that is the most precious thing in the world. terrorism the understand fully that you have to live the. life stories from. nineteen forty five gold cup. welcome back a recap now of the top stories here on our t.v. nato's airstrikes hit the center of the libyan capital leading to more civilian casualties as at least the reef people are reportedly killed about says pro gadhafi forces are ordered to leave the rebel held city of misrata and claim they'll be replaced by armed tribesmen. in the us latest census reveals an alarming sex ratio and exposes

a rise in abortions when parents discover they are having a girl for poor families sons are considered the nationally far more attractive than daughters. the u.s. pastor infamous for burning the koran is blocked from holding an adult islamic rally in a city described as america's most them capital a court banned the protest as it threatened suicide religious hatred and provoke violence. and that host al good all talks to a russian a limbic figure skating legend i have the upcoming shop in ships in moscow all the event was originally to be held in japan by russia stepped in to help following last month's earthquake that's coming up next. hello again they're walking just felt like the interview show our take i'm now

going out and three my guest in the studio is on can't see how to live that this here in japan was supposed to house the world figure skating championships but after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that cult huge losses to the economy it became clear the country couldn't afford the event russia offered to host the championships in moscow in just a month everything was ready and the contest is kicking off tomorrow so what did it take to get us prepared so quickly here's a link to champion untimed secret only to. moscow's used to hosting the sports events including the figure skating world championships just six years ago listed his asterisks were a battleground for the world's best figure skaters 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 its trust asked.

to welcome to the show and thank you thank you very much for coming well first of all you said i quote the most championships will be an unpredictable and particularly tense competition and what makes you think. do you want to say that that maybe the the the change after 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 old talking about the world championships. you know it's kind of interesting because when you been really for that kind of change it. figure skating is very popular here in russia. maybe if you can see it in you know first place. all other sports which the most popular now and russian and we have a lot of interesting skaters spatially skaters who've been skating before but

anyway we have lots of shawls and figure skating now in this war which we're talking about. all the people around us talking about skating about some names. i would ask you you remember certainly the late sixty's and seventy's when soviet figure skating was number one in the world it was true and the sleep i learnt really very well but if you know about that everybody was watching i was recording figure skating on my own my tape recorder the because i wanted the melodies are one of the tunes i want to add value will react things like that so can 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 dump it it's with their seventy's and it's huge business and it's.

sports but i'm not talking about a figure skating it's about all the sports. but we can say that it's in this moment that kind of popular and i think it's going to be because going to watch the world championships here on t.v. and sure a lot of people going to watch it right in the stadium and it's a nice stadium it's a really really cool to be there it's new i've been there so you mentioned russia as one of the favorites can you mention other countries who are favorites of this show. are you talking about the results or you know what i'm not thinking of are the results when i am thinking about this championships because the russian national team is kind of young and we're not really can say where are the best from the world how we can set it couple years ago when we're champions on the olympic

games in three days to pull 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 no leader who want to be a champion for sure or going to be a leader in singles. on coffee or people people called well yeah the best it's a good pair they never complete on any kind of. competition really and you never know how it's going to be because their first time going to it in the world championships it's kind of difficult and if you're skating very good on practice it's doesn't matter you going to be there on competition and it's actually in the 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 that's getting from just how much this it mean anything for figure skaters being at home i mean skating i think here is but. will poking about our guests and our nation will 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 are waiting starting from you all the time on t.v. somebody is talking about your nation or team and for the guys who are going to come it's much more. difficult then to go somewhere you know especially to the other side of the ocean and they can be there yeah it's hard to but you know it's not like. old country watching you know listen we mentioned that we mentioned the glorious times of the us a sign of the suit figure skating with half of 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 because they have. condition money. we have a lot of i seeing senates high level ice creams and 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 chance. because you know it was not really a sport in the ecology and it's different psychological things here but i believe

in a couple years if we look forward we can. cage week three again but you know it's my more harder because they figure skating growing everywhere in asia the figure skating now it's huge sporting major and they have a lot of shows every year and they have a lot of fantastic scared japanese korean chinese. lots of good theaters in europe u.s. and canada is using it it's means the whole world now growing figure skating that's right and now we can say that 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 korean because each competition different

people. well let's take a look now at the history of figure skating in russia here's this report from spotlights the neither. he's the man who brought russia its first ever olympic gold more than a hundred years ago. a price for special egos this book 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 but that was enough upon him to become a legend of russian t.v. skating for the next few turbulent decades marked by revolutions civil wars stalin's repressions and then the with the nazis in russia was not given much attention a country had to wait for more than fifty years for somebody to repeat bonnin success it was eventually done by a pan of meal

a bill also in the leg for the poor of they received some of them the gold and one food will championships what's more they changed as gating have been introduced elements of the late into the sport the nineteen seventies so irina rodnina not becoming the most successful best skater in the history when intense success the world championships at the same time had new a performer and the alexander all had been gaining their reputation this one of the best eyes then spares of all time a 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 bands for two years very good in russian there is not and see her just a few names associated with the russian figure skating at the beginning of the same

sheree. so i don't that was the history of russian figure skating there these were the legends but today fergus skating is becoming more and more popular and it's becoming younger and younger and younger every day do you think this is good or were media bad or maybe this is this worries you you know what i can say it is good or bad because it's what i have you know i you know what i mean kids kids are it's kids are nice like and you know i side don't you know there is not a religion etiquette twelve years old not like this it's young guys but after this poor in figure skating we have some life it's kind of short and shows people skating to and or fifteen years old and even maybe as they grow even more you know shorts after their 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 korten sport it's for us for eons it's for

it's for life it's troll anyway it's action and some some guys in very young age they skilling and. leagues and world after that is skating on the shores but we can look at them and see the road for many many years or so what should be is that is that being young in professional sports leaves you more time for for making money and professional life out of making not just the money make you happier and so. you know now the figure skating is very difficult differently and you can be scared if you're already kind of the guy that you know young guys. can do something you know it's life or it's all sports getting like this now says. the olympic figure skating champion spotlight will be back shortly after we take

