Coach Alexander Zhulin talked about the similarity of style of his wards pairs Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov and Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin. His words are quoted Metatations.
“I don’t see anything wrong with it, they are similar in style. The style is similar because the skate quality is very high. Am I afraid of falling prey to comparisons? I’m afraid of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, nothing else. Now we talk about couples and compare things but do you see what happens in life? We need to make an investigation in this direction. “I’m not afraid of anything anymore, I want my wife and children to be happy,” said Zhulin.
At the Beijing Olympic Games, Sinitsina and Katsalapov became champions in the team tournament and won the silver medal in the pairs dance competition.
The couple Sinitsina and Katsalapov became two-time Russian champions (2019, 2020), European champions (2020, 2022). Over the years, the pair won gold, silver and bronze at the World Championships, bronze at the World Team Championships and silver at the 2018 Figure Skating Finals Grand Prix.
Stepanova and Bukin are two-time champions of Russia (2021, 2022), two-time silver medalists of the European Championships (2019, 2022), bronze medalists of the European Championships (2015, 2018, 2020).
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