Olympic champion Bobrova cited a disadvantage in Kostornaya and Kunitsa’s technique

Olympic ice dancing champion Ekaterina Bobrova said that different jumping techniques are a drawback in the program of Alena Kostornaya and Georgy Kunitsa.

Last weekend, Kostornaya and Kunitsa finished fourth in the second stage of the Russian Grand Prix in Omsk, earning a total of 192.77 points for two programs. After the performance, the skater said she was unhappy with how her performance in the short program was evaluated, adding that due to the judges’ controversial scores, figure skating is “sinking into a swamp”.

– The work done is visible. Making the transition from singles to doubles is really difficult. This is not a transition at age 10; a lot of boys transition even earlier and they start to shape something from them, but here’s an already accomplished athlete, and it’s a very difficult transition. I will repeat it again and again.

With an early transition, no specific techniques have been developed over the years. Rightly, Maxim Trankov noted that in turn Kunitsa adjusted the approach to Kostornaya. But he does the flip as best he can. She does it with her hands in the air because it’s comfortable for her. For me it’s a bit of a minus because it’s a parallel jump, so you have to do everything in parallel: if she raises her hands, be kind enough that her partner does the same, or vice versa.

Alena said: “I do not expect loyalty, but justice. I don’t know all the components, but there is the skill of skating. Never in my life will I believe that I skate worse than other athletes. Then she added: “Yes, pair work is evaluated, but Gosha does not skate worse than the other boys.

There can no longer be an “I” here in any form. That’s it, you are a couple, a whole, and you must support each other. Now there is no more “I” – neither in the jumps, nor in the parallel elements. It’s a couple, and it’s very important to realize that at this point. And the next time the athletes are upset about the grades, they should say: “I think we are not skating worse”, this will be the key to some success and progression as a pair. In the meantime, it will come true: “I’m not skating worse, but neither is Gosha,” nothing will come of it,” Bobrova said in “Championship.”

European champion in single skating, Kostornaya switched to pair skating at the start of the year and entered a duo with Kunitsa. In August, the athletes got married.

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