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Kamila Valieva, as expected, with a big advantage, won her mini-tournament among singles at the team competitions of the Beijing Olympics in figure skating. The already victorious team of the Russian Federation increased its lead over the Americans to 9 points. In third place is the Japanese team.
Meanwhile, sports commentators criticize the decision of the leadership of the Figure Skating Federation to refuse substitutions (there could be two) before the free program.
After Mark Kondratyuk turned out to be higher than the American the day before, the victory of the Russian team was not in doubt, and therefore replacements were asking for it. They not only made it possible to “encourage” someone else with the Olympic “gold”, but also give the team leaders the opportunity to take a break before individual starts.
According to the correspondent of “SE” Rustam Imamov, the responsible persons did not dare to replace simply because “not to offend anyone”, which indicates a not very simple situation “under the carpet” of our figure skating.
Source: Rosbalt
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