Figure skaters Elizaveta Maleina and Matvey Samokhin, who won the Russian Grand Prix among juniors in St. Petersburg, said that they do not attach much importance to the fact that they are the leaders of the season in junior ice dancing.
Maleina and Samokhin became first in ice dancing at the Junior Grand Prix stage in St. Petersburg with a score of 175.80 points. Second – Varvara Slutskaya and Gleb Goncharov (161.84), third – Kamilla Sharafutdinova and Rodion Murasalimov (158.24).
— You are the season leader in points, how do you evaluate your performances?
Maleina: It was important for us to skate better than in Krasnoyarsk to show what we had prepared and increase our scores.
Samokhine: We don’t think we are the leaders of the season, we are working and improving.
— Was it planned that you would run the fourth and sixth stages of the Grand Prix?
Samokhine: We were distributed like this during the skate tests, everything went as planned.
— Is it easier to perform on your second stage?
Maleina: I think so.
Samokhine: The first step is a unique sensation in any season, it’s up to you to try. The main thing is to set a good bar and try to raise it.
— How important is support during competitions?
Samokhine: There is our second branch of the team in St. Petersburg, the guys came to support us.
Maleina: They supported me with such soul, it was very nice.
— How does your team work in two cities?
Samokhine: This happens in different ways: one of the coaches leaves, and couples come to us. We have joint training quite rarely, but sometimes. When the masters tested the skates, we came to St. Petersburg and showed the guys the paso doble.
— Is it motivating? Has the group’s expansion been beneficial?
Maleina: I think that was a plus. Every couple has their own style. We look at each other and we improve.
Samokhine: It’s nice to feel that we are like a big family, ”reports the correspondent of , reporting the words of the skaters.
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