European Diving Champion Anna Konanykhina in an interview with , she said that climbing Elbrus helped her to overload herself psychologically after the difficult Tokyo Olympics.
Konanykhina with the double synchronized swimming world champion Maya Gurbanberdieva climbed Elbrus this summer at the end of the competition season.
“It’s really the best way to reboot. You’re going to think about who you are, why you are, what your plans are for the future, what needs to be done, what needs to be let go. And the environment helps a lot in all of this, my head started to work differently. The situation that happened at the Olympics, I started to let go. After that climb, I stopped being so pinched, like it was the case for the past three years, Anna Konanykhina said in an interview with .
– Certainly, it’s a rest, a moral reset, if you don’t take a specific day of ascension. On the assault itself, you must muster all the will that is. It’s very difficult, you climb on the morale and you are voluntary. But even this, of course, works for profit, because it is a change in activity, ”said Maya Gurbanberdieva.
In her Olympic debut in Tokyo, Konanykhina, then 16, did not qualify for the platform diving semifinals and finished 25th overall.
Source : MatchTV
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