Julia Soldatova???

Hi, does anyone has any news about her, she used to be a couple of years, in the top 10 ladies and she was uanble due to Russia'S force in skating to come agian to worlds and she decided to skate for another country, what ever happened to her since???

chania,

This isn't a very complete answer to your question, but I believe that Julia skated and placed at Russian nationals but was unable to represent Russia because of ISU rules. I know she was skating for another country for awhile, Belorus? And the international federation, as well as national federations have rules on what a skater needs to do to represent a country or to change and represent another country. As I understood it, she had to wait out a period of non-competing. Or maybe the paperwork hadn't been finished. But she is certainly going to be in the ladies mix for the next Russian nationals and the next Worlds.

Check out the article from the Golden Skate archive:
http://www.goldenskate.com/articles/2003/011304rus_a.shtml

And also, her ISU listing for this season:
http://www.isufs.org/bios/isufs00001692.htm

(although she might not have been sent anyway as the Russian federation wanted to send Irina Slutskaya.)