It is difficult these weeks to concentrate on his work as a skating coach, Kosta Poltavets admits it honestly. He is currently in Hamar, Norway, where the World Cup sprint starts on Thursday. While he tries to prepare Jutta Leerdam for the world title, his mobile phone vibrates continuously. One gloomy message after another comes in from Ukraine, his home country that he fled in the 1990s, which brought him to Heerenveen.
The country of skating coach Kosta Poltavets from Ukraine is on fire. At the same time, he wants to guide Jutta Leerdam to the world title. ‘It’s hard to concentrate’
