MOSCOW, April 9 does not want the performances of athletes to become a way of manipulation and persuasion. Earlier, the International Skating Union (ISU), against the backdrop of events in Ukraine, suspended athletes from Russia and Belarus from competitions under its auspices, including from the World Figure Skating Championships in French Montpellier. The Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR) filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). «I really wanted to believe that sport is out of politics, but today it turned out not to be so. I love figure skating. I sincerely love what I do, I do it live. I want to participate in competitions, I want to skate, I want to put on new programs, I want to participate in ice shows. But I don’t want the performances of athletes to become a way of manipulation and persuasion. I’m completely at a loss,” Tuktamysheva wrote in her Telegram channel.
