Anastasia PaninaSport correspondentAll materialsSilver medalists of the 2022 Olympics in ice dancing Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov have long been a couple not only on ice, but also in life. The skaters themselves had not publicly spoken about their relationship before, but everything was clear to those around them without words. And now, as a fact: in our figure skating there will soon be one more happy family: Nikita proposed to Vika, and she agreed. This «yes» of Victoria is not the first for them. It was preceded by several more «yes», perhaps even more fateful for both. Sport congratulates the couple on their engagement and recalls other moments when everything in the life and career of the Sinitsin-Katsalapov couple depended on Vika's «yes». Spring 2014. «Will you pair up with me?» This question of Nikita must have sounded with the desperation of the call «you will go rob a bank with me.» In any case, they were condemned and discussed less for the bank than for the castling of duets in the national team. If someone wants to experience what a person who does not understand the whole world feels, ask Nikita Katsalapov. They both had something to lose. Nikita, by his decision, broke a pair of Ilins — Katsalapov, who was destined for all the gold. It was as if he chose uncertainty and oblivion instead of fame and success — in any case, at the very beginning, at a distance, everything looked exactly like that. Vika left her long-term partner Ruslan Zhiganshin, school and home. She had to grow up at the speed of an airplane taking them with Nikita to America — to live and train in Canton with Marina Zueva.
