KAZAN, January 20, Vadim Kuznetsov. Russian skaters are not among the favorites in the fight for medals at the upcoming Beijing Olympics, but they are able to impose competition on the leaders, said two-time European champion in figure skating Alexander Smirnov. always there. The ice is slippery. The Olympics are such a tournament that it happened that dark horses won at the Games in single skating. If everything is usually clear in dances and in pairs, then in singles the leaders made mistakes, and on the pedestal there were people from whom not even we expected nothing. America and Canada are the favorites, but I hope our guys will impose a fight on them,» Smirnov said.
