The set of athletes from Russia Alina Sagitova in the short program in Pyeongchang

Alina Sagitova. AFP photo

In the night of Wednesday Moscow time on the Olympics-2018 in Pyeongchang started the competition in women’s figure skating – free program was held.

The best result was shown by Olympic athlete Alina Sagitova, which set a new world record for total points in the short program. Sagitova on Wednesday received for the rental of the short program 82,92 points. Thus, it surpassed the achievement of other Olympic female athletes Evgenia Medvedeva.

“I still can’t comment on that, but I am very glad that I did,” said Sagitov.

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