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world figure skating championships but after that devastating earthquake and tsunami that caused huge losses to the economy it became clear the country could afford the right russia to house the championship in moscow in just a month everything was ready and the contest is kicking off the mark so what did it take to get us prepared so quickly here's a live picture on top and see how the league's. moscow's used to hosting the sports events including the biggest world championships just six years ago alissa disastrous rebuttal ground for the world's best trigger speeders but this time the situation was different because the city only had a month to get ready for the championship the latest preparations are being done right now but generally it seems moscow has successfully passed distrust ask. the welcome to the show and thank you thank you very much for coming well first of all you said i quote the moscow championship will be an unpredictable and

particularly tense competition and quote what you think so how do you do you want to say that that the the the the change of place somehow level that equaled the chances of everybody you know what first of all i want to say sorry for the whole japanese nation. and if we're talking about the world championships. you know it's kind of interesting because when we really you for that kind of change it. now figure skating is very popular here in russia. figure skating first place in. all other sports which the most popular now in russia and we have lots of interesting skaters spatially skaters who've been skating before but anyway we have a lot social figure skating now this board which we are talking about.

all the people around us are going about skating about some names shame cause i would ask you you remember certainly the late sixty's and seventy's when soviet figure skate he was number one in the world it was true then the sleep not really an early bird but if you know about that everybody was watching i was recording figure skating on my own my tape recorder that the because i want to the melodies are one of the tunes i want to add value to paul riyad things like that so i can't can we say that today figure skating is becoming ass popular as it was in the times in a different way because in our sport it's completely different things if you can bet it's with their seventy's and it's huge business and it's hard sure sports and we're not talking about the figure skating it's about all the sports. but we can say it's in this moment that kind of popular. i think it's going to be

because we're going to watch world championships here on t.v. . sure a lot of people going to watch it right on the stadium and it's nice stadium it's really really cold to be there it's it's new i've been to is pretty new so you mentioned russia as one of the favorites can you mention other countries who are favorites of this show. incher. are you talking about the results or not you know what i'm not going to guard the results when i'm thinking about this championships because the russian national team now is kind of fun and we're not really can say where are the best from the world how we can set it couple years ago when with their champions and olympic games in three days to play in. and now it's completely different situation now we have a new generation and these guys they're going to fight for all kind

of place in these championships and we have a leader who going to be a champion for sure oid going to be a leader in single skate you know. on coffee and people people called well yeah it was a best it's a good pair they never compete on any kind of. competition really and you never know how it's going to be because their first time when they don't the world championships it's kind of difficult and if you're skating very good on the practice it's doesn't matter you going to be there on competition and it's actually in this sport we have a completely different people some of them skating good on practice and they never going to be champions and some of them never champions on a practice but on a competition the skating front as to how much this it mean anything for figure

skaters being at home i mean skating i think yes but you will talking about our guys and our nation or team it's even more difficult when you go somewhere really for me it was like this i'm sure it's for everybody because it's more. responsible responsibility more people who were solving from you all the time on t.v. somebody is talking about your nation old team and for the guys who are going to country it's much more. difficult when they go somewhere you know are spatially to the other side of the ocean and they can be there yeah it's hard to but you know it's not like you. old country watching you listen we mentioned that we mentioned good laureus times of the us a sign of the suit through the skilling would have to the collapse of the u.s.s.r. one of the big problems in figure skating was that it was very good and many coaches left the country is this problem of coaching in figure skating over

do we have a new generation of coaches is it is it all sort of settled up or it's still like you know like after after the war you know now i can say the situation's changing because now lots of courtiers who've been somewhere not here they come back because they have. condition money. and now we have a lot of i seeing senates level i see. some of them coming back but the generation of the guys who'd been on those years they kind of not ready for the big champs. because you know it was not really a sport in the ecology and it's different psychological things here but believe in a couple years if we look forward we can. cage and the big three

again but you know it's my more harder because they figure skating growing everywhere in asia they figure skating now it's huge sporting major and they have a lot of shows every year and they have a lot of fantastic scary stuff and japanese korean chinese. lots of good theaters in europe u.s. and canada is using its means the whole world now growing in figure skating that's why i know we can say it it's going to be one country who go on a winner all the time like it was. twelve years ago or twenty years ago and now it's even more interesting for the aurion because each competition different people. well let's take a look now at best tree of figure skating in russia here's this report from

