What's happening to Yulia Lipnitskaya
Match TV explains why Olympic champion Sochi 2014 just can't get into shape.
Problem one. Physiological
The official history of Lipnitskaya as a champion began in February 2014. Yulia was 15 years old. For women single skating This is a dangerous age. The girls are starting to grow up. In sports language, the center of gravity changes. As a result, problems with jumping begin. And the younger, smaller and lighter the girl, the easier it is to master technically complex elements and combinations.
The Russian team, which Yulia helped win their first gold at Sochi 2014, was lucky that growing pains only hit them after the Games. Expecting big victories from Yulia in the next season after the Olympics was, at the very least, stupid. In numerous interviews, she honestly admitted that the new, rapidly changing body did not seem to belong to her.
In addition, excess weight appeared. And if before the trip to Sochi it was possible to control it with the help of a strict diet, now it was increasing almost uncontrollably. At the same time, any thought about going to Gym caused panic attacks. “It seemed to me that I was swelling all over,” admitted Yulia. “I tried to work out in the gym as little as possible.” As a result, weak back muscles and endless microtraumas.
Already at the start of this season, Lipnitskaya, slimmer (minus eight kilograms) and prettier, admitted that she had accumulated many problems with the spine, with the coccyx, with the sacrum, with the nerve endings. This list could be continued indefinitely.
“If I turn wrong, something clicks and my leg goes numb,” the figure skater said.
This is exactly what the audience saw during the Moscow stage of the Grand Prix, when Yulia twice failed to enter the jump and went to a meeting with the coach right during the free program. She eventually continued her performance, although without a chance of success. The fall and the lost six points threw the Olympic champion into last place.
How long the recovery will take will become clear this week after an in-depth medical study. Of course, it’s too early to dramatize.
Not a single figure skater has ever emerged from adolescence easily and painlessly. A striking example is the winner of the Moscow Grand Prix stage, Anna Pogorilaya. They counted on her at the start of the last Olympic season, but Pogorilaya did not go to Sochi.
“Every day I got used to my new self,” recalls Anya. – I added a centimeter, the center of gravity shifted – I lost all my jumps. Everything grows, the muscles cannot cope with the load, you have to wait. And at this time the rivals continue to train at full strength.”
As a result, Pogorilaya was unable to show consistent results for three seasons in a row. Last year she missed two out of four jumping elements and fell while performing the step sequence. And now she shows almost flawless performances and is catching up with the team leader Evgenia Medvedeva.
Problem two. Artistic
During her career, Lipnitskaya managed to work with the best Russian directors. Ilya Averbukh turned out to be the most accurate when he listened to Yulina’s desire to take music from Schindler’s List. But Julia grew up from the image of a little girl in a red coat. But no one has yet succeeded in creating a new artistic reality for it.
Free programs are the hardest.
Immediately after the Olympics, Lipnitskaya’s team unsuccessfully tried to make her a lyrical heroine. Classic images and plots were used. True, she did not look very convincing in the role of Juliet. The story of tragic love to the composition “Leningrad” by William Joseph also did not quite work out.
This season, Lipnitskaya's search led her to the soundtrack from the film Kill Bill. At the test skates in Sochi this free program criticized. And the vice-president of the federation figure skating Alexander Gorshkov even expressed concern that Yulia would not have enough strength to ride her from start to finish. So far his prediction is coming true.
Yulia likes the program. At the same time, the skater honestly admits that she was at best half ready for the start of the season. Due to health problems, we did not have time to work on the choreographic part in the off-season.
In this sense, it’s even good that Yulia will not have official starts at least until the Russian Championship - she has time to recover and work on the accuracy of her image.
Problem three. Psychological
Lipnitskaya experienced all her problems in reality show mode. And this is one of the main reasons why adolescence and the search for a new image took so long - too much effort was spent fighting myths about oneself and one’s life.
“Yulia was incredibly tired from the excitement and excessive attention to herself,” said Eteri Tutberidze when she worked with Lipnitskaya. “She took to heart what was written about her family. She was worried because her relatives are not public people, but suddenly they found themselves in the spotlight.”
