Tatiana Tarasova, one of the world’s most well known skating coaches, will be inducted into the World Figure Skating hall of fame at next week’s world championships. Tarasova’s list of Olympic gold medalists include Ilia Kulik, Alexei Yagudin, pairs skaters Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitzev, and ice dancers Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko. Tarasova has also spent time as coach of Sasha Cohen and Shizuka Arakawa, silver and gold medalists at the Torino Olympics.
In honor of Tarasova’s feat, I have linked to one of my favorite Tarasova-coached performances, Klimova and Ponomarenko’s gold-medal winning ice dance.
2 comments:
dang, tatiana tarasova! didn't she work with gordeeva and grinkov?
i forgot about yagudin...god, ilia kulik and his UGLY ASS outfits. good skater though.
OMG all I remember of Ilia Kulik in 1998 was his costume! He looked like a giraffe or something. And I checked on the Gordeeva and Grinkov - apparently Tarasova did work with them when they became professionals, good call.
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