Olympic champion Veronique Stepanova In her column on the website, she wrote that Alina Pekletsova had been properly trained from a young age and therefore could compete this season for the highest places on the world stage, subject to the admission of Russian athletes.
Pekletsova took 10th place in the women’s FLGR ranking at the end of last season. The 18-year-old skier won several medals at the Russian Cup stages and also became second in the skiathlon and first in the relay at the national championship. At the end of the season, Stepanova won the overall standings at the Russian Cup and also became the best in the distance race standings. Russian athletes were suspended from competitions under the auspices of the FIS due to the situation in Ukraine.
“We need to rebuild the system.” Separate and highlight the athletes who will become the best in the world at the peak of their careers. There are perfect physical tests and there are equally perfect tests of moral and volitional qualities. The collaboration of analysts and artificial intelligence will allow to identify potential with great precision.
Such a selection of the best in gymnastics or figure skating at the age of 13-14 is quite normal. Well, let it be a little later in skiing, at 15-16 for girls. The best selected can calmly and without stress prepare for future victories on the world stage. Developing leaders is an individual business. The simplest example is yours. Since my youth, I have had a good skating technique on skis. Because my children’s coaches made the right decision at one point: to focus on this, and the technique of the classic “one day the national team coaches will implement it.” If necessary. The bet paid off: already in juniors, I was ready to fight with anyone on distances of the first 5 kilometers, and soon 10 kilometers. But until last season, I could not even come close to the classics. Now I can probably do it – amateurs have access to videos from different years. But this is the result of several years of individual work with specialists from my training group, the Sorin group.
And you know what I’ll tell you? I’m not an exception, I’m just one of the first. I confidently declare: Alina Pekletsova would confidently win this season the most prestigious race in the ski world (prestige = number of viewers in my world, look at the ratings) Alpe Cermis. Alina is only 18 years old and she was and is being prepared properly. I predict that in the coming years, skiing will experience a spectacular rejuvenation, especially if the development follows the path I predicted, through the earliest possible specialization, – Stepanova wrote.
Alpe Cermis is a mountain climbed by participants in the multi-day ski race “Tour de Ski”.
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