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The Israel Federation supported the admission of Russians in a neutral status, Secretary General Anna Slavin announced:

This decision is aimed at developing world figure skating, and we always support such steps.

This goalkeeper is overpowered. He doesn’t really reflect what his stats say.

He saves a lot more shots than you’d expect. I don’t know if it’s because of his player model, he’s tall and all that, but seriously, he’s been outperforming a lot of so-called “pay-to-win” goalkeepers.

I used to have Courtois and De Gea on my PS5 account, but this guy honestly feels better than both.

At this point, I don't know what to say.

This isn't surprising when they hire underpaid interns. We're talking about an international conference, and they do this. It's baffling.

In my opinion, this card is overpowered. Sure, it's an Epic card, but he's on another level. He's tall, strong, great on the ball, and his shooting is incredible. His Blitz Curler is insane, I score with it so often that a goal feels almost guaranteed.

It took some testing to figure him out, but once I found the right setup, he became unstoppable.

I'm still waiting to add heading and one-Touch Pass, especially the latter, but he's so good that I'm happy to use him anyway.

I don't use him as a super-sub.

I'm currently in div 2 (pa3)

“It’s difficult to work when there are different understandings of figure skating. For Lena, what matters is jumping, and that’s it. Honestly, her skating skills are worse than those of more than half of my group. My girls were surprised. On TV everything looks different.

When you give her complex step sequences, she could actually do them well, she just doesn’t really like working on them, and there hasn’t been enough time spent on that. Jump, jump, jump. She jumps high and confidently, and as long as she is winning with that, it’s enough for her.

I already understood that the move was essentially blackmail from the previous coaching team to accept the conditions her mother wanted. But I didn’t lose anything. She would come, skate a bit, and there would be some PR in the figure skating world. The parents were, of course, somewhat surprised by Lena’s mother’s emotional behavior.

A day before she left, we had a conflict. Lena didn’t come to training. And when she eventually did come, she refused to do the exercises we gave her. That’s not how things work here. If a training plan is agreed upon, you can’t just say: ‘I don’t want to, I’m lazy, my arm, my leg, my head.’”

From the YouTube show “The Rink”

Work in progress 🛠

The Minister of Sports of Tatarstan on Zagitova's school:

The project is completely supervised by Alina, who takes on the role of general manager.

The main task for her and her team is to find coaches.

Alina will independently manage the project, recruit the coaching staff and handle selection.

The opening of the Center is scheduled for August 30, 2026.

(RIA Novosti) 📝

Richaud was supposed to stage Kostyleva's program. The production fell through due to the Frenchman's financial demands (Sport24)

According to a source, the amount requested by Richaud, $15,000, is approximately three times higher than the average payment to a choreographer in Russian figure skating.