Down-the-line.com / Figure Skating. Former Russian figure skater, Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin has commented on the cancellation of the master class in Stockholm (Sweden) of the silver medalist of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing (China) Alexandra Trusova. The master class’s host club announced the cancellation of the event after the Swedish Figure Skating Federation said joint events with athletes from Russia and Belarus were hurting Swedish figure skating.

“Honestly, I’m not surprised. It’s all on the surface. I have always said and will continue to say that this is no longer a sport, but pure politics. But Sasha Trusova will not go anywhere – she is the property of our figure skating and world skating too Everyone understands that But the fact that Swedish figure skaters, who are at an incomprehensible level, lost the opportunity to touch the figure skating star, is not understood in the Swedish federation, where they understand and simply succumbed to outside pressure.

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But on the other hand, maybe for the best. I remember Swedish football legend Zlatan Ibrahimovic being bullied in Sweden a few years ago. They wrote on his house that he was a Judas. What if Sasha didn’t have the best reception either? I understand that the level of popularity of football and figure skating in Sweden is on different planes, but still. Sasha is a young girl, and it’s obvious that even for 5-10 living haters meeting her there with negative posters, she wouldn’t be ready. But maybe the figure skating audience in Sweden is more adequate than the football audience,” Yagudin wrote on his Telegram channel.