Alina Zagitova is popular because she became the first figure skater to obtain the Career Grand Slam, silver medalist of the Russian Championship Arthur Danielyan said.
He specified that only the athlete herself can give a final answer to this question. “But such love, I think, is because she won all possible titles, and first of all the Olympic Games. There she won the hearts of fans,” RIA Novosti quotes the skater as saying.
