MOSCOW, July 1, Pavel Levkovich. To those who spread rumors about leaving Russian figure skaters Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin to the US team should be ashamed, said Tatiana Tarasova, honored coach of the USSR in figure skating. Earlier media reported that Davis and Smolkin would be reviewed by the US Figure Skating Association (USFS). On Thursday, the skaters said in their appeal that they remain members of the Russian national team and are waiting for the test skates of the national team, which will take place in September in Moscow. The pair competed in the 2022 Olympics and finished 14th. In December last year, Davis and Smolkin won the silver of the Russian championship. «Who wrote all this gossip about Diana and Gleb? Gossips wrote, they should be ashamed. I don’t even want to go into this topic. Diana and Gleb were, are and will remain a Russian couple in figure skating,» Tarasova said.
