Irina Slutskaya: “Fair or not, such is the technique now. While the judges pretend that everyone doesn’t see prerotations and this is not a mistake, why not?”
Interview with Irina Slutskaya. About the performance of the Russian team at the Beijing Olympics, the judging scandal [...]
“The West will do everything to ruin Russia and our sport.” Alexander Zhulin about possible massive change of sport citizenship in Russian team
Coach Alexander Zhulin about possible massive change of citizenship in figure skating due to the sanctions against [...]
Anna Shcherbakova: “It may sound strange, but winning the Olympics was not my childhood dream.”
Interview with Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova. Anya told what happened at the Games, what feelings and emotions [...]
Ilia Averbukh: “Kamila Valieva has everything to show in four years that she is worthy of the Olympic champion title.”
Interview with Ilia Averbukh about Kamila Valieva and Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov. photo by [...]
“It was impossible to get into the Russian national team. Now the leaders perform quads and triple axels, but I can’t master this content anymore.” Maria Talalaikina about change of sports citizenship
Interview with former Russian skater Maria Talalaikina who now represents Italy. About her decision to represent [...]
Alexander Zhulin: “Valieva has learned two magnificent quadruple jumps and triple axel. What dope are you talking about? She just doesn’t get out of the ice and withstands wild loads.”
Alexander Zhulin about Eteri Tutberidze, Kamila Valieva and Alexandra Trusova. View this post on Instagram [...]
“Kostornaia hasn’t appeared in training for a long time, she only does PR. Once she was a European champion, but now she is nobody.” choreographer of Tutberidze’s group Alexei Zheleznyakov
Choreographer of Tutberidze's group Alexei Zheleznyakov commented on Alena Kostornaia's transfer to Elena [...]
“They have done worse to themselves, there will be no interest in figure skating without our athletes.” Russian functionaries and coaches commented on ISU decision not to allow Russian skaters to compete at the ISU events.
Russian figure skating functionaries and coaches commented on ISU decision not to allow Russian skaters to compete at [...]
Morisi Kvitelashvili: “I had such mixed feelings after women’s FP that I cried. Tutberidze asked me “Why are you crying? Sad about your 10th place?” Even then she didn’t stop joking, holding on.”
Morisi Kvitelashvili summed up the results of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, spoke about the strength of his coach [...]
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva: “Of course, it’s very cool to perform on the Olympic ice, but it seems to me there are bigger and cooler things in life that you can wish and dream about.”
Interview with Elizaveta Tuktamysheva for Cosmopolitan. View this post on Instagram A post [...]
“I haven’t seen such cynicism for a long time. Eteri Tutberidze, as a reasonable person, did everything absolutely right.” Alexander Zhulin on his appeal to Thomas Bach
Alexander Zhulin commented on his appeal to the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach after [...]
Marina Zueva: “In recent years the style has been set by Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron. But dance without soul and feelings is just movement to the music.”
Interview with Marina Zueva. About the performance of Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov and results of the [...]
Tamara Moskvina: “If Valieva is strong, she will cope with the difficulties. And if she is not strong – “c’est la vie”. It’s always like this in sports.”
Tamara Moskvina shared her opinion about raising the age minimum and situation around Kamila Valieva. photo Daria [...]
Rafael Arutyunyan: “Today, a 15-year-old figure skater legally performing in senior competitions doesn’t bear any responsibility even in case of violation of existing rules. There’s no logic.”
Interview with Rafael Arutyunyan about Nathan Chen, future work and the scandal surrounding Kamila Valieva. photo [...]
Mark Kondratiuk: “Sport is not medals and titles. Sport is emotions, feelings and endless pleasure to do what you love the most.”
Mark Kondratiuk shared his emotions after his performance at the Beijing Olympics, where he won gold in the team [...]
“Kamila Valieva is Olympic champion in team event, our star. The test that fell on her, our entire team needs to go through together.” Eteri Tutberidze summed up the results of the 2022 Olympics
Eteri Tutberidze summed up the results of the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. View this post on Instagram [...]
“The home environment helped the Chinese today, but in any case, this is the greatest pair, they deserve to be Olympic champions.” Russian coaches about pairs competition at the Beijing Olympics
Russian coaches about pairs competition at the Beijing Olympic Games 2022. photo by sportal.bg Inna Goncharenko: [...]
Anastasiia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov: “Any Olympic medal should be rejoiced.”
Anastasiia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov about their performance and Olympic bronze medal. View this [...]
“Are you kidding? 141? We scored such points three years ago when we came out the juniors” Dmitrii Kozlovskii about scores in the free program at the Olympics
Aleksandra Boikova and commented on their performance in the free program at the Olympics. Dmitrii also shared his [...]
Anna Shcherbakova: “It’s hard to say how would I feel if there was no drama. I wasn’t ready to rejoice. I wasn’t upset, didn’t hesitate to rejoice, emotions just ended.”
Beijing 2022 Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova shared her emotions after the awards ceremony following the results of [...]
Alexandra Trusova: “Where is the medal? I took it off. Anya will show you medal.”
Alexandra Trusova talked to the journalists after ther medal ceremony. After the awards ceremony, she took off her [...]
Alexandra Trusova: “I haven’t won for three years. I thought that if I jumped everything, I would win, but this did not happen.”
Alexandra Trusova on her performance in the free program at the Olympic Games and silver medal. View this [...]
Katarina Witt: “There should be no tolerance for the use of doping in any sport and in any discipline. I’ll be blunt: doping should lead to a life ban.”
Interview with two time Olympic champion Katarina Witt. View this post on Instagram A post [...]
“I started to restore my jumps, but fell again. I broke my left arm, but I continue to train.” Alena Kostornaia told that she prematurely ended this season
Alena Kostornaia told that she prematurely ended this season. She also spoke about the timing of the recovery from a [...]