Ice Santa Barbara: the story of the St. Petersburg figure skater is overgrown with new details

At the beginning of summer, the sports community sounded the alarm. St. Petersburg figure skater Elizaveta Nugumanova, who failed in terms of sports results last season, accused her coach Evgeny Rukavitsyn of terrible sins. According to Nugumanova, she was insulted, called fat and even threatened to injure her in training.

Anton Sikharulidze, who was elected president of the St. Petersburg Figure Skating Federation in December, had to react. He said that he would hold talks with the participants in the conflict and try to extinguish it. The leadership of the Russian Figure Skating Federation even promised to create a special ethics commission to deal with such conflicts. The summer passed quietly. Nugumanova pleased her fans with bright photos in a bikini from the UAE on a page on a social network and performed in the show to the hit of Cord “Exhibit”.

Last week, TASS reported that the St. Petersburg Figure Skating Federation had completed its consideration of Nugumanova’s case. After talking with all parties to the conflict, we dotted the i’s. Elena Sokolova, who specializes in ice dancing, became Nugumanova’s new coach.

Only Nugumanova herself, in an interview with a correspondent of MK in St. Petersburg, reported that no one from the federation had talked to her after leaving Rukavitsyn. All organizational issues were resolved by Tatyana Menshikova, director of the St. Petersburg Figure Skating School. She showed real wisdom. After the scandalous revelations of Elizabeth, it was difficult to expect that there would be a line of people who wanted to train her. After all, before Rukavitsyn, she had already worked under the guidance of Alexei Mishin and Angelina Turenko.

In the arsenal of Nugumanova there are no quadruple jumps and a triple axel. Therefore, it is difficult for her to count on high places in the Russian Championship. Although looking at the skating of Elizabeth is a pleasure. The girl is beautiful, musical, plastic. In Rukavitsyn’s group, choreographer Olga Glinka staged magnificent programs for her.

On the Latvian sites of fans of figure skating, messages flashed about the interest of the leaders of the local federation in the St. Petersburg figure skater. Nugumanova herself claims that she has not heard of anything like that. Probably, the thing is that her grandfather worked in Riga for some time and was one of the leading specialists there, and her father played hockey for Dynamo Riga. According to Elizabeth, she does not allow the change of sports citizenship.

The transition to the Sokolova group is perhaps the last chance for Nugumanova. An experienced figure skater was taken without a probationary period. The fact that the group is a dance group should not create problems either. When the 1994 Olympic champion Oksana Baiul, who was mired in scandals, did not want to take any of the singles coaches in the USA, Natalia Linichuk, who specializes in dancing, took her. The cooperation turned out to be fruitful.

If only Elizaveta would be less active in the media related to her complaints about her plight! She even managed to come up with an open letter and start arguing with Tatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova herself, who doubted Rukavitsyn’s methods described by the figure skater. The St. Petersburg coach himself prudently kept and continues to keep silent. He continues to train his group, in which there are many figure skaters who have already achieved recognition.

And Nugumanova started training under the guidance of Sokolova from Monday. We hope that in the upcoming season it will please not only Exhibit, but also new sports programs. Ice Santa Barbara is already pretty fed up with everyone.