Olympic champion Veronica Stepanova in her column on , she highlighted three reasons why the Tatarstan team stands out among other teams on the eve of the fifth stage of the Alfa-Bank Russian Cup in cross-country skiing.
The fifth stage of the Russian Cross-Country Skiing Cup will take place in Kazan from January 11 to 14. In July it became known that Stepanova joined the national team of the Arkhangelsk region. The skier previously announced that she would represent the Kamchatka Territory.
— The Tatarstan national team is the main and, I’m afraid, the only team in the Russian Cup that looks exactly like a team. Or, if you prefer, a professional club. First of all, they stand out: everyone is dressed head to toe in costumes in the RT team colors. Other regional teams do not have this.
Secondly, there are always a lot of athletes from Tatarstan – it is not for nothing that they lead the general standings of the Cup, where priority is given to the mass participation of athletes. Third, the national team enjoys almost national team-level support: ski service, doctors, physiotherapists, and even the team’s own photographer.
I think I will not be wrong if I say: showing up in Tatarstan is now the dream of every young first-class student or applicant for a master’s degree in sports, ”Stepanova wrote.
Watch live broadcasts of the Alfa-Bank Russian Cup races on Match Group TV channels, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru websites.
Source : MatchTV
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