Skier Sergei Ardashev in an interview with , he suggested that after winning gold at the 2020 World Junior Championships, his results deteriorated, not least because of the coronavirus.
At the 2020 World Junior Championships, which took place in Germany, Ardashev won the 15 km classic style race and also took silver in the freestyle mass start.
— In 2020, you became world youth champion. How do you now explain why, after that moment, everything didn’t seem to be okay?
— To be honest, even the season before last, I was still upset about it all. How so? I won the World Championship by a minute, but for some reason I could not continue to show the same level. I didn’t even understand what happened or how. How did it happen? I still don’t even understand.
Yes, there was a time when I got sick with Covid, but I haven’t been sick that long it seems. However, after the illness, I simply could not recover. I ran every race, but there was always something missing. The same oxygen. Or he could run 500 meters – and that’s it, he went bad. It lasted a very long time. That’s the only way I can explain it.
And after all, for the following season after my gold medal, I was always well prepared. The summer period went well and settled in. Yes, it didn’t really work out during the World Cup trials. But then I somehow recovered. I arrived in Krasnogorsk, felt good again – I gained a lot. But then I got sick with coronavirus and that’s it…
However, the level of young people is outdated. It’s now a sport for adults. But when you become an adult, you still have to progress in one way or another. And above all, it is a shame that the World Cup is now won by Harald Amundsen, who finished second behind me in the same race in the “classics” of the Youth World Cup. So, he has now won the big Crystal Globe, and I am without international competitions… And hey, now without international competitions, in previous seasons I couldn’t even qualify! I ran a few World Cup stages, but I didn’t show the level I should have,” Ardashev told .
Ardashev, 25, trains in Egor Sorin’s group. At the Russian Championships in Malinovka Ardashev, he won three bronze medals: in skiathlon, team sprint and relay.
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Source : MatchTV
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