Olympic cross-country ski champion Veronica Stepanova in her column on , she said she was far from up to the Games winner’s training Tatiana Sorina .
At the end of the season, Stepanova won the overall ranking of the Russian Cup, and also became the best in the ranking of distance races.
— Artemy Vladimirovich Gelmanov, our junior coach, always asks the recruits: how much time did you train last year before the junior team? In the old way, in kilometers. So I covered 3,500 km in a year. Yes, this is not enough even by the standards of 2018, when I was selected for the national team. But I got on the podium thanks to my movement technique – thanks again to the Kamchatka coaches. And now the girls calmly call the numbers like this: 8,000, and even 9,000 km. This is not just a lot, it is a monstrously large amount for 17-18 year olds!
Look, this doesn’t matter to me personally: I’m 23 and my workload is nowhere near what it was five years ago. And there is room to grow – I am still far from reaching the number of training hours that Tanya Sorina has trained.
But my sister is growing up, she is twelve years old, and she is thinking more and more about a serious sports career,” Stepanova wrote.
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