“The teacher then said, maybe I won’t come back to sports.” Klimova after a back injury prepares for the season

Klimova suffered in the summer of 2022. The athlete was hit by a car during a training session in Tyumen. Now Diana is at training camp in Turkey.

– I just started training – I came to the first training camp with the team, – says Klimova. – On January 6, I had a back scan. The neurosurgeon said you can do exercises, allowed to load. Before that, there was only rehabilitation.

Was it psychologically difficult?

– To be honest, now I understand that this break was necessary. Yes, not that way of course, but a reboot was required. Now back and full of excitement for the new season.

Is there a fear of resuming training?

– There was fear, but only before getting on the bike. I understand that for now I need to do more exercises to strengthen my back and my whole body. Then there will be more confidence.

Now in training camp we have mixed training – gymnasium, highway, I go there a bit. I will work in this mode for a month, from the next day – we will add work in the hall. You need to do good strength training.

– How will you start the season – on the highway or on the track?

– Probably from the freeway. I am thinking of the April races in Maikop, in May – at the Grand Prix on the track, then at the championships of Russia on the highway and on the track. In six months, I think I should gain in condition. I have good muscle memory and endurance, but speed skills for the track need to be worked on.

– Relatives did not say: there are no international departures, you have serious injuries, let’s get a specialty in IT and tie it?

“No, it wasn’t. But in October there was a moment when I thought – what will happen if I don’t come back? I went to the professor in Moscow. He was supposed to tell me when I could get on the bike. He said, “Well, you can – cool. If you can’t, you’ll go and have kids.”

Such a prospect did not suit me then. I came and said to my mother, “Maybe I won’t go back to sports.” Mom immediately asked, “Where are you going to put all that energy?” I have a lot of energy! And I also really want to perform. I will continue.

– You have been in Tyumen almost all this time. How is it possible to go there to train? Or is it easier to ski?

Skiing was prohibited. When all this happened, I was intimidated in the hospital. And then when I started working with a rehabilitologist, they immediately told me that all the workload, all the work, all the exercises are only under his control, you can’t do anything at the house, except for certain household things.

I decided to trust the professionals. Although at some point during rehabilitation I decided to ride a bike, my back started hurting. The rehabilitator said: “Put the bike away, the muscles are not ready. I swam, recovered, waited for the scan in January.

– Outraged?

– Yes, I did a lot of things. I took make-up lessons, singing lessons, learned to play the piano.

Are you a makeup artist now?

“I was just learning the basics of makeup. The practice was great! There’s a certificate.

– Now without the right makeup, no Madison?

– It’s possible.

Is playing the piano such an impulse?

— I like classical piano music. In my head, of course, there is an image – here I am sitting like this and playing the piano. Before that, I’m still far away, the enthusiasm was not enough for a while. But one day I will come back to it, my father gave me a synthesizer so that I could study.

– You also had a dog during this period!

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“I don’t know how I could live without a dog!” I always wanted a Samoyed, I told my boyfriend and he gave it to me for my birthday.

– Are you ready for the fact that the suspension may be long and you will find yourself without international departures at the moment?

“I just do what I love. I like it. Here they asked me what motivated me to return to the sport… First, I didn’t go anywhere. Second, it’s probably love. I don’t even know what else to say here.

– Are you in any way related to the Extreme Kids project?

— Artem Ovechkin began advertising this project. I got inspired, I opened a circle in Tyumen, I act as an investor. We teach children to ride bicycles, roller skates, skateboards, BMX stunts. By the way, not only children, but also their parents.

– Do you think this is your contribution to the development of the sport?

– To hope. Now they take the bike section from the age of ten, and we teach children from the age of three. At ten, the child will already have both a love of sport and the possession of a bicycle. In general, when I watch how the children are engaged, how they smile, my soul rejoices.

Sometimes, you know, it scratched somewhere inside – someone my age will say: “Yes, I do repairs in the apartment here” … But she herself decided to invest in another thing. In business and in sport I love.

– But it doesn’t scratch your soul – didn’t we have such a training opportunity?

– Not. Everything was fine for us too. I’ve been training since I was nine years old. I came to cycle in the summer and stayed. I started on the highway, but in the winter we went skiing. It was fun, great. We twisted on the machine and even drove on the highway – our roads are good. The only thing is that there are no mountains. When I first came to Maykop, I saw the mountains, I thought, “Well, wow, how is that…”

– From Tyumen, a freezing region, quite a few good runners came out.

– It happens when there are people who promote their sport, who love it.

Have you ever trained with Silin?

– Not. Once we were together in a training camp in Ishim. But Viktor Mikhailovich Silin, Yegor Silin – these are people who completely devote themselves to their work. This is how the sport develops, hence the result.