"This is unacceptable at such big starts"

The Russian junior figure skating championship in Krasnoyarsk turns out to be eventful.

Among the girls, the first two places were taken by Eteri Tutberidze's wards - Sofya Akatieva and Adelia Petrosyan.

A confident victory was won by Akatieva, who scored 220.00 points in the short and free programs and was more than eight points ahead of her teammate.

The third place was taken by Sofya Muravyova, who literally fell in love with the audience.

Despite Akatieva's confident victory, leaving the ice, she could hardly hold back her tears.

She remained extremely unhappy with the number of mistakes she made and even threw the phrase "Well, what is it?" To the choreographer of the group, Daniil Gleichengauz.

For the young men, the 17-year-old figure skater from St. Petersburg Evgeny Semenenko, more than 10 points ahead of the silver medalist Alexander Golubev, left no chances for his rivals.

But after the competition, everyone was discussing not the champion's performance, but one strange decision of the judges.

During the free program, the team of referees, for some unknown reason, did not count the quadruple salchow to the former ward of Tutberidze Egor Rukhin, recording only three turns.

As a result, the athlete who fought for the medal stopped in fourth place.

Fortunately, a serious scandal was avoided.

After some time, the judges corrected their decision and added another 6.94 points to Rukhin's result, which allowed him to get ahead of Ilya Yablokov with 235.71 points and win bronze.

Despite this, the winner's coach Elena Buyanova stated that such mistakes are unacceptable at competitions of this level.

“The fact that the only athlete here did three quads in a free program, and one of them was not considered by the technical team and was initially assessed as a triple jump, in my opinion, is unacceptable at such large starts.

Yegor made a wonderful quadruple salchow.

I would like the technical specialists not to make athletes and their coaches nervous, because today they dumbfounded us, ”quotes the R-Sport specialist.

For Rukhin himself, winning the bronze medal of the Junior Chechen Republic was an excellent result.

In recent years, the skater has experienced serious health problems, and almost completely missed the last season due to injury.

He did not do very well in Krasnoyarsk either.

So, a few days before the start of the tournament, he broke his shoes.

“I am satisfied with the short program, although it is necessary to improve the spins and skating in it, and in the free program I am satisfied with almost everything except for one mistake.

Four days before the competition, my boots broke, if not for this, then perhaps I would have shown a better result, but overall, I am happy that I got on the podium, ”Rukhin said at a press conference.

"At some point I doubted my adequacy"

The scandal with the participation of judges in Krasnoyarsk caused a lively discussion in the world of national figure skating.

Famous coach Tatyana Tarasova spoke the toughest of all, calling for serious punishment of the referees.

“The technical team could not distinguish a quadruple jump from a triple jump.

It seemed to us that we have a competent technical team - that means it is not.

They were judged as newbies, as on the first day of work.

The most important competitions of the country are going on, and people do not see quadruple jumps.

I believe that the entire brigade, headed by its leader, should be disqualified for at least a year, "- quotes a TASS specialist.

Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin, who commented on the championship on the air, admitted that he did not immediately believe in the reality of what was happening, but urged not to exaggerate the referee error.

“There is no scandal.

If everything remained in the protocol that it was marked with a triple instead of a quadruple, then, probably, it would be possible to talk about something.

At some point, he doubted his adequacy.

Even on the air, he jokingly told the co-host that he had already called the optometrist and he was waiting for us.

Then, when Rukhin was still recorded as a quadruple and given bronze, he joked that I was canceling the recording.

We are all human beings, and sometimes we make mistakes.

Nothing terrible happened.

Anything can happen, made a mistake for the first time in a long time.

There is no need to punish anyone, "- quotes Yagudin's words" Championship ".

Another well-known coach, Alexander Zhulin, urged to carefully understand the situation.

According to him, it is necessary to establish whether the error was malicious intent, or whether it can be explained by a human factor.

“The questions were initially addressed to the panel of judges, if they were, they did not overlook it.

This is rare.

Reviewed - there was a reason.

I had this with Bobrova and Solovyov, we played a short dance, and then they told us that something was wrong in the calculations.

We reviewed it and gave us the first place.

It happened right after the competition, not the next day, ”said the specialist.

Most of the experts, unlike Tarasova, urged not to apply strict sanctions to judges, especially since they promptly corrected their mistake.

“Any mistakes are permissible if they are corrected.

Figure skating judging has become more technologically advanced, so it is logical that this can happen - history knows similar examples.

The main thing is that we have improved.

As a result, everything is fine, ”choreographer Ilya Averbukh emphasized.

World champion Maria Butyrskaya spoke in a similar vein.

In her opinion, although such a mistake is gross, everyone can make it.

“It's still not a computer, it's a human factor.

It happens sometimes like that.

In principle, there is a specialist, there is a controller, there is an assistant to the controller ... But they accidentally drove it wrong, it happens.

We reviewed the result, everything is fine.

It's okay, I don't think people need to be disqualified for this, "Butyrskaya said.

“Have I had similar situations in my career?

It was easier for us, we still had different assessments.

There was no such thing that somewhere they made a mistake or did not add something.

And there have never been any proceedings either, ”she added.

In turn, the honored coach of Russia in figure skating Inna Goncharenko urged not to throw a tantrum around what happened to Rukhin.

“All living people, especially when there is such a serious intensity in the competition, no one is immune from mistakes.

There will be an analysis of this incident, there are some rules in these cases.

There is no need to add any hysteria here.

The error was noticed, announced and fixed.

There is no need to whip up negativity, there should be only positive from our competitions, ”Goncharenko quotes Sport-Express.