Alexandra Trusova accepted a marriage proposal from her lover. Sport reveals the main advantages of the chosen one of the vice-champion of the Olympic Games.
Torment in his youth A couple of seasons ago, journalists readily dubbed Makar Ignatov a sex symbol. The thing is that a sex symbol is an understandable archetype into which you can immediately put the entire set of Makar’s advantages. Tall, handsome, with Onegin's gaze, mysterious, somewhat detached and at the same time cheerful — this pandemonium of epithets cannot be fit into a title, it is easier to do with one word.
Ignatov is undoubtedly very talented, but so far he is one of the most unrealized skaters of his generation. He has Mishin's jumping base, excellent build and, until recently, a caring coach with an individual approach — Evgeny Rukavitsyn. But in his almost seven-year adult career, Makar's best achievement can be considered the silver medal of the 2020 Russian Championship, and the bronze of the home stage of the Grand Prix in 2019. For a single skater who owns a quadruple loop, this is a very default result. In addition, he became the first skater from Russia who managed to collect four quadruple jumps in a free program. But he never made it to the main starts.
Makar always lacked stability. Doing a clean loop, two more quads and falling from a triple axel, and then getting the minimum level for spins is a fairly common story. Progress was also hampered by health problems that plagued him throughout his youth. In general, he could have finished figure skating a long time ago, because due to bad knees he interrupted training for almost two years. It’s good that he’s back: when Makar is on a roll, he’s absolutely beautiful—like a Russian Alain Delon. And this is not a figure of speech, he really has an external resemblance to the recognized handsome man of world cinema.
No scandals, violations of the regime or strange antics were noticed behind Makar. He is sociable and at the same time closed, does not try to seem smarter than everyone else, but still stands out — you cannot hide his love of reading. He especially loves Dostoevsky, JK Rowling and books by Max Fry.
Makar can be exaggeratedly serious and then laugh sincerely. He has long been close friends with rivals Dmitry Aliyev, Alexander Samarin and Mark Kondratyuk — this does not happen among active athletes in women's singles.
An affair with an unknown young lady. Of course, Makar never had problems with the attention of girls in the national team and in life in general. But his first serious relationship was with a young lady who was not very close to the world of figure skating. Not much is known about her: her name is Lera, her social network nickname is “big-eyed girl.” She came up with the name for her and Makar’s common dog, Whiskey. For some time, Lera and Makar often appeared on each other’s social networks, and in the fall of 2023 they even starred in a short video for television — they were preparing tiramisu in their home kitchen. Everything looked fine, and it’s unlikely that anyone outside the close circle noticed when the couple broke up and deleted photos together.
Whether the reason for this was Alexandra Trusov, who initiated the breakup, is unknown, so no conclusions can be drawn on this We won't make a topic. Now Lera’s profile is open only to friends; she leads a non-public life.
The romance between Makar and Sasha began in winter. The first signs of this could be seen in Evgeni Plushenko’s show “The Snow Maiden”, where they performed together in the leading roles. Some kind of chemical reaction clearly took place between them, forming visible mutual heat.
Everything became clear when Sasha came to the St. Petersburg Championship in February 2024 to support Makar. While he was skating, she held his jacket and covers, and after the performance there was a kiss. It seemed as if Kai and the Little Robber Girl from Andersen's «The Snow Queen» rewrote the fairy tale in their own way and revealed themselves in a completely new way. Soon Kai-Makar moved to Moscow to the Plushenko Academy to always be close to his beloved robber girl.
And after about six months of relationship, Makar proposed to Sasha. Everything was beautiful and romantic: white nights, black Neva, raised shining bridges and a diamond ring. Unusual for our time: many people live for years without officially registering their marriage or holding wedding celebrations. So in this step of Makar one sees a not very modern ardent desire to somehow “stake out” his beloved girl for himself. Show her and everyone around that he treats her truly seriously and responsibly. The desire to make her happy, in the end, Sasha has repeatedly stated that family is of great importance to her. And that she really wants children.
It is interesting that society sometimes perceives decisive intentions to get married as infantilism. It happened this time too: along with thousands of congratulations, there were words of criticism. Too young, just recently together, haven’t had enough fun, don’t suit each other, go in for sports and not stupid things — all this and much more has been on the screens of the country’s smartphones for the last 24 hours. It's as if these people were never 20 years old. It’s as if they had never loved.
It’s good that Sasha and Makar are not the people who will listen to other people’s opinions. They are already adults and have the right to mistakes, experience and their own happiness.