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https://www.fsrussia.ru/news/4275-o-raskhodakh-federatsii-na-podgotovku-evgenii-medvedevoj-v-kanade.html
ABOUT RUSSIAN FIGURE SKATING FEDERATION EXPENCES ON EVGENIA MEDVEDEVA'S TRAINING IN CANADA
A recent interview with journalist Sergey Dadygin on Zvezda TV channel and information about the expences of RusFed associated with training of the Russian national team member Evgenia Medvedeva in Canada appeared on the Internet, was puzzling and outraged experts and the apparatus of the Federation of figure skating of Russia. Last year, the President of the Russian Figure Skating Federation of Russia Alexander Gorshkov, responding to questions from the media, said that neither the Russian Ministry of Sport nor the Russian Federation of Figure Skating do not pay for the services of a new coach, Eugenia Medvedeva, Canadian Brian Orser, but they cover the costs of Evgenia's training in the same aspects and in the same amount as the other skaters of the main National team. This includes travel of the athlete and coach for competitions and control events held by the Federation, provision of equipment (boots, skates), costumes for trainings and competitions, payment for choreography of competitive programs, rental of housing located close to training sites and, if necessary, payment consultation and treatment. All this is dozens of times less than who knows where the "fantastic" amount of 6 million rubles a month comes from. And in this regard, it is absolutely incomprehensible to whom and for what purpose it was necessary to spread deliberately false information, linking it with the formation of the Russian team for participation in the upcoming World Championship in Japan. I would like to remind the newly-minted “specialists” that figure skating is not football and not hockey, therefore, unfortunately, our athletes have not even dreamed of the amount of 6 million a month!
