Russia’s diving team head coach Svetlana Moiseeva believes the Britons should have won the Synchronized Ski Jumping World Championships in Budapest, who performed their program without error in the final.
The Chinese won in this discipline Cao Yuan and Wang Zongyuan, who scored 459.18 points. Britons Anthony Harding and Jack Lo are second at 451.71.
A kind of injustice. In my opinion, the Brits should have won. The Chinese were pressed, but not well enough. The fact that the Chinese showed good forward jumps is yes, but when an athlete makes a mistake, you have to accept it. The British have done their program well, without error and take second place – it’s wrong.
If we talk about the level in general, our couple could compete, fight for medals. In this situation, one could certainly speak of bronze. To say that someone was surprised by his jumps – no, it wasn’t. The pairs are almost brand new. For the Chinese, Cao Yuan stood up in this synchronicity, which at every Olympics since 2012 with gold. The number of points they received – in 2017 our couple won the world championship with approximately the same amount. So nothing like that, a special leap forward didn’t happen,” Moiseeva told .
Russian athletes miss the Budapest tournament by decision of the international federation due to the situation in Ukraine.
Source : MatchTV
