That has been what I've been trying to say all along in response to starry poster. Also that kids who don't know things like that are not unique to Tutberidze. Other qualities of her training are lets say, different (I don't know anyone else who drags their students across the ice,) but being dependent on the entourage for the mundane things is common.
. . . Sorry. It just reminded me of when Adian made whiny comments at a press conference that amounted to "Why aren't my PCS as high as his?", referring to Javi . . . I think my exact comments to that situation were "Adian, don't you know you are too young for brooding to be attractive."
I was going to say some thing about Yulia and Zheya . . . but instead, in general, WTF? How can there be so much drama in one interview? There eating each other alive . . . A boy and his father . . . A man and his mother . . . A coach thinks someone needs love from his girlfriend . . . The female skaters in constant competition within the group.
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It hasn't been updated for a while. For example, Tarasenko is in St Petersburg doing pairs now, and in her interview quite while ago she said that Gerasimov was also switching to either pairs or ice dance, which means that he probably doesn't skate with her anymore either. But she has quite a few boys/men anyway.
Pavlova is happily coaching even after Antipova went on Russian TV with the abuse she suffered from her, so I can't see why the federation would want to remove their currently most successful coach Tutberidze. No other Russian coach has been as successful this past season as Tutberidze is. She coaches ladies world champion, ladies junior champion, Russian novice champion...
There is nothing funny about that video. I find it deeply disturbing. Was she ever disciplined for that incident? If not, I find that even more disturbing.
I don't think she forced him to skate. She very likely gave him the choice whether he wants to skate or not, but if he chooses to skate, he must act as if he was not injured. He can't have it both ways. He can't skate with a sign saying 'I am skating but make allowances for me because I am injured'. If someone skates, the judges don't care whether he is injured, or whether he had bad training conditions, or whether a week before the competition he had the flu and is still quite weak. The skater is judged on what they do on the ice at that particular time, so I am not surprised she was not happy about him drawing attention to himself. It is a tough sport. It is a question whether she should allow him competeif he was injured, but then Hanuy's coach allowed him to compete after that huge crash in the warm up, so I don't think Tutberidze's decision was that unusual for elite sport. Tarasova did not show any discomfort at worlds while skating with ten stitches she got at that morning because Morozov's blade cut her leg. If she did try to attract the attention to it, they would not be worlds bronze medallists now.
Let's not forget that Adian wasn't the only one who left with such issues...sure, these things can happen to anyone with any coach, but Yulia and Polina S. (and maybe Polina T., we'll see) and Adian isn't a very good track record, considering they were all still at the very beginning of their senior careers.
The point is that Adian was already skating with a back injury for the entire season and she acts as if it was just a behavioral issue. He came to the competition in the state which caused that skate. He was kind of provocative during the practicing process.
Not one word about the physical issue, and then she yelled at him after he got off the ice in visible pain. No sympathy whatsoever. And a total refusal to take responsibility for the fact that she might have contributed to this problem that now has his entire career in jeopardy. It's not comparable to Tarasova skating with a cut on her leg, but since you brought it up, Nina Mozer in almost every interview expresses her concern about the health of her skaters. She has empathy, which costs nothing, regardless of how strict you want to be as a coach. But Eteri ignores the elephant in the room and doesn't seem to care about her skaters' health at all. Only who gave her flowers when they left.
I don't fully disagree with you, but it does sound like partly a teenage, behavioral issue. That Eteri tried to deal with by "being kind." And, to my recollection, Pitkeev was not injured at that Europeans (?).
There is nothing funny about that video. I find it deeply disturbing. Was she ever disciplined for that incident? If not, I find that even more disturbing.
And I can only imagine what kind of uproar there would be if a similar incident were caught on video involving a male coach of that age and a female skater.
Really is to why she is still keeping Tsurskaya, she works huge amount or Juniors and novice skaters. The actual reason for your statement is your typical Russophobia getting to head.
The point is that Adian was already skating with a back injury for the entire season and she acts as if it was just a behavioral issue. He came to the competition in the state which caused that skate. He was kind of provocative during the practicing process.
Not one word about the physical issue, and then she yelled at him after he got off the ice in visible pain. No sympathy whatsoever. And a total refusal to take responsibility for the fact that she might have contributed to this problem that now has his entire career in jeopardy. It's not comparable to Tarasova skating with a cut on her leg, but since you brought it up, Nina Mozer in almost every interview expresses her concern about the health of her skaters. She has empathy, which costs nothing, regardless of how strict you want to be as a coach. But Eteri ignores the elephant in the room and doesn't seem to care about her skaters' health at all. Only who gave her flowers when they left.
Right, they have to show the results to be fully funded, aka to have a nice flat given, have enough money to spend their vacations in Dominican Republic and do shopping in Paris. Ice, if I understand the system correctly, belongs to the club. I.e. if there is a club that has Medvedeva/Tsurskaya/Zagitova etc - they would have enough ice time for the whole club. When the club stars are Menshov/Leonova they might be asked to skate a bit longer to have at least someone who brings the funding...
