Patskevich on forced diets in sports: “On the contrary, the coaches told us that we should eat normally”

Three-time Olympic synchronized swimming champion Alexandra Patskevich told that she hasn’t faced constant weigh-ins and tough demands from diet coaches in her career.

Patskevich ended his career after the Tokyo Games.

– Have there been forced diets? The same box, which began to speak openly recently.

– First of all, you have to decide what is tin and what is not. The tin is when an athlete is deliberately brought into a psychological depression, and it’s about eating disorders. Otherwise, it is part of the job, the professional responsibility for his health, on which a large part of an athlete’s career depends.

At the same time, constant and limitless obsessive control is also, I think, tin. Before, when we trained in Ramenskoye, we were weighed once a week. I don’t think it’s some kind of psychological trauma. At Krugly, I don’t even remember anyone being weighed. We never had daily weigh-ins, much less twice a day for some period of preparation, like the artists.

On the contrary, Tatyana Nikolaevna and Tatyana Evgenievna (Danchenko) always told us: eat, you need to eat normally at dinner. We train a lot and before the start we literally dry ourselves off. We even have nuts and chocolate for a snack during training. So, in comparison with other similar sports, our nutritional situation is very different,” Patskevich said in an interview with .

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