spotlights demeter. he's the man who brought russia its first ever olympic gold more than a hundred years ago we call upon you got the price for special features the spot was about inventing complicated patterns and join them on ice with the skaters boids it was only part of the olympics once at the nineteen zero eight summit games in london and that was enough upon him to become a legend of russian figure skating for the next future beyond that by revolutions civil war stalin's repressions and then the with the nazis pigskin in russia was not given much attention become tree had to wait for more than fifty years for somebody to repeat on and success it was eventually done by a panel will also work and then their credit they received two olympic gold and ones who will championships what's more they changed past skating have been

introduced elements of late into the sport the nineteen seventies so irina rodnina not becoming the most successful best skater in the history when intense excess the world championships at the same time lead me to a poor home over and that xander all had been gaining their reputation this one of the best honest and spares of all time the collapse of the soviet union so skating rinks in russia shutting down coaches live in the country for better wages and sport losing the financial support it used to joy despite all that russian athletes continue to talk major figure skating fans but there's a good in russian there is not and see who reads just a few names associated with the russian figure skating at the beginning of the same sheree. so under that was the history of russian figure skating there these were the legends but today fergus

k.d. is becoming more popular and is becoming a younger and younger and younger every day do you think this is good or well maybe dad or maybe this is this worries you you know i can say it is good or bad because it's what i have you know i could not i mean kids kids are like it's kids are nice like in july inside the function of the religionistic one of your no no not like this it's young guys but i have this porch in figure skating and we have some as a life it's kind of shorts and shows people skating fifteen years old and even maybe as they grow we more sure. and for henri and it's not bad too because we don't need to look at the sport how it's sport because it's sport sport it's for us for eons it's for it's for our life it's troll anyway it's action and some some guys in very young age the. howling pigs and world

after that is skating on the shores but we can look at them and see a rod for many many years or so what should be is that is that being younger in professional sports leaves you more time for for make you money and person like out of make not just the mile you make you healthier also. you know now the figure skating is very difficult and you can be security if you're already a kind of old guy you know and young guys. can do something you know it's it's life or it's all sports getting like this now says. the looping figure skating champion spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break. so stay way you all will continue this interview in less than ten minutes .

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the legacy. on the arctic. welcome back to spotlight i'm going often just reminding of my guests here in the studio is anton sikharulidze the limping champion in figure skating we're talking about the world figure skating champion a championship that should have taken place in japan but russia has taken over after the disaster in japan and it and it's taking off tomorrow in moscow what were the strong points that helped russia get this chairmanship because there was a competition can the united states croatia finland who once was three up were

ready to host the championship when it came to moscow why not actually moscow now ready for any kind of competition and we have a fantastic i say it's. really really good arena where we have a cold else here which is going to be good for the people who come to the company than watch the world figure skating championships and we have a people who often go skating and actually believe it's going to be a real championship doesn't matter if we have just one month we're told we were ready for that that's why moscow while the. ice you was because you are a professional. and you also today are a professional in organizing support you know doing a lot for spring in this country and internationally do you think it really is possible how is it possible to suddenly organize something which was not planned

which was not in the plans but in the boat just like anywhere in such a short time in a months in one month actually it is it is possible first well it's possible when you have money for that and now we have mine if i left because everybody would work from the last view from the budget yeah it's money from the. second. we have all. the also read you for that kind of competitions and third we have. experience to make a big competition here in moscow and hold together its may their kind of championship in one month ok can you call it would you rather call it a stress test for the sochi olympics. yes. because it's always you know when you have something for one month from one side it's resin for the other side it's kind of interesting and again we're going to stay for ice

you're in for the whole world we're ready for there and if we need some think we're going to do it like all russian people ok now listen you mentioned the money you got from the state budget do you personally have any idea can you give us the sun how much give it cost time if i actually think probably it was actually a real. prize i believe it's a six million dollars i think it was six million dollars i think that's it. it's not really is it is it going to pay you back i mean selling tickets selling television rights you know or no because when you talk about the tickets it's always. you know one of the people going to carnal knowledge and if we're going to be nice where is a maybe these days they go and. they want to go to their summer holidays because it's for us. yeah it's raining is if it's going to be different whereas

a maybe more people come here to watch figure skating and it depends how many people from as a country is usually actually we have lots of fans from japan lots of fans a really lot figure skating i'm not sure. they want to come from japan to watch it doesn't affect people coming from abroad but russia's top olympic officials said i quote that the government. well expedite the visa process for the world figure skating championships what is being done to facilitate visa requirements because it's usually pretty hard for foreigners to get these us to a country ride believe it's going to be. easy process for the skaters and cautious who are going to come here for their world championships and the uterus. i believe with going to google different situation but will start to try to make their easier way to russia and it's already good how it's going to be for two is for sure are

