I FUCKING hate those Eteri glazers, like HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT DHE HAS DONE TO HER STUDENTS?? Child abuse is never acceptable, y'all are just letting her get away with it just because she's "fine". Like bitch, back away from that woman right now. You CANNOT feel bad for her students like Anna, Sasha, Kamila, etc. etc. for what happened to them and then glaze the SHIT out of Eteri like she's a good person. I'm sorry no. Find a better old woman to glaze on. This is not acceptable. Yes she looks like a nice person but she's a bad coach. She injured these poor children, causing them to have an ED, injury, be permanently disabled, trauma, etc. that they probably don't even know about.
this thread was originally made by someone else on twt. i'm just posting it here so y'all can spread it. you can also translate it in different languages.
for those who don't know: sambo 70 is a major sports club in russia and the figure skaters under this club are abused by their coaches eteri tutberidze & daniil gleikhengauz
some keywords:
owg- winter olympics
gp- grand prix
jgp- junior grand prix
gpf- grand prix final
fs- free skate/long routine
4cc- 4 continents cup
Thread: Eteri Tutberidze and the team at Sambo 70 have a long and horrifying history of disregarding skater health, diminishing serious injuries, and forcing injured teenage athletes into premature retirement. All of this has been enabled by the ISU, judges, and commentators.
1. Yulia Lipnitskaya
OWG: 🥇 (2014)
WC: 🥈 (2014)
Retired at: 19 (injury & anorexia)
"Eteri Tutberidze was proud to inform the press that Yulia Lipnitskaya ... sometimes existed almost entirely on a diet of 'powdered nutrients.'"
2. Polina Tsurskaya
Youth Olympics: 🥇 (2016)
Junior GPF: 🥇 (2015)
Retired at 17 after struggling with consistency due to body changes.
Polina at her prime
3. Daria Panenkova
Junior GP: 🥇🥈 (2017)
Retired at 17.
After she left Sambo, her old coaches accused her of shirking training: "[She] once again refused to go on the ice ... she said that did not want to go to training."
4. Anastasia Tarakanova
Junior GPF: 🥉 (2017)
Retired at 17, citing "health reasons." She also struggled with receiving funding and federation support at the end of her career.
5. Alena Kanysheva
Junior GPF: 🥉(2017) - under coach Svetlana Panova.
Switched to ice dance from singles at 15 following a chronic back injury aggravated by training the 4T (Quadruple Toeloop, a jump) at Sambo. Retired from the sport entirely at 16.
Alena's beautiful JGPF FS
6. Elizabet Tursynbaeva (KAZ)
Youth Olympics: 🥉 (2016)
4CC: 🥈 (2019)
Worlds: 🥈 (2019)
Retired at: 21, but had not competed since age 19.
Despite a chronic back injury, she trained and competed a 4S. She cited her health as the reason for her retirement.
7. Evgenia Medvedeva
Olympics: 🥈🥈 (2018) - had a stress fracture.
Worlds: 🥇🥇🥉 (2016-17, 2019)
Has not competed since age 20. She can only safely execute two types of jumps due to a chronic back injury that leaves her unable to turn to the left.
8. Alina Zagitova
Olympics: 🥇🥈 (2018)
Worlds: 🥇 (2019)
Has not competed since age 17.
Alina commented that she and Evgenia were not permitted to drink water to keep their weight down at the Olympics: "We just rinsed our mouths and spit it all out."
9. Daria Usacheva
Jr Worlds: 🥈 (2020)
Jr GPF: 🥉 (2019)
Daria fractured her hip (reported by Russian media as an upper leg injury) in warmup at the 2021 NHK Trophy, at age 15. She left in a wheelchair and has not competed since.
Tw: Injury, bodily harm
10. Alena Kostornaia
GPF: 🥇 (2019)
Euros: 🥇 (2020)
Eteri claimed Alena had refused to share the ice with other girls. When Alena returned to Sambo after a season with another coach, she was placed on a "probationary period" that required her to re-master the 3A (triple axel, one of the hardest jumps) in two months.
Alena later fractured her wrist during a 3A attempt and could not compete for an Olympic spot.
Eteri said, "I believe that with such an injury it was possible to skate."
She is 18
11. Anna Shcherbakova (2022 Olympian)
Worlds: 🥇 (2021)
Euros: 🥈🥈 (2020, 2022)
Sambo's choreographer, Daniil Gleikhengauz, bragged that Anna could eat two shrimp for dinner and be full, and said he was "glad that she was not obsessed with food."
Anna contracted pneumonia in the fall of 2020 and visibly struggled to breathe at 2020 Russian Nationals. Her coaches gave her something to inhale at the boards, possibly smelling salts. Despite this, her "tenacity" was praised by commentators.
She is 17.
12. Alexandra Trusova (2022 Olympian)
Worlds: 🥉 (2021)
Euros: 🥉🥉 (2020, 2022)
Sat out most of the fall of 2021 due to a fractured foot, but still competed quadruple jumps in the events that she entered.
She is 17.
13. Kamila Valieva (2022 Olympian)
Euros: 🥇 (2022)
Kamila is undefeated this season and the favorite for the Olympic title. On Feb. 8, after the team event, it was revealed that she had tested positive for TMZ, a banned substance used to increase heart metabolism.
She is 15.
14. Adian Pitkeev
Jr Worlds: 🥈 (2014)
Jr GPF: 🥈 (2013)
Left singles skating at 18. Most elite men are able to compete well into their late 20s.
Spent much of his career competing on a chronic injury. Despite this, Sambo coaches persisted in having him train quadruple jumps.
Skating fans are well-aware of the horrors that arise from Sambo 70's training methods. I hope that this thread will help bring this into a mainstream light. As fans, there's little we can do, but sports authorities can and should act.
She should absolutely not be allowed to compete in the individual event and unfortunately I do believe that the gold medal should be stripped from the ROC team.
But none of this is her fault. She is a child. The adults around her have let her down immensely, Eteri Tutberidze and the rest of her coaching team have used and abused her and now they have thrown her to the wolves and destroyed her career before it's even begun.
The IOC, ISU and RusFed would be making a mockery of the sport and letting down all the athletes who don't use drugs to compete if they allow Kamila to skate in the Individual event.
None of this is Kamila's fault and she deserves better. I hope this is the beginning of the end for Sambo 70 and Tutberidze's abusive methods.
How many young girls lives will be ruined for the sake of a gold medal?
