Interview with Stepanova and Bukin

Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin just gave a really interesting interview where they discussed them not being able to go to the Olympics, their programs for the new season and how they work on building their chemistry on the ice and personally, what I found more interesting was their discussion on the judging and particularly where they pointed out that they think that in ice dance, you need to really earn the judges’ favour to get the scores.

Original interview (Russian)
https://rsport.ria.ru/interview/20181106/1145471287.html

Translated (English)
https://fs-gossips.com/alexandra-stepanova-and-ivan-bukin-you-must-earn-the-judges-favour/

Thanks for posting! I really like this team and love learning more about how they approach their programs. Love Alexandra jokingly saying being a judge "hurts your karma"

Their first GP Final is coming this year :hap85:

Incredible that they were still not given an explanation for Bukin's Olympics ban. How shameful.