MOSCOW, Aug 31, Anastasia Panina. Russian skaters can stay for two more years without international starts, coach Sergey Dobrin said in an interview. In early June, the ISU Congress extended the suspension of Russian athletes from international starts, which came into force in March 2022 due to the situation in Ukraine. «Based on what I heard, in a bad scenario only by the Congress of 2024 can they return to the issue of the participation of Russian athletes in competitions in the international arena. You understand that 2023 has not yet come, then 2024. That is, we will exist in this mode for another two years,» Dobrin said. «How we get out of this will depend on the support of the state. It can do the same with cinemas and say:» Guys, survive as best you can, you are not the highest priority area to give you funding. «And there may be some sponsors like Channel One, thanks To this end, the number of tournaments such as «Zhiguli Cup» in Samara will increase. The calendar this year has already been expanded with additional tournaments, which is good, «added the specialist. Sergey Dobrin is 35 years old. He works as a coach in the capital's Megasport and with the figure skaters of Nina Moser's group, in 2014 he assisted Eteri Tutberidze for several months.
