this is oleg vasilyev and the coach, choreographer of the national team, elizaveta a nekhimovskaya.good morning. and how do we know the competition within the championship will start on saturday? tell me in what kinds of e, varieties, or rather figure skating, our athletes will have to compete. our belarusian athletes will compete in four types of figure skating. this is men's single skating, women's single skating, sports pairs and dancing on ice hmm dancing on ice. here, let's get started. yes, we all know. paired men's singles women's singles dancing on ice is more likely to be associated with this show. uh, ice lately . well, what does it mean, well, honestly, uh, it's quite a difficult sport in terms of both technique and refereeing, because it's very difficult to evaluate beauty and uh measure it in numbers, and therefore dancing has always stood apart, and from uh single skating from pair skating it was always beautiful and always it was hard to referee, there were uh a lot of refereeing scandals. uh, in the dances, this has always caused a lot of questions and great interest

olympic champions and prize-winners of the world and european championships, oleg vasilyev, head coach of the belarusian figure skating team, is visiting me today. good morning. oleg propose to start our conversation from childhood. do you remember how old you were when you first stepped on the ice? i have it standard. it's 5 years old. preschool age. hey, when else can i say that? children do not go to school, they need to be occupied with something. me parents. i got skates for my birthday. it must have been my desire, as far as i can remember, and uh, yes, open ice. eh, frozen lakes are all according to the standard, as it was in those days when, at the age of 5, for you, in fact, they choose your whole future life, then already in adolescence there is some kind of internal conflict and you had such a desire to change everything, but on actually did not only figure skating. and my parents gave me away, and the section also came into the water. and in order for me to learn how to simply swim corny, because the swimming section was completely packed with children, it was impossible to