Olympic champions in figure skating team competition Anastasia Michina and Alexander Gallyamov spoke about cooperation with the European champion Alexander Smirnov, who joined the group of honored coach of Russia Tamara Moskvina .
Smirnov is a two-time European champion and two-time World Championship bronze medalist, paired with Yuko Kawaguchi.
– Smirnov is training us now. A big plus is that Alexander skated in the group of Tamara Nikolaevna for many years. He knows the technique of the elements in detail. He can show how to do what she asks, ” correspondent reports, in Mishina’s words.
Alexander is an excellent professional. It helps us in our work and can defuse the situation. Today for the first time he took us to the warm-up, right now he is joking, this has not happened for a long time. Alexander is a wonderful person,” Gallyamov added.
Source : MatchTV
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