“I was forced to strip to my bra”: Evgenia Medvedeva was embarrassed at the airport 03/10/2023, 09:30

The star of women’s single skating became a guest of the program “Pnám se!”. Moderator Azamat Musagaliev asked Evgenia questions about her life and career. If the answer was wrong, the athlete had to tell an embarrassing story about herself.

Medvedeva was often wrong, so she had to be honest about her embarrassment more than once. So Evgenia remembered how she was training in Canada and was not good at English. While communicating with one of the mentors, she confused his words forget (forgot) and fagot (faggot).

“I said he was a bum. Then it turned out that he has a very vulnerable soul, he did not speak to me for a week. I went red for about a month when I went to him for general physical therapy. But regardless of what you do for the result, I had to endure a bit of a crunch, “Medvedeva laughed.

The figure skater also spoke of the “global embarrassment” she experienced at the age of 16 at her first World Championships in Boston in 2016. The watch was five minutes behind pupil Eteri Tutberidze. Before the warm-up, she decided to go to the toilet, from which the trainer quickly rescued her.

“Two-time world champions, Olympic medalists are with me in the warm-up. And with our costumes, it’s such a pain: the buckle has a buckle, a zip, it’s basically for a long time – unfasten, fasten back. In short, I walk, my dress is unbuttoned, my gloves are not, one skate is half untied. In such a wild look, I take refuge and understand that there are 25 thousand people sitting in the hall, the five biggest figure skaters in the world, cameras, prime time. So I run out in total silence and everyone is looking at me. You could have failed!” – reminded the two-time champion of Russia, Europe and the world.

Evgenia then had to apologize to her rivals and organizers for a long time. “They were waiting for me, the hosts and commentators somehow filled this airtime – I am grateful to them to this day,” said Medvedev.By the way, despite the embarrassment, the young Russian won those competitions.

The athlete experienced another embarrassment at the airport. For the trip, she chose a sweatshirt with massive metal studs and chains. Since it was warm outside, the athlete did not wear anything underneath.

“I was in a bra.” I go to the inspection, they tell me: “Take it off, we won’t let you go because you squeak.” I said, “I’m not taking it off, I don’t have anything underneath.” They called security, they started to deal with it and finally they forced me to take off my sweatshirt, “said the skater.

The girl had to go through security checks in her underwear in front of other passengers. “A lot of people was there. It was embarrassing. But now I always choose what I fly in,” said Medvedev.

Evgenia also admitted that during the filming of the Challenge project, which took place in Karelia, she secretly removed the chain from the neck of the sleeping ship Yegor, which she really liked. In addition, she did not have warm pants, the blogger and singer gave her his jeans, which she also liked so much that she “forgot” to return them. “You just surrounded this guy,” Azamat mocked. The two-time Olympic silver medalist therefore asked the musician to send her card number so that she could refund the money for the items she appropriated.