Minister of Sports of the Republic of Tatarstan Vladimir Leonov emphasized that the best forces of Russian figure skating were present on the stage of the Russian Grand Prix in Kazan.
The fourth stage of the Russian Grand Prix series began on Saturday in Kazan.
— This is an excellent traditional tournament that we organize in the capital of Tatarstan, in a historic place, at the Sports Palace. Thank you to the Figure Skating Federation for this honor. Many cities are fighting for the right to host such a tournament; we, having good relations with the already renewed leadership of the federation, always find a common language.
It’s good that figure skating is moving forward, developing, today there is such an interesting fight, the best forces in figure skating are in our capital, full stands, good broadcasting, good humor. We are trying to organize a large number of tournaments in Kazan. The Russian Figure Skating Grand Prix is one of the pillars that we consider traditional. We also see a response from athletes, technical staff, and we try to achieve it at the highest level, especially since figure skating is a prerogative of Tatarstan, our girls traditionally perform at the highest level, even if sometimes they leave Tatarstan, Kazan, but we consider them ours, we always support them. Thanks to the technical staff who believe in our guys.
You know that we are working on the opening of Alina Zagitova’s school. It will be both a new infrastructure and a new point of growth, an attraction for all skaters from all over our country and not only from Tatarstan. “Excellent emotions, good mood and very skillful and graceful figure skating,” Leonov told .
Source : MatchTV
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