She has said it herself in multiple ocassions, in multiple interviews and people who have worked with her for years have said the same thing.
I believe like Icewhite that it was very much a question of timing. She lost her 3A during the first lockdown, which was to be expected, she didn't regain it before the second lockdown, I don't think that she was very anxious yet, but although she had worked quite a lot at home (as show her new extensions after the lockdown, for instance in the Biellmann), she must have lost something by the lack of on-ice practice, which she hadn't recovered when she left Team Tutberidze. It was all of a sudden, if I understand correctly on July 15th the practice went fine (but still without 3A), then on July 16th there were difficulties (I had no confirmation but I do believe that her complaint that the younger skaters were slowing her down/came in her way came that day, the voicing aloud of this complaint maybe prompted by general anxiety) and on July 17th she called Rozanov in emergency to know if Plushenko could take her. This in a context of the Tutberidze coaching team looking overworked and maybe not available for a thorough assessment and reassuring her.
Elaborate?
What? Can you elaborate on that? Why would Trusova's parents forbid that??
That was the rumours. That Alexandra Trusova's parents had required, prior to her move to Angels of Plushenko, a dedicated coaching team for her alone, and it was said before Alyona Kostornaya left Team Tutberidze; I wonder if it wasn't said by her parents themselves, or by Evgeny Plushenko? This team initially included Sergei Rozanov, although it seems that he left her team after some weeks. Then, when it became known that Alyona Kostornaya had a totally different team, basically just Sergei Rozanov (who anyway was the coach she wished to practice 3A with, as he had helped her before on this jump), there were new rumours that she couldn't have any coach training Alexandra Trusova, with different theories as to the reasons (the wording of the contract seeming to me the most believable of these theories). In case there was such wording, I could imagine them reluctant to lift it, precisely for their daughter's main rival, who had never been a friend either.
ok, let's go back to 2020. Many have already forgotten about it, but at that time Aliona was considered the best skater in the Tutberidze group, which means that she was actually number one in the world. In the 2019-2020 season, she won all competitions except the Russian Championship. I remember how the journalist Zhurankov said something like: "Kostornaya proved to us that everything is decided by triple axels, not quads."
Wow, brutal. I had a positive assessment of him, recently at least; I think hes been doing amazing with his juniors especially, and Muravieva. Love his ice shows as well. Sounds like he tried to get in on the most talented skater without much of a plan - he thought he could throw resources at her with money and things would fall into place on their own. Irresponsible situation indeed.
My impression of what happened was that he decided to focus on his academy after Aliona left, so his current batch of skaters are benefiting from his presence and strategy. He still does shows in the off season but cut back to focus on his athletes.
Yet, Alyona Kostornaia's arrival was totally unplanned.
Rudkovskaya in the fall of 2019 wrote to Alina Zagitova that she was very much expected at the Plushenko Academy. In May 2020, Rozanov, Sasha Trusova and the Zhilina sisters moved to the Angels. At the same time, Plushenko hinted that he would also like to train Anna Shcherbakova. And soon, in Anna's account on the social network "VKontakte", a message appeared that she was leaving the Eteri group, because she "required development." The message was written in an uncharacteristic style for Anna and there were grammatical errors in the text. It was the result of an account being hacked by unknown persons.
I do agree that great coaches communication to the public has often been quite bad, and Alyona Kostornaya was quite right to say so to Eteri Tutberidze, after the latter's reaction at her leaving Khrystalny: it was wrong to insult her. Evgueny Plushenko's brags were nearly as bad, thank you for reminding them (although I had thought at the time, that he was hinting about Alina Zagitova, whom he did try somehow to lure through shows).
I wish them a lifetime of love, joy and happiness
