St. PETERSBURG, Sep 6, Andrey Simonenko. European Champion 2020 in men's single skating, Dmitry Aliev said that a week ago he injured his leg in training, but did not want to withdraw from the test skates of the St. Petersburg team. On Tuesday, Aliev demonstrated a new short program at the skates at the St. Petersburg Figure Skating Academy, they are held with the audience. «It feels great, I'm very glad that so many people came to support the St. Petersburg team. It's very nice, I train in this arena every day with empty stands. And such a performance should contribute to the feeling that the season started earlier. Everything worked out, except for the spin. I didn't do it to a difficult level, didn't enter the spin the way I do, but that's what we planned. Seven days ago in training, I jerked my leg, was on the verge of not performing here. But I have don't raise a question clo, will I be here or not. I kept in mind that I would,” Aliyev told reporters. The skater’s short program was put on processing the song I Will Always Love You. This is one small dance for a minute and a half, and we fit it into the program. The remix was sent to me by our choreographer Valentin Nikolaevich Molotov, I really liked it, I was at the training camp in Yerevan, it hooked me,» the skater said.
