One can only imagine how happy athletes are to return to active performances after a long period of inactivity. The emotions of the guys are quite understandable. In rhythmic dance at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International in the United States, they placed second with a score of 74.35 points. It was even somewhat unexpected that after a very long competitive break, a change of sports citizenship from Russia to Georgia and, in general, not the most outstanding results before that, the couple managed to skate the program so well. Davis and Smolkin chose a medley of various Michael Jackson songs as their musical accompaniment. This is a talented character, but rather controversial, maybe it was not by chance that they liked it?
Usually, a long break in a professional career negatively affects the results in any type of sport, but this problem did not affect Diana and Gleb, whose referee scores turned out to be almost the same as in the competitions of the 2021/22 season. . when there were no problems of admission to the tournaments none. And although the American dance duo Una and Gage Browns received higher marks, this is unlikely to upset Tutberidze’s daughter much.
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Eteri herself, by the way, did not watch her performance, so she did not express her own impressions: “I did not watch the performance, because there is no broadcast there. Therefore, I will not comment anything.
Somewhat unexpectedly, the reaction of most people in the world of figure skating and not only turned out to be quite positive. Distinguished coach Tatyana Tarasova praised the boys for their confident first performance after returning to the ice and wished them further success. Dmitry Guberniev spoke in a similar way, saying that the place of athletes is in stadiums and arenas, so they are very glad that they found a way to start performing and competing again.
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And although the competition in the current tournament is not the most serious, the competition is of great importance for Diana and Gleb, because it marked their return to big sports. There is a lot of work ahead, because despite the generally good result, there were, of course, spots. They, in fact, did not allow to get higher marks. In any case, in the next competitions of the dance couple Davis and Smolkin, we can only hope for further growth in viewership ratings, and with them – the results. Unfortunately, only Georgia, not Russia, will reap the rewards of its success.
