Kolesnikov on the absence of the 2024 Olympics: “This topic can be approached from several points of view, but the important thing is in life priorities”

Olympic swimming medalist Kliment Kolesnikov told that the decision to participate or not in the Olympic Games can always be considered from several points of view, but the main thing is the priorities in life.

Russian swimmers will not participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

— Have you ever thought that it is still worth going to the Olympics? It is clear that you risk losing scholarships, but you would be a hero if you won gold in Paris. Without saying a word, they would prove the status of our navigation in the world.

– I won’t argue with that. I’ve always said that this topic can be approached from several points of view. But the problem is how you set your priorities in life.

If you are as obsessed as possible with the Olympics, you see them only as an athlete and you have a big dream or a big goal for which you are ready to do anything, then you get a neutral status and you go and compete. If you take some kind of medal, it will be a sensation, because it is another news feed. The reaction is: “Oh, look, nobody goes, but he went and even took a place there.” There will be discussions about it. Some will praise, others will condemn: “Why did you take this medal? To amuse their viewers?”

– What purpose?

— The fact is that there is only one life, and the life of an athlete is short. And you need to get much more out of it, for yourself personally. And when everyone thinks about what he needs, he will set his own priorities, “Kolesnikov told .

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