The absence of international starts in the 2023 calendar published by the All-Russian Athletics Federation (VFLA) could be due to a lack of confidence in the admission of Russians, believes the world champion coach Sergei Shubenkov Sergei Klevtsov.
ARAF has published a calendar for the 2023 season. In it, under the terms of international competitions, some key departures from the Russian national calendar are prescribed. In the spring, the Council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (World Athletics), in the context of the situation in Ukraine, suspended the Russians from participating in the 2022 season in international tournaments.
“I haven’t studied the schedule in detail yet, I only looked at the main points,” Klevtsov told . – It is built in such a way that it resembles an international in terms of the calendar of key competitions. At the beginning of March, it’s the Russian championship, there has never been a Russian championship so late, because the world championship or the European indoor championship take place on these dates.
I have my own methods at work, which, probably, have already proven their effectiveness. Such a calendar means such. This means that either nobody wants to try to solve these problems or they are sure that they will not be solved anymore. At some point, I was taught to plan work according to the schedule. Well, then we’ll see.
Shubenkov is the world champion in the 110m hurdles.
Source : MatchTV
