russian gymnast Daniel Marinov told that the reason for the absence of the Olympic champions on the podium of the Artistic Gymnastics Cup of Russia lies in the lack of motivation.
On Friday, 18-year-old Daniel Marinov won the Russian Cup individual all-around competition, which takes place on the federal territory of Sirius. Tokyo Games champion Artur Dalaloyan did not make it to the podium. His Olympic team partners Nikita Nagorny and David Belyavsky did not play the final due to injuries, Denis Ablyazin misses the tournament due to lack of medical clearance.
— In my opinion, there is a generational change in gymnastics. In the all-around final, only one person from the Olympic team competed with us. There is nothing wrong with changing generations. I’m just happy to play with those I was with in the youth team. This Olympic generation gave us a lot of motivation, how many times they taught us, told us stories, how to behave and what to say.
Why do you think the generational change is happening right now? Aren’t they interested in playing here? Or is it just age?
Everyone is still a normal age. David Belyavsky is a unique case: he is 31 years old, and on the shells he looks like a 19-year-old. The Olympians have already achieved everything, they are already champions. Now we are not in a very good situation, there are no international competitions, so the motivation is probably down. If there was something to prepare, they would have fought with us,” Marinov told .
According to the sum of the six program types of the individual all-around, Marinov scored 84.850 points. Second place was taken by Sergey Naidin (83.050), third by Ivan Kulyak, who served a one-year disqualification (80.800).
On Saturday and Sunday, the Russian Cup will host competitions in separate events for men and women. Watch live broadcasts on and Match! Arena”, as well as the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source : MatchTV
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