Andrey SimonenkoSport correspondentAll materialsThe Russian national figure skating team will perform in the team tournament at the Beijing Olympics without substitutions. The correspondent discusses why such a decision of the headquarters is the most correct of all. The words «commander» and «replacement» on the eve of the Winter Olympics are becoming one of the most used on the sidelines of the figure skating community. What is there to hide, the discipline seems to be specially invented for the Russian team. «Kind» tongues say that it's not «as if», but we will not stoop to insinuations. We only state that historically the composition of the Russian team is indeed, taking into account all four types of figure skating, one of the most even. Even taking into account the lagging men's singles, where even the grossest mistakes of the skater, who has long been uncomfortable remembering them, did not prevent the Russian team in Pyeongchang 2018 from taking silver.
