Tarasova said the admission of Russian figure skaters to international competitions worries her more than the fate of the team medal at the 2022 Olympics.

Honored coach of the USSR in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova told that the question of admitting Russian figure skaters to international tournaments interests him more than the distribution of medals in the team tournament of the Beijing Olympic Games after the doping story of figure skater Kamila Valieva .

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced on Monday the registration of four appeals against the decision of the International Skating Union (ISU) on the redistribution of medals from the team figure skating tournament at the 2022 Olympic Games: from the Committee Russian Olympic Games (ROC), the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR), Russian figure skaters, as well as the Canadian Figure Skating Federation. According to , not all members of the Russian team that participated in the team figure skating competition at the Beijing Olympics were consulted before appealing to the CAS. The figures team tournament included: Mark Kondratyuk, Valieva, Nikita Katsalapov and Victoria Sinitsina, Alexander Gallyamov and Anastasia Mishina.

— Appeals are handled by the FFKKR, the ROC and their lawyers; there is no need to consult athletes on these issues.

— Do you think these appeals will help, or could the situation only get worse and Russia would be deprived of bronze?

“No one will deprive us of anything; if we have the right to bronze, we will have it, otherwise we will not have it.” I am more concerned about the issue of admitting Russian figure skaters among international athletes,” Tarasova told .

Russian figure skaters have not participated in tournaments under the auspices of the ISU since March 2022 due to the situation in Ukraine.