Ilia Averbukh: “Each of our girls has her own army of fans. And when you start naming them, the fans notice who you named first and you immediately become an enemy to everyone else.”
Choreographer Ilia Averbukh shared his opinion about the fans of Russian figure skaters. View this post on [...]
“I saw a global goal for myself in terms of the Olympics, and now I have a little time to heal old injuries.” Doctors don’t give any forecasts for the terms of recovery of Anna Shcherbakova
Olympic figure skating champion Anna Shcherbakova spoke about surgery, return to ice training and missing the test [...]
Ilia Averbukh: “When journalists call me for a comment, I’m always on the side of Eteri Tutberidze. Even without knowing the question.”
Interview with Ilia Averbukh. About ice show, coaching and Eteri Tutberidze. View this post on Instagram [...]
How big is your love? Competition between fan groups. Shcherbakova received 160kg of gifts from her fans. Valieva will get 309kg.
A real competition "Who will sent more gifts to their idol?" has unfolded between fan groups of Anna Shcherbakova and [...]
Irina Rodnina: “Rising age minimum was absolutely right. The skating program has become incredibly difficult. Girls cope with it physically, but for sure not psychologically.”
Interview with the three-time Olympic champion Irina Rodnina. About ban of Russian athletes, age minimum, reasons why [...]
“It’s possible that Sherbakova’s injury is a consequence of prerotations and underrotations.” Elena Vaitsekhovaskaya about prospects of Anna Shcherbakova to continue her sports career
Russian journalist Elena Vaitsekhovaskaya about prospects of Anna Shcherbakova, Alena Kostornaia, Alexandra Trusova [...]
Anna Shcherbakova: “I don’t have any tradition or ritual before going on the ice. I always believe in my strength, I don’t rely on signs.”
Interview with Anna Shcherbakova. About training process, choosing a theme for program and preparation for [...]
Anna Shcherbakova will undergo surgery in Germany due to a knee injury
Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova will undergo surgery due to a knee injury. View this post on Instagram [...]
“It is a great honor for me to receive such a high award. I also want to thank our state for the development and support of athletes.” Anna Shcherbakova was awarded with the Order of Friendship
Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova commented on the award of the Order of Friendship to her. On the photo: [...]
Anna Shcherbakova: “Figure skating is an individual sport that, in a sense, teaches you to be a little selfish and think in your own interests”
Interview with Anna Shcherbakova. About not getting to the Olympic team event, relationship in the group, studying, [...]
Anna Shcherbakova: “It’s probably not even about winning. Both the preparation for the Olympic Games and the performances themselves changed me a lot. A lot had to be rethought.”
Anna Shcherbakova about devastation after the Olympics, new program for shows and fear of pair skating. [...]
Anna Shcherbakova: “On vacations, in any free half-day I came to Khrustalny and trained.”
Anna Shcherbakova about first trainings after vacation, shows and communication with other athletes. View [...]
“It’s mean and petty. Do they want to say that Shcherbakova is not an Olympic champion, or what?” Russians about not inclusion of Scherbakova into ISU photo selection of Beijing 2022 champions
Anna Scherbakova, coaches and choreograpehrs commenten on the selection of photos of the International Skating Union [...]
Anna Shcherbakova: “I try not to say too much. It would be better if they didn’t talk about me, rather than my words caused some kind of negative resonance. I don’t speak on any controversial topics.”
Interview with Olympic Champion Anna Shcherbakova. Anna talked about the end of the season, about what she considers [...]
Alena Kostornaia: “If you compete in seniors, you are already an adult. Maybe in life – no, but in sports – yes. If you have adult privileges, then you are responsible as an adult.”
Interview with Alena Kostornaia. About leaving Eteri Tutberidze and working with Elena Buyanova, about new programs [...]
“We were upset that there would be no Russian girls. We expected that with a strengthened short program we would try to compete with them.” Yulia Kuznetsova, coach of World Junior Champion Isabeau Levito
Interview with Yulia Kuznetsova, coach of World Junior Champion Isabeau Levito. About about Isabeau's path to gold, [...]
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.”
Producer Yana Rudkovskaya spoke about the absence of Russian female figure skaters among the nominees for the Forbes [...]
Anna Scherbakova: “I’m preparing for the next season, but I’m not working on new quads. When there were plans for the World Championships, there was more enthusiasm to work on them.”
Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova told that she intends to prepare for the next season. View this post on [...]
“Everyone returned exhausted, Eteri looked awful. To my question: “How are you?” she replied: “It feels like I’ve returned from prison.” choreographer of Tutberidze’s group about Olympics
Interview with choreographer of Tutberidze's group - Alexei Zheleznyakov. About Anna Shcherbakova's victory, [...]
Ilia Averbukh: “Who is to blame for Valieva’s doping? I won’t comment on it. I’m absolutely sure of her innocence, as well as the innocence of Eteri Tutberidze.”
Ilia Averbukh about Olympics and doping case of Kamila Valieva. View this post on Instagram A [...]
Evgeni Plushenko: “In Salt Lake City, I lost fair. I’m not ashamed of that defeat. I had a strong opponent. Vancouver – it was definitely a state like Trusova had in Beijing.”
Interview with Evgeni Plushenko. Plushenko explained why he believed in the victory of Anna Shcherbakova more than in [...]
Anna Shcherbakova: “I feel at my best when a good skate of the free program ends at competitions. This is the greatest joy, pride and relief at the same time.”
Interview with Anna Shcherbakova for Elle. About dreams, fears, overcoming and secrets of her confidence. [...]
Anna Shcherbakova: “I don’t support when children have a goal to win the Olympics. Goals must be realistic. But often it comes from adults and children don’t understand what needs to be done to achieve it.”
Interview with Anna Shcherbakova. Anna told that “steel girl” is a compliment, about the right to feel emptiness [...]
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 [...]