swimming world record holder Kirill Prigoda said he didn’t like the subjunctive mood, but if he had swum at the World Championships in Melbourne with Japan’s Daiya Seto, the two would have felt differently.
Prigoda won the 200m breaststroke at the Salnikov Cup. He is the current world record holder for this distance. Seto won in Melbourne. The Russians have been suspended from participating in competitions under the auspices of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) due to the situation in Ukraine.
– With today’s result, you would be second in the world championships. Satisfied?
— I am very satisfied with the conditions in which we find ourselves. History does not like the subjunctive. But if a Japanese sailed alongside, the lineup would be different – and it would be loaded in a different way, and I would feel different. I’m definitely not finishing my swim, I hope we’ll see him again. I caught a kind of courage, a workout. In professional sports, it’s important to love what you do – whether it works or not, hard or not hard, good or bad. The main thing is that you enjoy it and do your job. I updated my best result twice in the long course 200m breaststroke, I have shown consistent results this year and I look to the future with optimism. I will train even harder,” Prigoda said on air, “Match! Arena”.
Source : MatchTV
