Irina Rodnina for TASS:
“Life dictates its own rules, coaches, athletes and their parents behave in accordance with them,” said Rodnina. “We as fans can only wish health and good luck to athletes. If we start children into adulthood, then someone should bear for it’s a responsibility. Someone launched them into the orbit of professional big heavy sport.
Big questions for the fans - how everyone condemned Evgenia Medvedeva and her transition to Brian Orser, but I have known Orser for a long time - this is a coach with tremendous experience. All ambitions have long been satisfied, now he works with athletes. He doesn’t take it for everyone, but taking an athlete, he brings a person to a higher state, not necessarily an Olympic one, I don’t want to blame anyone, but our result is ahead of morality and ahead of elementary humanity, I was lucky with the fans - 50 years ago I I won my first title and still receive words of gratitude and support from them.
Behind the result should be high human qualities. The size of the bench should not affect the value of each athlete's personality. ''