“Where is figure skating and where is football? Some nonsense.” Koloskov answered Rudkovskaya to compare the popularity of sports

Honorary President of the RFU Vyacheslav Koloskov, in an interview with Sport24, called the words of the producer and Evgeni Plushenko’s wife Yana Rudkovskaya about the difference in the popularity of football and figure skating a joke.

According to Rudkovskaya, figure skating has bypassed Russian football in ratings and gathers more spectators.

“This is just a joke and wishful thinking. Well, where is figure skating and where is football? Some nonsense. In the Dynamo-Spartak match, there were 60,000 people at the stadium alone. In figure skating, it takes a year to collect so much.

Compare the TV contracts of the RFU with the Figure Skating Federation. Heaven and earth! She can only be praised for representing her husband’s sport so zealously, but figure skating to football is like from the moon to the sky.

The FAN ID affected the number of spectators. The fans are still boycotting, not going to the games. But everything will return, it will not go anywhere. There is a certain decrease. But only the fans who went to the stadium. Otherwise, there have been no significant changes,” Koloskov said.