2010 Olympic champion in individual sprint, 2014 Olympic silver medalist in team speed skiing Nikita Kryukov On , he told how he experienced defeat in the fight for gold medals at the Sochi Games.
At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Kryukov won a silver medal in the team sprint team event with Maxim Vylegzhanin.
— I was only able to recover from the defeat at the Sochi Games when my friends gave me a model of the gold medal. I managed to change my mind. I showed Alexander Bolshunov a real silver medal from the Games, and I was already accustomed to the fact that I felt like an Olympic champion.
Having finished [в командном спринте], I fell in the snow, I was ashamed to turn around. The blow lasted me six months,” Kryukov said on .
The Sochi Winter Games took place from February 7 to 23, 2014.
Source : MatchTV

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