MOSCOW, Jan 27 Silver medalist at the 2018 Olympics in women's figure skating In pair skating, Evgenia Medvedeva believes that Russians have “great chances” to win Olympic gold medals in pair skating. In pair skating, Russia at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing will be represented by three duets: Anastasia Mishina/Alexander Gallyamov, Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov, Alexandra Boikova/Dmitry Kozlovsky. Daria Pavlyuchenko/Denis Khodykin and Yulia Artemyeva/Mikhail Nazarychev remained as substitutes.
"Our guys have great chances in pair skating — they are very technical, artistic and stable. They are the reigning world and European champions. The Chinese are called favorites because of the length of service, they have a reputation as winners, but there are competitions, international judges, the rules are the same, so we have chances,» Medvedeva said on air & # 34; OK! In touch".
Also, the athlete assessed the chances of Russian figure skaters to win medals in men's single skating. The team included Mark Kondratyuk and Andrey Mozalev. Mikhail Kolyada was also supposed to go to the Olympics, but due to a positive test for COVID-19, he will miss the tournament — Evgeny Semenenko took his place in the Russian national team. «If the guys skate cleanly, everything will be in the hands of the judges. They need to go out and do their job, it's not worth jumping over their heads. With clean skates, the places will be good,» the skater said.