The sports couple Alexandra Boykova and Dmitry Kozlovsky show impressive results all year round, each time getting on the podium at international tournaments. At the Grand Prix stages, they finished third in Las Vegas (205.53) and won in French Grenoble (216.96). On account of the duo, the fourth result of the season in the world. Only Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov (228.49), Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov (227.28), as well as the Chinese Sui Wenjing and Han Tsun (224.55) have the best points.

On the same ice, Russian figure skaters met for the first time this season at the Russian Championship in St. Petersburg.

On it, Boykova and Kozlovsky showed that they know how to cope with nerves and demonstrate a clean ride in the most difficult situation.

Together with the winners of the tournament Mishina and Gallyamov, they received points from the judges above the world record (234.84) ​​and won a place in the national team at the Beijing Olympics.

At the same time, the athletes admitted that the current competitions have become one of the most difficult in their professional careers. 

- In terms of basic cost, your jump cascade in a free program is much inferior to that which is in the arsenal of the Russian championship winners Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov (6.80 vs. 9.10 -

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Does it press and how can you compensate for the lag?

Dmitry Kozlovsky:

To be honest, this moment is not at all annoying.

First of all, you need to win at the expense of stability.

The Olympic Games are a very special tournament.

Watch the latest PyeongChang sports couples competition.

Who, after the short program, could say that Alena Savchenko would become an Olympic champion?

The most obvious indicator is the odds of the bookmakers.

I don't know what numbers she had, but I think they are extremely high.

At the same time, Savchenko and Bruno Massot won, having a simple set of elements.

However, they did everything cleanly.

At the Olympics, everyone starts to worry about going out on the ice.

The one who has really strong nerves withstands.

Alexandra Boykova:

 And the one who is confident in the elements that he performs.

Kozlovsky:

I can say that today we have passed the most severe natural selection and strength test.

When the three strongest couples of the country, who are in the top 4 of the world rankings, go on the ice in a row, that is, this is the last warm-up, it is extremely difficult to perform.

- Are there elements that you do in training, but keep in reserve to strengthen the program?

Kozlovsky:

We are working on a lot.

Boykova:

For example, a cascade of three or three.

We used to jump parallel triple rittberger.

For now, we keep in mind, because it would be unwise to insert it into the current program, but you can try it next season.

Why not.

- Alexandra, is it possible to additionally work on the ballet part for the production of Swan Lake?

Boykova: 

Now there is no time for that.

I just work with choreographers who work with figure skaters.

But I keep everything that I learned from the professionals in my mind.

And about the shoulder blades, and about the length of the arms.

- Your fans are very worried that there is a lot of time before the Games, and you are already in such good shape.

Are you really at your peak?

Kozlovsky:

No, it was not the peak of the form.

Just thanks to the experience we already have, we were able to get together at the right time.

We have internal difficulties associated precisely with the physical state.

We are just going so that the peak of the form falls on February.

But today we have shown that we can fight in a difficult psychological environment and are able to pull ourselves together when necessary.

- Have you ever had at least one such difficult start in your life?

Kozlovsky:

This tournament was probably one of the most difficult.