Portrait. Ilya Averbukh: we're not the "Star Academy" I've found in internet some latest interview of Averbukh and there...he talked about Albena and Max.
I tried to translate parts about our sweethearts
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— At Worlds in Tokyo judges kept out Oksana Domnina and Max Shabalin on the pedestal of “dancers”. The president of the Russian federation of figure-skating Valentin Piseev said that it is a robbery. Do you think the same way?
— I banter on this occasion, that in dances on ice all of pair, entering in "first ten", imagine themself as champions...
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...At a Worlds in Tokyo there were five pairs, absolutely equal on a class. Any of them could become both the first and fifth. Sure, the new system of arbitration is not ideal. For example, on championship of Europe, where the Bulgarian judge was not, pair of Denkova\Staviski took the third place. There was not the Russian arbiter on the Worlds, and Bulgarians became the first, and Russians fifth. And all of these statements, in fact, are self-abasement. I never searched acquittals. It is necessary on ice to prove that you are the best...
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— Will an audience see show “Star on ice-2”?
— In September stsrts new project which will sound differently...
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To the acquainted sportsmen novices will be added. For example, Lithuanians Margaret Drobyazko and Povilas Vanagas, double world champions among professionals Helen Leonova and Andrey Khval'ko. In the stage of signing an agreement is with Albena Denkovoa and Max Staviski...