MOSCOW, January 25, Sergey Pogrebnyak. Honored coach of Russia in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova stated that Mikhail Kolyada was replaced in the Russian national team for the Olympic Games for health reasons. Earlier, the Russian Figure Skating Federation named the composition of the national team for the Olympics, Kolyada, Mark Kondratyuk and Andrey Mozalev were supposed to perform in men's singles. On Tuesday, the Russian Olympic Committee on its website announced the composition of the delegation to the Games in Beijing, in which Kolyada was replaced by Evgeny Semenenko. «This is not a replacement, but a necessary measure. Kolyada fell ill. It's good that we have someone to replace him,» Tarasova said .In December, Kolyada won the silver of the Russian Championship, but withdrew from the January European Championship due to injury.
