Olympic ski relay champion Veronica Stepanova wrote in a column on the website that it is now important for athletes to be the best, including in a sport called “not mincing words.”
On Monday, Savely Korostelev, on , called the dispute between Stepanova and Alexander Bolshunov “black hype.” Stepanova previously called Bolshunov’s victories this season boring. The 27-year-old athlete responded by saying he “doesn’t want to waste his emotions on a person he’s not interested in.” The champion said that if “Bolshunov does not understand the meaning of the words “irony” and “sarcasm”, these are his joys”, and Korostelev replied: “You, Savely, will get it for the “black hype”, and for long hair, and for the pink gloves, and for the white suit.
— Skiing is 90% of the time boredom and overachievement. You don’t just get up, get dressed and go to work. You are going to “cut” kilometers in the wind, heat, rain and snow. You alternately feel cold, hot, wet – but you still suffer. And tomorrow it will be the same – but even harder. And then you get sick before the main competition, and all your efforts, all year, will be in vain.
There’s only one way to stop yourself from giving up or going crazy: laugh.
I don’t really like slang, I try not to use it in my articles and interviews, but in this case it’s necessary. Jokes and jokes are an integral part of our lives.
Every day, I receive a dozen “topic of the day” memes from my teammates. On the bus after training and at dinner, oral creativity is added. Who and how we joke, troll, ridicule and make fun of – let me keep that between us. At the same time, today you make fun of someone around you, and tomorrow you yourself become the object of jokes or trolls. If you are offended, you become an outcast and the ridicule doubles. There are forbidden subjects: religion, parents, homeland. We don’t joke about such things. The rest is an open chase.
I don’t know how it was before, but now, to impress your colleagues around you, to become popular, you no longer need to drive a huge SUV or even win a special race.
It’s important to be the best in this sport called “mincing words.” Gender doesn’t matter. We are generally divided into boys and girls only in the locker room.
Probably, Savely Korostelev is now the most popular skier in the team because he has an excellent language and at the same time everything is excellent with the ability to laugh at jokes about himself and his loved ones. Is it true, Savely? — wrote Stepanova.
Source : MatchTV
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