Olympic diving champion and now sports journalist Elena Vaitsekhovskaya telegram channel He appreciated the hopes of Sofia Samodelkina.
“Sofa Samodelkina is perhaps the most interesting athlete for me among the “already adults” who are currently skating.
What has been written does not mean that other (Russian) singles players are less interesting, it just means that current expectations are different. But I’m really curious to wait for the moment when Samodelkina will start competing,” Vaitsekhovskaya wrote.
At the Russian Grand Prix in Samara in the 2022 season, Samodelkina won the short and free programs ahead of Olympic medalists Alexandra Trusova and Ksenia Gushchina.
Samodelkina participated in the final of the Russian Grand Prix in March 2023 and qualified by taking first and second place in the stages. The athlete made many mistakes in both programs and ranked 11th in the final with 185.54 points.
The figure skater changed her Russian citizenship to Kazakh this summer.
Previously Samodelkina in the name plus from missing the season.