Fedor Klimov: We have one goal - to win the World Cup

Olympic champion in Sochi team competitions Fedor Klimov told the " R-Sport " agency that he and his partner Ksenia Stolbova have no other goal for the World Figure Skating Championships than to win it.

In December, the pair won the Russian Championship in Chelyabinsk after a year's absence of competitive practice due to health problems with both Klimov and Stolbova. The World Cup will be held from 29 March to 2 April in Helsinki.

"We have one goal - to win the World Cup, but there is no sense in going to Helsinki for another purpose, it's the last World Championship before the 2018 Olympics, from which much will depend on Championships .." It's not worth exchanging, "Klimov said over the phone.

At the tournament in the Finnish capital, Russian figure skaters intend to return to the previous complexity of their programs.

"We plan to use the jumping cascade" 3-3-2 "instead of" 3-2-2 ", as a Championships.This element was also trained with two triple sheepskins before the championship in Ostrava, but it turned out to be unstable for us. Twist, which should be on the "pluses" and the third level, "- said the agency interlocutor.

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