Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva and Yegor Bazin had previously left Denis Samokhin’s group and moved on to Alexander Zhulin.
“For almost seven years I worked in the team of Denis Samokhin. As you may have learned from social networks, our cooperation has come to an end.
My first steps in ice dancing, victories in junior competitions, silver at the junior world championship (for the third season in my entire career, by the way!), bronze at the pre-Olympic championship of the country and a very recent victory at the Russian championship – all this happened thanks to the work and efforts of the coaching headquarters.
This decision I can call one of the most difficult, serious and painful in my life. Everyday training, training camps, competitions, victories, defeats, at some point in my life, Denis Eduardovich, Maria Valerievna and Nikolai Nikonov became my closest people.
We want to move on, improve, and following discussing everything with Egor, we came to the general opinion that we need to take this difficult step. I want to say a huge thank you to you for everything.
We are extremely grateful, ”Khudayberdieva wrote in the telegram channel.
