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Liudmila Privivkova, skip'' gold medal at the European Championships in 2006 won on'' Italian Diana Gaspari, was excluded from the national team and then by the next Winter Games. The basis of the decision of the Swiss technical Thomas Lips there would be'' the 27-year old Muscovite incompatibility of character with the rest of the group
Tuesday 12 November 2013 2 minutes reading time
Despite the success a year ago the European Championships in Karlstad, Sweden, under the guidance of new coach Thomas Lips, for some time the balance of the team seemed to be at risk for the difficult coexistence between Privivikova and the new star Ana Sidorova. '' Even under the protective wing of the Matryoshka Olga Andrianova, torpedoed and replaced by Swiss engineer, both players had been moved to the role or leave the bench.
Lips has imposed a real ultimatum to the Russian federation that has accepted the painful exclusion. In the statements of the technical difficulties have been highlighted in the player relate with teammates and with the staff. The fact remains that Russia, among the candidates for a women's medal at the Olympics, it deprives a skip from the reserve'' undisputed value. In the upcoming European Championships in Stavanger, Norway, was convened in its place a'' blonde, the second Alexandra Saitova, gold in World Junior'' last played right on the ice in Sochi.
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