Julia lived in this mode for about two years. After the Olympic Games, her iPhone, as well as her social media accounts, were constantly hacked. She had no control over her life. Fleeing from the persistent attention of the press and fans, Julia was looking for a way out. First, the spare one. This was the only way she could get to training in her native Khrustalny unnoticed. And when I realized that this was not helping, I decided to completely change the situation and environment.
If all this popularity only hindered Lipnitskaya, then her coach Eteri Tutberidze, on the contrary, helped her establish herself as one of the main specialists in single skating. And Yulia, who during the preparation for Sochi 2014 was accustomed to being the main one in the coach’s life, suddenly felt unnecessary. Just at the moment when it was especially important for her to feel supported. But Tutberidze did not have time to sort things out - other students should know that the coach needs them. Especially Evgenia Medvedeva, who was then just preparing to move to the adult level.
“When she rides,” said Tutberidze. “And my soul rides with it.”
Eteri Georgievna spoke differently about her relationship with Yulia: “We separated. Gradually it was getting to this point. Somewhere trust was lost. But as long as we understood each other, the maximum result was achieved.”
Yulia went to Sochi to work with Olympic champion Alexei Urmanov without comment. I didn’t want to give an extra reason for talking and make excuses.
This transition did not relieve her of the need to let strangers into her life from time to time, but it helped her calm down and feel that her coach needed her.
And even though the return, as Yulia and her fans imagined it many times, did not take place in Moscow. But it became completely obvious: Lipnitskaya had decided on her plans for the future. Contrary to the forecasts of journalists and some colleagues, there is no place for pair skating in them. She still wants to win on her own.
Text: Marina Krylova
Photo: Andrey Golovanov and Sergey Kivrin
R-Sport agency correspondent Anatoly Samokhvalov recalls how he tried to get to the bottom of what was happening with the 2014 Olympic champion, but soon began to resemble a woodpecker. And yet: why did the darling of millions have such problems?
The reason why nothing worked out for Lipnitskaya after the Olympics is probably made up of many contradictory and tattered scraps of completely different circumstances. If anyone else is interested in getting to the bottom of it, they will spend a long time looking for the time when the problems started, since everyone will have their own version. Even if Julia herself opens up, it is not a fact that she will correctly assess what happened to her. Even when time passes and hatred goes away - towards people, cases, figure skating.
At the Russian Championship two years ago in Yekaterinburg, she admitted that it was then that she fell in love with figure skating. Her home skating rink was now illuminated not by Belyaev’s lanterns, but by the tart Sochi sun, and the coaching staff made absolutely all decisions for her. She just carried out the instructions and, as they said then with the coach himself, they gradually improved. Even the loss in the subsequent Russian Cup Final was perceived by Urmanov as “one more step” forward. “The girl is working,” Urmanov answered, hoping that the last question had been asked.
To find out what was going on there at the Iceberg training rink, I called Alexey Evgenievich, but did not pronounce his patronymic, because he sighed into the phone receiver so young with what seemed to me genuine optimism. But I still don’t understand whether it was the student who had that effect on him or just the palm scent and the salty sea air that cleared his nostrils.
Urmanov was after some kind of coaching downtime. The then Minister of Sports himself added color to the Olympic champion Lillehammer, placing hope in him - on his personal progress, on Lipnitskaya’s renaissance and, in general, on the fact that this couple in Sochi would become our native prototype of the famous American skating rinks, where the same domestic specialists rule the roost, who nowadays aesthetically forget Russian words in interviews.
On November 5, 2016, Lipnitskaya suspended the performance of her free program. She limped on one leg, officials tried to focus the attention of others on the muscle injury, but for some reason few people believed in this specific injury. Lipnitskaya walked into the locker room without showing anyone her eyes, and no one saw her again at the competition. The true problems of the athlete were reported only by rumors, but no one, even in delirium, could officially voice what the athlete’s mother said more than six months later.
In the fall, Urmanov tried to dispel rumors, saying that Lipnitskaya did not lose weight dramatically. “She has been in good shape with us for quite a long time. She didn’t come out so slim right before the Grand Prix stage in Moscow, she has been holding a certain weight for quite some time. It’s not that, relatively speaking, in mid-September she weighed 50 kilograms, but by the start of the Grand Prix it began to weigh 40,” Alexey seemed to be talking both himself and the journalist into words. And the journalist wanted to believe it.
