“We supported the Red Machine, I want to congratulate the team and its captain Alina Zagitova on their victory.
A wonderful tournament, everything went at a very high level, for which many thanks to the organizers, the Russian Figure Skating Federation.
We all need such events now, ”TASS quoted Rotenberg as saying.
According to the results of the competition in two programs among sports couples, men and women, Zagitova's team was ahead of Kamila Valieva's "They won't catch us" team.
The winners scored 2344.24 points, the runners-up - 2275.47 points.
The prize fund of the competition amounted to 20 million rubles.
The winners received 11 million rubles, Valieva's team - nine million rubles.
Zagitova's teams have not lost at the First Channel Cup for three years in a row.
Earlier, Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva shared her emotions after the end of the Channel One Cup.