Olympic champion Veronica Stepanova wrote in a column on the site that in cross-country skiing, no one is safe from falls and that in the Russian team, she is the only one Natalia Terentieva know how to technically navigate downhills.
Last week, during the women’s general start race at the Sochi Student Spartakiade, several minor skiers were injured following a collapse. In total, 14 skiers failed to finish on the Laura slope.
— At 15, you still don’t understand much. Not because she’s stupid – she just doesn’t have enough information or comparison material. And at the age of 15, I did not really understand why and why my coach Dmitry Borodin so stubbornly sent me to the hill and then climbed with me. Over and over, showing element by element how to ski downhill. First it’s just safe, then it’s safe and fast. Finally, it’s safe, fast and effective (so the muscles don’t get clogged). For this alone, I mentally thanked Dmitri Vladimirovich a thousand times. No one is safe from falling while skiing or rollerblading – and I fall several times a season, sometimes painfully. But I will say without false modesty that only two girls in our team now know how to ski downhill technically: Natalya Terentyeva and me.
Once again: Kamchatka, volcanoes and alpine skiing have nothing to do with it – this is the wisdom of a coach who decided in advance that it is better to spend about 30 hours on perfecting downhill techniques rather than developing aerobic training.
The problem is that it is scalable training that gives relatively quick results. The technique of passing descents did not bring me much benefit in juniors – it only affects me now, on the most difficult routes, competing with the best. And coaches around the world expect results from their players between 17 and 18 years old,” Stepanova wrote.
The Adler District Prosecutor’s Office of Sochi organized an investigation into the incident on the Laura highway.
Source : MatchTV
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