Figure skater Alisa Efimova explained why she did not find a new partner in Germany and joined the American team

Figure skater Alisa Efimova successful in pair skating, in an interview with explained why she could not find a new partner in Germany and decided to continue her career in the United States.

Earlier, 24-year-old Efimova told that she had changed her sports citizenship for the third time and will represent the United States, Mikhail Mitrofanov has become her partner. Efimova was born in Finland, where she started her career as a single skater. Since 2014 she played for Russia in a pair with Alexander Korovin, in 2020 she joined the German national team and joined forces with Ruben Blommaert. In March this year, after the World Cup, Blommaert announced his retirement.

– You have a very atypical background – frequent changes, change of federations. Have you thought about why this happened? Didn’t that give you moral suasion?

– It’s not simple. But I realized it was simple – it’s just do nothing and lie on the couch. In any profession, there are difficulties. If you want to become better, to improve yourself, you must first master yourself. You cannot succeed without doing anything. I see it as part of being an athlete. I’m not the only one. Sometimes it seems that your situation is the most difficult, but how many athletes and each have different episodes in their careers, the strongest come out of it. I want to face too.

– It would be easier for you if you found a skater in the German federation. At least I wouldn’t have to change countries.

– I thought about it. The problem is that there are no German partners with a passport. You need a passport for the Olympics, if now you start a new project with a foreign (non-German) partner, you will not be able to go to the next Olympics because of the paperwork. Of course, I got used to my coach, I’m grateful to him. I felt comfortable. From a certain point of view, it would be easier to continue there,” Efimova said in an interview with .