Anna Shcherbakova: “Perhaps there will be no medal at the end of the competition? There are no medals yet, free program is ahead, It’s too early to talk about it.”

Anna Shcherbakova about her performance in the short program at the Beijing Olympics. Shcherbakova showed the [...]
President of FFKR Gorshkov refused to comment and call the foreign journalists “jackals”. Also FFKR comments about Kamila Valieva missing the press-conference

President of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKR) Alexander Gorshkov did not comment after the performance of [...]
Alexandra Trusova: “Triple axel is not negotiable and won’t be negotiable. I will always do it regardless of what it might cost me. If I do the axel, there is a possibility that there will be Olympic gold.”

Alexandra Trusova commented on her performance in the short program at the Beijing Olympics. Trusova fell on the [...]
Evgeni Plushenko: “Trusova is incredibly talented girl. But instead of chasing records, she needs to focus on what she can do best.”

Evgeni Plushenko in his author's column speaks about Kamila Valieva, Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova. [...]
Kamila Valieva: “These days were very difficult for me. Tears of happiness, probably, and a little distress.”

Kamila Valieva spoke about the doping scandal at the Olympics for the first time. View this post on [...]
Rafael Arutyunyan: “We didn’t want just to win, we wanted to dominate. And I’m very glad that this is exactly what happened in Beijing.”

Interview with Rafael Arutyunyan. About Olympics, Nathan Chen, Yuzuru Hanyu and his future coaching plans. photo [...]
Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov: “We missed Papadakis – Cizeron, it’s a pleasure to watch them.”

Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov about rhythm dance at the Beijing Olympics, scores in the team event, back [...]
Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin: “We understood that most likely they wouldn’t take us for the team event and decided to prepare at home. We are very pleased that everyone was waiting for us so much.”

Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin about their performance in the rhythm dance at the Olympics. And also told why they [...]
RUSADA lifted Kamila Valieva’s suspension, IOC and ISU will l file an appeal to CAS. The decision will be made until February 15.

The International Skating Union (ISU) will file an appeal against the decision to lift the temporary suspension of [...]
Alexei Yagudin: “I don’t understand Hanyu. Only crazy go for such jump when you don’t have it.”

Alexei Yagudin, the 2002 Olympic champion in men's single skating, summed up the results of the individual event at [...]
“Kamila Valieva’s temporary suspension has been lifted and ROC remains with gold medal. But WADA may appeal this decision to CAS.” sports agent Andrei Mitkov

Sports agent Andrei Mitkov spoke about the situation with a possible positive doping test of Kamila Valieva and the [...]
“Various insinuations have already begun. It might be beneficial for someone to do this. ” Russian coaches, specialist and officials about possible problem with doping testing for one of the Russian skater.

According to Inside the games, the medal ceremony of figure skaters was postponed due to problems with doping testing [...]
Medal ceremony of figure skaters was postponed again due to legal reasons
The IOC explained the postponement of the medal ceremony of figure skaters at the Games in Beijing. photo [...]
Ari Zakarian, well-known producer: “Today, only Ilia Malinin is able to raise the marketing of figure skating in the United States.”

Well-known in the figure skating producer and agent Ari Zakarian, in an interview with Match TV, told why the Olympic [...]
“You shouldn’t be ashamed of what makes you special. Be proud of it!” Timothy LeDuc about Zhulin’s comments

Interview with Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc for Russian media. View this post on Instagram [...]
“I think everything is right. We came to win, and not for someone to get into the team.” Tatiana Tarasova about no substitutions in the Russian team

Honored coach of the USSR in figure skating Tatiana Tarasova shared her opinion about no substitutions in the Russian [...]
Russia announced team composition for the final day of the Beijing Olympic team event. No substitutions.

The Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKR) has decided on the composition of the team for the final day of the [...]
Nikita Katsalapov: “We were surprised to see that Vincent Zhou is doing the free program. Apparently, Chen wants to show some kind of divine skating and saves energy for individual event.’

Nikita Katsalapov, who is the captain of the Russian team at the team event at the Beijing Olympics, summed up the [...]
Mark Kondratiuk: “I don’t feel like a hero, I feel like part of a team. The man who did almost everything that was in his power for his team.”

Russian figure skater Mark Kondratiuk told Match TV that he was very pleased and happy after skating a free program in [...]
Renat Laishev: “Before Valieva’s performance we can only hope that the judges still have a conscience. We Russians still believe in it.”

Director of the sports school "Sambo-70" Renat Laishev shared his expectations from the team tournament in figure [...]
Karen Chen: “I’m ready to compete with one of the Russian girls in the team event.”

American figure skater Karen Chen, in the interview with Russian media, shared her expectations from performing in the [...]
Stepanova and Bukin will fly to Beijing on February 6th

Andrei Bukin, Olympic champion in figure skating and father of Ivan Bukin, said when his son and partner Alexandra [...]
Adelina Sotnikova: “I sincerely believe that athlete should skate not just 10 years of his life, but at least 20-25 and show the best possible results.”

Interview with Adelina Sotnikova the first Russian Olympic champion in women's skating and now a figure skating coach [...]
“It’s gotten a little personal here, because it started in the morning. They saw us and gotta give a way.” Nikita Katsalapov about incident with Hubbell/Donohue during the warm-up

Nikita Katsalapov about mistake in the rhythm dance and incident with Hubbell/Donohue during the warm-up. [...]