Modern athletes achieve victories not thanks to doping, but thanks to genetics, total discipline and work with specialists, the Olympic ski racing champion wrote in a column on . Veronique Stepanova .
Stepanova is the 2022 Olympic relay champion.
— Nowadays, athletes win not because of doping, but because of three factors:
1. Genetics. For example, I inherited very fast and explosive muscle fibers from my mother and father. But for some, no.
2. Total discipline. Everything you eat, drink, breathe and sleep takes seconds off your results or adds to them.
3. Work with narrow specialists. For example, in biomechanics. No matter how fast your muscles are from birth, until everything works together, for the number of cycles programmed in the race, you will not win.
No one has yet thought of creating future champions genetically perfect – it’s still a lottery. The discipline already requires guidance from a very early age. I recently observed at a training camp how very young gymnasts and football players were taught to eat healthily and consciously. Those of them who do not get carried away and do not give up sports will know by heart the amount of nutrients in a banana or carrot, which is useful for a champion.
But working with specialists requires a lot of money. The more prestigious the sport, the more important it is. Maria Sharapova and the Williams sisters come from relatively modest families, but most of the parents of today’s top tennis players are millionaires, and now the daughters of billionaires have appeared in the WTA.
If wealthy parents can hire the best specialists, send them to the best sports camps, provide them with the best equipment from childhood, then money is a form of doping? Everyone will decide for themselves, but money, like “classic doping”, puts athletes on unequal terms. And I don’t know how to deal with this and whether it is really necessary,” Stepanova wrote.
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