Rylov, double Olympic champion: “As a child, I became hysterical, I did not know how to accept defeats”

Double Olympic champion swimmer Evgeny Rylov admitted that as a child he did not know how to perceive defeat, which led him to hysteria.

On Sunday, Rylov held a creative meeting at VDNH and answered pressing questions about sports and his own career.

— How did you instill a love of sport in yourself?

– Nobody vaccinated me, I was an active child myself. My father played football, I liked to come to his training sessions. I was six years old and tried to play with adults, but I quickly realized that I needed to grow up.

At that time, my mother was no longer involved in sports; she spent most of her time with me. I loved any activity, I wanted to prove myself in competitive activities and always be the first.

I started swimming at the age of five. I was not very interested in football. And at the age of eight I began to like it, I was interested in understanding tactics. In the morning I went to football, in the evening I went swimming. At some point I was faced with a choice: my peers swam twice a day, I developed more slowly, and in football I lacked teamwork with the guys who trained more often. The turning point was the match where we played against guys a year older and I saw that my partners were not giving their best. It became offensive, I was overwhelmed with emotions. In swimming, everything depends on you: only you are responsible for the defeat, and only you can win. I decided that this suited me better.

“I really don’t like losing. As a child, I became hysterical; I couldn’t accept defeat. Thanks to this, I started looking for ways to win,” the correspondent reports, based on Rylov’s words.

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