World champions in pair skating Anastasia Mishina - Alexander Gallyamov, who perform at the Olympic Games in Beijing as part of the team of the Russian Olympic Committee, take second place, behind the leaders of the team tournament Chinese pair Wenjin Sui - Cong Han 19 hundredths of a point. Closes the top three Americans Alex Knirim - Brandan Fraser, who, perhaps, for the first time managed to give such a rental (75.00).
Sports pairs closed the first day of competition in the Olympic team tournament. Before that, singles and dancers performed and now it was the turn of pair skating on the ice of the Capital Indoor Stadium. Debutants of the Olympic Games Anastasia Mishina - Alexander Gallyamov coped with the task perfectly. All
elements were performed on the 4th level, received 82.64 points, rewrote the personal achievement and lost only 19 hundredths to the experienced Chinese, the silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Korea Wenjin Sui - Cong Han, who on home ice updated the world record in the short program - 82.83.To the tricky question of journalists, why are the Chinese ahead, is it not because the Games are in China? Nastya replied:
- As a joke, it's possible.
- Anyone can think so, but we tried to do our best and show our reliable skating so that the judges would evaluate it with appropriate scores. And we are glad that we managed to roll almost cleanly, - said Alexander.
- Why almost?
Alexander: Because after the rental, the athlete always has the feeling that he could add something else and he will try to give it away in the next rental.
Anastasia: The gap is only 20 hundredths or even less. We weren't too upset.
Alexander: Almost a high score was brought to our team.
- But in team competitions, grades for programs do not play a significant role, is the place and points that will be added to the team's piggy bank more important?
Alexander: We found out about it when we were playing at the World Team Championships. And like, you concede hundredths, you think - oh, nothing, in the arbitrariness we will catch up. But at the same time, you understand that in the arbitrary everything starts from the beginning. In the team, the main thing is the place, because the point depends on it, which will be counted in the overall standings.
Anastasia: And we are so sure in our team that this one point should not play a big role.
- Will the gap be larger?
Alexander: Let's not talk about it yet. We're also rooting for our entire team. We are glad that Mark Kondratyuk performed well. Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov also skated well.
Anastasia: There are no weak athletes in our team, so we have nothing to worry about.
Alexander: We have all the links closed.
- Are you ready to skate the free skate in a team tournament?
Alexander: Who doesn't want to? Everybody wants to skate in the team. But that's how the federation decides.
Anastasia: They know better. They watch all the competitions, and we don't see anything.
Alexander: Who will skate in training, the one who will show what skating, will put it.
- Performing at such competitions, do you understand that you have no right to make a mistake?
Alexander: We will say more: in order to show a high result, you do not need to make mistakes.
Anastasia: Any athlete has in his head that it is impossible to make mistakes, because at least the coach will say: "In general, what is this? I've been training you for five years, and you're showing that."
Alexander: Still, we want to please our coaches. No wonder they invested their strength, emotions, so that we were ready.
- Does the team tournament leave its mark?
Anastasia: The imprint is good. It brings the team together. We make new friends. Not even that new friends. This strengthens our friendship, we communicate more, correspond outside of competition. And it relieves tension. Honestly.
- If we are talking about the coach, when will Tamara Nikolaevna come to the Games?
Anastasia: You know, it takes a very long time to fly to China, so it's on the way.
- What are your impressions of the Olympic Village?
Alexander: It's all very good.
Anastasia: Nice apartment. You can move. And the phones are there (sponsors gave all the participants of the Olympiad phones) and the food is good.
Alexander: We have transport that delivers, all comfortable conditions have been created.
Anastasia: Just the life of cats.
What do you think of the Chinese couple?
Alexander: We didn't see them roll out because we performed right after. Of course, there are TVs everywhere, but we ourselves tuned in to the rental, like all athletes. But we know this couple from previous rentals. It's really cool, showing aerobatics for several years. We were still small when they were at the World Championships, and now that we are trying to compete with them, it's generally, wow!
Anastasia: We saw their programs at the beginning of the season at some national competitions. Of course, we liked very interesting programs. The coach even told us: Hey, work, work! Well, here we are!
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Olga ERMOLINA
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