TALLINN, January 14, Andrey Simonenko. Russian figure skater Mark Kondratyuk managed to withstand not only the fight for the medals of the European Championship, but also for a ticket to the Olympics, said the 2002 Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin. Kondratyuk won the European Championship in Tallinn on Friday. Two other Russian skaters, Andrey Mozalev and Evgeny Semenenko, took fourth and fifth places, respectively. «We can only say bravo to Mark — both short clean and free free. It's hard to perform when the fight is not only for the medals of the European championship, but there was also the question of the Olympics. There are results of the Russian Championship, Misha Kolyada had a minor injury, but still, the question, in my opinion, remained open. Now I still don’t know what our Federation will do, it’s tactless for me to express my opinion, but there was pressure on the guys double Mark broke into the figure skating elite at the Channel One Cup, then once — and he is the champion of Russia, and now, after just two weeks, the champion of Europe, «said Yagudin.
