Olympic Team Figure Skating Tournament Champion Dmitry Solovyov who did ice dancing with Ekaterina Bobrova wish Alena Kostornaya good luck with the transition from single to pair skating.
Kostornaya’s former coach Elena Buyanova told RIA Novosti Sport that the 19-year-old figure skater went pair skating with coach Sergei Roslyakov. When asked by , the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR) replied that they had not received a notification about Kostornaya’s switch to pair skating.
“Now it’s difficult with sport in general. We used to go to the European and World Championships, to the Olympics earlier… Now it’s all in limbo, and it’s not It is not clear whether all this will be possible in the near future. Alena is already a relatively old athlete, and here the question arises: will she play for Russia or will she change her nationality?
In general, of course, such a transition is possible, why not? I support every moment when a person tries something new, experiments, changes to another type of figure skating. It’s cool. I wish her all the best, cool, that she succeeds and, above all, that she likes it. But there are many other problems which I have already mentioned, Solovyov told .
Kostornaya is the 2020 European champion, winner of the Grand Prix Final of the 2019/20 season.
Source : MatchTV
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