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The First Channel Figure Skating Cup began on Saturday at the CSKA-Arena in Moscow, the skaters showed short programs, as a result of which the “Red Machine” team of Alina Zagitova is ahead of the team “They will not catch us” Kamila Valieva .” RIA Novosti, the first of the tournament He talks about his day.

It all started with curiosity. Before the start of the competition, host Dmitry Khrustalev (without co-host Evgenia Medvedeva at the time) summoned team captains Zagitova and Valieva to him. Krustalev announced the prize fund – 20 million rubles!

And everything stopped. “Something went wrong here. Live broadcast of Channel One,” Khrustalev said.

And then, as the rest of the skaters froze on the ice, frantically trying to occupy themselves with something, she started re-recording the eyeliner on the television. There is probably no place without such events in the live broadcast format, so we will not strongly scold the organizers.

Then Khrustalev announced the competition of sports couples, and dance duets went on the ice. Perhaps this was made for a simplified paste-up on television, because this time the dancers are slipping outside of the competition standings. There was nothing of interest here – Elizaveta Shanaeva and Pavel Drozd put on a show on Wednesday, Elizaveta Khudaiberdiyeva and Yegor Bazin put on a show, and Vasilisa Kaganovskaya and Valery Angelopol showed a simplified version of their extraordinary free dance.

Actually, that’s all. Significantly, while the dancers were skating, many spectators caught Olympic champion Mark Kondratyuk in the stands and hardly looked at the ice. By the way, this time he played a new role for himself – a reporter. Joining the culture of scam eaters, Kondratyuk asked the audience who they were supporting. This created more excitement among the public than the performances of our best dance duets available. If this isn’t a disciplinary crisis, what is? The question is rhetorical.

However, in all other types in Russia there is still complete order. The competition of sports couples brought the minimum victory to the “Red Machine” (166.07 vs. 159.90), thanks to the excellent performance of Anastasia Mishina / Alexander Gallyamov. If Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov had not made a mistake in the parallel jump, the gap would certainly have been huge. Then even the purest performances of Alexandra Boikova/Dmitry Kozlovsky and Yasmina Kadyrova/Valery Kolesov would not have helped Valieva’s team.

Dmitry Aliev unexpectedly succumbed to the intrigues of the guys, filling in all the jumping elements. The other guys on Valieva’s team just needed to not disappoint the captain and drive more or less cleanly, they did it and “They won’t be able to catch us ahead” – 347.46 vs. 352.57.

Then the girls competed, and here, unfortunately, it is worth focusing on the negative. But first – pure sport worth noting the excellent performance of Sofia Muravyova, a student of Evgeni Plushenko, who demonstrated an excellent short program with a triple axel and took the intermediate lead. Theoretically, this could consolidate the advantage of the Valieva team, but the unsuccessful performances of Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Sofia Samodelkina did not allow this to be done. Alina Gorbacheva and Adelia Petrosyan, who showed a clean triple axle and approached Muravyova, gave a strong performance for the “red” team. But the hire of Veronika Yametova from Alina Zagitova’s team did not prove beneficial.

The thing is that the “white-blue” Anastasia Zinina could not complete her lease. She fell during a triple Lutz and landed badly on her left thigh. She was unable to stand up on her own, the coaches and doctors took her not immediately but under their iced arms. And here you have to ask a few questions whose answers are unlikely to be given. Why did the skater have to wait so long for the help of doctors on the ice? Where were the stretchers and why did Anastasia leave the ice on her own strength and not on them? Why was the skater injured? According to RIA Novosti, he had problems with his right hip, which was later confirmed by his coach Alexei Vasilevsky.

“Nastya is now hospitalized by ambulance, her mother and wife went with her. She shot her hip. They will take X-rays, after a deep examination the situation will become clear. : her ligament was torn. ,” Vasilevsky himself explained to RIA Novosti.

Why was force majeure not taken into account in the tournament regulations initially? On the first day, it was decided to subtract the lowest result from the girls (Yametova) from the Red Machine result, which even Zagitova disagreed with.

It is hoped that this situation will be the reason for the analysis of the “CSKA-Arena” staff and organizers. Anastasia also wishes a speedy recovery. In Sunday’s free program, she will be replaced by Ksenia Gushchina, the first substitute who will try to help Valieva’s team close the gap. After the first day, the Reds are up 745.68 points against 738.31.

Source: Ria

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