuk trains. The answer to the question of who exactly was the initiator of the gap is completely unnecessary information in this case. Because even if the coach does not literally verbalize his message through “I don’t need you,” he conveys it in many other ways. For example, with the words “I need you only if you weigh 40 kg, do 100 repetitions per hour, agree with everything I say.” Then the athlete feels his lack of demand and is looking for a place where he will be welcome. If an athlete ceases to trust the coach, doubts his authority and their overall success, he also looks for a place where he will be welcome. That is, the outcome is always the same.
