ARMENIAN PAIR TO LEAVE THE FIELD

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23 January, 2008

The 2008 European Figure Skating Championships opened Tuesday in
Zagreb, Croatia, with the Compulsory Dance and the Pairs Short
Programme.

Armenian ice dancing pair Anastasiya Grebenkina-Vazgen Azroyan scored
25.41 points because of a glaring mistake during the first dance. They
even stopped for a moment but finally ended up the performance. The
pair took the 17th place among the 26 participants.

Unfortunately, the Armenian skaters have to quit the championship
because of Grebenkina’s serious injury.

The fixture list is led by Isabelle Delobel/Olivier Schoenfelder
(France) followed by Oksana Domnina/Maxim Shabalin (Russia). Defending
European Champions Isabelle Delobel/Olivier Schoenfelder took
the lead ahead of Russia’s Oksana Domnina/Maxim Shabalin and Jana
Khokhlova/Sergei Novitski with 41, 25 points.