Athletistic/Figure Skating. Honorary President of the ROC Alexander Zhukov reacted to the decision of the ISU to remove Russian skaters from the gallery of champions of the Olympic Games-2022.

“It’s some kind of stupidity. Do they mean that Shcherbakova is not an Olympic champion or what? Stupidity. By such actions they only devalue themselves, nothing more. It is obvious that our skaters are the strongest in the world. Even if they don’t compete, they allow and try to rewrite history, it only hurts figure skating,” RBC Sport Zhukov quotes.

The gold medalists from Beijing were: Kamila Valieva, Mark Kondratyuk, Anastasia Mishina/Alexander Gallyamov and Victoria Sinitsina/Nikita Katsalapov in team and Anna Shcherbakova in women’s singles. None of them appeared in the gallery of champions of the Olympic Games-2022.

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