Olympic champion Veronica Stepanova In her column on , she criticized athletes who go into detail about their injuries because, she said, it discourages people from sending their children to sport.
It became known earlier that Olympic champion Alexander Bolshunov is training with restrictions due to injury and may miss the first stage of the Russian Cup in cross-country skiing, which will be held in Vershina Teya (Khakassia) from 23 to November 26.
— Each champion athlete, of course, decides for himself what he should or should not bring to the public in this region. But I have a question: have you ever thought, dear colleagues, that stories about injuries in all the details of diagnosis are bad publicity for your (our) sport? When a journalist comes to report on a new restaurant, he is not told that the cook is sick, the waitress has sore legs and the loader quit because of the hard work. Because no one will go to such a restaurant.
Or, our closest competitors for public attention are musicians and artists. Do they, in pre-season interviews, tell everyone how bad the singer is, the guitarist is even worse, and an ambulance even came to see the drummer last night? We will only learn all this in their memoirs many years later. And during promotions and presentations, they are happy and smiling.
And the fans listen to the stream of complaints and diagnoses of athletes, and from there all these “healers of physical education, cripples of sports” are born. Who would send a child to play a sport that “gets all the juice out and gives nothing in return”? Of course, this all makes no sense. Have you seen Alexander Legkov, who at 40 can do 40 pull-ups? And Alexandre Panjinski, who ran a 2h30 marathon this year? Do they look like they are “mutilated by sport”?!
This is absolutely our question: we ourselves must work to ensure that children are encouraged to practice skiing, and not racing, chess or water polo. This is a competition for resources. This is the only way to guarantee the interest of everyone: fans, sponsors, authorities,” Stepanova wrote.
Source : MatchTV
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