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My hunch is that Eteri found out about Alena having negotiations with Plushenko and threw her out of Sambo70. Why she had to invent non-grata skaters’ lists is another matter. There are too many contradictions and unknowns in the matter.

I just wonder how many pages of this thread are made up of us discussing Eteri club antics? Lol 😂

That’s mostly hearsay. And there’s an awful load of rumours right now here - some are sickening, to be honest.

In Russia coaches have connections and so it might lead to sponsorship deals. Top coaches are likely to have more. But I believe that it’s not that Eteri didn’t want Alena to have any sponsorship deals, it’s that bad luck with the current crisis. Eteri would have cut 40 per cent of Alena’s gains anyway, why would she have objected? So I don’t think it’s those non-grata skaters lists - they were never mentioned by Gleikhengauz after all. It could all be down to money.

This article claims that Alena was always the most independent and free-thinking of the Eteri girls, but also the most pragmatic - she understood staying with Eteri raises the odds of her winning the greatest prize. But she was disappointed and resentful that in spite of being the most successful of the 3A, she didn’t get any sponsorship deals. Plushenko is said to have contacted her before and suggesting going over to him, and in May there were some new contacts. Plushenko and Alena were nearly finalizing their deal when Eteri found out about it last Friday and threw Alena out of her school. So now Alena has nowhere to go but Plushenko, but the likelihood of a major sponsorship deal is very thin due to the coronavirus crisis. No idea how reliable the source is, but I wouldn’t bet much on it. Russian press is mostly meh. https://sport.business-gazeta.ru/article/257278

Ready for another ToshI poem? And Phiten made some Yuzu socks, I see

That Red Cross ad is ages old.

Try google-translating this. Sorry, too late over here to do some translation. Разговор о переходе разве не длился с мая? - Это полная ерунда. Я этого не знаю, на меня с этой инициативой Алена вышла две недели назад. Программы ей уже поставлены. Будете менять? - Сто процентов. Конечно, будем менять и делать наши. То, что я видел в Instagram из ее недавних программ, это просто ужас. Алене это не нравится, она сама это сказала. - Ого. Но ее тренер-хореограф Даниил Глейхенгауз сказал, что Косторная кайфует от этих программ. - Может быть, Глейхенгаузу хотелось бы это видеть, но сам спортсмен говорит противоположное.

Ok, another interview by Plush https://rsport.ria.ru/20200731/1575242853.html in short, he denies there had ever been any prior negotiations, denies that Alena didn’t want to skate along with anyone, and says Alena hated the new programs by Gleikhengauz. Lol,

Her being coronavirus is more likely...

What, people refusing to wear masks, needing ventilators and dying of asphyxia? Quite a promising theme for a FS. Now what music would you suggest?

Med was Eteri’s favourite. But here the fallout is going to be quite heavy too. But at least Plushenko can fight dirty too. So in for some fun! Hope the girls aren’t too badly affected by it all, and hope Alena gets some decent programs highlighting her strengths. Her Gleikhengauz programs were abominable,

Sorry, which of us two knows Russian and can assess the true connotations of what Eteri says and does?

Plushenko claims Kostornaya only approached him two weeks before, they had never spoken before. No demands about skating alone or apart from Sasha. New programs promised. https://tass.ru/sport/9099937

TSL is claiming this - and I tend to believe them

Now if Alena told them on July 18th or thereabouts, as they claim, she was leaving them why did they keep mum for nearly two weeks?

A bit from Tutberidze interview about Alena’s program “Это было находкой и для нее, и для ситуации в мире.” “It was a find both for her, and for the suituation in the world”. WHAT WERE THEY PLANNING, A VACCINE AGAINST CORONAVIRUS?

Now I am thinking with a grin about those fantastic Eteri Tutberidze shows she was going to hold in spring - now the cast looks much thinner than before.

No Eteri interview on TV. The same stuff repeated again. No comments from Plushenko.

The nine o’clock news have started and I am subjecting myself to the torture of listening in to that trash in the hope to hear it.

Eteri Interview to TASS - apparently, Daniil and Eteri did have a talk by then https://tass.ru/interviews/9098433

Now why didn’t Gleikhengauz mention those lists of non-grata skaters?

Thank you for the life hack! Not that I am going to pick a bouquet of dandelions any time soon!

Ok, Gleikhengauz says everything was fine, but by mid-July Alena started to train poorly, talk back to the coaches manifesting something was wrong and she wasn’t happy. They tried to put it down to puberty. Then she apparently said she’d arranged a move to Plushenko back in May and she would train with Plushenko. That seems to be the essence of his insta video. Plushenko is silent so far.