Figure skaters Sinitsina and Katsalapov denied information about retirement

Olympic champions in ice dancing in 2022 Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov have completed their sports careers, their coach Alexander Zhulin said. However, the skaters denied this information.

“Nikita and Vika completed their sports career. There are several reasons. First, they are champions and have achieved everything. Nikita won the Olympics even twice. Secondly, the age is such that it is possible to make such a decision. Last but not least, lack of motivation. There are no international competitions. Killing yourself on the ice inside the country … is one of the main reasons, ”said the TASS figure skater coach.

Skaters in their Telegram channels reported that this statement is not true. “It’s fake. We did not make such statements,” Ms. Sinitsina wrote. The figure skater said that her words about a possible retirement were taken from an old interview, “provoked this coach and pulled a comment out of him.”

Sinitsina and Katsalapov began performing as a couple in 2014. Then they took fourth place in the championship of Russia. In 2018, the skaters won the Russian Championship, in 2019 – the European Championship. A year later, Sinitsina and Katsalapov won gold at the World Championships. In 2022 in Beijing, they won the title of Olympic champions. In June 2022, it became known that Katsalapov made an offer to Sinitsina.

Anastasia Larina