Lyssenko – about the decision to change figure skating to cycling: “I wanted to leave the sport completely, I was disappointed”

Junior world champion Alina Lysenko told how she quit figure skating and started playing on the cycle track.

Lyssenko is 20 years old. On Friday, she defended the title of Russian champion in the individual sprint.

– You have already fully experienced this transition period where weight and body change. It was hard ?

– I experienced it in figure skating. There, in this regard, there was such a school that it was definitely for life.

After figure skating, I did not want to return to professional sport at all. Everyone in the family knew. It was a painful subject, I did not leave on a very good note. Not that there was any psychological trauma, but it all left a mark. She told her parents that she was tired, that she had given so many years to the sport, that she had not achieved anything and that she was disappointed

I was 15, all this is not easy to perceive. But I understood that at this age in figure skating, if you are not an Olympic champion and you are not on your way as a favorite for the Olympics, you can continue to stay only for the pleasure of skating.

Is Elizaveta Tuktamysheva a heroine?

– Yes. I’ve always liked the way he rides. It’s a separate story, we don’t even talk about it,” Lyssenko said in an interview with .