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- Jan 25, 2013
Well, lets start:
All those single skaters except Anna have family connections with the countries to which they switched.
Anna could not get the citizenship and could not participate in olympics. Also, I suppose she could only skate for switzerland because her family lived there (i suppose based on interviews) and actually could afford to pay for her living, studying and training in switzerland. She said in an interview:
"My Dad was abroad most of the time, working, and it was really hard for me because we didn't see each other. I lived in Moscow, with my parents coming and going so I rarely saw them. So we decided it wouldn't work like that, our family needed to be together."
Which means her father likely worked there or something like that.
Anna's family lived in Switzerland for some time IFRC her brother was at boarding school there and the family decided to move to be near him. Anna considered staying there after her family left but in the end returned to Moscow.