Vancouver 2010 Silver Medal Alexander Panjinsky declared on the air of the program “There is a theme!” on the channel that we should not take the words of a Norwegian skier Johannes Klebo on Alexandra Bolshunov like the reluctance to compete with a Russian.
Earlier, Klebo told TV2 that he ‘doesn’t need Bolshunov to motivate him’.
– I think Klebo’s words can be interpreted in different ways. Just recently, he said that training Bolshunov within 180 kilometers, on the contrary, motivates him and will be one of his goals for the summer season. It’s probably not that he doesn’t want to compete with Bolshunov, it’s just that it’s not the most important thing for him. He may find motivation elsewhere.
I’m sure not all Norwegians and all skiers around the world are against Russians. The same Veronika Stepanova says that the athletes had a rather loyal attitude when she was in Austria for several days. Many people support me, they write to me from Italy, from different countries. They don’t laugh and want the situation to end as soon as possible, because without the Russians, skiing will lose something with every start. After the Beijing Olympics, where our team showed that it was the strongest in the world, skiing will only have lost. This is one of the reasons why we are not excluded from the FIS. The only thing was unpleasant to see that Elena Valeryevna Vyalba was not ignobly elected to the council,” Panzhinsky said on .
Klebo, 25, is a five-time Olympic champion, Bolshunov, 25, a three-time winner of the Games.
The International Ski Federation (FIS) at the end of last season withdrew the Russians from competitions under its auspices due to the situation in Ukraine.
Source : MatchTV
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