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‘I don’t like disposable champions’: Figure skating coach compares new generation skaters to single-use plastic cups
Prominent figure skating coach Rafael Arutyunyan, who has spoken in favour of raising the age limit in ladies single skating, has compared the success of young champions to single-use plastic cups.
The renowned coach underlined that young female skaters should only enter senior events after going through puberty, when they have “well-trained and healthy” bodies.
Current rules which allow skaters to take part in senior competitions at the age of 15 make stars’ professional careers shorter, prompting them to retire with the emergence of the new quad-jumping generation.
“The age-limit should be raised,” Arutyunyan told Bolshoy Sport. “Then figure skaters and their coaches will know that by the time of entering senior events athletes will have well-trained and healthy bodies. It’s an essential working tool in figure skating, it can’t be treated barbarically.
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