Silver medalist at the World Ski Championships Artem Maltsev says there is no need to compare him to a football player Cristiano Ronaldo or a hockey player Alexander Ovechkin because every athlete is different.
On Friday, the national team of the Tyumen region consisting of Maltsev, Ivan Yakimushkin, Denis Spitsov and Evgeny Belov won the relay at the “Champion Heights” in Malinovka (Arkhangelsk region). Earlier, Ilya Semikov compared Alexander Bolshunov to Lionel Messi and Maltsev to Cristiano Ronaldo.
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– Today you made up for what went wrong in the personal races?
– Compensated or not compensated, but today our team worked well, everyone did well, everyone fought, it’s a team race.
And it looks like a regular competition, I give the best of each race to the maximum, like before. Just somewhere unlucky in other races. Everyone worked to the maximum, and Yakimushkin and Chervotkin took a break, and then Belov also tried. Spitsov brought me a few seconds of separation, and I supported him. It turned out that he slightly increased it, caught up with the Khanty-Mansiysk team, but did not overtake it, so Seryoga Ustyugov trained before the classic “fifty kopecks”.
– You run yourself “fifty kopecks”?
No, I’m not going to run.
Semikov compared you to Cristiano Ronaldo. How do you like this comparison?
– Football doesn’t interest me, I don’t watch it. I do not like football.
– What kind of views do you like?
– More hockey.
– So you have to be compared to Ovechkin?
“No, you don’t have to compare me to anyone. I am the person I am, I am individual. There is Ovechkin, there is Ustyugov, there are others – Maltsev and so on.
– Did you talk to Sergey Ustyugov before the start of the stage? He didn’t say, they say, don’t exceed ours?
– Before the start of the last stage, he said: “Now, probably, you will close, and I, probably, will not go to the start.” And already at the top of the climb stood Dmitry Yaparov and shouted: “Do not exceed ours, give Seryoga!” Well, I think that’s fine, let Sergey run downhill, and I’m just going to take a little break for Sergey to pass the baton. And he went from the start, like a sprint. I think, not a fig to myself! Okay, let him go, run his race, and I run my race, ”reports the correspondent in Maltsev’s words.
On Saturday, the women’s marathon will be held in Champion Heights. Watch the live broadcast of the race starting at 10:40 a.m. Moscow time on the channel, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru sites.
Source : MatchTV
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