“With the return of Stepanova and Bukin, the competition in dance has increased” – figure skater Bazin

Figure skater Egor Bazin playing in tandem with Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva said welcome back Alexandra Stepanova And Ivan Boukine Competition in couple dance competitions has increased.

Khudaiberdieva and Bazin won the pairs dance competition on the stage of the Russian Grand Prix in Samara with a score of 208.99 points. Stepanova and Bukin missed the 2022/23 season due to their partner’s pregnancy and after returning, they started training in Alexandre Jouline’s group, in which Khudaiberdieva and Bazin perform.

— Of course, with the return of Stepanova and Bukin, the competition in the dance intensified. It is a pleasure to work with them in training. They, as masters, can support us,” Bazin said.

— I held back so as not to be too happy after skating. That would be too theatrical. But I’m very happy that it was in this arena that we skated very well.

It’s a new chapter in our career, a new stage in our lives. Only at the end of this season will we be able to say what it feels like to play together,” Khudaiberdieva noted.

— We will move forward gradually, step by step. Everything may not be perfect the first time. We have a reconstruction, a new style, a coach. We have taken several steps forward compared to the scene in Ufa,” reports the correspondent of , according to Bazin’s words.