Channel One Figure Skating Cup 2021: Zagitova and Medvedeva

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Channel One Figure Skating Cup 2021: Zagitova and Medvedeva Jan 30, 2021 19:31:15 GMT

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The Channel One Cup, which will be held next week, will be a real gift for all figure skating fans. After all, before the teams of Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva enter the fight for prizes, the audience will see a unique tournament. It will consist entirely of jumps for which we love figure skating! The skaters are preparing to surprise with those jumps and cascades that we will not see at regular competitions. Unprecedented entertainment for the tournament is guaranteed. Don't miss the broadcasts on Channel One!

And about a unique tournament where the best of the best will gather. Figure Skating Channel One Cup. This have not happened before. Super show, stellar cast, incredible intensity of passions. On the ice in Moscow, two teams will converge, whose captains need no introduction, these are the inimitable Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva. There is not much more to wait. The Channel One Cup will start in a week. 5, 6 and 7 February watch on our air and on the website of the First.

The Russian Figure Skating Federation and Channel One have officially announced the holding of a team tournament - the Channel One Figure Skating Cup. The competition will take place with spectators at the Megasport arena in Moscow from 5 to 7 February. The prize fund is 10 million rubles.

Information about the holding of this tournament, which in part should compensate for the postponement or cancellation of several major starts, appeared earlier, but now the organizers have officially confirmed its holding, and also named the composition. Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva became the team captains. Also invited are athletes who took first to sixth places at the Russian Championship 2021, European champions in 2020 and world champions. Participants will perform in short and free skating in all four types of figure skating.

The winning team will be determined by the total score. The refereeing will take place according to the current ISU system. Also, the participants will compete for the People's Choice Prize, voting - live on the First Channel.

The highlight of the Cup should be a separate jumping tournament. The teams will divide the lot, under the guidance of the captain, each team will choose a name for itself and prepare a number for its fans.

What is good for the musketeers, how is it for the skaters?
Team tournaments are a rather controversial thing in figure skating, and the motto "one for all and all for one" seems to fit very poorly here, since historically everyone works for personal results, and intense rivalry unfolds even in the group of one coaching staff ...

However, the growing popularity of this sport has led to the fact that classical tournaments for both fans and athletes have become few. The first team competitions were started, of course, by the Japanese, for whom figure skating is akin to football in England. So, in 1997, the Japan Open tournament was created, where athletes from Japan and other countries are invited, who are especially favored by the public. This is a commercial competition and is not sponsored by the International Skating Union (ISU).

But after some time, ISU realized that it was strange to miss the opportunity to arrange another spectacular event and in 2009 they organized the World Figure Skating Team Championship. It is held every two years, it is also commercial: the prize fund is drawn between teams from six countries. By the way, the figure skater from Yekaterinburg Maxim Kovtun took part in four of the six championships (silver in 2015 and 2017).

Already in Sochi in 2014, the team tournament entered the Olympic program, and the first champions, we recall, were the Russians together, again, with the figure skater from the capital of the Urals, Yulia Lipnitskaya .

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS:
DANCING ON ICE: Tiffany Zagorski / Jonathan Gureiro, Annabel Morozov / Andrey Bagin, Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Alyoshin, Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin, Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva / Yegor Bazin, Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko.

SINGLES SKATING - MEN: Dmitry Aliev, Makar Ignatov, Mikhail Kolyada, Mark Kondratyuk, Andrey Mozalev, Alexander Samarin.

PAIRS SKATING: Alexandra Boykova / Dmitry Kozlovsky, Anastasia Mishina / Alexander Gallyamov, Daria Pavlyuchenko / Denis Khodykin, Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov.

SINGLES SKATING - WOMEN: Kamila Valieva, Alena Kostornaya, Alexandra Trusova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Daria Usacheva, Anna Shcherbakova

Competition calendar:
February 5 - official training, draw, jumping festival.

February 6 - short program

February 7 - free program

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Channel One Figure Skating Cup 2021: Zagitova and Medvedeva Jan 30, 2021 22:52:22 GMT

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The general director of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR) Alexander Kogan said that Olympic champion Alina Zagitova and two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva will take to the ice in the new Russian team tournament - the Channel One Figure Skating Cup.

“Medvedeva and Zagitova will be captains. According to the regulations, they will not compete, but this does not exclude their appearance on the ice. They will skate in different numbers," TASS quotes Kogan.

