Adelina Sotnikova: personal life

Name: Adelina Sotnikova

Age: 22

Growth: 163

Activity: Russian figure skater, Olympic champion in single skating

Family status: Unmarried

Adelina Sotnikova: biography

Adelina Sotnikova is the first and only Olympic champion in women's singles in Soviet and Russian history. She is called the “wunderkind” of this sport, because already at the age of 13 she performed two extremely difficult cascades in one program, which even experienced colleagues did not always dare to do.

This girl showed the will to live and win already at her very birth. The baby was born weak and seven months old. But time passed, and Adelina Sotnikova showed a real fighting character.

In 2000, when Adeline was only 4 years old, the girl stepped on the ice for the first time. This happened at a sports school in Biryulyovo. The first coach of the future figure skating star was Anna Patrikeyeva.

And at the age of 7, Adelina Sotnikova was already training at the CSKA school. Irina Goncharenko worked with her for two years. After that, the training relay passed to Elena Buyanova. The skater by this time already had a good base. The girl immediately liked to study with this mentor, they developed trusting and friendly relations. It was 2004.

Adeline's complaisant nature and her diligence quickly bore fruit. Thanks to intensive training, Adelina Sotnikova managed to win the 2008 Russian figure skating championship. By this, she repeated the success of her mentor Elena Buyanova, who also won her first title at the age of 12.

After this victory, Sotnikova promised that she would win the Olympics. As everyone knows, Adeline kept her promise after 5 years.

But before that, she went through a rather difficult and thorny path. Titanic work, strict adherence to the recommendations of the coach became the key to the fact that the young figure skater quickly mastered many "adult" elements, bringing them to perfection and automatism. These are rotations of the fourth level of complexity that require the greatest skill and filigree, and triple jumps that Adelina Sotnikova was able to perform in one program. This is beyond the power of even some adult single skaters.

Figure skating

A brilliant sports biography of Adelina Sotnikova started at the Russian Championship of the 2007-2008 season, where the figure skater managed to take the tenth position among juniors. Only a year has passed, and the Muscovite was already the leader.

Unfortunately, the next season was not so successful for her. Adelina Sotnikova was able to win fourth place in the Russian Championship and only 6th in the national championship. But the steel character of the girl, the ability to concentrate and overcome all barriers, as well as the experience of her mentor, did not allow the young athlete to give up. She complicated the program, repeating complex movements dozens, or even hundreds of times.

Adelina Sotnikova was able to swim in the rays of glory in the 2010-2011 season: she became the champion in the final of the Junior Grand Prix, having won both stages of the competition before that.

The further career of the athlete went on the rolled ice. She won gold in the 2010-2011 International Grand Prix in Austria, almost breaking the record for youth competitions - the girl lacked some 0.27 seconds. In addition, in the same period, Adelina Sotnikova again became the winner of the Russian championship, and also won the international youth figure skating championship.

In 2012, Adelina Sotnikova took part in the Youth Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, where she won a silver medal.

In adult competitions, the figure skater began to take part in 2013 from the European Championship. Then she managed to climb to the second step of the podium, losing first place to the world champion in figure skating, Italian Carolina Kostner. Nevertheless, Sotnikova's victory brought Russia's first medal at the European Championship since 2006. A year later, the figure skater repeated her success, losing first place to Yulia Lipnitskaya.

In February 2012, the 16-year-old Muscovite received the title of International Master of Sports of Russia, and on February 20, 2014 she became the Honored Master of Sports.

Olympics in Sochi

At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Adelina Sotnikova made a splash. Let Sotnikova not participate in the team tournament, but in the short program her emotional number "Carmen" brought the Russian woman second place, and in the free program Adelina Sotnikova managed to win the first ever gold medal for the Russian national team in women's singles figure skating, receiving 224.9 points

Her victory was disputed by South Korea, according to which the judging was not objective, and the victory should have gone to Korean Yong Ah Kim. Nevertheless, even the performances of Sotnikova and Kim showed that the number of the Russian woman called "Rondo Capriccioso", although it had a restrained and calm romantic style, turned out to be quite complicated from a technical point of view. It consisted of a level four spin and a combination of double jumps. It was for this, despite a small mistake, that the Russian figure skater received the highest marks from the judges.

