In the USSR, the skater Rodnina and her husband were greatly processed. They could not go to Tarasova

Not the most famous story. Legendary Soviet Pinlet Irina Rodnina Over the years of her career, everything won at all: first with Alexei Ulanovthen with Alexander Zaitsev. Perhaps someday a skater will appear, capable of interrupting Rodnina's achievements, but so far 3 gold gold, 10 world championships and 11 European championships look absolutely inaccessible.RIA Novosti a couple with Ulanov Irina put Stanislav Beetleas a result, led the skaters to the triumph at the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo. Having won after this, and the post -Olympic World Cup, Ulanov left Rodnina, forming a duet with Lyudmila Smirnova. Irina thought to finish sports, but the beetle invited her to try her hand with Alexander Zaitsev. Appointing at first modest assessments from judges, a newly formed duet took off almost immediately, making two gold hat-tricks in a row (world championships, Europe and the USSR). However, in 1974, Rodnina/Zaitseva and the Beetle parted: as the skater later recalled, the reason was both insufficient attention from the coach and the desire to show more creativity in his skating. As a result, at that time, two -time world champions passed to Tatyana Tarasova.RIA Novosti “There was a period when Tanya with her“ brains in the other direction ”could come up with such a thing that others never dreamed. I think that most of all she restrained her imagination against Zaitsev and me. Because Shura Zaitsev treated any fantasies with suspicion. Therefore, at the rink all the time there was a wild cry – we are stepping on the throat of her song. We always tried to be coach coach coach. From the time of the beetle, this was set up: if the element is inconvenient in something, no matter how beautiful it is, we refuse it. The program should have a one hundred percent guarantee of reliability. How any woman, Tatyana Anatolyevna better understood the female part, a female part in a pair, both in dance and in sports. What the partner does behind, as it seemed to me, she was of little worried. Zaitsev was indignant: I was tired of traveling in attacks. If you look from this point of view on her programs even dance couples, then, of course, she paid more attention to her partner. Therefore, Tatyana, I think, was hard with us, although we came to her precisely because we wanted creativity in skating. Honestly, the word “we” is not suitable here. It was one hundred percent my choice. I was not interested in Zaitsev’s opinion, although Sasha at that moment, and, of course, Elena Anatolyevna Tchaikovskaya very strongly “processed” me very much – she really wanted us to move to her. But I perfectly understood: where there is Pakhomova – Gorshkov, where there is Kovalev, we automatically become third, and such a arrangement did not arrange me absolutely. The beetle and the beetle ceased to arrange me when he began to pay too much attention to other students. As for the work of the technical, work on loads, here I was very well prepared a beetle. But in everything related to choreography and compositions of programs, we always had a gap with a beetle. Exactly behind these components, I once came to Tatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova, ”Rodnina told in her book“ The Tears of the Champion ”.RIA Novosti Tarasova Rodnina/Zaitsev did not lose a single start, having completed their sports path in 1980-after the victory at the Olympics in Lake Placis.The material used quotes from the book of Irina Rodnina “Tears of the Champion”