Head Coach of the Russian National Synchronized Swimming Team Tatiana Pokrovskaya said she was concerned about the evolution of refereeing in this sport.
The new draft rules will be approved by the International Swimming Federation Technical Congress in October.
— We liked the decision on the possibility of including men in group programs. We have Sasha Maltsev. He should have access to the Olympics. God grant that our participation took place there. He, having world champion titles, does not have the Olympic champion title, although he has been training for a long time and seriously. This innovation was therefore well accepted.
The rules changed everything, because our judges, the president of the board, got involved. Olga Brusnikina, who was our country’s representative on the technical committee. But then we were sharply fired, Olga did not receive any news, data. We are now working on all these new how and what rules.
Why don’t we all like it? Previously, there was a very brilliant program – combined, the coach had a place to turn around. There are solos, duos, trios and quartets. It was dismantled, deleted. Ukraine was the initiator. They bring a climax. The highlights program has been compressed into frames by elements – like in a technical program. The only thing is that it is shorter than the technical program. For all the media, for those who film, it was more interesting to watch a combined program – it was left to children, young men.
The duration was reduced by 30 seconds in the technical program, probably because they couldn’t stand it. We all need more, would turn around. At the World Championships they shot about 30 seconds longer than expected, the final had to be cut.
The most disturbing thing is that there will be a new judgment according to the type of figure skating. We ourselves do not yet imagine how this will turn out. Bury yourself and the judges will count. Life goes on, everything changes. We will have to reduce, what can we do, our life is so creative,” Pokrovskaya said.
Source : MatchTV
