Shishkina: “I learned the program of Maltsev and Platonova from the German synchronized swimmers during their performance at the European Championships”

Triple Olympic synchronized swimming champion Alla Shishkina believes that German synchronized swimmers borrowed program ideas from the Russians Alexandra Maltseva And Oleya Platonova .

Maltsev/Platonova won gold with the “Phantom Goals” free dance at the BRICS Games on Saturday. With a similar performance in the technical program, according to Shishkina, Germans Zolen Guizard and Robin Wien took sixth place at the European Championships in Belgrade.

“From my experience, I can say that this happens to us regularly. They took the same music from the band, but just stole the moves. And the female duo had that too. It’s unpleasant. We used to stand aside and grumble: “Well, we don’t have enough imagination, they can only take us.” » Chinese and Spanish women have sinned.

And when I saw the German mixed duo, I already recognized Gana Maksimova’s production. The movements are similar, the costumes, one might say, are generally the same. I don’t know what they were counting on – since Russian athletes weren’t allowed, no one would notice? But everyone noticed everything, especially the professionals. In my opinion, this is not very acceptable. There are few mixed duets in the world, and it’s not serious not to come up with something new, something of our own, “Shishkina told .

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