not i don't know but for sportsmen's and it's already there too maybe. he did do the people who already got tickets for the championships in japan so you can also look i mean somebody would want to give it to japan was they have any preferences to come to moscow i already got their ticket chemical changes for russia to get something so you don't think so success i'm not sure because i'm not involved in giving my plan not sure because you know i probably it will have to get good to get their money back from japan and thereby you know i think it's going to be. you they have to get there and they give it here i'm not sure it's going to work that in such a short time but i know you're with the sponsors well out of sponsors who've been in japan and they still walk in here with you and they're going to be in moscow ok you know listen you mentioned hotels moscow does a lot of luxury so as we have the ritz well whatever but the problem is the problem

has always been that they blame what's go for not having enough affordable hotels i mean three star four thousand the places where you can where you can get real value for money can you see as a muscovite and as a person involved in organizing this event that the situation is changing that you can get reasonable homes in moscow. you know what. i know. which. kind of affordable and they're not bad but for moscow it's not enough for sure i believe. business here should be grown in bed kind of way we have we have to build new hotels are fordable had passed by the quality should be much better than now because lots of tourists who want to come here to watch the country. competition or something else they can pay

seven hundred euro for night by the way they can pay two hundred dollars but they want to see the quality and here we don't have a lot of data like this and i believe this is their way. ok now i know you mix a lot with lawmakers with people who take decisions in russian school it's these six or whatever six seven millions that you've got to organise this championship doesn't mean that this money will be taken out of the sports birgitte and that you have to save on some other sporting events in this country no no no i heard this in radio or t.v. and lots of people say oh i know that money will be taken from some hours or sports or something like it's not this money going to be taken from their spatial. fund which government. it's not going to touch any kind of sport or anybody of ours

that's why it's a real clean thing ok one of the top russian figure skating are you could cover which you know exam you can go is japan japanese and you know her very well can you can you tell me did did this disaster that happened in japan because she she was ready to to go. to perform there did this somehow influence the readiness to who were made the since the influence had performance and must first go away i asked many times and there are things all right with her parents and family it's or already good and bad for sure for your and for all japanese people it's kind of difficult when you got something in your it's not just comfortable situation to prepare for any kind of competition but from other side we'll try to tell you not

in that kind of situation you have you has to be more stronger and if you're gonna be good on ice in that in that moment it's all what you can do nothing else you can do you can skate for your parents for your family and try to do your best it's going to be your present and it's going to be your heart for that nothing else you can do because it's difficult situation ok enough the question i ask you and i think you already asked this question a lot but i don't think we have ever heard the full answer to that are figure skaters finally are they used to the new rules to the new method of counting and cast their ballots by the judging system. you know it's difficult questions if you want in my opinion i don't like new systems. of the

old system was five point nine six point zero and a lot of the rules were and artistic impression was a really important because for me this is the figure skating and i remember not just from some guys i remember some programs and this is going to be in my forever not just run or run spin or something like this and now it's different rules but i believe these rules are going to be a little bit changing in the going to be more for orient vend now because nothing's going to be alike stop this is the rules for ever not i believe their eyes you're going to walk with a rules more and more and more because figure skating again it's not just a sport for people who skate in inside this sport this is for henri and this is for the audience this is for people who watch figure skating and these people should be

inside the program going should be inside a county official if you ask me well i did a little figure skating when i was a kid but so i try to look at it maybe a little bit more professional know that but i think that it's becoming less spectacular like the new system i feel like it's trying they're trying to explain to the figure skaters that don't try to be better the more technical yeah that's right it's like it's like you know it's like we rush to see it's like running in a bag the best guy isn't to who's the best rider but who's the best rider in the band so did you have this impression yes that's true. i believe their eyes see you all people around him. skating and koch is the all going to. rule some more for the people who also for the audience they don't believe that we're going to be changing a real big meal good and it's going to be much more interesting even for the people

who watch figure skating ok i'm so thank you thank you very much you're going to do a show and i always show we show you great success for the championship and i hope our guys will do well because because the russians really really like to have their own guys win at the rams so everybody loves that this was really i was that spanking very much and just to remind that my guest on the show today was on top and see how the lives that the ellensburg champion in figure skating and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your say on spotlight or have someone in mind who you think i should see next time just drop me a line of al green on our he does party year and let's give the show interactive spotlight good event with more first time comments on what was going on in and outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take it as a. good. and

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