Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Games<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe pairs skater was initially studying for a medical degree, but quickly realised his post-sports path lies elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have an undying passion for cars and so I want to go into the automotive industry instead,\u201d Mitrofanov, wearing The Rodfathers t-shirt, told Olympics.com. \u201cI want to open up my own shop. I have a huge plan for it. It’s not just going to be fixing cars. I want to do rental, detailing. I want to be able to buy and sell cars as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
His mother, Yelena, does not share the enthusiasm. But Mitrofanov is convinced she will eventually see the allure of the auto world as well.<\/p>\n
“My mom, she’s iffy on it, the best way to put it, because when I told her, ‘Oh, I want to be a sports medical doctor’. She’s like, ‘Yes!’ And now I’m like, ‘This’. She’s like, ‘OK… let’s think about it’,” Mitrofanov said. “So I got to have a full scheme on what to do, how to move forward with it. But I’m dead set on it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m going to do what I love. I love figure skating. I’ve been doing it all of my life. I’m like, \u2018Why would I do anything different?\u2019 I love cars, so that’s what I’m going to pursue after skating.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Mitrofanov is still figuring out how to best bring his mother on board with the car shop idea, he has already successfully converted his skating partner Alisa Efimova into an auto racing fan.<\/p>\n
“We are a huge Formula 1 household. I got Alisa into it. She started to watch Drive to Survive. Me, I love how the cars work. I’m really into the drivers and the athletic part of the sport,\u201d he said. \u201cI definitely think it would be super cool to be in Formula 1 after skating. We’ll see how realistic that is, but that’s another dream of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Efimova hopes to become a doctor when she retires from competitive figure skating \u2013 but even then, she still plans to keep the F1 watch parties in her schedule.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will come to Misha’s garage from time to time to unwind my mind and watch Formula 1,\u201d Efimova said with a laugh. \u201cIt’s funny. Misha is interested how something mechanical, a car works. I’m interested how a human body works so that is something similar in us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The figure skating mechanic flipping between the rink and the garage USA\u2019s Misha Mitrofanov is not racing cars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-185279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}