Championship Figure Skating "Skate America" Bashny.Net

On Figure Skating Championships "Skate America" ​​team from Russia won 4 medals, including two top awards. Edition of USA Today admits that he is concerned about the success of the young Russian athletes: because every time they perform better.





Keep the Russian national anthem at hand, because this season skating very likely end the same as the previous one, writes USA Today.

As during the Sochi Olympics, figure skating team of Russia in the lead in the Grand Prix tournament "Skate America" ​​won four medals, including two gold. Elena Radionova and Elizabeth Tuktamysheva took first and second place after the short program execution, and the pair Russian skaters Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov won gold in pair skating.

Meanwhile, the newspaper notes, the US team, which received 5 medals, leads in total number of awards. However, the American skaters managed to win gold only in ice dancing - a contest in which they still retain a leading position.

According to the publication, the Soviet Union "dominated" in figure skating for almost 50 years. However, after the collapse of the country fell into disrepair and its "sports car". Ice arenas were in a dilapidated condition, and most of the leading coaches left for the US and Europe for the sake of "the best sports facilities and salary».

Lowest point for Russian steel Olympic Games in Vancouver, where the country's skaters won only two medals and no gold. For the first time since 1960, the country was unable to obtain the highest award for pair skating.

However, according to the publication, in preparation for the Olympic Games in Sochi, the Russian authorities have not stinted on the support of winter sports in the country and "the result was stunning." Already in Sochi hosts the games got 5 medals in figure skating, including a gold in the team event, doubles and women's figure skating.

Russian figure skater so strengthened their position in the world championships, which are reminiscent of comradely contest between the representative of one country, writes USA Today. Sotnikov and Lipnitskaya - Olympic champions. Radionova - twice won the World Championship of Figure Skating Championships. Tuktamysheva - "only" - the former European bronze medalist of the tournament, but she has won in all three competitions this season, and "Skate America" ​​is already her fourth competition for the past five weeks.

"Yes, it's difficult," - said the athlete, who ranks 10th on the Russian national championship last year - "but that is pushing for the development of women's figure skating in Russia».

"The worst thing," says the publication, in these successes Russian athletes that they still have room to grow and develop.

Radionova, which in the winter of 16, to "jump like a grasshopper," performs a complex element after another, without adding anything to the program. However, according to the newspaper, a year or two it will be able to polish his speech, turning it into a "spectacular show».

18-year-old already Tuktamysheva "flawless performer", but her busy schedule of competitions for the last time to say in a recent speech. "I made a few stupid mistakes," - says the skater - "but on the whole performed well. There is still room to grow and grow ».

"In other words, the Russian will not disappear from the figure skating in the near future", - concludes USA Today.

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