Coach Elena Sokolova told Interview with socialbites.caHe said that his students Ekaterina Mironova and Evgeniy Ustenko, who won bronze medals at the Krasnoyarsk Grand Prix stage, changed the music in rhythm dance before the Russian Championship.
“We are preparing for a lot of new things for the national championship. They partially changed the music in the rhythm dance, and by extension the rhythm dance itself, because the old steps and dance routines were somewhat incompatible with the new music. It turned out interesting,” said Sokolova.
Koç noted that the idea of changing the music arose during the test skates of the Russian national team in September 2023. The jury then expressed the opinion that it would be better if the couple skated to more famous compositions from the 1980s.
“We initially took compositions that were not widely promoted in the Soviet Union in the 80s and later in Russia,” Sokolova said. — We were looking for more familiar melodies. They did not change it immediately because many athletes, especially foreign athletes, could not be seen at that time and they wanted to avoid repetitions. “We were now convinced that no one had these compositions, so we changed it.”
Sokolova noted that the couple began making changes to the music after the Grand Prix stage in Samara so that the skaters had enough time to practice the changing type of rhythm dance.
previously coach stated about the decline in the level of Russian figure skating in conditions of isolation.