MOSCOW, 21 Apr. Russian figure skater Alena Kostornaya stated as part of show «For Two Words» that she had no chance to take part in the 2021 Russian Championship and qualify for the Beijing Olympics due to a broken arm.
The Russian Figure Skating Championship was held at the end of December 2021. The competition was one of the stages of selection for the 2022 Olympics.
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"I broke my arm, and I was removed from the Russian Championship. This is logical when you have a cast from the fingers and above the elbow. You can’t even bend your arm, in fact you are disabled. I went to the MFC, I had to sign documents with my left hand — 40 sheets. I learned to eat with my left hand. There was no chance. Once I went to training — my mother tied skates for me. It was such a shame! I couldn’t put on a sweater — it just didn’t fit. Due to the fact that blood began to flow, the plaster began to press, «said Kostornaya.
«Sergei Viktorovich (Dudakov) and Daniil Markovich (Gleikhengauz), apparently, at that training session everyone looked at this and called Eteri Georgievna. They said that it was a tin. Eteri Georgievna and Philip Shvetsky were in touch with the federation and quickly removed me. They told me this news only after it had spread all over the Internet. It was unpleasant, but there was no other way out. It was obvious that they would remove me, the only question was Who would have done it. There was no chance to perform. I just put on a cast, and a week later I had to leave for the Russian Championship, «the figure skater continued.
Kostornaya won the European Championship in 2020. She is also the winner of the Grand Prix Final of the 2019/20 season and the Russian Cup Final (2018), silver (2020) and two-time bronze (2018, 2019) medalist of the Russian Championships.