MOSCOW, January 22, Andrey Simonenko. 1984 Olympic champion in pair skating , Honored Coach of Russia Oleg Vasilyev said in an interview that the manipulation of results is the negative that burdens figure skating. Since June 2020, Vasilyev has been the head coach of the Belarusian figure skating team. During the European Championships, held on January 12-15 in Tallinn, Vasiliev expressed disagreement with judging in the short program in women's single skating, where Russian Anna Shcherbakova, with a fall on a jump cascade, bypassed a number of figure skaters who performed the program cleanly, including Belarusian Victoria Safonova. «The refereeing system that is in effect now has been around for about 20 years. And in my opinion, it is becoming obsolete. The judges have learned to manipulate the results within this system. And the manipulation of the results is the negative that burdens all figure skating,» said Vasilyev .»Now the judging is 40 percent predictable — these are the numbers that stand behind each element. And at 60 — manipulative. These are the GOE coefficients that evaluate the performance of the elements, and the second mark for the components of the program, which, no matter how the rules are formulated, is extremely vague. does not reflect what we see at all,» the specialist stated. Read the full interview with Oleg Vasilyev on the website rsport.ria.ru.
