Former Russian figure skater Betina Popova shared her expectations from the performance of figure skaters at the championship Europe in Tallinn.
– The first in my prognosis for women is Valieva. Do you agree? The second is Trusova. Luna Hendrix in third, and Shcherbakova in fourth. This is not how it will be in reality, but how I want to decide for myself. Let the moon be on the third.
A serious question to all athletes who successfully performed at the Russian championship, including Trusova or, for example, Boykova and Kozlovsky. They showed this in St. Petersburg, but how to keep this shape further, especially after the holidays? I stake on the fact that during the holidays everyone is exhausted and Sasha will be ready, she is emotionally on the rise.
Shcherbakova will gather in spite? Maybe. But a certain block may appear in her head, because in the season she did not have clean tournaments. Anything can happen, you break the exit on a quadruple – and that’s it, it’s not there. God forbid, but it can crush.
– Do we take into account the factor of European judges? That they can unite and restrain ours?
“European judges cannot unite against Russia, because half of European athletes are Russians,” Popova said.