“I think that this is a psychological issue. For example, take yesterday's speech. Having started the program with two pure quadruple jumps, Salchow and Triple Axel, he made elementary mistakes where he should have felt most confident. From this we can conclude that the difficulty is not in physics. But only Mikhail himself can give an answer to this question, ”the specialist said in an interview with RT.

The Russian took the fourth place, scoring 225.42 points. The winner of the competition was the Japanese Yuzuru Hania (278.42 points).

Earlier, Kolyada’s performance was criticized by Olympic figure skating champion Alexei Yagudin.