Figure skater Kunitsa: “If everything goes well, we will impose the fight on the leaders of Russian pair skating”

Figure skater Georgy Kounitsa performance in a sporty pair with Alena Kostornaya in an interview with , announced his intention to impose a fight on the leaders of the discipline.

Last season, Kostornaya/Kunitsa took ninth place at the Russian Championship.

— It’s very difficult to beat the two leaders. Do you think that in the coming season you will be competitive against Mishina/Gallyamov and Boykova/Kozlovsky?

— So why perform if not to compete? We will try to skate cleanly and show the best of ourselves, and then fate will decide. If all goes well, we will of course impose the fight. There is nothing inaccessible.

— Leaders are now studying quadruple ejection. Do you consider the risk of running this item in the program to be justified?

“It doesn’t cost very much compared to the difficulty of doing it. » But these are not athlete problems, these are evaluation system problems. I think such items should cost more. The guys are great, they try new things, it inspires respect.

— Are you planning to make the content more complex in the next season?

– Probably not. Maybe we’ll add a more expensive throw and change the jump to a short throw, but that’s not a fact. The main task is pure execution and the fourth level of elements,” Kunitsa told .

Kostornaya is the 2020 European single skating champion. The athlete has been pair skating with Kunitz since 2023.

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