TV projects

In November 2014, Adelina Sotnikova injured her leg during a workout. As it turned out, the injury was quite serious. As a result, the skater did not compete in the championship in the 2014/2015 season. At this time - in February 2015 - she participated in the TV project "Dancing with the Stars". Paired with Gleb Savchenko, the girl managed to take 2nd place.

Adelina Sotnikova returned to the international level after a long break at the tournament in Saransk, winning second place in the short program. But according to the results of the national championship in 2016, she did not perform very well, so she joined the national team only as a substitute.

In 2016, Adelina Sotnikova took part for the first time in the Ice Age TV show beloved by millions. Paired with the Olympic champion was the actor and star of "Youth". The couple, despite the fact that it turned out to be the youngest, managed to give a brilliant result: they even pushed out duets of such strong rivals as and, and.

Sotnikova and Sokolovsky were the winners of the project. In the final, the victors of the "Ice Age" performed an incendiary dance in rock and roll style.

It is noteworthy that an excellent personal relationship has developed between the actor and the skater. The partners not only never quarreled, but also made great friends. Moreover, they promised to maintain friendship even after the end of the project.

Personal life

Adelina Sotnikova is very close to her parents. Her father, Dmitry Sotnikov, works in the criminal investigation department, and her mother, Olga Dmitrievna, was engaged in acrobatics in her youth, but due to an injury and prolonged treatment, she had to quit the sport.

Adeline's sister, Maria Sotnikova, unfortunately suffers from Treacher Collins syndrome. Masha's treatment requires a lot of money. And if at first the coach helped the family, then after the victory in Sochi-2014, Adelina Sotnikova is able to independently pay for the treatment of her sister.

Treacher Collins syndrome is a disorder characterized by craniofacial deformity. It occurs in 1 in 50,000 babies. Patients, as a rule, suffer from strabismus, a reduced size of the mouth, eyelids, ears and chin.

Interestingly, Adelina Sotnikova is the great-granddaughter of the Hero of the Soviet Union, fighter pilot Alexander Kochetov. During the Great Patriotic War, he made 488 sorties, shooting down 34 enemy aircraft. Streets in Cheboksary and Alatyr are named after Kochetov, where he lived before and after the war.

Unfortunately, due to her busy training schedule, Adelina Sotnikova spends little time with her family. Her parents have a hard time, but they try their best to support their daughter.

As for the personal life of Adelina Sotnikova, at one time there were rumors about her romance with her colleague Maxim Kovtun. Their common photos appeared on Maxim's Instagram, which prompted fans to talk about a romantic relationship allegedly existing between the athletes. We even agreed that Adeline Sotnikova was about to get married. But the guys were just friends. We only met at training camps.

In March 2016, at the premiere of the film "Hero" Adeline appeared along with the famous host of the show "Magazzino". At the event, young people held hands, not hiding their feelings.

Later, in an interview, Molochko confirmed that they were dating. But the relationship of the couple was fragile. A month after the betrayal of the young man, Adeline decided to leave.

Angelina Sotnikova now

In 2017, Adelina Sotnikova and Elena Vodorezova decided to end their cooperation. Evgeny Plushenko became the new coach of Adelina.

In one of the interviews, Elena Vodorezova spoke about the reasons for parting with her student. According to her, it is difficult to grow and move professionally when the highest goal is achieved - winning the Olympics. Adeline was deprived of all the blessings of life for a long time, because sport was in the first place, and after the great victory, the girl began to be invited to TV, to television projects, which could not but interfere with the training process. The coach and the student decided to end their cooperation.

After the change of coach, an unpleasant event followed - a serious injury, due to which Adelina Sotnikova was forced to miss the 2017/2018 season, including the Pyeongchang Olympics. At the moment, the skater is engaged in health and training.

Essentially did the same; although three years ago it seemed that the heroines of Sochi-2014 were just starting their journey in sports. Why did this path end so quickly for them? Andrey Simonenko, editor-in-chief of the R-Sport agency, discusses this.

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It was perhaps the most powerful picture of the Sochi Olympics in terms of emotional content - a little girl in a red coat is standing on the huge empty ice. This is Yulia Lipnitskaya, who herself chose the most difficult topic of "Schindler's List" and then received a letter from Steven Spielberg for the exact hit in the image. Not the most artistic figure skater, thanks to the staging genius of Ilya Averbukh, conquered the whole country, becoming only one of those who forged the team gold of the Games, but according to the inexplicable laws of media, the most beloved.

