Olympic cross-country skiing champion Veronique Stepanova In her column on , she wrote that China’s policy towards its ski team ahead of the 2022 home Games had disappointed the Western world.
The Chinese, under the guidance of coach Nikita Kryukov invited from Russia, did not win a single medal in cross-country skiing at the Beijing Olympics.
— China has seriously disappointed the skiing world. Before the Beijing Olympics, there were reasons to believe that millions of Chinese would take up skiing, new large ski resorts would open, Chinese ski racing stars would appear, etc. But the Chinese comrades have completely disbanded their national team. Only the junior team remains, which is preparing for the Russian-Chinese Youth Winter Games in Sakhalin. And it is not training in Norway, as was the case quite recently.
Do you feel the difference? If not, I repeat: Chinese skiers will race in Russia, not in Norway. This is what the ski world is discussing now, this is what is interesting and important for it,” Stepanova wrote.
At the end of last season, Stepanova won the overall standings of the Russian Cup and also became the best in the long-distance running standings. At the end of the summer, the 23-year-old athlete posted a photo on social networks next to her crib and announced that she was about to become a mother and would therefore miss the upcoming season.
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