Tutberidze on Trusova at the 2022 Olympics: "She would shove and push me there. And then in the locker room, she would shoot her skates at me, which she would take off, and I would dodge."

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Eteri Tutberidze spoke about Alexandra Trusova’s reaction to the silver medal at the 2022 Games.

– She had a fix idea – if she put together her free skating program, she would win one hundred percent.

– Even after such a short one?

– Yes. She thought she should bring +20 points and that’s it. Probably, the athlete does not realize that somewhere there is a step-out, somewhere the level has gone down. It’s all score to score, penny to penny.

Plus the reduced cost of the quadruplets. By making quadruplets, they don’t cost as much as you want them to. I don’t agree with lowering the cost of quadruples. I think a quadruple lutz should cost a lot more than it is worth.

Sasha Trusova at the Grand Prix, somewhere she took second place, Kostornaya took first then, her second fallen quadruple lutz cost 0.19. Seriously?

What is that? I’m sorry, I’ll just do a beautiful triple, earn a 0.25 component from each judge by skipping the jump, resting and doing a beautiful pirouette on the judges. And I’ll earn more than I did for the quadruple lutz. Yes, I fell, but it’s a quadruple lutz. Are you crazy? What are these prices?

I showed Lakernik Alexander Rafailovich: “Well, how is it possible?” But they made up such a thing: if he goes under the repit, if she didn’t put a cascade on the first one, and this one went under the repit plus the fall…. Nonsense, I disagree, they should reconsider. What’s the point of beating, breaking if it’s worthless.

So coach or not coach, I disagreed with her second place at the Grand Prix final then, because it should be first place. I was pointing, I was swearing, I was trying to explain, “It can’t be worth 0.19. It can’t.”

– She fancied herself +20 points and it didn’t work.

– And she didn’t get it. She thought it didn’t matter how short it was. If she can do that, she’s an Olympic champion. That’s probably why there was a period of such a reaction. It’s just like Sasha.

She was pushing and shoving me. And then in the locker room, she’ll shoot her skates at me, which she’ll take off, and I’ll dodge. That’s how Sasha is,” Tutberidze said in an interview on YouTube channel “Comment.Show”.

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