MOSCOW, Sep 20 Figure skater Diane Davis announced that she and her partner In ice dancing, Gleb Smolkin will not perform at the Challenge Cup in the USA. On Monday, American journalist Dave Leese reported that Davis and Smolkin became representatives of the US Figure Skating Association and will take part in the selection for the national team. Later, the Director General of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR) Alexander Kogan called this information nonsense, recalling that Davis and Smolkin are members of the Russian national team. Davis later announced that they would not take part in the test skates of the Russian team, which will be held on September 24-25 in Moscow. Both skaters are based in the US. «We are not in the Challenge Cup,» Davis wrote on Instagram*.
