Russian Paralympic team swimmer Daria Lukyanenko expressed hope that Russian athletes will perform well at the Paralympic Games in Paris.
On Thursday, at the training center of the Russian national teams “Lake Krugloye”, an open training of Russian swimmers takes place ahead of the Paralympic Games in the French capital, which will take place from August 28 to September 8.
— The mood is inspired. We hope that we will get there and that everything will go well. Until the starts start, it is impossible to say for sure whether we will go there. The preparation is going quite well, the results are not bad. I hope that if we play, we will do it with dignity.
— How close are you, in your distances, to the best time of the season or, on the contrary, are you already ahead of it?
“I don’t really like making wishes, because you start making plans and something will go wrong.” So I train, I do what I can, I listen to the coach. We do our job and when we get to Paris, we’ll see what happens.
— Has anything changed in the preparation compared to the Tokyo Games?
— In the preparation itself, something has not changed globally, but we cannot deny the fact that we are growing. I can say about myself that in Tokyo I was 19 years old – and this is a state of mind, but now I am 22 and my head already thinks differently.
– What exactly has changed?
— I didn’t go to Tokyo as a child, but it was my first competition of this type. It was exciting to play for the country; you didn’t want to let the coach or the team down. Now everything is perceived more calmly, because there have already been many departures behind us, “Lukyanenko told .
Lukyanenko is a silver medalist at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
Earlier, the IPC told that 90 Russian athletes had received accreditation to participate in the Paris Paralympics.
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