Then it seemed that Lipnitskaya, casting a naive, bewildered look back in Schindler's List, somewhere where her difficult childhood in Yekaterinburg and the hardest period in Moscow remained, Lipnitskaya would take more than one gold into her collection. And, honor to the skater and praise, she did not leave to rest on the Olympic laurels, although she could. I went to the post-Olympic World Championships and won silver there, losing only to almost the main loser of Sochi, Mao Asada, who, on her native Japanese ice, would simply not have been given anything less than gold as a consolation.

Lipnitskaya began to prepare for the next season, but then, as they say, it began for her too: age-related changes in the body, injuries, the inability to train 100 percent, breaking, and so of a very difficult nature ... By the winter of 2014/15, it was clear that It will be very difficult for Yulia to cope with all this, and the ninth place at the first post-Olympic championship in Russia was proof of this.

Full trust in the coach could have helped, but at that moment the relationship between Lipnitskaya and Eteri Tutberidze had already cracked. It came to a split in the fall of 2015, and at some point it even seemed that Alexei Urmanov, to whom the figure skater went to train, could re-ignite the fading star ... But it didn’t work out. It's not the jumps' fault. Julia did not solve the main problem - how to deal with her own body. I tried to decide, but it would be better not to do this.

Because then everything happened that now entailed the physical impossibility of skating further. The word "anorexia" was whispered by those who saw the state in which Lipnitskaya went on the ice at the beginning of the 2016/17 season. After the Olympic champion at the Moscow stage of the Grand Prix after two minutes of the free program, exhausted, simply stopped, it became clear that she needed to be treated and, most likely, finish - otherwise everything could have ended very sadly. And now this terrible diagnosis has sounded aloud.

Who is to blame for the fact that "the girl in the red coat" went down in history so early? Perhaps the answer to this question is banal, but there is no alternative - life. Clash of characters, personalities, circumstances. Thanks to Lipnitskaya for being there, in Iceberg, and turning the memories of millions into a vivid video postcard for life.

Maybe she still wants to?

Adelina Sotnikova has a completely different story. Now this has already been forgotten, but the 2013/14 Olympic season for her was not just bad, but very bad. At both stages of the Grand Prix - breakdowns. In the finals of the Grand Prix - a failure. A very rough European Championship lost to Lipnitskaya. If someone at that moment, a month before Sochi, said that Sotnikova would become an Olympic champion, he would be considered ... well, let him be a great optimist.

But in "Iceberg" Adeline gave out two performances of her life. She did, in fact, what she had never been able to do in all the pre-Olympic years - she purely performed two programs (a nonsense blot in the free program does not count). Sotnikova's Olympic gold medal is not only a reward for the fantastic diligence, perseverance and character of this wonderful and very kind girl, but, admittedly, a happy occasion.

And therefore, even then, many had a question in their heads - would Adeline want to again plunge into this atmosphere of suffering, both physical and moral, in order to risk the reputation of an Olympic champion? Lipnitskaya seemed at that moment a much more reliable bet for the next four years. Sotnikova took a break immediately after the Olympics.

But I still tried to come back. Although the futility of her attempt, perhaps, was predetermined by the fact that she, unlike Lipnitskaya, was completely immersed in social life. It was only Maria Sharapova who managed to combine business with pleasure throughout her career, and even then thanks to competent management. In the case of Adeline, alas, there was no need to talk about anything like that.

And yet, the Olympic champion performed in the first half of the 2015/16 season. The brightest was her skating at the Moscow stage of the Grand Prix. “If he wants to, he can return,” so many people said, looking at the figure skater who had matured and learned to feel the music perfectly. But Sotnikova did not enter the top three at the Russian Championship of the same season and did not qualify for the European and World Championships ...

The key, perhaps, was September 2016. Adelina performed at the test skates in Sochi with new programs. Even though it was technically not perfect skating, it was quite a worthy foundation on which even in that season it was possible to build something. But Sotnikova, unfortunately, chose a different path - she went to the "Ice Age", to television. Unfortunately for all those who consider figure skating a sport.

