MOSCOW, June 23, Anatoly Samokhvalov. 2018 Olympic champion in figure skating Alina Zagitova will hold a demonstrative boxing sparring against two-time Olympic boxing champion Oleg Saitov, organizers of the event told RIA. The sparring will take place on June 25 at Luzhniki as part of the Moscow Sports Day, organized by the Moscow Department of Sports. Twenty-year-old Zagitova will face a 48-year-old boxer who won the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games. Earlier it was reported that Zagitova was supposed to face Tokyo Olympic champion Albert Batyrgaziev in a show fight format as part of the event. Subsequently, Batyrgaziev refused to fight.