Then he said that all the examinations had been completed, and they did not reveal anything serious, and in general the athlete was returning to Sochi to prepare for the Russian Championship. And then he stopped picking up the phone. At the end of March the following year, I saw a dark-haired man with a black backpack on one shoulder in front of me at passport control at Vantaa airport in the capital of Finland. I was two meters short of getting in line behind him. He turned and immediately shook his head, not shaking my hand firmly. “Well, you’re right!” said Urmanov, who no longer wanted to hide, but still didn’t want to answer. The ceremonial challenge in the cutthroat market of women's singles skating gave way for him to dashing from one challenger to another. He brought the Armenian boy Slavik Harutyunyan to the World Championships in Helsinki.
“No one has cut off my phone for so long,” Alexey shared his stubbornness with me. “Is it really just me?” I asked, but Urmanov did not listen to my slow question. “Only you! No one else! No one else needs this. Everyone has forgotten...” - here the coach was clearly naive and deceived. Have you forgotten Lipnitskaya? But he hardly studied the ratings of even banal news mentioning the Olympic champion Sochi. Is her "red coat" from Schindler's List? Yes, maybe they have forgotten, “Bang Bang” from “Kill Bill” by Urmanov himself, even more so, since people had no time for music when the skater stood up in the middle of the skate in November. And only specialists and journalists remembered leaving, and no one cared what kind of cascade she would perform.
But the people immediately became excited when the poorly resourceful Alexander Georgievich Gorshkov, the president of our sports federation, spoke about something like “continuing restoration,” but documents from the most adored person were chronically not received by this federation. For some reason they were not included in Gorshkov’s official version.
I yawned and Urmanov quietly disappeared into the airport-accredited hotel shuttle. Then he met me only on Youtube, where he told one of the Kuban TV channels about Lillehammer and other joys of life, which he, the Olympic champion, feels comfortable and pleased to talk about.
Lipnitskaya herself is not ready to talk about unpleasant things. says the man essentially left the global scene three years ago. But he doesn't say why. She says that we did not lose anything from her absence. Only when Lipnitskaya came out between these three years, as if pushing the calendar apart, to skate, a boom began in the arena. “We love you, you are still the best for us!” her many fans shouted to her. When she left, the whole country became fans. Just like when she came. In Sochi, after the team tournament.
Such idolized people are often said to be lonely. Here she lives as a popular woman, carries her main role like a cross, and then at the age of fifty she admits that she has been alone all her life. Today Lipnitskaya is very reminiscent of one of these hackneyed scenarios, which we, journalists, love to work out and open with our corkscrews, hoping that inside this carbonated fate someone has already spilled and now you will pour this sweet and peppery fountain on your light ironed shirt before unheard of revelations.
And ideally we will wait for names. Not the first coach by name and patronymic, not the last, but the one who worked her, the lonely champion, like material. And at the same time he overlooked something more important and human.
But for now the public is buzzing, remembering, admiring, smiling cynically. Responsibility is now assumed by other organizations under different circumstances.
Read also:
Yulia Lipnitskaya is a talented, titled athlete, winner various competitions in figure skating at local and international levels, the youngest winner of the European Championship in the history of figure skating. Julia has many fans around the world, but in Lately many are interested last news about Yulia Lipnitskaya, whose anorexia required serious treatment (before and after photos can be seen below). This is due to the great excitement surrounding the champion’s departure from the sport.
Rumors about leaving the sport
Rumors that the figure skater was leaving the big sport came as a big shock to both her fans and colleagues, because the young athlete’s career had just begun, there were still so many accomplishments ahead and brilliant victories. Figure skating coach Alexander Zhulin said in an interview that the decision to end the champion’s career was correct and deliberate, since it was influenced by a number of reasons:
- according to Zhulin, it was not so easy for the young girl to cope with the world fame that fell overnight, she did not even have an idea of how to communicate with the press and colleagues;
- According to Zhulin, this decision was influenced by Yulia’s completely rash departure from coach Eteri Tutberidze, who was quite tough with the young skater and it was precisely this toughness that she needed so much;
- and the third reason for leaving the sport, Zhulin named Lipnitskaya’s natural tendency to be overweight.
