“I think early specialization is beneficial. If triple jumps are already a thing of the past and you need to learn more complex elements, it is more relevant to start learning earlier. It's like in a general education school: once the first graders came at eight, then at seven, and now six-year-olds go to school already knowing a foreign language, or even more than one. And children are sometimes tested in two languages. The criteria, the set of items are changing. So it is in figure skating. One cannot expect that quadruple jumps will be canceled and everything will return to the old times. This process cannot be stopped, "Goncharenko told RT.
Earlier, coach Valentin Nikolaev told where Alexey Mishin was mistaken when preparing Evgeni Plushenko for the 2002 Olympic Games.