Great point this.Why would they drop skaters if those skaters PAYING to them? They dont care about their results, because they got money from them anyway.
If those coaches were employed by their feds as Eteri, and if those coaches bear personal responsibility for medals for Fed as Eteri, they drop those skaters as soon, as they stop showing results.
Lost in all this “Eteri this, Eteri that” talk is that the fed isn’t backing her out of charity either. If she stops performing and another rink outperforms her, the fed will tell her to kick rocks. The fed are front runners, they want to back a winner.
Right now, that winner is ET. But there is no guarantee that this will always be the case.
Like I said before, these guys records with the women in the quad era is not that good anyway, paid or no paid.
The moment they had some competition from a better coach, results have taken a nosedive.
Arutunian, from his quotes, has turned into a whiner rather than an innovator. Gotten complacent at the first sight of competition. If that’s her main competitor overseas, Eteri will be winning until she retires.
Anyway, to reiterate: Trusova left, she wasn’t released.
And good luck to her. More skaters finding their top form makes it better for the skater and for us the viewers.
You want a Russian championship where all 6 skaters in the final group are within a point or 2 of each other and it’s anybody’s game to win.
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