Alena Kostornaya
American sports journalist Philip Hersh questioned the further success of Russian figure skater Alena Kostornaya. He wrote about this on his Twitter.
“Kostornaya's adult career ended before it began?” Hersh asked. A journalist from the United States stressed that next season will come the time of the current juniors Kamila Valieva and Maya Khromykh.
On March 2, two-time Olympic champion and now coach Evgeni Plushenko assessed Kostornaya's prospects. In his opinion, the athlete will win medals again when she regains the triple axel.
According to the results of the final of the Russian Cup, which ended on February 28, Kostornaya took sixth place and lost the fight for a ticket to the world championship to the student of Alexei Mishin Elizaveta Tuktamysheva. Plushenko explained the skater's unsuccessful performance with health problems.
Kostornaya moved to the Plushenko Academy at the beginning of the current season. She is the winner of the European Championship and the 2020 Grand Prix Final. The athlete achieved these awards by training under the guidance of Eteri Tutberidze.
