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Ilya Averbukh interview (about Lipnitskaya, Kovtun, I/K)
This is the part about I&K.
Q: Ilya, we discussed that already, I will quickly summarize your words: you don’t think that Ilinykh and Katsalapov splitting is a tragedy, you think that there is no point of trying to get them to reconcile, because most likely, the relationship in the team was unbearable. A few days ago, the minister of sports, Vitaly Mutko, said that he can offer the new teams only regional funding. That they won’t get the same funding, they will have to prove themselves first. Can you explain what it means? You need money for skates, costumes, choreography, summer camps. Many people don’t know how much it costs.
A: I think that the problem with funding will be solved anyway. And Vitaly Leonidivich was absolutely right when he said that both teams have to prove themselves. They made a decision. They were climbing a mountain, got almost on top, and suddenly changed their mind. They slid down. They split up. New teams will have to prove at the National championships, at the Grand Prix, who is better, who can do it. I don’t exclude the possibility that after some time… Something like that had happened once, and that were the only two-time Olympic champions - Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov - they had very complicated relationship. Oksana was a brilliant, temperamental girl, but with such a character… Zhenya, on the contrary, very intelligent, delicate, distanced person. At some point, Platov had had enough and could no longer put up with Oksana’s endless changes of mood. They split.
Zhenya went on to skate with beautiful and quiet Fedorinova. Grishuk went seeking another partner - just like Ilinykh now. She teamed up with Petr Tchernyshev and decided that they would be coached by Linichuk, she went back to her first coach, whom she betrayed when she left her and started working with Dubova. So she skated with Tchernyshev, Platov with Fedorinova fro half a year.
Q: But after that….
A: Platov had probably realized that it’s better to deal with Oksana’s character, but be a champion. He went back to Oksana. Not only that, she got him to Linichuk’s group. God works in mysterious ways. But in this case, everything should go naturally. We need to let it go. The most important thing is to be honest, so that the people who got involved in this situation - Vika Sinitsina and Ruslan Zhiganshin - would not end up being victims, if Ilinykh and Katsalapov say: «We’re back together, we have realized…» Something needs to be done at least on paper, so that Sinitsina and Zhiganshin feel some security… Secondly, to make these important decisions with responsibility. Not just: «Today I want this», and the next day: «Now I want this». To have an understanding, that there is work of a coach behind it…
Q: And soul and choice of another person.
A: That, and the country’s money, too. Where do the money come from? It’s our taxes. The audience support is not only applause, your training is paid by their money, you have to feel responsibility…
Ilya Averbukh interview (about Lipnitskaya, Kovtun, I/K)
This is the part about I&K.
Q: Ilya, we discussed that already, I will quickly summarize your words: you don’t think that Ilinykh and Katsalapov splitting is a tragedy, you think that there is no point of trying to get them to reconcile, because most likely, the relationship in the team was unbearable. A few days ago, the minister of sports, Vitaly Mutko, said that he can offer the new teams only regional funding. That they won’t get the same funding, they will have to prove themselves first. Can you explain what it means? You need money for skates, costumes, choreography, summer camps. Many people don’t know how much it costs.
A: I think that the problem with funding will be solved anyway. And Vitaly Leonidivich was absolutely right when he said that both teams have to prove themselves. They made a decision. They were climbing a mountain, got almost on top, and suddenly changed their mind. They slid down. They split up. New teams will have to prove at the National championships, at the Grand Prix, who is better, who can do it. I don’t exclude the possibility that after some time… Something like that had happened once, and that were the only two-time Olympic champions - Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov - they had very complicated relationship. Oksana was a brilliant, temperamental girl, but with such a character… Zhenya, on the contrary, very intelligent, delicate, distanced person. At some point, Platov had had enough and could no longer put up with Oksana’s endless changes of mood. They split.
Zhenya went on to skate with beautiful and quiet Fedorinova. Grishuk went seeking another partner - just like Ilinykh now. She teamed up with Petr Tchernyshev and decided that they would be coached by Linichuk, she went back to her first coach, whom she betrayed when she left her and started working with Dubova. So she skated with Tchernyshev, Platov with Fedorinova fro half a year.
Q: But after that….
A: Platov had probably realized that it’s better to deal with Oksana’s character, but be a champion. He went back to Oksana. Not only that, she got him to Linichuk’s group. God works in mysterious ways. But in this case, everything should go naturally. We need to let it go. The most important thing is to be honest, so that the people who got involved in this situation - Vika Sinitsina and Ruslan Zhiganshin - would not end up being victims, if Ilinykh and Katsalapov say: «We’re back together, we have realized…» Something needs to be done at least on paper, so that Sinitsina and Zhiganshin feel some security… Secondly, to make these important decisions with responsibility. Not just: «Today I want this», and the next day: «Now I want this». To have an understanding, that there is work of a coach behind it…
Q: And soul and choice of another person.
A: That, and the country’s money, too. Where do the money come from? It’s our taxes. The audience support is not only applause, your training is paid by their money, you have to feel responsibility…
I'm just waiting for skyfly's comments 
hwell:
Good for him.
