American journalist David Lees turned to Russian trainer Eteri Tutberidze after her figure skater daughter Diana Davis and her partner Gleb Smolkin changed their sports citizenship. Now the dance couple will play for the Georgia national team.
“Oh, Eteri, you’re shit,” Fox wrote on his page on the social network.
It is noteworthy that Tutberidze said this to a journalist in the summer of 2022 when he announced that Davis and Smolkin were considering changing their sports citizenship and want to play for the United States. It is noteworthy that it was Lis who announced on June 4 that the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR) allows skaters to change their sports citizenship. Officially, this information was only confirmed the next day.
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Davis and Smolkin won the silver medal at the 2022 Russian Championships and qualified for the Beijing Olympics, where they finished 14th. They won the Warsaw Cup Challenger and the Russian Cup final. The couple also took silver twice at the Grand Prix stages in the USA and Russia.
After the 2022 Olympics, Russian skaters cannot participate in international competitions due to penalties. At the same time, they completely missed the Russian season, without speaking at the competitions.