Slutskaya said she welcomed the appearance of triple jumps in synchronized figure skating

Olympic medalist, world champion Irina Slutskaya stated that he supports triple jumps performed by representatives of synchronized skating.

On Sunday, Slutskaya teamed up with Alexey Yagudin became the host of the Mavis Cup tournament, in which 32 synchronized figure skating teams participated. The St. Petersburg team “Paradise”, three-time world champions, won.

— As a singles skater, I am very happy that triple jumps are appearing in synchronized form. Today’s tournament showed that the girls are starting to achieve them. The main thing is that it does not break the whole system, the elegance and grace of synchronized swimming programs, ”reports the correspondent of according to Slutskaya’s words.

Slutskaya is a silver medalist at the 2002 Games and a bronze medalist at the 2006 Games in single skating.