“This is a myth, really. I'm not strict. Frankly, probably there is a harshness in words. I can punish with a word, there is such a thing. But it does work. With the girls, the boys are a little different, ”the trainer said in an interview with Channel One.

In the final of the Grand Prix in women's single skating, the whole podium was taken by the pupils of Eteri Tutberidze: Alyona Kostornaya, Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova.

Earlier, Tutberidze admitted that she could not train her own daughter.