No, officially, according to coach Evgeni Plushenko, Adelina Sotnikova has not gone anywhere, but simply skips the season. But the key point here is if you believe. All this has already happened. Plushenko himself, after the Olympics in Sochi, missed season after season, continuing to be listed in the reserve of the national team. He had more and more new medical procedures, keeping his back operated on several times in a condition sufficient for performances in the show. But it was clear to everyone that the two-time Olympic champion would no longer compete on the ice. There are other loads and other training. Everything was clear to everyone, but the federation extended his membership in the national team from season to season, until the great skater finally announced his decision to become a coach.

A very similar story is happening with Sotnikova. Officially - an injury. Real - for example, a show in mid-August in Italy. Although ... let's leave the ellipsis here. A very similar story does not mean the same.

“After the Olympics, I have matured ... I feel that I have a different attitude not only to sports, but also to life in general. Now I look at my skating differently. I want the audience to understand that I am really an Olympic champion, what it is it’s not an accident that they put me on for a reason!” Adeline said in one of the post-Sochi interviews with R-Sport.

Maybe she really still wants to?

Childhood of Adelina Sotnikova

The first skating rink in the life of little Adelina was the “South” skating rink, which was located next to her house. The first coach was Anna Patrikeyeva. She entered the CSKA school at the age of seven, where she continued to train for two years with Irina Goncharenko. After that, Elena Buyanova became her coach. By this time, the skater already had some training in rhythmic gymnastics. The girl immediately liked to study with this mentor, they developed friendly relations. It was 2004.

From childhood, the athlete had a calm, complaisant character. It was not her style to argue with the coach. She was always ready to strictly follow the recommendations, which largely determined her future success. Thanks to this, she managed not only to master many "adult" elements, but also to bring them to automatism. This is the fourth level of complexity of rotation and triple jumps, which she was able to perform in one program. This is beyond the power of even some adult single skaters.

Her start was the championship of Russia of the 2007/2008 season, where she became the tenth among juniors. Only a year has passed, and Adeline was already the first.

The next season was not so brilliant. She won fourth place in the Russian Championship, and only sixth in the Russian Championship. The nature of the young athlete and the experience of her mentor did not allow the girl to give up. She worked hard, complicating the program. In the rays of glory, Sotnikova appeared in the 2010 \ 2011 season, becoming the champion in the final of the Grand Prix among juniors, and before that, having won both stages of this competition. This was followed by victories both at the Russian Championship and at the World Championship.

The beginning of the career of figure skater Adelina Sotnikova

At the international class tournament Golden Skate of Zagreb, the girl competed with "adult" athletes. She left home, taking the “gold”, which only confirmed the title of the national champion.

Anna Sotnikova: Tatyana Tarasova taught me to overcome myself.

In the winter of 2012, Sotnikova took part in the first Youth Olympics in her life. The result was brilliant - a silver medal.

Buyanova is the head coach of the athlete, choreography is taught by Irina Tagaeva, and mastery lessons are taught by an unsurpassed master and experienced coach Tarasova. Tarasova's contribution to Adeline's musical arrangement and choreography is invaluable. In the 2012 \ 2013 season, the matured figure skater, who turned 16, got the opportunity to compete in international championships for "adults".

She had to finish school, prepare for the exam. For Sotnikova, there are only grades 4 and 5, she does not accept others. The plans were to enter the RSUPC. According to Adeline, this will help her to remain in her favorite sport even after the end of her sports career, taking up refereeing or coaching.

Adelina Sotnikova 2013

As a result, all the subjects were handed over by the graduate with fours, but she was happy with such marks, as she passed the two-year program. It was hard, I had to work hard. True, during this period, Adeline had only one workout a day. She persevered and got through it all. At the same time, new programs were being staged, which Pyotr Chernyshev was involved in. After a short rest, the athlete had a training camp in Latvia ahead.

Adelina Sotnikova now

At the beginning of December 2013, the Grand Prix final was held in Japan, where Adelina Sotnikova and Anna Pogorilaya got into it. Adelina is pleased with her performance and especially with the cleanliness of the free program. According to her, she managed to relax, not worry about anything and skate the program for her own pleasure. I also managed to relax and not be nervous at the main competitions in Sochi, where the figure skater took the “gold medal”.

