Olympic champion Veronika Stepanova in her column on , she spoke about the equipment distribution system in Russian sports schools.
– Yesterday, I was asked: “How many pairs of skis, poles, shoes did your parents have to buy before you joined the national team?”
Answer: three pairs of skis. That’s all. Two more pairs of boots. Never bought sticks. It’s all the family expenses in equipment for the ten years of training that it took me to join the junior team, where already the manufacturers of these same skis and boots were starting to go around in circles by offering personal contracts .
All basic equipment and almost all other equipment was given to me by my home sports school, Yelizovo Ski Sports School.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the system by which decent quality equipment went to sports schools for people like me, “young talents”, was created by Elena Valerievna Vyalbe. Of course, both the Ministry of Sports and our regional authorities have participated and are participating in this. Frankly, I do not know and do not think I should know from what funds my skis were paid – the main thing is that I received them – both for training and for competitions. Three pairs purchased are special cases: successful, “rolling” specimens, skiers will understand, ”wrote Stepanova.
Source : MatchTV
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