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among siberian mountains look for people full of the same roots as hundreds of years ago. welcome to the trance like it. was a close up of the park. welcome back to spotlight i'm going off and just a reminder that my guest here in the studio is. the olympic champion in figure skating we're talking about the world figure skating champion 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 are all straight up were

ready to have the championship when it came to moscow why not actually. read you for any kind of competition and we have a fantastic. it's. really really good arena where we. called else here which is going to be good for the people who come to the company then towards the world figure skating championships and we have a people who a lot figure skating and actually believe it's going to be a real championship doesn't matter if we have just one months we're told we're ready for that that's why i think most called world in. which there is you was because you are a professional figure skating you also today are a professional in organizing support you are doing a lot for sport 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 not in the bowl just not anywhere in such a short time in the months in one month actually is it possible you know it's possible first it's possible when you have money for that and now we have money for that because of the money. from guys from the budget yeah it's money from the very . second. we have all. read you for that kind of competitions and third we have. experience a big competition here in moscow and old gears that make that kind of championship in one month ok can you call it would you rather call it a stress test for the such. yes. because it's always stress when you have something for one month from one side if there isn't for the other side it's kind of interesting and again we're going to say it for i

assume for the whole world we're ready for there. 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 this some how much did it cost time if i actually think probably it was actually a real. prize i believe it's about 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 never know because when you talk about it it's always. you know when are the people going to come or not. going to be nice whereas a maybe in these days they go and. they want to go out to their summer houses because it's for us was very yes reading is. going to be different wears and maybe

more people come here to watch figure skating and it depends how many people scan from other countries usually actually we have a lot of fans from japan lots of fans in really a lot figure skating i'm not sure. they're going 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 these requirements because it's usually pretty hard for foreigners to get these us to come to rival if it's going to be much easier for the skaters and colchis who are going to come here for their world championships and the uterus. 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 i don't know but for sportsman's and for call just

it's already there. but he did do the people who already got tickets for the championships in japan as you can buy or sell so no i mean somebody will want to give it to japan will they have any preferences to come to moscow and say i already got the ticket can you can i change it for russian diggle cycling so you don't think so i am not sure because i'm not involved in ticket things but i'm not sure because you know probably it will have to get give the get their money back from japan and thereby you know i think it's going to be less is about if they have two kids and. give it here i am not sure it's going to work you hard to realise that in such a short time but i know you're with the sponsors to we have a lot of sponsors who've been in our plan and they still walk in here with you and they're going to be most ok you know this and. you mentioned how tells moscow does a lot of luxury so if we have the ritz well whatever but the problem is the problem

has always been that they blamed roscoe 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 this situation is changing that you can get reasonable hotels in austin. you know what. i know. which. kind of affordable and they're not bad but for most go it's not enough for sure and i believe. business here should be grown in that kind of way we have and we have to build. new hotels are foldable had god the quality should be much better than now because lots of tourists who want to come here to watch the country to watch the competition or something else they can

pay seven hundred euro for night but other ways 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 how we should go on 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 organize this championship does it 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 on the radio or t.v. and lots of people say oh i know that money will be taken from the sun as a sports science article it's not this money going to be taken from their special. fund would you government god. it's not going to touch any kind of sport or anybody

or wires that's why it's a real clean break ok one of the top russian figure skating are you could cover which you know exactly how you coach is jeopardy champ and he was right and you know very well can you can you tell me did did this disaster that happened in japan have because she she was ready to to go. to perform there did this somehow influence her readiness to it would be the same for influence hope performance and must first of all were asked many times and there are things. with her parents and family it's all already good. for sure for your and for all japanese people it's kind of difficult when you're thinking you're hard it's not just the comfortable situation to prepare for any kind of competition but from other side we'll try to tell here you know in that kind of situation you have to be stronger

and if you're gonna be good on ice in that in those moments 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 a difficult situation ok and the other 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 how they used to the new rules to the new method of counting and casting the balance of judging system you know it's difficult questions if you want in my. opinion i don't like new systems. they go. the

old system was five point nine six point zero and i love the rules when. artistic impression was really important because for me this is the figure skating and i remember not just some jumps from some guys i remember some. programs and this is going to be in my head forever not just run one spin or something like this and now it's different rules but i believe these rules are going to be a little bit change in the going to be more four or invent now because nothing's going to be alike stop this is the rules for ever no i believe there is you're going to walk with the truth more and more and more because figure skating see it again it's not just sport for people who are skilled in this sport this is for henri and this is for the audience this is for people who watch your skin

and these people should be inside the program going should be inside it will if you ask me well i did a little figure skating when i when i was a kid but so i try to look at it maybe a little bit more professional than of this 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 be 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 the bag the guy isn't too who is the best runner but who's the best rider in the back did you have this impression yes that's true. i believe their eyes see you and all people around figure skating and cautious zero all going to. these rules. more for the people more for the audience i believe that's going to be changing a little bit. and it's going to be much more interesting even for the people who

watch figure skating ok also thank you thank you very much you're going to the 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 when they have the rams so everybody loves that risk she loves that thank you very much and just a reminder that my guest on the show today was anton see how to live 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 to you think i should say next time just drop me a line of al green on r.t. if you need to ask are you and let's give the shout interact the spotlight will be back 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.