“Monetary motivation, if you focus on it, confuses the athlete a little” – figure skater Mishina

Figure skater Anastasia Michina playing in tandem with Alexander Gallyamov, does not consider money a good motivation for an athlete.

— It seems to me that monetary motivation, if we focus on it, confuses the athlete a little. It’s as if the very meaning of achieving something more, of becoming better, is lost. You talked about the expectation of failure, which is written on your forehead, but it seems to me that it is the same with medals and cash prizes: as soon as you start thinking about it, you immediately lose », quotes Mishina on RT.

This season, Mishina and Gallyamov won gold at the Russian Championship and also won two stages of the Russian Grand Prix. At the Russian Show Jumping Championship in Moscow, the athletes took third place.

Russian figure skaters have been suspended from participating in competitions held under the auspices of the International Skating Union (ISU) due to the situation in Ukraine.

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