“Coaches can’t control an athlete 24 hours a day, so it’s wrong to say that it’s their fault.” Gurgen Vardanjan head of Hungarian Figure skating federation about Valieva’s doping case

Posted on 2022-05-03 • No comments yet

Interview with Gurgen Vardanjan, coach and sports director of Hungarian Figure skating federation. About Trusova, [...]

Tatiana Tarasova: “At the moment we can compete only with ourselves. We can hold only such competitions as Russian Nationals and Russian Cup. But these competitions are quite bright!”

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Tatiana Tarasova about proposition of Ilia Averbukh to hold the so-called match between Russian and Chinese figure [...]

Ilia Averbukh: “Perhaps it makes sense to hold a “match” Russia vs China, because figure skating is strong in China. But I don’t think it can be a replacement of international competitions.”

Posted on 2022-05-02 • 1 comment

Interview with Ilia Averbukh. About Russia's international isolation, the start of coaching and Evgeni Semenenko's [...]

Dmitri Aliev: “I wasn’t ready for the Olympics. I can only say one thing: it’s my own fault that I didn’t go to Beijing.”

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Interview with Dmitri Aliev about Olympic season, motivation and plans for the future. photo [...]

“When I was little, I could not even imagine that I would become European champion” Sofia Samodurova about the decision to end her career

Posted on 2022-05-01 • 2 comments

Sofia Samodurova about the decision to end her career. And also some comments from her coaches and choreographers she [...]

Yana Rudkovskaya: “I think that Trusova is the only capable of breaking the established system that girls from Tutberidze’s group finish with sports at a maximum of 20 years old.”

Posted on 2022-04-30 • 2 comments

Producer Yana Rudkovskaya spoke about the absence of Russian female figure skaters among the nominees for the Forbes [...]

Anastasiia Gubanova: “I was ready for it (decrease in PCS after switching to Georgia). The rating must be earned over the years, nothing will happen right away.

Posted on 2022-04-29 • No comments yet

Interview with Anastasiia Gubanova, former Russian skater who now represents Georgia. About her first season under new [...]

Kamila Valieva: “I want to finally try myself in new artistic images in competitions”

Posted on 2022-04-28 • 2 comments

Kamila Valieva about plans and sports regime. View this post on Instagram A post shared by [...]

“It can only be held among suspended athletes. If competitions are not agreed with the ISU, then foreigners will not be able to participate, they will get banned.” Trankov and Bobrova on possibility for Russians to hold their own Grand Prix

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Maxim Trankov and Ekaterina Bobrova about the possibility for Russians to hold their own Grand Prix. View [...]

Alina Zagitova: “In sports, everything is very clear. To be the best means to be the first.”

Posted on 2022-04-27 • 1 comment

Interview with Alina Zagitova for Cosmopolitan. View this post on Instagram A post shared by [...]

Stepanova and Bukin: “Upon arrival in Beijing, at the airport, Sasha was tested positive for covid again. Thank God, all the following tests were negative.”

Posted on 2022-04-26 • 1 comment

Interview with Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin. About Olympic season and future plans. View this post on [...]

“The situation is extremely dire. There’s only one alternative left – the Armenian Nationals. But compared to the Worlds this is ridiculous.” Russian coaches about sanctions and cancelation of Rostelecom Cup

Posted on 2022-04-25 • 9 comments
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Russian coaches about ISU sanctions and cancelation of Grand Prix stage in Russia. photo by REUTERS Ilia [...]

Rafael Arutyunyan: “It’s high time to include the quintuple jump in the register of elements. So that everyone knows its value. What if suddenly someone really jumps it in competitions?”

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Interview with Rafael Arutyunyan. About quintuple jumps, Trusova's intention to try them and Malinin's [...]