SK Army of Figure Skating

Competition for the Prizes of the SK "Army of Figure Skating", Day 2

In Moscow, the activities of state sports schools are partially limited.
The date of October 5 as the beginning of the introduction of restrictions in figure skating was discussed last week. Evgeny Plushenko warned about this, and at the "Khrustalny" students even held a flash mob in the spirit of "children want to train, not stay at home." However, partial closings were still inevitable. Coronavirus statistics are approaching spring rates. Surely the second wave can be survived more smoothly than the first, and, apparently, this is why the current measures can be called preventive for now.

As the "SE" was told in the Moscow Figure Skating Federation, schools under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Sports Department are being closed from today. There is already a legal basis for this - protocol No. 05-34-12 / 20, on the basis of which the competition was canceled and postponed earlier. The protocol says about the transition of educational institutions to online mode until October 18. These, of course, include figure skating schools. If the situation develops positively, everyone will return to the ice in two weeks. These are the early school breaks you've probably already heard of.

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Who stays at home and who can train?
In the meantime, among the affected schools are Sambo-70 (Khrustalny and Tchaikovskaya's Horse), Moskvich, Megasport, Vorobyovy Gory and dozens of others, a complete list of which can be found on the agency's website.

Note that CSKA, as an organization under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense, and Angels Plushenko, as a private school, continue to operate in full. The rest are incomplete. This means that representatives of the Russian and Moscow national teams and candidates for the national team can continue to train on the same ice. Relatively speaking, using the example of Khrustalny: Evgeny Medvedev and Kamila Valiev will continue to prepare for the second stage of the Russian Cup, but Daria Sadkova, who recently joined the school, who, apparently, has passed a probationary period, will go online. In any case, Viktoria Butsaeva, the head of the group at Moskvich, spoke about such a scheme:

- We now have six people on ice, only collections. Among them are Murashov, Yablokov, we are preparing for the Russian Cup. On Erokhov we are solving the issue, he was announced this year for "Sambo-70". The school is officially closed, but collectors are allowed to train. The director said that work should resume on October 19, but you yourself understand that this is not certain, - said Butsayeva.

If we follow this logic, then Alina Zagitova , Evgenia Medvedeva, Anna Shcherbakova, Kamila Valieva, Daria Usacheva, Maya Khromykh, Daniil Samsonov, Sofya Akatieva, Adelia Petrosyan, Vsevolod Knyazev, Mark Lukin, Nikolai Kolesnikov and Arthur should continue to study in Eteri Tutberidze's group Fedotov (for some reason he is listed as "Alexey" on the website of the Ministry of Sports in the lists of the national team). This information was confirmed by a source of "SE" in "Khrustalny".




Competition for the Prizes of the SK "Army of Figure Skating", Day 1

Unequal conditions?
Thus, we are entering a time when schools and skaters are essentially unequal. If you do not have the status of a collection at the country or city level, you sit at home and jump in the kitchen, if you have - you train at the rink. The uniform of the national team, of course, looks very cool and fashionable, but does it really also save you from the coronavirus? Great question. As well as how long the current state of affairs will last.

Even this simple example shows different standards. Several figure skating tournaments were to take place in Moscow this week, the first one tomorrow, for the Moser Team prizes. But he, according to the competition secretary Elena Matsevich, was postponed to early November. But the tournament scheduled for October 10-11 for the prizes of the sports club "Army of Figure Skating", as Matsevich explained, still hope to hold. And this can be explained simply - this club has a private status, which means it has the right to continue its activities.

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Another curious fact: as SE knows, the shooting of the Ice Age will also continue on the ISA Luzhniki, although formally the complex also belongs to the state.

As for the status of the national teams, it is obvious that someone will be better prepared for the second stage of the Russian Cup than others. Yesterday the general director of the Russian Figure Skating Federation, Alexander Kogan, in a conversation with reporters at the opening of Adelina Sotnikova's school, said that "October 5 has nothing to do with the federation," but "the federation cannot guarantee the holding of the tournament either." Today's closure really has nothing to do directly with the tournament - it concerns the decree of the Moscow authorities on the transition of schools to online education. But on the other hand, it is for this reason that small youth competitions are canceled. And "Megasport" is a state budgetary institution.

Everyone will be only "for" if the second stage of the Russian Cup will be held in full and with the audience. KHL and VTB United League nothing prevents from continuing the season in difficult conditions. But in this case, only the Moscow government decides everything. As the Moscow federation accurately put it, “we are not waiting for rumors, but for documents”.