Olympic champion Veronica Stepanova in her column on , she wrote that by April she could no longer watch skis and only missed them with the first snow in October.
At the end of the season, Stepanova won the overall ranking of the Russian Cup and also became the best in the long-distance running rankings.
– Traditionally, skiers went – and some still go – for what is called “sunset”. This is when you ride in the spring snow after all the competitions, supposedly for your own enjoyment, doing some recovery for a week or two. To those who appreciate it, my respects. In April I can’t look at skis anymore and I won’t miss them until the first snow in October, I checked.
But that absolutely doesn’t mean I stopped working out. This happened to me only once in my career: in 2021, partly for objective reasons, partly because of my own laziness, I practically did not train for ten whole days, but I actively ate my mother’s delicious dishes. When I arrived at the first training camp of the season in early May, Sorin looked at me skeptically, but, being a modern coach, he didn’t say anything. And this is not necessary: a few extra pounds made themselves felt almost instantly and hindered for a whole month. “I have drawn conclusions,” Stepanova wrote in her column on .
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