MOSCOW, Sep 11 Figure skating coach Igor Shpilband commented on the cessation of work for the first time with the dance couple Diana Davis/Gleb Smolkin. In June, Davis and Smolkin left Shpilband's group and began working in the USA with Elena Novak and Alexei Kilyakov, who performed with Davis' mother, Honored Coach of Russia Eteri Tutberidze. «I would not like to somehow to comment in detail on the end of our joint work. We parted very kindly. I think that it was better to do the work that I did with them, I could not. I think they are grateful for our joint path. I am very glad that Gleb and Diana took place as a couple, and I wish them further development. On whose initiative did our cooperation end? The initiative was not mine, «Sports.ru quotes Shpilband. Davis and Smolkin are the silver medalists of the Russian championship. The pair competed in the 2022 Olympics and finished 14th.
