MOSCOW, February 10 2018 Olympic silver medalist Mikhail Kolyada on air TV channel «Russia 1» said he did not intend to give up figure skating. Kolyada missed the Olympic Games in Beijing due to a positive test for COVID-19. Instead, Evgeny Semenenko joined the Russian national team. “Unfortunately, I couldn’t get a negative test before flying to Beijing. I didn’t have any special symptoms: a runny nose and that’s it,” said Kolyada. This season, the 26-year-old skater won the championship silver Russia, but withdrew from the pre-Olympic European Championship due to an injury. «I do not intend to give up this business, because I really like to ride. Naturally, anything can happen in life. You have to be ready for anything. As Aleksey Nikolaevich (Mishin) said: you need to be able to take a hit,» the skater said. Kolyada is the silver medalist of the 2018 Olympic Games in team competitions. He also won bronze medals at the 2018 World Championships and the European Championships (2017, 2018). The figure skater won the Russian Championship three times.
