National team Russia in preparation for the Beijing Olympics, she encountered serious problems due to the covid epidemic in the team, the head coach of Dynamo Moscow told Alexei Kudashov .
On June 30, head coach Alexei Zhamnov’s contract with the Russian national team ended. Kudashov was Zhamnov’s assistant in the national team.
– How would you rate this cycle, in which there was an Olympic silver medal?
– We have worked well. The only thing is, of course, that we would like to win gold. But the conditions in Beijing were very difficult. If we reveal secrets, then in preparation for the Olympics, the covid has seriously fallen on us. We didn’t take the dirty laundry out of the box so that no one was locked in for several days…
– In the Russian team, no one was quarantined.
– Yes, but nobody knows that we had six people for the training – there were only positive tests. We just hid it. Because if an international organization knew that covid was raging in the Russian team, then everyone’s attention would be on us.
– This is, as I understand it, the Novogorsk training camp.
– We finally prepared well for a trip to the Olympics, and already in Beijing no one grasped the “benefits”. But can you imagine how players can improve their physique when you have 20 people on the roster and only six go to training. The next morning – the other six, and these are already with “pluses”.
Thus, the preparatory process was very crumpled. But in these conditions, the technical staff worked hard. It brought together professionals who themselves have played a lot of hockey, who have great authority and great experience. And we had disputes and disagreements. But we worked as one team,” Kudashov told .
The Russian team in the final of the 2022 Olympics lost to the Finns with the score 1:2.
Source : MatchTV
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