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International tensions between Russia and Turkey are having detrimental effects of figure skating.
Saturday 5 December 2015 2 minutes reading time
As reported by several Russian news agencies, the pair of Turkish dance, composed Agafonova Alisa and Alper Ucar, abandoned today were Moscow and the working group headed by Alexander Zhulin.
Asked about the situation, the coach has explained in detail what happened: "Today the boys have left Russia in tears. It '' regrettable that politics interferes on sport. The sports minister turkish imposed returning home and when It IS difficult to predict what will happen & agrave ;. Collaboration with Agafonova / Ucar & egrave; for now discontinued ".
Agafonova, in turn, did not hide his hope to return to work with Zhulin: "Alexander and his staff have done a lot for us. We spent most of our careers with him and look forward to going back to training in Moscow."
As leaked, Agafonova / Ucar be prepared in Turkey in view of the national championships scheduled in the second half & agrave; December. Next, the federation will decide & agrave; about what to do.
The season of the dancing couple Turkish & egrave; hitherto been triumphant. As well as the first appearance of his career in Grand Prix (Troph & egrave; and Eric Bompard), you arrived two historic victories in competition level B (Denkova-Staviski NRW Cup and Trophy) with a lot of improvement in all the personal records.
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