Coach Veronika Daineko, who trains single skater Pyotr Gummenik, said that she and the athlete gave up on the short program under Rammstein after a meeting with famous coach Tamara Moskvina, which showed an email that suggested the German group was unpatriotic. His words lead the way sports.ru.
“The letter was written from Evgeniy Kartushin to the Ministry of Sports [Олегу] Matytsin. The mail contained the addresses of all winter sports federations. Tamara Nikolaevna said that this is a matter of national importance and we cannot put our interests above national importance. You never know what we want. Our federation said the move to Rammstein was undesirable, but there was no threat that we would be punished,” Daineko said.
On September 16 and 17, the test skates of the Russian national team are held in Moscow. Although the 21-year-old skater prepared a new program for the season with the song Rammstein, she performed last year’s short program. Daineko noted that information about an undesirable performance for this group appeared a few days before the test skates, so they did not have time to organize a new short program.
Gumennik is the winner of the Russian Grand Prix final (2023), silver medalist of the Russian Championship (2023).
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