2002 Olympics silver medalist, two-time world champion Irina Slutskaya called the logical transition of the skaters Diana Davis And Gleb Smolkina to the Georgian national team.
In June, the Georgian Figure Skating Federation confirmed that Russian Ice Dance Championship silver medalists Davis and Smolkin will represent the Georgian national team from the 2023/24 season.
– Today they are not a few leaders, but they are very good athletes. Diana has a different nationality and she was not born in our country, so here, to some extent, it even makes sense that she left. But she leaves with a partner, because it is difficult to leave alone. It is wrong to use the word “traitor” here. To say that we lost someone is probably wrong. All of our leaders are with us,” Slutskaya said on MatchTV’s ‘Tous pour le match!’ program.
Davis and Smolkin are silver medalists of the Russian Championship, participants of the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. The skaters train in the United States and did not compete nationally last season.
Source : MatchTV
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