The skaters will seem at home tournaments after a suspension from international competitions
The participation of an array of Russian determine skating stars has been confirmed for a collection of Grand Prix occasions of their homeland, which will likely be held to compensate for his or her suspension from worldwide competitions.
Six Grand Prix tournaments in whole will happen throughout 5 Russian cities from October to November, and can characteristic the likes of ladies’s world report factors holder Kamila Valieva.
The Russian Figure Skating Federation issued a listing of opponents for every Grand Prix on its web site on Tuesday.
Teenage star Valieva will line up on the opening event in Moscow from October 21 to 23, and on the Kazan stage of the collection in November.
Beijing Olympic silver medalist Alexandra Trusova, 18, will characteristic in Sochi in October and in Samara in November.
Former world champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva – who on the age of 25 stays a agency fan favourite around the globe – will seem on the second stage in Moscow in November and at a event in Perm later that month.
Men’s stars Mark Kondratiuk and Mikhail Kolyada are additionally among the many Grand Prix members, together with rising younger stars such because the 15-year-old Adeliia Petrosian.
Not named on the record of members was Tokyo girls’s gold medalist Anna Shcherbakova, who just lately underwent surgical procedure on a knee harm in Germany however has since returned to coaching.
Pairs stars Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov – who had been a part of the Russian gold-medal winners within the crew occasion in Beijing – are additionally absent after they introduced a break for the primary half of subsequent season.
Russian ice dancer Diana Davis – who’s the daughter of famend coach Eteri Tutberidze – and associate Gleb Smolkin had been named on the record for 2 tournaments, regardless of rumors surrounding their ongoing coaching within the US.
Russia’s skating expertise would ordinarily be competing on the International Skating Union’s (ISU) Grand Prix collection, however the group introduced a ban on Russian and Belarusian members from all competitions because of the battle in Ukraine.
Russian sporting officers have since organized a collection of home occasions as a substitute for the nation’s stars.
‘Quad queen’ Trusova will likely be taking to the ice.
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The winners of every Russian Grand Prix stage will obtain 500,000 rubles ($8,500), with second and third place incomes 300,000 rubles and 200,000 rubles respectively.
The winners of the Grand Prix Finals – set to happen in Sochi subsequent March – will take house 1 million rubles, with 750,000 rubles and 500,000 rubles going to second and third locations.
The greatest prize fund on supply will likely be on the Russian National Championship in Krasnoyarsk on the finish of December, the place 2.5 million rubles has been allotted for champions, adopted by 1.5 million rubles for silver and 1 million for bronze, in keeping with the skating federation.
Russia’s determine skaters returned to motion on the nationwide crew’s take a look at skates in Moscow on the weekend.
Women’s star Valieva, 16, obtained specific consideration as her two routines drew upon the theme of her doping scandal on the Winter Olympics in February.
Valieva returned a constructive take a look at for the banned coronary heart drug trimetazidine based mostly on a pattern taken final December on the Russian Championships, however which was solely reported by a WADA-accredited laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden, after she had helped Russia to gold within the crew occasion in Beijing.
Valieva was cleared to compete within the particular person occasion in Beijing by an emergency Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panel, however completed a disappointing fourth because the ordeal took its toll.
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) introduced final week that it had concluded its investigation into the case, with a listening to set for the tip of September or early October.
Valieva and her crew have denied any wrongdoing, arguing that the constructive take a look at could have come because of contamination from remedy her grandfather was taking.
(RT.com)