Photo: Yulia Lipnitskaya and Eteri Tutberidze The girl began to grow up and gain weight, and this is simply strictly prohibited in sports and has the worst impact on the quality of training and performances. Zhulin reported that Yulia began to struggle with overweight, fell ill with anorexia, for which she was treated in Germany, after treatment she gained weight again. And, according to Zhulin, the athlete’s time has already been lost and she understands this, which is why she decided to leave figure skating. 
For several months, all the media were full of headlines that Yulia Lipnitskaya, suffering from anorexia, left the sport! However, so far no photos have been provided before and after anorexia. True, the athlete herself did not react in any way to such information, categorically refusing any comments.
Her coach and great professional Alexei Urmanov chose not to talk about whether Yulia Lipnitskaya was leaving the big sport, only sparingly noting that he did not know the latest news about the athlete.
Great interview
She confirmed the latest news about her retirement from the sport in 2018 only after a long silence, and finally gave a detailed interview, which the Russian Figure Skating Federation posted on its website in September. Yulia Lipnitskaya gave a link to it on her Instagram page, writing a short and warm post with words of gratitude to all fans of her talent.
In an interview, Lipnitskaya admitted that the decision to leave big sport was extremely difficult for her, but today her health comes first. She confirmed that she had indeed been diagnosed with anorexia and that over the past few years she had been struggling with the disease under the supervision of doctors and experienced psychologists.
Yulia also admitted that not everyone in her close circle understood and accepted her decision to voice her diagnosis, but the girl believed that such an action would be the most correct in the current situation, because sooner or later information about the disease would still become available to the general public.
The figure skater said that she was tormented by fears of the unknown; she did not know how her career in sports would develop and whether she would continue to perform at all. Although at the very beginning of the illness, she, her mother and coach were sure that the figure skater would certainly return to the ice, and would achieve a lot in the sport, and improve a lot in her performances.
Yulia says that only health problems prevented her from realizing herself in sports. The girl admits that she was always very shy, she shunned too much large quantity people, was not ready for the fame that so quickly fell upon her. In the end, the skater suffered from severe nervous exhaustion, which provoked the disease.
Yulia Lipnitskaya, when asked about her future plans, said that now her priority is only study. She is actively studying English language with a tutor, a little later he wants to try to find himself in some areas not related to ice.
World recognition
Yulia Lipnitskaya's career in big sport both replete with brilliant victories and truly tragic moments, which are full of the latest news.
The future champion was born in 1998 in the city of Yekaterinburg. At the age of four, little Yulia’s mother, Daniela Leonidovna, took her to the figure skating section, where the girl immediately showed remarkable talent. To realize her unconditional talent, the girl’s family moved to the capital. There, Eteri Georgievna Tutberidze became the talented girl’s mentor, who immediately noted the little figure skater’s extraordinary flexibility and unique capabilities when performing individual elements.
Photo of Lipnitskaya before anorexia - After two years of hard training at the Junior Grand Prix stage, held in Poland, the athlete won her first gold medal. Further, at the stage in Italy there was a medal of the highest standard, and in the Grand Prix finals held in Quebec, Yulia became the first. At the 2012 Russian Championships, the figure skater won the second step of the podium. At the same time, she won the highest step of the podium at the Russian Junior Championships and the World Junior Championships. In 2011-2012, the figure skater won the highest medals at all international competitions. It was a real success and her first steps towards deafening world fame.
- In 2012, in October, the athlete won an absolute victory at a tournament held in Finland. In November, she was awarded gold at the Grand Prix stages in China and France. But Yulia did not participate in the Grand Prix final due to an injury. For the same reason in next year the athlete also missed the Russian Championships held in Sochi.
- The figure skater opened the Olympic season with magnificent victories at the tournament held in Finland and at the Grand Prix stage in Canada. At the Russian Championship, Yulia won silver only because she made minor mistakes in performing elements of the program. But in 2014, at the first European Championships in her career, the figure skater completely rehabilitated herself and won a resounding victory, beating famous skaters; the 15-year-old girl was the youngest among the participants in the competition.
