Russian diver Alexander Cherepakhin admitted on that in the BetBoom final of the Russian Championship he did not count on a gold medal on the meter springboard.
Cherepakhin won in this discipline at the national championship which takes place in Kazan.
— Sasha, is this your first national title in individual show jumping?
– Yes, it’s true.
– What emotions?
– Crazy joy. And just kind of childish delight.
— During the competition, how did you assess your chances?
“I certainly wasn’t counting on gold, considering the fourth and fifth failed jumps.” I understood that if everything happened during the flight itself, but at the entrance I made mistakes. Besides, I knew that Ilya [Молчанов] did the last jump well, I realized that after his attempt, I would probably be second or third.
– This is once again the very essence of diving: you have to try to do everything as best as possible until the end…
— Yes, the main thing for us is to cope with the nervousness and jump regularly. You can do all the turns first and boom – you go down sharply. Or, on the contrary, with one last leap by the ears, you climb to first place.
– And after?
“Two more starts with the possibility of winning licenses for the BRICS Games – a mixed jump with Victoria Frolova and individual jumps from three rubles,” Cherepakhin told .
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