“Valieva and Gleichengauz made something cosmic, but this is the magic of performer. If you ask a Zamboni driver to choreograph a program for her, it will also turn out great.” Choreographer Sergei Komolov
Choreographer Sergei Komolov spoke about Kamila Valieva and her programs. View this post on Instagram [...]
Ilia Averbukh: “There was hope that we would see our guys at World Championships. The extension of sanctions is unfair, sad and insulting.”
Ilia Averbukh reacted to the statement of the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach about [...]
Anna Pogorilaya: “Valieva showed with this program, poking everyone in the face: “That’s what you did to me.” She is a very strong athlete, and a strong person.”
Interview with 2016 Worlds bronze medalist Anna Pogorilaya. About test skates, Valieva, Trusova, Malinin, and the [...]
Evgenia Medvedeva: “Even if you ask the girls who competed at the last Olympics about returning to international arena and big sports, no one will give a specific answer.”
Evgenia Medvedeva answered a question about the possibility of her return to competitions. View this post [...]
Yana Rudkovskaya: “Women’s figure skating is scarier than show business. Neither men nor pairs have such a concentration of undercurrents, squabbles and intrigues.”
Interview with Yana Rudkovskaya, producer, co-owner of Plushenko's Angels Academy and wife of Evgeni Plushenko. [...]
Ilia Malinin: “Jumping is my strong side. I think that I will be recognized as a good jumper. But if I want to achieve a good result at the Olympics, then I need to improve other aspects of skating.”
Interview with Ilia Malinin about the past season, progress with quads, and his interests besides figure skating. [...]
“Anna Pogorilaya was preparing for the Olympics, she had back problems and coach used to take it out on us. I was tired of all this toxic environment.” Speed skater Alexandra Sayutina about quitting figure skating
Speed skater Alexandra Sayutina told why she quit figure skating at the age of 16 and switched to speed [...]
“Yagudin doesn’t know how to skate. Let him sit and comment.” Evgeni Plushenko about a possible rivalry with Alexei Yagudin at the show program competitions
The old good drama Plushenko vs Yagudin unexpectedly with us again. photo Alexei Avdokhin / sports.ru Evgeni [...]
Elena Vaitsekhovskaya: “Trusova got under the post-Olympic syndrome, when you want to relax in terms of discipline, loads, regimen, the need to control your weight every hour.”
Sports journalist Elena Vaitsekhovskaya about the prospects of Alexandra Trusova after leaving the Eteri Tutberidze [...]
Alexei Zheleznyakov: “We must look for problems in ourselves, not in coaches. Trusova doesn’t know how to listen to wise people and hasn’t been attending choreography class.”
Choreographer of the group Eteri Tutberidze Alexei Zheleznyakov spoke about the transfer of Alexandra Trusova to coach [...]
“This is an absolutely logical move. None of Tutberidze’s girls won any medal on their second Olympics, none even performed there.” Yana Rudkovskaya on Alexandra Trusova’s decision to leave Tutberidze
Yana Rudkovskaya commented on Alexandra Trusova's decision to leave the group of Eteri Tutberidze. View [...]
“Eteri is an outstanding coach. After Tutberidze, Sokolovskaya will not help her in any way.” Coaches, specialists, athletes about Trusova leaving Tutberidze’s group.
Coaches, specialists, athletes about Trusova leaving Tutberidze's grous. View this post on Instagram [...]
Elena Radionova: “Trusova was completely different, so free. We used to see Sasha in a slightly different style, but this program reveals her from the female side.”
Elena Radionova about Alexandra Trusova's new short program. View this post on Instagram A post [...]
“He calls on athletes to betray their country.” Russians on Bach’s words about distancing from the war in Ukraine and being able to compete under a neutral flag
Russians commented on the words of the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach. Vladimir [...]
“The Russian athletes certainly did not start the war. Those who have distanced themselves from the regime should be able to compete under a neutral flag.” Thomas Bach, IOC President
The head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, said that Russian athletes who distanced [...]
“The program makes Valieva relive hell all over again? It is inappropriate for fans to write this.” Tarasova and Averbukh about Valieva’s free program
Ilia Averbukh and Tatiana Tarasova about Kamila Valieva's free program dedicated to the Beijing Olympics. [...]
“It is very sad that my career came on the time of war. I don’t see it’s possible to go in for sports in a state that pursues such a policy.” pair skater Mikhail Nazarychev
Russian pair skater Mikhail Nazarychev about his decision not to continue skating career in a country that started a [...]
“I’m of the St. Petersburg intelligentsia, a good person, but with problems. Сan problems be fixed? It’s an open question” Mikhail Kolyada about his new free program
Mikhail Kolyada answered journalists' questions after the free program at the test skates. photo Channel [...]
“Given the current situation, I assume that they will not come.” Russian experts about Davis/Smolkin being announced for Russian GP
Russian coaches and everyone who couldn't keep silent commented on the news that Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin [...]
Elena Vaitsekhovskaya: “It wasn’t easy to get rid of the feeling that Trusova enjoys everything that happens around her much more than what she does on the ice.”
Sports journalist Elena Vaitsekhovskaya also commented on Alexandra Truova's performance at the test skates. [...]
Rafael Arutyunyan: “Malinin is a product of Russian-Soviet school of figure skating, not American system, there’s no system in the USA.”
Rafael Arutyunyan on the air of the program on Match TV called the American Ilia Malinin, who got into the Guinness [...]
“As for the very idea of Valieva’s free program, I have rather mixed feelings about it.” Alena Kostornaia tries herself as a journalist and shares her impressions of the test skates
Alena Kostornaia tries herself as a journalist and now has her own column for TASS, where she shared her impressions [...]
Daniil Gleikhengauz: “Trusova has a small back injury, we were ready to withdraw her from the test skates. But Sasha herself expressed a desire to skate at least a short for the sake of the fans.”
Choreographer Daniil Gleikhengauz commented on the withdrawal of Alexandra Trusova from the free program at the test [...]
“Shamelessness, rudeness! They better take care of their results.” Tatiana Tarasova about NOCs of the Nordic countries supporting the ban of the Russians athletes
Tatiana Tarasova spoke about the fact that Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark supported the non-admission of [...]