“A representative of the organizing committee approached me and asked me to follow him.
After that, they told me that I had violated the boundaries of the bubble.
When I began to explain that I had not seen the prohibitive markup, they said, they say, yes, they know that there was no markup, but now it has already been done - just so that this situation does not happen again.
And that they want to make my case indicative, for the edification of others, ”Harutyunyan said in an interview with RT.
According to the specialist, the organizers and the International Skating Union (ISU) are to blame for the incident, which did not cope with their duties.
He also demanded an apology for the deprivation of the right to attend the competition.
“The organizing committee simply did not fulfill its professional work.
I didn’t mark signs, didn’t put up a fence, didn’t put the duty officer in the place where there is a possibility of people leaving the boundaries of the "clean" zone.
And the ISU did not control it properly.
In fact, I was much more outraged by something else: well, okay, I broke the rules, I was punished for it.
But in a purely human way, you will at least apologize for what happened! "
- added the coach.
Harutyunyan is the mentor of three-time world champion Nathan Chen from the United States.
At Skate Canada, the skater took first place in the short program.
Earlier, the Russian woman Kamila Valieva told how she spent time during the quarantine before the start of the Canadian Grand Prix series.