Olympic cross-country skiing champion Veronika Stepanova in her column on , she wrote that she knows many people in her sport whose careers have been ruined by malnutrition.
Stepanova won gold at the 2022 Beijing Games as part of the women’s relay team. According to the results of the 2022/23 season in the Russian Cup, the 22-year-old skier became second in the overall standings.
– I have been a member of the Russian national cross-country team since the fifth grade. I don’t know of a ski career ruined by alcohol or drugs. But I know a lot of ruined malnutrition. You can nod all you want to hormonal disturbances, genetic characteristics – but if you consume more calories than you expend, you will inevitably gain weight. There will be no names, of course. But I also saw the night eating under the bed, and temper tantrums that reached the confectionery on the day of rest. What I saw there – I myself participated, it was.
By the way, there are no nutritionists in cross-country skiing. Neither here nor in the West,” Stepanova wrote.
Source : MatchTV
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