Adelina Sotnikova placed in one of the Moscow hospitals. The reason for hospitalization is still unknown.
according to the website Sport 24, Adelina Sotnikova admitted to the City clinical hospital No. 67 of them. L. A. Vorohoba. 23-year-old skater was seen in the surgical Department of the hospital in a neck collar. It is also reported that earlier Adeline had surgery.
“It was a planned operation, nothing emergency. Everything is in order, ”the sportswoman’s mentor Elena Buyanova quotes TASS.
According to Sport24, Sotnikov has been in the City Clinical Hospital No. 67 named after L. A. Vorokhobov for several days already, and her entourage carefully conceals the diagnosis and reasons for hospitalization. At the same time, photos and videos with the Olympic champion in the surgical department of the hospital appeared on the Web, where she was also photographed in a neck corset.
Moreover, as the figure skater’s friends did not tell the portal, they really haven’t seen a girlfriend for some time, and even the photos posted by Adeline on their Instagram recently were taken some time ago and are not relevant.
A little later in the Telegram channel "Mutko v." There was evidence that it was really about surgical intervention associated with osteochondrosis, from which the famous figure skater suffers.
Osteochondrosis is a degenerative disease of the spine, in which, in simple terms, bone wear occurs. This may be due to various reasons - from heredity to injury.
In the case of Sotnikova, it is likely that the problem arose due to her professional workloads and jumps. As football players, for example, are constantly tormented with various types of arthritis, mainly in the knee joints, overloaded during training and matches, and jumping in figure skating can bring the athlete problems with the spine.
Osteochondrosis is usually treated with conservative methods, and surgery is performed if they are ineffective. According to the fact of the operation, without additional data, it is impossible to determine the complexity of the case of Sotnikova, since the types of surgical interventions for osteochondrosis, their complexity and the magnitude of the associated ones vary greatly depending on the nature and degree of the disease.
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The famous athlete is now only 23 years old, and although she still has not announced the completion of her professional career and even periodically hints at a possible return to the ice, in practice she has not been performing since the 2015/16 season.
Sotnikova began her career very early. At the age of 11 she played at the junior championship of Russia and became the tenth there, and the next year she won it, but did not stop there and at the age of 12 she also became the champion of Russia among adults.
Actually, it was precisely because of the victory of Sotnikova and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, who won the Chechen Republic at the same age, that the Russian Figure Skating Federation subsequently changed the age limit, and now girls can compete in the junior status from the age of 14, a year later, reaching the international level.
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After this triumph, Adeline won three more times at the adult championships of Russia, won the junior world championships, took silver at the Winter Youth Games, twice won the silver medal at the European Championships.
But her main triumph, of course, was the home Olympics in Sochi. It began for the ward Buyanova dramatically.
Sotnikova was unstable in the Olympic season, and as a result, the Federation made a controversial decision not to declare her in either the short or the free program of the team tournament. Team competitions then only entered the program of the Olympics, and Russia was such a clear favorite there that even one relatively unsuccessful rental would not have spoiled anything.
But in the end, both parts of the women's competitions of the tournament were skated by the student of Eteri Tutberidze Julia Lipnitskaya , who coped with her duties and became an Olympic champion in the national team. Sotnikova was left without a medal in the team and with the only chance in a personal tournament, where others were considered the favorites: first of all, the same Lipnitskaya and Korean Yu-Na Kim.
However, Lipnitskaya did not cope with nerves and fatigue, having fallen to fifth place, and Korean Adeline won in a very tense struggle.
After that, the skater skipped the rest of that season and the whole next competitive year, took a little ride at the pre-season tournaments in 2015, then took bronze at the home stage of the Grand Prix and became the sixth at the Russian championship, freezing her career, which is now unlikely to be resumed.