No one in the team should think about whether participation in the team tournament will affect the further skaters' skates. This was told to RBC Sport by Olympic figure skating champion Natalia Bestemyanova.

“Russia will be represented at the Games by great athletes. The best skaters in the country at the moment. They won the championships of Russia and Europe. Now is not the time to rest. People have gone through their lives to compete at the Olympics. They go to defend the honor of the country. Can a team tournament interfere with other starts? Nobody should think about it. Everyone is working to perform at the Olympic Games and take high places in every box office, ”said Bestemyanova.

Valieva will represent Russia in the figure skating team competition at the Figure Skating Games Earlier it became known that Mark Kondratyuk, Kamila Valieva, sports couple Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov, as well as dancers Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov will perform in the short program.

Team figure skating competitions will be held on 4, 6 and 7 February. A total of ten countries will take part in the competition.

At the Olympics in Pyeongchang, Russian figure skaters became second in the team tournament, Canadians won first place, and Americans became third.

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