Figure skating coach Rafael Harutyunyan explained why he was denied his accreditation at the Skate Canada tournament in Vancouver.
“A representative of the organizing committee approached me and asked me to follow him. After that, they told me that I had violated the boundaries of the bubble. When I started explaining that I hadn’t seen the prohibitive markup they said, they say, yes they know there was no markup, but now it’s already done – just to that this situation does not happen again. And that they want to make my case indicative, for the edification of others, ”Harutyunyan said in an interview with RT.
According to the specialist, the organizers and the International Skating Union (ISU) are to blame for the incident, which did not cope with their homework. He also asked for an apology for the deprivation of the right to attend the competition.
“The organizing committee just hasn’t done its professional job. I did not mark any signs, I did not put a fence, I did not put the duty officer where there is a possibility of people going outside the limits of the “clean zone” “. And the ISU did not control it properly. In fact, I was much more outraged by something else: well, okay, I broke the rules, I was punished for it. But in a purely human way you will at least apologize for what happened! “- added the coach.
Harutyunyan is the mentor of three-time world champion Nathan Chen of the United States. At Skate Canada, the skater took first place in the short program.
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