Russian diving team head coach Svetlana Moiseeva says China’s athlete training project won’t work in Russia, because winning Olympic gold isn’t the sport’s only goal here .
– Do not think. For that, it would be necessary to make an enlarged selection, to select massively those who are potentially capable of becoming champion, to put these children in a training all the year aiming to show an exceptional result in eight years. But, unfortunately, the world has become completely different now. Few people will entrust their child in the hands of specialists who will produce a sports supercar.
How is it still happening in China? They take children to sports boarding schools from the age of five or six, where children train, study, see their parents at best once a year. That is to say, the whole system is aimed at ensuring that an athlete who has been promoted to the Olympic team is fighting to win a gold medal. Unfortunately (or fortunately), in our country, this is not the only goal of sports, says RT Moiseeva.
Match outfit TV channels will broadcast the Russian Diving Championship, which will be held from June 24 to 29 in Yekaterinburg at the new Aquatic Palace.
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