“Before it was like this: in any city there were always full stands for dancers” – Kaganovskaya and Angelopol

dancers Vasilisa Kaganovskaya and Valery Angelopol after the performance at the St. Petersburg Championship, they said they weren’t surprised by the tournament’s high attendance.

Kaganovskaya and Angelopol performed out of competition in ice dancing at the St. Petersburg Championship. Ekaterina Mironova and Evgeny Ustenko were the only duo to perform and took first place. Maria Nekhaeva and Fedor Sanin withdrew from the tournament.

“We are happy to have participated in this tournament,” reports the correspondent of “”, according to Kaganovskaya’s words. – We wanted to test ourselves how ready we were for the Grand Prix Finals. Unfortunately, these two skates are not our best of the season, they were cleaner and better in terms of technique. Well, another experiment.

Today there was a little problem with the dress – it’s not very comfortable for me. We will fix it so that there are no obstacles in the Grand Prix Finals. The program is already so complicated, I don’t want to be distracted by the dress.

What’s it like to compete out of competition?

For me personally, the simpler the task, the more difficult it is. Now we weren’t worried about giving up a place if we destroyed something. There was a task to complete their maximum.

– Were you surprised by such a full house at the city tournament?

– In theory, it should be so. In general, our dances, as a form of figure skating, should only invite the public. It was like that before: in any city, there were always full stands for dancers. So we are happy that so many people came here today,” Angelopol said.

– It helped me a lot, because five years later I returned to the rink, where I trained all my life. It’s the jitters, a return to the native land! — said Kaganovskaya.

– How did you react to the transfer of the Grand Prix final from Sochi to Saint Petersburg?

— Positively. Go faster. And most importantly, it seems to us that the audience in St. Petersburg is more interested in us than the audience in Sochi. At least in Sochi, the number of spectators may be less.