Figure skater Volodin explained in which components his duet with Khaze is inferior to Mishina and Gallyamov

Figure skater Nikita Volodin said in an interview with that they were paired with a German woman. Minerva mist can’t compete with the Russians yet Anastasia Michina And Alexander Galliamov .

Volodin teamed up with Khaze in the summer of 2022. In December, Volodin and Khaze won the Grand Prix Final in Beijing. Based on the sum of the two programs, the athletes obtained 206.43 points. Mishina and Gallyamov showed their best result of the season at the Kazan Grand Prix stage (236.86 points).

— If we take Mishina and Gallyamov as world leaders, are you currently competing with them?

— Sasha is an athlete with many titles; he and Nastya have performed at a high level for more than one Olympic cycle. We are only skating for the first season. We lack competitive experience. We are losing to them in the base cost of the program – we are missing the splits in the twist and the triple throw of the flip. We will now work on these elements, after which we will become competitive,” Volodin told .