MOSCOW, August 2, Andrey Simonenko. Figure skating coaches Svetlana Sokolovskaya and Evgeny Rukavitsyn said in an interview that they wanted to officially unite their groups, but for legal reasons this could not be done.
Sokolovskaya works at the CSKA school in Moscow, among her most famous students are the vice-champion of the 2022 Olympics Alexandra Trusova, the champion of the Beijing Games in the team tournament Mark Kondratyuk, the vice-champion of Europe in 2019 Alexander Samarin. Rukavitsyn trains at the Academy of Figure Skating (SShOR) of St. Petersburg, among his students are the 2020 European champion Dmitry Aliev, the 2023 European champion Anastasia Gubanova, the winner of the Russian Championship and the Grand Prix stage Makar Ignatov. Coaches regularly hold joint meetings of their groups.
«»You have to understand that in the global sense this is a union of like-minded people, but not a union of teams. Svetlana Vladimirovna has her own path, I have mine. Although we had the idea to unite our teams at the official level, unfortunately, we have this It didn’t work out, but it’s not our fault,” Rukavitsyn said, “Legal issues (became the reason). Frankly, we don’t know the subtleties, but we were told that it was impossible. And we decided to go the way we are.”
«Although, for me, it would be interesting,» Sokolovskaya added.
Read the full interview with Svetlana Sokolovskaya and Evgeny Rukavitsyn on Thursday at rsport.ria.ru.