On March 10, Beijing time, according to overseas media, a number of Russian figure skaters who announced that they were banned by the International Skating Federation will carry out an exhibition match in April, with competition venues throughout Russia, Belarus and other places. Among the athletes participating, including the women's figure skating champion and runner-up at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and the women's single skating champions of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Serbakova and Trusova, as well as the women's team champion Vallieva, are the world's top figure skating athletes, who will gather together to stage a performance competition!
For the figure skating audience, this exhibition competition is a feast for the eyes. You know, after the international skating federation banned Russian athletes, it led to the Russian three dolls officially bid farewell to the figure skating world championships, unable to play, and suddenly let the figure skating world championships star dimmed. Subsequently, the Japanese famous Yu Yusuke could not participate in the competition because of injuries, it can be said that the figure skating World Championships have not been noticed by the audience, losing these figure skating stars, why do these spectators want to watch the game?
It is worth mentioning that this exhibition match, in addition to the protest of the Russian figure skating team to the International Skating Federation, is also a further demonstration of the strength of Russian figure skaters to the outside world, which is a very important signal. Since most of the sports institutions around the world are banning Russian athletes, some Russian athletes have changed their nationality, just to be able to compete, from the perspective of an athlete, which is beyond reproach.
To this end, the Russian figure skating team directly let the five major Winter Olympics celebrities hold exhibition matches, and it is also possible to show the ability of these athletes in the outside world, so that the figure skating teams of other national teams can see these excellent athletes. Previously, some Russian cyclists have changed their nationality to join France and get the opportunity to compete in international competitions.
And the Russian three sets of dolls Trusova, Sherbakova and Vallieva who previously played in the Beijing Winter Olympics have super popularity in China, when Russian athletes are banned, there are a lot of hopes on the domestic network that the Russian three sets of dolls will change their nationality to China, and then they can represent the Chinese team. China's figure skating women's singles event has always been insufficient, and the active athletes, including Zhu Yi and Chen Hongyi, have not yet reached the world-class level.
The Russian three sets of dolls themselves also like China, the new Science and Technology Winter Olympic Champion Qianjin Sherbakova, but also thanked the Chinese Beijing Winter Olympics officials many times, many times on social media and Chinese netizens interaction, thanks to the Chinese volunteers of the Winter Olympics, the words are all praise for China. If the Russian three dolls want to participate in the competition in the short term, changing the nationality is the fastest way, as a figure skating professional athlete, the peak of the career is not long, missing a world competition will consume a quarter of the career, considering this, changing the nationality is not impossible for the three dolls!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)