Leonova on Trusova’s performance in skating tests: “We can say she will come back, she is in the mix”

Alena Leonova, silver medalist of the World Single Skating Championships, believes that after the first performance at the skating tests we can talk about the return of the Olympic medalist to the sport. Alexandra Ignatova .

Ignatova (née Trusova) performed a short program featuring a double axel, triple flip, triple Lutz and double toe loop (step) on skates for the Russian national team in St. Petersburg. Ignatova last competed in tournaments in 2022 and missed the 2023/24 season entirely. In the summer of 2024, the athlete married figure skater Makar Ignatov and announced that she had taken his last name.

— In principle, we can say that Sasha will return and Sasha will be there. The jumps seemed very confident to me, Sasha, in my opinion, is in good physical shape. Let’s see how she performs her free program tomorrow. I know that I have a quadruple Lutz in my arsenal. I think that at the moment there is nothing stopping her from returning and continuing to perform at a good level, it would be interesting,” Leonova told .

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