Personal life of Adelina Sotnikova

All her friends are athletes, because it's easier to understand each other. To feel happy, it is enough for Adeline to get enough sleep on a day off, go to the cinema with a friend and eat cake in a cafe.

She is very close to her mother. He thinks they have a wonderful family. Unfortunately, my sister has serious health problems. She underwent three operations, which required considerable funds. In many ways, this was the motivation of a talented skater. Tarasova helped a lot, found a sponsor company that paid the expenses.

Unfortunately, Adelina spends little time with her family. She understands that mom and dad are having a hard time.

The fact that the champion will be forced to miss the sports season, said her coach Evgeni Plushenko. “Adelina Sotnikova will not compete this season due to an injury. We all hoped that we would heal this injury, but, unfortunately, it didn’t work out. wrong," R-Sport quotes the figure skater.

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Plushenko stressed that his ward is not going to leave the sport at all. “Missing the season does not mean the end of a career. Now we need to heal the injury, which is still taking place due to the fact that, unfortunately, it was incorrectly diagnosed. Adeline did not recover, and this injury worries her,” he said.

According to the coach, his pupil had an ankle ligament rupture and a bone fracture in her foot. The doctors at first decided that the athlete would recover quickly, but the injury turned out to be much more serious.

Many experts doubt that Sotnikova will really return to the ice. For example, coach Tatyana Tarasova is skeptical about the current situation and wonders why she promises to return to sports. “We are looking forward, into the future. And I don’t see Adeline there. It’s just somehow funny. I can’t talk about this anymore, it’s funny to me. How many years have we been waiting for Zhenya, now Adeline is waiting? I don’t play these games. It’s Plushenko and Sotnikova who play them, but I don’t. I’m not interested. I’m a serious person, I understand what sports, training, competitions are. And I don’t understand why they play, "she said .

According to Tarasova, Sotnikova "skates very beautifully," but now the women's single performance has become completely different, and the athlete is unlikely to be able to work in the new conditions. “She will never come out, I don’t believe in it. I wish I was wrong, but, unfortunately, I am always right in this. I would like to see Adeline, but, unfortunately, the reality is that she does not come out," the coach added.

Vice President of the International Skating Union (ISU) Alexander Lakernik believes that Sotnikova is unlikely to return to her level. "I don't think it's very likely. I don't know why we're going to guess... But all sorts of miracles happen," he said.

Sochi 2014 Olympic champion in women's singles, Russian figure skater Adelina Sotnikova will miss the 2017/18 season due to injury, the athlete's coach Evgeni Plushenko told the R-Sport agency.

Immediately after the victory in Sochi, Sotnikova refused to go to the 2014 World Cup. Adelina was going to perform at the stages of the Grand Prix series in figure skating, but again she could not. The athlete missed the next season 2014/15 due to a leg injury. In February 2015, Adelina took part in "Dancing on Ice" with Gleb Savchenko, and there the couple took 2nd place, winning the audience award.

Their best numbers (in my opinion):

In the 2015/16 season, after a break of a year and a half, Sotnikova announced her triumphant return. She appeared at the "Mordovian Ornament" competition, where she took 2nd place, losing to her compatriot Anya Pogorilaya. Sotnikova was also third at the only stage of the Grand Prix series in which she took part - in Moscow. Her skating really filled and blossomed - it became more fluid, artistic and feminine.

Then many, including myself, believed that Sotnikova was ready to fight. Her gaze spoke for itself.

Adelina's programs were excellent, and she improved even more in gliding and artistry.

Her latina is one of my favorites. It was at this tournament, without visible blots, with a twinkle, drive:

But at the 2015 Russian Championship in Yekaterinburg, she takes 6th place and does not get into the Russian team along with Yulia Lipnitskaya and Liza Tuktamysheva.

Having put on new programs and announced her intentions to win competitions, Sotnikova unexpectedly missed the 2016/17 season, while taking part in the Ice Age TV show from October to December 2016, in which she won in a pair with actor Alexander Sokolovsky.

I didn’t follow their dances, but one number still sunk into my soul:

In April 2017, it was announced that Sotnikova's cooperation with Buyanova was terminated and her transition to two-time Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko, who began his coaching career. Sotnikova also worked with Canadian choreographer Emanuel Sandyu on the programs for the new season. The athlete intended to perform at the test skates of the Russian national team skaters, which will be held on September 9-10, 2017.