- On Olympic Games in Sochi, held in 2014, Lipnitskaya became absolute champion. The President of the country gave the athlete a standing ovation and personally congratulated her on her impressive successes. World fame fell on Yulia Lipnitskaya, her photos were placed on the cover of many foreign publications. Yulia was included in the top three most famous people of the year according to major search engines Google and Yandex. Authoritative European publications named Yulia athlete of the year, so there was reason to make the young winner’s head spin.
Crucial moment
After winning the Olympic Games, Lipnitskaya began to be haunted by failures in her career and personal life; she made mistakes in competitions, taking far from the most prestigious places. The girl perceived each new failure extremely painfully. As a result, Yulia decided to change her coach, since the demanding and result-oriented Tutberidze did not give the vulnerable athlete any concessions.
The figure skater moved to a professional and talented coach Alexei Urmanov. This, according to the athlete’s colleagues, was a turning point in her career. Urmanov, unlike Tutberidze, is a gentle person and devoted a lot of time to bringing Lipnitskaya’s mental balance back to normal, while the intensity of training decreased somewhat.
Julia was never able to come to sports uniform and, having received several injuries, missed important competitions in 2018. The champion resisted all difficulties and failures, but the young body eventually gave up.
In 2015, the athlete began to experience natural physiological changes in her body and she began to rapidly gain weight, which caused a refusal to eat and anorexia. At first, the girl struggled with weight in every possible way, when she already had difficulties performing her signature rotations, Yulia decided to greatly reduce her diet, which subsequently led to anorexia.
Yulia Lipnitskaya today
But, despite all the difficulties, the athlete’s life is getting better. Judging by numerous photos, Yulia Lipnitskaya has now successfully overcome anorexia and is leading a full life as a young girl. He learns to live away from intrusive attention and the constant pressure of responsibility, looking for his calling in various fields.
Photo: Lipnitskaya now In any case, the fate of Yulia Lipnitskaya and the fact that she suffers from anorexia never ceases to excite her many fans, and the latest news about the champion suggests that perhaps fans will soon discover a new side of her: the athlete is thinking about becoming sports commentator. The figure skater, with her perseverance, will to win and ability to overcome difficulties, will definitely face new achievements.
Yulia Lipnitskaya’s mother said in an interview with TASS: “Yulia informed the leadership of the federation about her plans to end her career back in April, immediately after returning from Europe, where she underwent three months of treatment for anorexia. I would like to note that now my daughter lives only on an Olympic scholarship. She does not receive a salary from the federation, although she is on the national team’s payroll.”
Interestingly, the president of the FFKKR, Soviet figure skater Alexander Gorshkov, as they say in such cases, pretended to be a hose. He said that he had no such information about Lipnitskaya’s departure. But who is more important - mom or some official?
What did Lipnitskaya win?
The golden girl at the age of 15 won the team competitions at the Olympics in Sochi. She performed both the short and free program. She became the best in both, scoring 20 points.
Thanks to the team victory, Yulia Lipnitskaya at 15 years 249 days became the second youngest Olympic champions figure skating in the history of the Winter Olympics after Maxie Gerber. The German competed in pair skating and won the home Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936, when she was 15 years, 4 months and 5 days.
But there was also silver at the 2014 World Championships and victory at the European Championships in the same year. Second place in the 2013 Grand Prix final.
Why did everything collapse
Firstly, Lipnitskaya left her coach Eteri Tutberidze, who had worked with her since she was 11 years old. Mother Daniela Leonidovna and daughter Yulia drove from Yekaterinburg to Moscow by car. We rented an apartment, and there was a time when we even had to sleep in the car. All in order to get to Tutberidze at Sports School No. 37. The girl had extraordinary flexibility and stretching. She had a unique ability to accelerate rotation.
Then, after the victory in Sochi, the coach and student quarreled, not seeing eye to eye. In addition, Tutberidze has another hyper-talented girl who now dominates the world of women's figure skating - Evgenia Medvedeva.
In general, Lipnitskaya went to coach Alexei Urmanov, but achieved nothing with him. Secondly, injuries. They were hot on Yulia's heels. It got to the point of ridiculousness - I slipped on the sidewalk in winter and injured hip joint and lower back.
