‘My boyfriend liked it!’ Russian figure skater Tuktamysheva on racy Canada GP dance
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Russian figure skating star Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, who stole the show at the Skate Canada Grand Prix with her racy exhibition program last weekend, says her boyfriend was a big fan of her performance.
The 21-year-old Tuktamysheva clinched overall victory in Quebec with 203.32 points, upstaging high-profile opponents such as Evgenia Medvedeva and Mako Yamashita – but it was her exhibition program that really caught the eye.
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Speaking to Russian outlet Sport Express, Tuktamysheva admitted that her coach was initially skeptical about the idea of such a risqué number, but “then he liked it.”
"This (was) my friend’s idea, I liked it, because I knew that it would be an incendiary performance to Britney Spears’s Toxic (tune) and offered to stage it to the coaches," she said.
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“(My coach) was quite skeptical about the idea, but then he liked it. We worked quite a lot on it, but since I came out in that suit for the first time, there were minor mistakes. But in Japan we will fix everything and get a full-fledged quality performance. All my colleagues were delighted. My boyfriend Andrey knew what to expect, and of course, he liked it."
A native of Russia's republic of Udmurtia, Tuktamysheva says she is enjoying the newfound fame her performance has brought.
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“It's nice if fans perceive me like this: if I go out on the ice, they know there will be something. After all, we make the show for fans rather than for the judges,” she said.