World Figure Skating Championships 2022 - Will Russia, Kamila Valieva, Alexandra Trusova and Anna Shcherbakova compete?

The 2022 World Figure Skating Championships will be missing some of its biggest names in Montpellier, with Russian and Belarusian athletes blocked from competing. The International Skating Union was one of a number of sporting organisations to block representatives from the countries competing, following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Ad/> It means Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova will miss out, as will Kamila Valieva — who may not have been able to take part anyway — with Alexandra Trusova also unable to take to the ice. World ChampionshipsWorld Figure Skating Championships — When is it & who is skating?20 HOURS AGO You can watch the World Championships live on Eurosport and discovery+.

Will Kamila Valieva, Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova compete at the World Figure Skating Championships? The World Figure Skating Championships will be missing some of its top attractions, with Russians blocked from competing following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova will not be there to defend her 2021 world title, and nor will the so-called ‘Quad Queen’ Alexandra Trusova, who won bronze in Beijing.

Trusova produced an extraordinary reaction to missing out on a medal at the Games and threatened to never take to the ice again — before appearing at the gala dressed as Wonder Woman. Kamila Valieva would likely not have been at the World Championships anyway.

An investigation is underway into her positive drug test from December and despite being cleared to compete at the Olympics because of the timing of the result — which came after she had already taken part in the team competition — the same dispensation was going to be unlikely in France. World Figure Skating Championships 2022 — When is