Obviously, we are talking about demonstration performances in which Zagitova, despite the suspension of her career, actively participates. So, in November, Alina skated two numbers at once during the exhibition day of the 2020 Russian Grand Prix. As for Evgenia Medvedeva, she has never taken to the ice in official competitions for health reasons this season, but she performed at the test skates of the Russian national team in September.

The Channel One Cup with a prize fund of 10 million rubles will take place in Moscow on February 5-7. Earlier, the stellar preliminary list of Russian participants in the competition became known.

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Channel One Figure Skating Cup 2021: Zagitova and Medvedeva Jan 31, 2021 20:45:29 GMT

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The team tournament in Moscow has already been dubbed one of the main events of the season. It is already clear that a top-level show awaits us, but the intensity of the sports struggle between the teams of Zagitova and Medvedeva will directly depend on the distribution of the skaters. The draw format is still kept secret, but if the organizers entrust the fate of the participants to the blind draw, it is quite possible that the forces will be unequal.

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Based on comments on social media and forums, fans are most interested in who will compete with whom in the women's singles. Despite this, it is among the singles that it is easiest to select the top three for inclusion in the Dream Team. Surely, both Zagitova and Medvedev first of all want to see Anna Shcherbakova on their side . The three-time champion of Russia is rightfully considered the most balanced skater in the country, and also has a strong character that allows her to avoid serious breakdowns. In addition, even without the triple axel, Anya looks equally great in short and free programs, which is important for the format of the First Channel Cup.

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The candidacies of Alexandra Trusova and Kamila Valieva are not as concrete as Shcherbakova, but they are also, in fact, uncontested. Taking into account that the winner of the tournament will be determined by the sum of points in all events, it is enough for the Russian Raketa to show its capabilities in an arbitrary program in order to bring tangible benefits to its team. In addition, a decent experience of participating in team tournaments speaks in favor of Plushenko's student . Sasha performed at the Winged Hopes interregional personal-team championship, brought victory to the Moscow team at the Spartakiad, and in the fall of 2019 landed four quads at the Japan Open team tournament, allowing the European team to win the title.

Valieva was included in the team tournament instead of a trip to the Russian championship in Krasnoyarsk and probably wants to prove that the decision of the coaches and the federation was correct. At the Russian Championship in Chelyabinsk, Kamila, even with a mistake in the short program, was able to become the second among the best figure skaters in the country. Gradually, the talented 14-year-old athlete learns to cope with the pressure of important starts, and the show format may help her to completely liberate herself and give out the best skates of the season.

As for the rest of the girls, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva can both shine and bring solid points to her team, or let her partners down. Alena Kostornaya this season is more stable, but the European champion did not skate for a long time due to illness, and in technical terms, she has nothing to oppose the top three. Daria Usacheva could become a candidate for the Dream Team if points were awarded for each event. And with the current rules in the free program, she will lose a big loss to the leaders.

So, in order to form the optimal composition of the singles, the wards of Tutberidze and Plushenko will have to unite.

Unlike singles, choosing the strongest male athletes is not easy. The undisputed leader of the domestic season is Mikhail Kolyada. The reigning champion of the country can take a chance and show the Moscow public the crown quadruple lutz. However, even without him it will be difficult for opponents to bypass Mikhail in terms of the amount of programs.

The reigning world champion among juniors Andrey Mozalev can also bring serious benefits to his team . In the first adult season, Kirill Davydenko's ward does not succeed in everything, but even with mistakes, he breathes in the back of the leaders. It is possible that it is in the pleasant atmosphere of the sports event that Andrei will finally please the fans with clean skates and clearly show why he is called one of the main hopes of men's skating in Russia.

The vice-champion of Russia in 2021 Makar Ignatov, the best skater in Europe Dmitry Aliev , and the experienced Alexander Samarin can count on the role of the third single skater in the Dream-team of the Channel One Cup. Is that the sensational prize-winner of the competition in Chelyabinsk Mark Kondratyuk still falls out of this row. And yet it is more logical to bet on Ignatov, who combines brilliant skiing with the most difficult jumps and, it seems, adds in endurance.

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Channel One Figure Skating Cup 2021: Zagitova and Medvedeva Feb 5, 2021 22:25:31 GMT

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