Federation of figure skating in Russia (FFKKR) announced the composition of the participants of free skate in Sochi, which will be held September 9-10.
Among them the two-time world champion in women's singles skating Eugene Medvedeva will take part.
Full members:
Ice dance - Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev, Sofya Evdokimova / Egor Bazin, Tiffany Zagorski / Dzhonatan Gureyro, Elena Ilinyh / Anton Shibnev Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd, Annabelle Morozova / Andrey Bagin, Betina Popova / Sergey Mozgov, Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov, Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin;
Men's single skating - Dmitry Aliev, Sergey Voronov, Maxim Kovtun, Mikhail Kolyada, Andrei Lazukin, Alexander Petrov, Alexander Samarin;
Pair skating - Kristina Astakhova / Alexey Rogonov, Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin, Natalia Zabiyako / Alexander Enbert, Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov, Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov;
Women's singles - Alina Zagitova, Alena Leonova, Evgenia Medvedeva, Anna Pogorilaya, Elena Radionova, Maria Sotskova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva.
Bronze medalist of the World Cup 2015 in women's singles skating Elena Radionova said that the important goal of the performance at the Russian national team's hire in Sochi was to grind to the new coach Elena Buyanova .
Radionova took part in the open skates of the Russian team in Sochi, which took place on September 9-10. The Russian figure skater moved from Inna Goncharenko to Elena Buyanova after the end of last season.
"At these shows, Elena Helenovna and I tried to understand how to help each other." We have a competitive atmosphere. We are doing well at the training sessions, but it's still difficult to reorganize for the start." It's good that we were here, we will soon go to the tournament in Bratislava We need a little more time, "Radionova told reporters.
"In the short program, I bungled the jump, although I was ready, I drew some conclusions, she did, too," - added the figure skater.
Elena Radionova will perform at Ondreya Memorial in Nepela in Bratislava, which will take place from 21 to 23 September.
Russian figure skater Maria Sotskova noted that at the first unofficial start of the season of Russian figure skaters, the open skate of the national team in Sochi, there is already a pre-Olympic excitement before the Games in South Korean Pyeongchang in 2018. She told TASS about this after her performance with a short program at the rentals.
"The validity of the Olympic season is felt right now, in Sochi, but I try to stay calm," said the figure skater. "Whatever the season, you need to do your job qualitatively without distracting yourself from the statuses and ranks of the competitions, otherwise you can just go crazy. you need to calmly go to the start - as in the past, as in the year before last. "
The figure skater noted that she had a chance to get into the Olympics six months later. "I understand that I have a chance to get to the Games, but like all other sportswomen, you just have to work hard and not allow yourself to make mistakes." Stability is a sign of skill, and I think that it's on the stability of riding that they will bet in selection for the Games, "she noted.
The athlete will perform a short program to the music of the waltz from the ballet "Swan Lake", a free one - the piano piece by Claude Debussy. "A short program, it's a girl at a ball, a free one is air, it's nature, it's all classic, we did not take risks with experiments, we need to focus on the quality of programs this season." I allowed myself to experiment only in a demonstration performance - it's "Kalinka", completely uncharacteristic to me, but the audience liked it very much."
Sotskova left in a free set of elements from last year's program, but the short is essentially complicated. "In an arbitrary program we saved the elements of the past year, but the short was noticeably complicated - we shifted the whole hopping part to the second half of the rental." Here in Sochi, I realized that it was necessary to work three times more, because before the shows it seemed to me that the program was ready much better than it actually turned out,"- added the skater.
The first start Sotskova will be the tournament "Finland Trophy", which will be held October 6-8 in Espoo.