Thirdly, physiology. A girl at 15 can become a champion, but then she turns into a woman. She is gaining weight, her hips are expanding... They began to whisper about Lipnitskaya that she had gained weight. Problems with anorexia arose when Yulia freaked out and began to dramatically lose weight. But, of course, she could no longer compete with Medvedeva. Her train has left.
Yulia Lipnitskaya was like Samantha Smith - an American schoolgirl with large eyelashes and round eyes from Maine, who wrote a letter to the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Yuri Andropov at the height of the Cold War. Then she flew to our country, and the entire Soviet Union fell in love with her.
Before Sochi, no one really knew about Lipnitskaya. After Sochi, her fame was incredible. We can say for sure that this girl beat everyone’s rating at the Olympics in Sochi. No one was standing nearby!
On February 10, 2014, Lipnitskaya appeared on the cover of the European and Asian versions of Time magazine. Yulia's name topped the list of global trends on Twitter (just as the news about her departure is still leading there).
She was included in the top three “People of the Year” of the most popular transnational companies Google Inc and Yandex, and European publications recognized Lipnitskaya as the athlete of the year.
Julia has become one of the most popular people in Russia. For performing a program on the theme of the film “Schindler’s List,” its director Steven Spielberg sent Lipnitskaya a letter of gratitude “for being able to carry the image of a girl in a red coat through the entire performance.”
The legendary performance of the Russian figure skater at the Sochi Olympics in 2014 made the young athlete a real star. A fragile girl in a spectacular red suit performed incredible jumps and spins to the music from the film “Schindler’s List.”
The phenomenal talent of the fifteen-year-old figure skater captivated millions of viewers around the world. However, in 2017, the athlete announced the completion of sports career, which became the most discussed news in the sports community. In this article we will find out why Yulia Lipnitskaya made this decision. The latest news of 2017 covers in detail the decline of the figure skater’s career, the difficulties and problems that she had to face.
Enormous stress
After a landmark performance at the Olympic Games, the athlete deservedly became the Olympic champion in the team tournament. The President personally congratulated Yulia Russian Federation, and numerous sports fans made her the main heroine of the Olympics. Unprecedented fame fell on the fifteen-year-old figure skater, and millions of fans began to follow her career. Attention of Russian and foreign press was riveted to every performance of the young talent, to every jump.
Having become a legend of the Sochi Olympics, Yulia struggled to keep high bar. However, mistakes and unsuccessful performances constantly haunted her. The athlete took each new failure very seriously and was constantly worried about the unjustified hopes of her fans.
In 2015, at the Russian Championship, the talented girl managed to take only 9th place. In the same year, in the Grand Prix, she also did not show the best result, becoming only fifth. Such results lead to Julia moving to another coach. Commenting on the latest news in 2017 that Yulia Lipnitskaya left the sport, many athletes consider the change of coach a turning point.
For a long time, Lipnitskaya trained under the guidance of the famous trainer Eteri Tutberidze. However, the conflict between them had been brewing for a long time. The heavy psychological stress that Yulia faced after the Olympics required constant help and participation. Perhaps the coach could not pay enough attention to the champion, as she was preparing other members of the Russian team.
In relation to Yulia, the coach’s position was based on continuing hard work, despite dizzying successes. Tutberidze demanded from her ward a high workload and development of skills that were necessary for the young figure skater.
In 2015, the athlete moved to Alexey Urmanov, who is considered an excellent specialist. He pays a lot of attention to his ward, trying to help her cope with psychological stress and restore peace of mind. At the same time, the intensity of training decreases slightly. However, the change of coach did not help Yulia regain her former glory; at the Russian Championship in 2016 she took only 7th place. Aggravated old injuries and new falls led to Lipnitskaya missing several significant competitions and the Russian championship in 2017.
Yulia Lipnitskaya, figure skater, D laws of physiology
The phenomenon of Yulia Lipnitskaya, who won the hearts of millions of spectators with her performance, lies not only in her skating technique. What helped the young figure skater become a real star was her inner strength of spirit, charisma and artistry. After her triumphant victory, Julia faced many difficulties and obstacles that greatly complicated her advancement in the profession. Thanks to her strong character, the champion for a long time struggled with the circumstances, but at some point she gave up.
