Olympic high jump champion Maria Lasitskene regretted that athletic competitions of such a volume have not been held before in Russia, athletics has gone so far that what is happening is right, but not enough, too late.
On Tuesday, Lasitskene won at the Znamensky Memorial in Luzhniki in Moscow, taking a height of 1.91m. In Luzhniki, a series of starts in athletics takes place from June 7 to 13. Athletics Week. The All-Russian Athletics Federation (VFLA) has been stripped of its World Athletics (then IAAF) membership since November 2015 due to a doping scandal. Russian athletes can participate in international competitions only after obtaining neutral athlete status.
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– We feel good, for the first time in many years we have returned to Luzhniki. I have good memories of my youth associated with this stadium, I was happy to be back here, a big thank you to the public who came to support us, it makes me happy.
I am not satisfied with the result, but this, of course, does not matter, because the main thing is not to be mistaken with unnecessary questions and thoughts. Work in progress, I tried today, I tried. Today I am ready for this result and on the third attempt I took 1.91m, Lasitskene told reporters.
– Everything going as planned?
– Not. I think any Russian athlete will now say that not everything is going to plan, unfortunately. But this is another story. I just do my best. For me, the most important thing is to give 100%. Today I am rewarded, I go home, I train and on June 13 I leave for the start as part of the Altitude Day here.
– What did the coach say after the end of the attempts?
“He just asked me if I was alive. Sure, I’m alive, everything hurts, but that’s how it should be.
Is that how it should be at this point in the season?
– And at this time of the season, and at the time of my well-being in training, in the sector and in general in general.
– In Sochi, they said that there has never been a state like the current one. How is it possible, if possible, to disconnect from such a state?
‘Books, cross-stitching and complete distraction from everything, but it’s very difficult.
– What are you reading?
— Oh, it’s better not to know (laughs).
– And what was the last thing you embroidered?
– A birthday present for a friend, I just delivered it today, by the way.
– Are you able to follow the events of the VFLA, the election of a new head coach?
– Not. I have been inside the public life of athletics for so long and so much that now I follow it very weakly. I don’t know what to expect anymore.
– Can you formulate a goal for the present time?
– To occupy the head with pleasant thoughts, which is very difficult. I just want to say that it is a pity that all that was organized now did not exist before. A little too late. Athletics has gone so far that what is happening now is, of course, okay, but, I’m afraid, not enough.
“Will anything be enough? »
– I also ask myself this question and I tell myself that I have become too embittered and you cannot be like that. But it happened, over the years… This subject is difficult for me. I would like such competitions, organization, all that was in 2017-2018, even in 2019, after we were all suspended and we were in prison, we did not understand what was going on happen next. You know, I’m going into the negative, and it’s hard for me, and I’ve already tired you all out.
Source : MatchTV
