Alexander Zhulin: “Decent prize money at domestic competitions is the only way to exist while everyone in the world considers us damned Russians.”
Alexander Zhulin told in the interview whether Sinitsina/Katsalapov will continue their career, new pair in his group, [...]
Betina Popova: “If we kept in mind the absence of leading athletes, then a lot of people wouldn’t be considered World and European champions. All victories at the World Championships are deserved.”
Betina Popova summed up the results of the World Figure Skating Championship in ice dance, noting that the Russian [...]
Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov: “Classical compositions almost always win. It used to be super popular, now we’re trying to make it more modern.”
Interview with Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov. View this post on Instagram A post [...]
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 [...]
Nikita Katsalapov: “American fans, athletes left the stands before the last women’s warm-up. Because no one can, they are all afraid of us. We have a very strong team.”
Olympic champion in the team event at the 2022 Olympics Nikita Katsalapov noted that American fans and athletes left [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Alexander Zhulin: “The federation asked us if we could compete in both team and individual competitions. Nikita said ‘No problem.'”
Interview with Alexander Zhulin about preparation for the Games and understanding between partners. View [...]
Marina Zueva: “As for fairness… You know, figure skating is a very slippery sport. In every respect.”
The main difference between an Olympic victory and any other is that it takes four years, and sometimes longer, to [...]
“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 [...]
“Sinitsina and Katsalapov were given rather low marks. It’s clear that they tried to take off points from our team a little.” Russian specialists about victory in the team event and judging
Russian specialists and former skaters about the victory of the Russian team, Mishina/Galliamov's mistake and judging [...]
Nikita Katsalapov: “There are no worries that we lost to two American pairs, we’ve already beaten both of them.”
Nikita Katsalapov shared his opinion about the team event at the Olympics in Beijing, compared it with Sochi, and also [...]
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 [...]
“It could be a little better, but it could be a little worse. The judging was fair.” Tatiana Tarasova about the day one of the Olympic team event
Honored coach of the USSR in figure skating Tatiana Tarasova appreciated the performance of the Russians in the team [...]
Evgeni Platov: “If I had my way, I would just give Hanyu and Chen two gold medals, I respect both of them so much.”
Interview with two-time Olympic Champion Evgeni Platov. About Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron, Victoria [...]
Alexei Tikhonov: “In ice dance if someone doesn’t give a way to someone, this’s done on purpose. They have such a history that everyone must show their importance.”
World champion in pair skating Alexei Tikhonov summed up the results of the first day of the team event for the [...]
“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. [...]
Nikita Katsalapov: “I can react slightly impulsively, but I always apologize. I must have apologized a thousand times.”
Interview with Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov for Ok magazine. photo ok-magazine source: [...]
Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov: “First thing people say when they see ice dance is: “Why don’t they jump?” And to be honest, this is a very offensive question”
Interview with Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov for Vogue Russia. About Olympic team event, costumes and plans [...]
Anjelika Krylova: “I try not to put too much pressure, but it’s impossible to be gentle with our skaters”
Interview with Anjelika Krylova about upcoming Olympics, her pair Vasilisa Kaganovskaia and Valeriy Angelopol and [...]
Alexander Zhulin: “With Papadakis/Cizeron missing the European Championships, it was insanely important to remove their direct competitors -Sinitsina/Katsalapov as far as possible.”
Interview with Alexander Zhulin. About his autobiography “Dancing on the ice of life. I know everything about [...]
Tatiana Tarasova: “All three of our girls are great. But best of all are the coaches who prepared them.”
Tatiana Tarasova about the results of European Championships 2022. View this post on Instagram A [...]
“Your questions worry me. Who are you? This is an excellent adequate fight, I’m sure the guys skated well” Nikita Katsalapov answered the correspondent’s question about gap in points with Stepanova-Bukin
Nikita Katsalapov and Ivan Bukin about results in the rhythm dance at the European Championships and competition [...]
“Every time before we make costumes, we watch Fashion week, this summer there were a lot of leopard print.” Sinitsina and Katsalapov about costumes
Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov told about their costumes for the rhythm dance. photo by Valentina [...]