Vlad ZhukovAll materialsBeijing 2022 silver medalist Aleksandra Trusova left Eteri Tutberidze for the second time. The Sport correspondent discusses why the collapse of the union between the coach and the skater was inevitable. I heard that the coach really appreciated Trusova — perhaps even more than some others, but this did not affect the daily routine. It was not easy for Tutberidze to mess around with a characteristic figure skater who wanted exclusivity, something personal. For the first time, this led her to Evgeni Plushenko. The conversations of the figure skater's parents with the two-time Olympic champion about the transition went back in the spring of 2018. Immediately after another athlete significant for Tutberidze, Evgenia Medvedeva, left for Canada. Two years later, this happened, but the union of the two champions lasted only one season. And then not without interesting details — for example, I was told that for the first time Sasha and her parents decided to leave Plushenko already in the summer of 2020, a couple of months after coming to him. And in the fall, after the extremely unsuccessful Grand Prix for her in Moscow, Alexandra's dad negotiated a return to Tutberidze. True, they were extremely short and unproductive, but still.