On August 23, 2017, it became known that Sotnikova, who had gotten into shape, as well as her "colleague in the shop" Yulia Lipnitskaya, would not take part in the test skates.

A little later, it became known that Sotnikova was missing the entire 2017/18 season.

“Adelina Sotnikova will not compete this season due to injury. We all hoped that we would heal this injury, but, unfortunately, it did not work out. The injury still worries, full-fledged training is not possible, and it is wrong to enter competitions in such a situation, ”- said the coach of the athlete Evgeni Plushenko.

After a storm on the net, Plushenko said that the athlete was not going to end her career, despite missing the current season due to an injury.

“Missing a season does not mean the end of a career. Now we need to heal the injury, which is still taking place due to the fact that, unfortunately, the diagnosis was incorrectly made. Adeline has not recovered, and this damage worries her. She had a ligament tear in her ankle and a broken bone in her foot. Initially, they thought that Adeline would quickly recover from this injury. Initially, they did not put a cast, and in general a completely different diagnosis was made. ”

Best comment in my opinion Tatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova:
“I love Adeline very much. She rides very nicely. But now women's single skating is completely different. It will never come out, I don't believe it. I wish I was wrong, but unfortunately I am always right about this. I would like to see Adeline, but, unfortunately, the reality is that she will not come out.

I don't play these games anymore. It's Plushenko and Sotnikova who play them, but I don't. I'm not interested. I am a serious person, I understand what sports, training, competitions are. And I don't understand why they play. They are outstanding athletes, Olympic champions. Why, if she skates well, if she has her own show, if they have their own school? What to expect when now they ride in a completely different way?

We are looking forward to the future. And I don't see Adeline there. It's just kind of funny. I can't talk about this anymore, it's funny to me. How many years have we been waiting for Zhenya, now wait for Adeline? This is not serious"

By the way, from the very beginning Tarasova was very skeptical about the new Plushenko-Sotnikov collaboration:

"Wait and see"- said Tarasova.

“I am very glad that Evgeny started working as a coach. Who better than the Olympic champions to pass on the accumulated experience to the next generation. As for Adelina and their joint work, if this is not a PR campaign, but a serious decision, then, in my opinion, they are too late with it. The fact is that Adeline will have to go through a lot of pre-season competitions, return from the bottom to the top positions, because now she is not in the rankings. And in order to be in it, you need to devote at least a year to it.

From an interview with a former coach Elena Buyanova(May 2017):

“All last season I practically did not see Adeline. I found out where she is from the Internet. It's a shame that she announced her decision by phone, sending SMS. Knowing her, I understand - yes, it's easier for her. But in life you need to be able to overpower yourself.

As for the resumption of a sports career, so far this is a pointless conversation. As far as I know, according to the athlete herself, she is now injured, and I think that she has not started training on ice yet.

I don’t presume to say, but they say that Zhenya’s ice rink is non-standard, and this is bad for an athlete of this level. I can’t say anything about Zhenya as a coach, because for this you need to educate at least one athlete. It is too early to talk about what his school is, because the school is the coaches and the results of the students, and here everything is just beginning.

Adeline wants to return. But he wants to for three years. Zhenya wants to try. But for now, it's all in words. God forbid, if they succeed, I will be glad. Peter Chernyshev, Irina Tagaeva, and I did our job, gave the girl a profession, and taught her a lot. And how Adeline will manage this, time will tell.

left a comment and Alexander Zhulin:

“I don’t know yet how Evgeny will prove himself in terms of coaching, because this is not an easy task. And immediately take the Olympic champion ... I don’t even know how to comment.

I'm very interested to see how they all turn out. The only thing is that breaking technology can lead to both good and sad consequences. If Evgeny has the wisdom not to break it much, but only to make amendments, then everything can work out, ” Zhulin said.

But Plushenko was optimistic:

“Adelina started training after her injury and is ready to move on. Our plans include test skates of the Russian national team, where we have to show up so that our work is appreciated by the federation and specialists. It is necessary. We really want to have time to do everything, fully recover and come to Sochi in September to demonstrate a full short and free program. This is both my plan and Adeline's plan. She had a small fracture in her foot, unfortunately, at the beginning of our work, her ankle ligaments were damaged. We had barely started training when it happened. Now we are ready and believe in ourselves. She will return to the national team and will perform at the highest level. Adelina is a great fellow, a great athlete and a great smart girl.

