MOSCOW, June 30 Figure skaters Diana Davis/Gleb performing in ice dancing Smolkin said that they remain athletes of the Russian national team and are waiting for the opportunity to start the new season at test skates. Earlier, the media reported that Davis and Smolkin would be reviewed at the US Figure Skating Association (USFS). The couple participated in the 2022 Olympics under the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee.» Recently, a lot of false information about us has appeared on the net, so we would like to clarify the situation. A couple of weeks ago, we decided to leave the Igor Shpilband group and start working with a new team Elena Novak and Alexei Kilyakov.Under Igor's guidance, we have made a huge leap forward in skill, in our individual and partner skills.We are immensely grateful to Igor, Pasquala, Natalia and Adrian for the work done.Training with our new team, we are athletes of the Russian national team and looking forward to starting the new season at test skates,» Davis said in a joint statement published on Instagram (Meta (Facebook and Instagram social networks) is banned in Russia as extremist). «As for the rest of the news, in figure skating everything world, there is a practice of receiving comments from different specialists in the off-season, which They do not concern significant technical changes due to the newly introduced rules,» the entry says.
