Three-time Olympic champion, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Irina Rodnina did not support the idea of creating a new figure skating league like the NHL after the withdrawal of Russian athletes from international competitions.
Earlier, the former coach of the USSR national team, former judge Alexander Vedenin, in an interview with , offered to create a new league and “raise funds for it, this is more than the International Skating Union (ISU) gives”.
– The idea is so new, if we already own both NHL and KHL. Who will be included in this league, except Russian athletes? Why create some kind of league if we can already organize national competitions? What is the genius of this idea? You know, I can give you how many ideas like that. An idea makes sense when it can be done, and everything else is fantasy.
The International Federation will also defend itself. This means that foreign athletes, to compete in [таких] international competitions, like the world championship, Europe, will be wary of going to a league that the ISU will be against. And the fact that he won’t complain [новую лигу]it’s 100%,” Rodnina told RBC Sport.
The ISU previously announced that Russian athletes were ineligible to compete under the organisation’s auspices due to the situation in Ukraine.
Source : MatchTV
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