
St. PETERSBURG, Oct 8, Andrey Simonenko. European vice-champion in men's singles figure skating, Artur Danielyan told reporters that he had the motivation to compete even before the announcement of the prize money at domestic Russian tournaments. Earlier, the Russian Figure Skating Federation announced that 500 thousand rubles would be paid for winning the domestic Russian Grand Prix this season , the victory in the Final of the series will be valued at 1 million rubles. The champions of Russia will receive 2.5 million rubles.» This is a good motivation, but even before it became known, my motivation was pouring over the edge. I don’t know where it comes from, but it’s good. From the principle I want to show what I always So that people don't think: he's a good boy, he skates well, but he doesn't show anything,» Danielyan said. On Saturday, the skater performed a free program at the Panin-Kolomenkin Memorial in St. Petersburg. “Better than yesterday. I tuned in differently, I was not so busy. It was the first competitive start, a quad jump with new technique — a week. Plus a day and a half of lying at home. The quad salchow itself was better, at least the step out. not the same, but I felt that a certain shell had formed. Then we will draw up a plan for preparing for the Grand Prix. I have a stage in Kazan, I like to perform there, «Danielyan said.

