Anastasia Gubanova left Moscow and returned to St. Petersburg after coach Elena Buyanova decided to release the figure skater from CSKA. The athlete, who is considered one of the most talented and original “singles”, told Anatoly Samokhvalova about what happened.
Everyone has excess weight
- Nastya, you left CSKA with the wording "expelled". Why so tough?
- To be honest, I myself do not know, because I never heard from her (coach) mouth that I was expelled. I learned about it just yesterday, when I read about it, and I was surprised. Elena Germanovna and I calmly talked, understood that, unfortunately, we should stop our joint work. Everything was going absolutely normal. It was a mutual decision.
- She was not angry at you?
- Personally, I did not see any anger. We really calmly discussed everything.
- If the solution is mutual, then why did it happen at all?
- We talked, and she (Buyanova) said that I can’t cope with the load that it is customary to endure in Moscow, that it’s hard for me to live alone when my parents are in St. Petersburg.
- Was it really difficult in Moscow?
- It is difficult, but I moved here a little girl. Without parents. I lacked support. But I still think that coping with this life in Moscow. Not really, of course, but not to the extent that she (the trainer) told me.
- What problem you could not cope?
- The problem was with injuries, which is why my training process was not what it should be.
- What are the injuries?
- This is professional.
- Were there any weight problems?
- They all have. And this is not surprising.
- As I understand it, the main problem was precisely the weight and inability to withstand the loads necessary for a figure skater of this class.
- With the weight issue, of course, there were problems, but not so impossible. Even with the weight that I had, I could train.
- You really have not been practicing for a long time?
- Yes, we talked on the third day, and since then I haven’t skated.