Three-time Olympic synchronized swimming champion Alexandra Patskevich in a conversation with , she said that three programs in group competitions are very difficult for athletes and heavy in health.
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) previously announced that synchronized swimming Olympics medals in group competitions will be played based on the results of three routines – acrobatic has been added to free and technical.
– I was so upset – it’s just the murder of our sport. Whether it was an extra medal, whether the number of participants had been increased, that’s another story, but here it seems that people don’t understand what synchronized swimming is, only to achieve such an extravagance on the water, it takes a lot of hard work, and now the load is even greater. I don’t understand what they want to achieve. That athletes will start to lose consciousness, so that later they will consider other options as an exception to the species or something?
I don’t understand how any sane person can do that to athletes.
I don’t know how the girls took it, the technical staff, I have a lump in my throat… We were training for ten hours, but with a break, but now it should be an endless process? Physically it is impossible, – said Patskevich “”.
Source : MatchTV
