hanca
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It’s interesting. When Lozko and Nugumanova ‘went behind his back’, he made sure that they were punished for it. Nugumanova was not able to compete at the nationals where she qualified, and Lozko was pulled out from her new coaching group and sent back to St Peter and then she disappeared from competitive skating. But when Gachinsky admitted that he left Mishin without actually telling him (so he also went behind his back), there were no consequences. Tarasova took him under her wing, and even Mishin forgave him and took him back into his group later on. It looks to me like double standards.So was Carolina Kostner, for several years. A lot of his students remained with Mishin for years and never complained about mistreatment or neglect.
However, to be fair, Lozko, Nugumanova, and few others, were not happy with their training process, tried to leave to join another coach. Mishin felt they went behind his back and/or that their complaints about training process had nothing to do with Mishin but the skaters' attitude towards training, and because he felt their claims are unfair and their behavior is "sneaky", he did use his authority to make their transfers difficult and almost impossible. But that was not the case with Krasnozhon.
I think it is very unreasonable to expect to have a top world level coach all to yourself and not have other students.