Next terrible news at Figure skating Olympic champion Roman Kostomarow (46).
According to RTL, the Russian ex-ice star is dying. The broadcaster relies on Russian media reports on its online platform. Accordingly, his body is too weak to keep him alive.
Olympic champion is dying
Kostomarov is currently in an induced coma. The doctors are doing everything they can to save the former top star of Russian figure skating. But the prospects are bad following the amputation of both hands and feet, cerebral hemorrhage and two strokes.
According to current knowledge, the beginning of his ordeal was a Covid infection. This resulted in severe pneumonia, with which he was admitted to a Moscow hospital in mid-January.
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This resulted in massive circulatory disorders and gangrene. tissue died. To save his life, doctors amputated his hands and feet. But it went on in quick succession: cerebral hemorrhage, brain swelling, meningitis and two strokes – now it looks as if Kostomarov might no longer be woken from his coma.
“The amputation was the beginning of the end,” the Russian portal “woman.ru” quotes one of the treating doctors as saying. “He had a complete failure of all systems. Unfortunately, a natural process is now taking place. The body is slowly dying.”
Kostomarov is still a well-known man in his country long following he has retired. He won Olympic gold in 2006, World Championship gold in 2004 and 2005 and European Championship gold in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
He won most of the titles in pairs with superstar Tatjana Nawka. The 47-year-old has been married to Russia’s government spokesman Dimitri Peskov since 2015.
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Now the entire sports world is keeping its fingers crossed that another miracle will happen for Kostomarov.
