“Basically, I started figure skating at the age of five, maybe even later. My father is a professional hockey player. In any case, it seems to me that I would play sports, and this would be an integral part of my My parents probably decided that since I’m not a boy and I’m not going to play hockey, doing something related to ice would be a natural choice, and that, of course, became the figure skating,” Zagitova said in an interview published on a Chinese social network Weibo.
Alina Zagitova is the 2018 Olympic champion, world champion (2019) and European champion (2018), Grand Prix Final winner (2017) and Russian champion (2018).
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