Olympic cross-country ski champion Veronica Stepanova in her column on , she wrote that she competed not primarily with her rivals on the ski slopes, but with stars from the entertainment world.
“This is not the first or even the second year that I have said it: I do not compete with my rivals on the ski slope. It is only an “entrance ticket” to recognition among millions of people. The competition that really interests me is the one with the same stars from the entertainment world. Since I started talking about it publicly and actively, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge. Many of yesterday’s idols have been proven false. It turned out that their views and those of the people do not really coincide on many important issues.
Today, I hope that media efforts will promote stars, create influencers, those that my generation will follow, to shift towards athletes. We are perseverant and resilient, we are used to working for months, years, an hour, an instant. And we didn’t grow up within the Garden Ring – we are the “deep people”. We belong to our small homelands. The examples of success and business acumen for our yards and districts are, of course, not the only ones – there are much more useful and worthy people, I bow to their efforts, achievements and victories. But let them speak for themselves. I speak for myself and for those professional athletes who think the same thing. Our time has come! — wrote Stepanova.
Source : MatchTV
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