A peculiarity of the female body is that at a certain age, body weight begins to increase. This is common to almost all women, as nature prepares them for future motherhood. Frail and slender figure skaters also have similar problems. At a certain age, they begin to gain weight and only strict diets and grueling workouts help them stay in shape.
Starting in 2015, Julia began to rapidly gain weight, and this process was associated with hormonal changes in the body, and it was very difficult to influence it. The athlete began an active fight against extra pounds, but daily jogging and refusing to eat did not bring the desired result. Excess weight greatly affected the girl’s performances; her lightness and flexibility disappeared. It became difficult for Yulia to perform the incredible rotations that became her calling card.
Trying to get back former form, the skater began to severely limit her diet. However, this decision resulted in serious health problems. According to the latest news in 2017 about Yulia Lipnitskaya, the girl was seriously diagnosed with anorexia. The disease developed gradually, undermining the athlete’s vitality and affecting her mental balance. Lack of nutrients has led to muscle weakness, making difficult jumps has become almost impossible. At one of the performances, the famous figure skater was unable to complete the program, as her legs were cramping from constant hunger strikes.
Health problems led to the fact that Julia was forced to undergo treatment for anorexia. The girl spent three months in one of the European clinics, and upon returning home she announced the end of her sports career. The main reason for this decision, according to the figure skater’s mother, was serious health problems. After completing treatment, Yulia did not lose the weight she had gained, tired of exhausting diets.
The news about the retirement of the legend of the Sochi Olympics excited the entire sports community. Some athletes and coaches expressed their versions of what was happening, but it is impossible to deny the seriousness of the athlete’s illness. Having gained weight, Yulia will never be able to achieve phenomenal jumps and spins, and it is impossible to constantly be in a state of anorexia.
Future plans
The talented athlete began figure skating at the age of four. The girl showed amazing abilities and flexibility early on, so the family had to move to Moscow for further development her talent. Julia devoted most of her life to sports, so her decision to give up her favorite activity forever surprised not only her fans.
Various comments regarding this incident greatly upset Lipnitskaya. Some colleagues believe that Yulia simply did not have enough character for further development. Having become the youngest champion in the history of Russian figure skating, she stopped training at the proper level. The skater does not comment on such statements, but her efforts to return to her former positions speak for themselves. Julia did everything she could, but circumstances turned out to be stronger than her.
Still, the vast majority of fans and colleagues support the athlete, wishing her recovery. Yulia has done quite a lot for domestic sports, contributed to Olympic victory, flashing with a bright star. The latest news about Yulia Lipnitskaya covers what the famous figure skater is doing now.
After completing her sports career, Julia is trying to learn to live in an ordinary world, free from constant training and exciting performances. According to rumors, one of the companies involved in the restaurant business offered the girl to take a leadership position in one of the areas. The athlete has not yet responded to this proposal, enjoying her free life without physical activity and diets.
Discussing appearance figure skaters, some netizens spoke out about Yulia’s possible pregnancy. However, this information turned out to be just rumors, which the athlete herself wrote about in social network. Lipnitskaya reacted quite sharply to speculation about her interesting situation and stated that she was no longer going to exhaust herself with diets for the pleasure of her fans.
Considering the latest news about Yulia Lipnitskaya today, it should be noted that in 2017, the Olympic champion became the owner of her own apartment in the capital. For her achievements at the Olympic Games, a representative of the construction company Sezar Group presented the girl with the keys to her own living space in the southwest of Moscow. Having learned that the Olympic champion dreamed of purchasing an apartment, the company decided to give her a gift. This was a real surprise for the figure skater, who was sincerely happy about the apartments in the new building.
The athlete was especially pleased with the location of her new home. Yulia loves nature very much and has been fond of horse riding since childhood, so the large forest area located next to the new apartment was a real surprise. The happy owner of her own living space is happy to note that she is already looking forward to long walks along the green alleys.
Currently, the skater is passionate about renovating and arranging her home. She wants to create a large, cozy space filled with light. According to Yulia, she always dreamed of having her own apartment, since after moving to the capital, she and her mother always had to rent housing. Further career Many people see athletes in sports journalism or show business; perhaps she will choose coaching.
