Skier Maria Istomina said she had the chance to catch the Olympic champion Veronica Stepanova in the pursuit race for the Russian Cup, but she made a tactical error.
On Wednesday, Istomina took second place in the pursuit race at the PhosAgro Russian Cup final in cross-country skiing, losing 26.9 seconds to winner Stepanova.
— The impressions of the race are twofold. I’m a little angry with myself, but I’m happy that I managed to win the prizes. It’s a good result for me. The race went well, the weather was cool, the distance was good. The skis work well too, but last year there was a disaster here, the skis were immobile. There is now good hard snow in winter.
— Are you considering participating in the uphill race?
— I plan to do the whole tour, but we’ll see how it goes. An uphill run is like a normal run, you just need to distribute the forces well over the distance. The mountain is a very difficult challenge.
— Was it realistic to catch up with Stepanova, who was 15 seconds ahead of you at the start?
— There was such an option, it was possible. But I did a bad thing tactically, because of this I first lost on the track, then I had to make up the gap. In the second lap I already had enough, I was pulling the whole group, it was hard. “I will work on my mistakes,” reports the correspondent, according to Istomina.
Watch the PhosAgro races of the Russian Cup final in Kirovsk live on the and Match Arena TV channels, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru websites.
Source : MatchTV
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