Adeline is not in the ratings, but I also went through this. Let's try together, the main thing is not to rush. Life goes by very quickly. The athlete must have good conditions. Adeline, we will create them.
She's been riding with us for two weeks now. Due to the fact that Adelina won the Olympics early, she will be able to skate after 2018. She is ready to plow, train, only working moments remain. I see her anger, excitement, Plushenko said.

“Many wrote that this is a PR move. I don't need to PR, Adeline too. It's her decision, I didn't poach anyone."

Was an optimist Ilya Averbukh:

“We are now working a lot together with Adeline. She performed in the television project "Ice Age", played in my play "The Nutcracker". Now she is going to show. And of course, I asked her more than once about whether she would return to big sport or not.

And this is what Adeline recently told me: “Now I will untie all my affairs and start preparing for the next season. I want to get back into the sport for real. Not just to unfoundedly announce the return, but to return.

Adeline wants to confirm the title of Olympic champion, and the athlete plans to fight for getting into the Olympics in South Korea. Adelina intends to take part in the Russian Championship, which will determine who will go to the 2018 Games.

Adelina is well aware of what is ahead of her, but Sotnikova still has a hunger for victories, despite the gold in the Olympics. And then, Adeline is only 20 years old, she is very young, and her break was not so big. What's so difficult? Everything depends on her!” Averbukh said.

Ari Zakarian, the manager of the Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikova, said that the figure skater would be preparing for the Olympic season.

“She started summer training as in previous years, but there were some health problems, and therefore it was decided not to force further technical training.

She skates a short program at various events, performs in the Ice Age project and then starts preparing for the 2017/18 season to get into the national team for the 2018 Games. Zakarian said.

herself Sotnikova said that she was taking part in a children's modeling competition: “We are filming a new children's project“ top mini models ”. Such beauties here, such clever ones! You look, and the eye rejoices that the kids have been looking for themselves since childhood, they are developing. Thanks to Yana Rudkovskaya for participating in this project as a jury"

At the same time, she gave an interview on the air of the Good Morning program on Channel One, which was perceived as a mockery:

“I will strive for new heights, I want to become not a single, but a multiple Olympic champion, to be an example. Sport and sporting achievements are happiness for me. I'll start my birthday with a regular workout and see my friends in the evening."

In the summer, Adele took part in the MUZ-TV award ceremony and in the show of the Italian designer STELLA CASTELLO:

Prior to this, her name was mostly mentioned in gossip columns in connection with the hacking scandal of her account, where she did not pay her page PR man, and he published an appeal to her fans with the intention of exposing her; with Alexander Molochko and a new relationship with Valeria's son.

She also won in the nomination "The most stylish according to HELLO.RU":
“I was chosen as the most stylish woman of the year according to Hello. It’s crazy nice, ”Sotnikova wrote on Twitter.

Adelina was a judge in the "Children on Ice" project:

"Children on the ice. Stars is a wonderful project! It is difficult to judge such, but what to do? My favorites appeared, for whom I will follow and cheer. Your love is unreal! It was so nice to see your shining eyes that spoke for you! Move on! Our country will need new heroes!”

She starred in the video of the "Degrees" group along with Rudkovskaya, starred in "Alone with Everyone", took part in many programs and ceremonies, including "Blue Light" on the First.

She recently posted this post on Instagram:
If I ever decide on a song .I already have a cover. left to write a song and sing. well, to realize what was written, to turn it into reality, so to speak.
What do you think, is it possible to have time to do something different in different disciplines? Leave your name

Adeline is my personal pain. I fell in love with her artistry, skating, charisma, dedication after Sochi, and what a disappointment it was later. Her long-awaited medal fades because of this circus with show-offs, idle talk, eternal promises. It would have been more honest to end my career back then, in Sochi, or to fight to the end. Her story proves how short a sports life can be. And that while you are distracted, doubtful or weak, there will always be someone younger and angrier, who needs the cherished place at the top.

The winners will be different. And thank God.