It seemed that bronze medal in Olympic games in Salt Lake City was the ultimate aim of Russian skaters Irina Lobacheva and Ilia Averbukh. But it looks like they are going to win the golden one, SE-Internet correspondent in Germany Artur VERNER reports. According to the news from Delaware where they are secretly training, Irina and Ilia are currently working under the third free dance in this season - first two seemed to the specialists to be far from medal-winning level.

We should remind that according to the draws the group of referees to stand in Olympic dance tournament includes representatives of Azerbaijan, UK, Germany, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Switzerland - all of them are Europeans. There will be no one representing France, whose representatives Marina Anisina and Gvendal Peizera are climants for the champions' title. Such circumstances inspired the Russian pair. The unsupported information states that they are making the dance on the music of New-York firemen hymn, which grew so popular after September, 11. It's probable that Ilia will personify brave fireman who saves his partner.

They say that it's the change of the program and training than Lobacheva and Averbukh decided not to participate in Grand Prix at all and maybe won't come to Russian championship in Moscow and European championship in Lausanne.