Olympic figure skating champion Maxim Trankov told that he does not support the International Skating Union (ISU) initiative to change the content of pairs skating programs.
The ISU Congress will be held in Las Vegas from June 10 to 14, 2024. The organization’s honorary vice president, Alexander Lakernik, previously said that the content of the programs would be discussed at the meeting. In pairs skating, a lift may be replaced by a choreographic lift, and a pirouette may be replaced by a choreographic pirouette.
— They try to combine pair skating with ice dancing or vice versa. Couple elements are actively introduced into the dances; for some reason the couples are dancing. It’s not very clear to me and I don’t really like it. The upper support distinguishes us from other species, our crowning element. Now they want to fire him. I don’t support that. “I would add extra support,” Trankov told .
Source : MatchTV
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