Olympic cross-country ski champion Veronica Stepanova in a column on , she wrote that calm and confidence before, during and after races help her achieve long-term results.
Stepanova won gold at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing in the women’s relay.
– The talent of the coaches, your own talent, technical support, discipline, all this is very important. But my most important asset is calm. Calm and confident. I don’t worry before the race and I don’t worry after the end, whatever it is. Success means everything goes as planned. Fail: “The learning process is in progress”. This is one of my favorite quotes, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev reported it to the Politburo of the USSR when he made mistakes and accidents.
I never understood people who take part in a race as a battle. Perhaps this is how it should be in martial arts, but in cyclical sports, at first you need to be calm as ice inside and smile at everyone outside. Any attempt at motivation from the outside is surprising and boring. It doesn’t matter who it comes from: parents, beloved man, coach…
Compete, endure, give your all. And I know what I need and how. If I need it, I’ll ask for it. Coaches, of course, can give advice – run this way, rest here, etc., but they don’t need to trick me. Luckily, they don’t even try.
Are you upset by the result? If the problem was objective – for example, the pole was broken or the skis were “smeared” by the military, then it is not your fault. And if it is yours, then you need to analyze it again, with a cool head, emotions are not needed in the “debriefing”,” Stepanova wrote.
Source : MatchTV
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