Athletistic / Figure skating. Two-time world figure skating champion Irina Slutskaya spoke about burnout in sports. She admitted that she didn’t understand when such conversations were happening about 15-year-old skaters.

“There is professional burnout. It’s the same here. But when someone talks to me about it at 15, it’s not only funny to listen to, but very funny.

I smile and say, “What kind of burnout when you’ve only been playing for a year? Stop.” If you like this job, do it, if you don’t like it, leave.

Zhulin: “The level of figure skating has dropped at international competitions, but everything is fine for us.”

I’ve had a long career. I participated in three Olympic Games, two of which I won medals. I know that fatigue in professional sports is not caused by winning or not.

It depends on the number of international seasons spent as leader. The best are treated differently, which is hard on an energetic and psychological level,” quotes the former figure skater in “On Sport”.


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