The team of figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze published in Instagram stories the correspondence between Alina Zagitova and Yana Rudkovskaya, in which the producer and wife of two-time Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko invites the skater to go to the academy with her husband. This was announced on Tuesday, September 22nd, by Sport Express.
“Alinochka, hello, Evgeny Viktorovich asked me to tell you that he is waiting for you, and so am I. We are opening a skating rink in the Moscow region in November and in Moscow in March. There will be a lot of ice and specialists too. There are many foreigners. We are open and in touch ”, – the screen of the letter from Rudkovskaya is given.
In response, Zagitova declines the invitation.
On December 13, 2019, Zagitova made a statement about a break in her career. The athlete won all existing tournaments in women’s single skating – the Olympic Games, the Russian, European and world championships, as well as the stages and the Grand Prix finals. She did not succeed in taking the gold of the world championship in the year of the 2018 Olympics, she won the missing title only at the end of the 2018/19 season.
On September 12, 2020 European figure skating champion Russian athlete Alena Kostornaya explained why she decided to leave coach Eteri Tutberidze to the Evgeni Plushenko Academy. The fact that 16-year-old Kostornaya is moving from Tutberidze, with whom she trained since 2017, to Evgeni Plushenko, became known on July 31.
In May, another ward, the bronze medalist of the European Championship, Alexandra Trusova, passed from Tutberidze to Plushenko.