Figure skater Mark Lukin admitted to being inspired by the skates of Evgeni Plushenko and Yulia Lipnitskaya at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
On Tuesday, Lukin received 80.49 points for his short program at the Russian Junior Championships in Saransk.
— I wasn’t worried before the rental. Yesterday in training I was getting used to the ice, it’s a little different, it’s a little hard to jump after the train. I set myself a goal: to enter the national team, so that next season I can enter the rentals and show a new program.
— Many of your peers were inspired by the Sochi Olympics. Did you watch them too?
— I watched the Games in Sochi when I still lived in Perm. Inspired by the performances of Yulia Lipnitskaya and Evgeni Plushenko.
— Have you adapted to the new team?
“Yes, at first it was unusual, after six months I started competing and got used to it, we went to training camps,” Lukin told .
The free program for boys will be broadcast on February 7.
Source : MatchTV

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