“Hopefully next year we will be able to compete with the best skiers in the world” – 2018 Olympic medalist Kuleshova

2018 Olympics and 2019 World Cup bronze medalist Anastasia Kuleshova in an interview with , she expressed her hope that next year Russian skiers can return to international competitions.

Earlier, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that it would consider the possibility of admitting Russian and Belarusian athletes to world starts in a neutral status, who have not actively supported the OSV. IOC chief Thomas Bach has admitted that Russians could participate in the 2024 Olympics in Paris without national symbols. On February 2, the committee noted that this matter had not yet been discussed and that the organization still had no criteria according to which individual admission to competitions could be made.

— After the Games in Beijing, almost immediately, there was a suspension. A year has passed, nothing has changed in this regard. How do you see everything going on right now?

“We don’t know what to expect or how long it will last. I think we should just live in the moment. That’s all. They shut us down – fine, so we’ll race in Russia and raise our level. I hope next year we can compete with the best skiers in the world,” Kuleshova told .

will broadcast the Russian Cross-Country Championship in Tyumen from March 18-26. Live broadcasts of the competition will also be available on sportbox.ru and matchtv.ru.

Source : MatchTV

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