"Alexei Yagudin. Love, Pain and Ice" (2008)

Music from award winning (TEFI 2008, Sport Movies And TV 2008) documentary "Alexei Yagudin. Love, pain and ice" (2008)


ALEXEY YAGUDIN.
LOVE, PAIN AND ICE.

Channel One Russia

RUSSIA, 2008 28 min
Director:Oleg Shilovsky
Editing:Andrei Timofeev
Photo:Stanislav Posypkin, Dmitry Demianov
Soundtrack: Maxim Alekseev
Producer: Alexei Vasiliev, Svetlana Kolosova, Oleg Volnov

Only the most intimate friends know what the last
six years of his life were like. at the 2002 Winter
olympics in salt lake City the famous figure skater
alexei Yagudin told his coach tatiana tarasova he
wouldn’t be able to skate because of the pain in
his leg. Yagudin managed to overcome the pain
to become olympic Champion. then there, began
6 years of pain. in summer 2007 he underwent a
very complicated surgery to have a titanium hip
joint implanted. soon after the operation he returned
to the ice to try a triple jump.