VIDEO SHOWS: TWO RUSSIAN FIGURE SKATERS CLEARED TO COMPETE AT THE 2026 MILANO-CORTINA WINTER GAMES AS NEUTRALS, PETR GUMENNIK AND ADELIIA PETROSIAN, SKATING AT 2026 RUSSIAN FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIP / PETROSIAN AND GUMENNIK AT NEWS CONFERENCES RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (DECEMBER 18, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. RUSSIAN FIGURE SKATER CLEARED TO COMPETE AT THE 2026 MILANO-CORTINA WINTER GAMES AS NEUTRAL, PETR GUMENNIK SKATING AT 2026 RUSSIAN FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIP 2. SPECTATORS CHEERING 3. VARIOUS OF GUMENNIK SKATING 4. SPECTATORS 5. VARIOUS OF GUMENNIK SKATING 6. SCREEN TEXT READING (Russian) "PETR GUMENNIK" 7. GUMENNIK FINISHING PERFORMANCE, STANDING UP, SKATING AWAY ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (DECEMBER 19, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 8. GUMENNIK ARRIVING AT NEWS CONFERENCE 9. VARIOUS OF GUMENNIK AT NEWS CONFERENCE 10. JOURNALISTS 11. VARIOUS OF GUMENNIK TALKING ON MOBILE PHONE, SMILING ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (DECEMBER 18, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 12. RUSSIAN FIGURE SKATER CLEARED TO COMPETE AT THE 2026 MILANO-CORTINA WINTER GAMES AS NEUTRAL, ADELIIA PETROSIAN, SKATING AT 2026 RUSSIAN FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIP 13. SPECTATORS APPLAUDING 14. PETROSIAN SKATING 15. SPECTATORS APPLAUDING 16. VARIOUS OF PETROSIAN SKATING ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (DECEMBER 19, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 17. NEWS CONFERENCE WITH PETROSIAN AND RUSSIAN FIGURE SKATERS MARIA ZAKHAROVA AND ALISA DVOEGLAZOVA 18. PETROSIAN SPEAKING AT NEWS CONFERENCE 19. JOURNALIST USING LAPTOP 20. VARIOUS OF DVOEGLAZOVA (LEFT) PETROSIAN (CENTRE) AND ZAKHAROVA (RIGHT) POSING FOR JOURNALISTS ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (DECEMBER 18, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 21. VARIOUS OF VIEWS OF ARENA WHERE CHAMPIONSHIP WAS HELD STORY: Two Russian figure skaters to compete at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Games as neutrals, Petr Gumennik and Adeliia Petrosian, won 2026 Russian Figure Skating Championships held in St. Petersburg. The International Olympic Committee in November cleared one Belarusian and two Russian figure skaters to compete at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Games as neutrals, the first athletes of their countries to be invited to take part amid sanctions. The IOC ruled in September that Russians and Belarusians cleared to compete at the Games would compete as neutral independent athletes, just as they did in the Paris 2024 summer Games, without a national flag or anthem, maintaining their sanctions. The Olympic body suspended the Russian Olympic Committee in October 2023 for recognising regional Olympic councils for Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine – Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Russian and Belarusian athletes who reach qualifying standards are first vetted by the panel for any links to the Russian military or support for the military activity in Ukraine, both of which will lead to their exclusion. Russian teams are banned from the Milano-Cortina Games.
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