Maxim Maxaim Trankov, two-time Olympic champion in pair skating, responded to the words of three-time Games champion and State Duma deputy Irina Rodnina that the World Tag Team Championship in figure skating is an extravagant tournament.
The competition is organized by the Japan Skating Federation with the support of the International Skating Union (ISU). In 2023, the tournament will be held in Tokyo and will run from April 13-16.
“Is this a fake tournament? The more tournaments the better. Our veterans always talk bad about things they don’t have, ”says Trankov Metaratings.ru.
Recall that the International Skating Union suspended Russian and Belarusian athletes from the competition. The ISU explained this decision with the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). At the beginning of June 2022, this decision was approved at the ISU congress. It has an indeterminate structure.
Former Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova statedThat the World Tag Team Championship level dropped without the Russians.